1. Don't just do something, stand there / Mark B. White -- 2. Mirroring movement for increasing family cooperation / Daniel J. Wiener -- 3. Seeing the obvious : data collection in therapy / Joellyn L. Ross -- 4. Of clocks and rubber bands : on the use of props in family therapy / Luciano L'Abate -- 5. Know the enemy's strategies and you will know your own power / Joellyn L. Ross -- 6. The race is on! A group contingency program to reduce sibling aggression / Kristin E. Robinson -- 7. Attitude as intervention / William C. Madsen -- 8. Sculpting stepfamily structure / Toni S. Zimmerman -- 9. Taped supervision as a reflecting team / Richard J. Bischoff -- 10. Becoming the "alien" other / Maryhelen Snyder -- 11. Playing baby / Ellen F. Wachtel -- 12. Competing voices : a narrative intervention / Gabrielle Carey -- 13. Start with meditation / Linda G. Bell -- 14. Emotional restructuring : re-romancing the marital relationship / Thomas W. Roberts -- 15. It's bigger than both of us / Carol L. Philpot -- 16. Joining with Jenga : an intervention for building trust with stepfamilies / Wanda Clark -- 17. Crisis intervention with families : a one-down position / Peter J. Jankowski -- 18. Columbo therapy as one-down positioning with families / Peter J. Jankowski -- 19. Seeing change when clients don't / G. Alan Willard -- 20. Making the genogram solution based / Bruce P. Kuehl, Charles P. Barnard, Thorana S. Nelson -- 21. From alienation to collaboration : three techniques for building alliances with adolescents in family therapy / Gary M. Diamond, Howard A. Liddle -- 22. What I needed versus what I got : giving clients permission to grieve / Tina M. Timm -- 23. Starting with the familiar : working with "difficult" clients / Diane R. Gehart-Brooks -- 24. A picture is worth a thousand words : use of family photographs to promote parental nurturance in family therapy with adolescents / Susan K. Mackey -- 25. A fairy-tale ending / Sharon A. Deacon -- 26. The wall of defenses / Sharon A. Deacon -- 27. Single women and the grief circle / Karen G. Lewis -- 28. Slaying the wild things / Debra W. Smith -- 29. The nightmare question : problem talk in solution-focused brief therapy with alcoholics and their families / Norman H. Reuss -- 30. I rewrite with a little help from my friends / Frank N. Thomas -- 31. Time and couples, part I : the decompression chamber / Peter Fraenkel.