This issue sees a very good selection of full peer-reviewed papers. Kirsten Dierolf’s Visualising Solution Focused Practice is a review of graphic representations over the past twenty years and more. Unusually Solution Focus (SF) has no ‘official’ image, and so there is a lot to be learned from this extensive and critical examination. Marcos Perez Lamadrid, Freddy Ponce and Adam Froerer’s paper comparing oxygenation and heart rate in solution focused and problem focused interviews has been in the works for some time, and I am delighted that we can finally publish it. While the setting (indigenous communities in the Bolivian highlands) may appear exotic, there is a lot to be gleaned from this physiology-meets-language research.

Nick Perry, Kelly Alexander and Jill Hemmington’s paper Putting The Hope Back In looks at experience in the UK from training Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) in SF practice, to the benefit of clients and practitioners. This high-profile study, supported by the Department of Health & Social Care, show SF work reaching further into the health service machinery. Wouter Decock presents a case study from a 360-degree SF supervision process in a higher education setting. He coins the term ‘mitchification’ for moments when the supervisee leaves feeling expanded rather than reduced.

Kirandeep Ghataorhe Johnson, Fiona Robinson and Rose McCabe present an important literature review of SF practice in schools, delivered by teachers, school staff and student peers. This study aimed to systematically review the evidence for solution focused practice delivered in schools by non-specialist school staff and student peers. The results are positive, with potential benefits for improving classroom relationships and behaviour.

In their opinion piece Does a Solution Focused Approach change our brain? Susan Colmar and Dion Sing from Australia manage to steer a constructive and subtle path through the treacherous territory of brain, mind and body. There are many possible pitfalls when writing in this area, and this paper is a good example of how to steer around them. We also have our usual Pick of the (Other) Papers, where the editors have selected seven papers published elsewhere which are well worth your attention. There are over a dozen papers in peer-review for JSFP, so we hope to have another good crop in the next issue.

With three more book reviews and two more JSFP Live sessions (with Dominik Godat and Elfie Czerny, and with Nick Drury), a full German translation of Godat and Czerny’s leadership microanalysis paper and more translated abstracts, the journal continues to grow. The editors are also seeking listing of the journal with various abstracting services and directories, including EBSCO and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). This will make the journal, its contents and authors more visible in the online scholarship world. Our cover colour this issue reflects Steve de Shazer’s 1988 book Clues: Investigating Solutions in Brief Therapy, widely seen as the first book about SF brief therapy.

Finally, news has come in of the death of Rod Sherwin after a long illness at the age of just 55 years. Rod was a long-standing member of the SOLWorld community as well as the Australasian SF Association and contributed two book reviews to the journal. Rod, we remember you.