Describes the use of solution-focused interviewing as a way to engage mandated clients. A conversation with a court-ordered client is presented and analyzed to demonstrate how practitioners can begin co-construction of cooperation with mandated clients. Ethical implications of this noncoercive, nonconfrontational approach are addressed, along with…

Written for non-Asian family therapists who must deal with increasing number of Asian-American client families, asserts that cultural sensitivity can be learned and that client and therapist need not have same ethnic background. Describes several culturally important values and offers suggestions on how to orient treatment to fit this client…

Presents a solution-focused treatment model that incorporates macro and micro views of ethnic differences and similarities. It is argued that not all clients from the same ethnic group experience life in similar ways. Use of the model is explored through a discussion of the treatment of Asian-American clients. (SLD)