When I first moved to Singapore from the UK in 2008. I was keen to understand what, if any differences there were applying therapeutic models in the Asian cultural context. Many trainers seemed surprised by my question, perhaps offered some snippets of advice or the occasional paper to read but I was mostly left feeling unsatisfied by the lack of information.

After working here for many years and meeting amazing colleagues with a similar wish to work and help inspire others to work in a culturally sensitive way, Solution Focused Practice in Asia was born.

“This book is a collection of solution focused practice across Asia, offering case examples from the fields of therapy, supervision, education, coaching and organisation consulting. It demonstrates the usefulness of the solution focused approach in the Asian context by providing practice based evidence, and highlights the diversity of application. By sharing real case examples in action across Asia, it is the aim of this book to stimulate the curious and inspire the converted. It gives readers a taste of what it is like to use this approach within an Asian context, in different areas of practice and within a broad spectrum of clinical issues. The examples offer exciting and creative ways in which solution focused practice can be used within the Asian context – with the hope that more practitioners will be curious enough to give solution focused practice serious consideration as a viable, evidence-based practice”.

Edited Books

Dierolf K., van der Hoorn, S., Hogan, D.  & Tuomola, J. (Eds). (in press). Solution focused coaching supervision: An essential guide for individual, group, peer and team coaching supervision. Routledge.

Hogan, D., Tuomola, J. & Wignaraja, S. (Eds) (in press). Solution focused coaching in Asia: History, key concepts, development and applications. Routledge.

Hogan, D., Hogan, D., Tuomola, J. & Yeo, A.K.L (Eds). (2017). Solution focused practice in Asia. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Authored Book Chapters

Hogan, D., Wignaraja, S. & Tuomola, J. (in press). Case supervision. In K. Dierolf, S. van der Hoorn, D. Hogan & J. Tuomola (Eds). Solution focused coaching supervision: An essential guide for individual, group, peer and team coaching supervision. Routledge.

Hogan, D., Wignaraja, S. & Tuomola, J. (in press). Common topics arising in supervision. In K. Dierolf, S. van der Hoorn, D. Hogan & J. Tuomola (Eds). Solution focused coaching supervision: An essential guide for individual, group, peer and team coaching supervision. Routledge.

Tuomola, J., Dierolf, K. & van der Hoorn, S. (in press). Deliberate practice. In K. Dierolf, S. van der Hoorn, D. Hogan & J. Tuomola (Eds). Solution focused coaching supervision: An essential guide for individual, group, peer and team coaching supervision. Routledge.

Tuomola, J. & Hogan (in press). Coaching supervision groups. In K. Dierolf, S. van der Hoorn, D. Hogan & J. Tuomola (Eds). Solution focused coaching supervision: An essential guide for individual, group, peer and team coaching supervision. Routledge.

Tuomola, J. & Hogan (in press). Peer coaching supervision and intervision. In K. Dierolf, S. van der Hoorn, D. Hogan & J. Tuomola (Eds). Solution focused coaching supervision: An essential guide for individual, group, peer and team coaching supervision. Routledge.

Hogan, D., Tuomola, J. & Wignaraja, S. (in press). The difference that makes a difference: Reflections on solution focused coaching in Asia. In D. Hogan, J.  Tuomola & S. Wignaraja. Solution focused coaching in Asia: History, key concepts, development and applications. Routledge.

Iveson, C. & Tuomola, J. (in press). Being at your best: Single session performance coaching. In D. Hogan, J.  Tuomola & S. Wignaraja. Solution focused coaching in Asia: History, key concepts, development and applications. Routledge.

Tan, A. & Tuomola, J. (in press). Leadership coaching with entrepreneurs. In D. Hogan, J.  Tuomola & S. Wignaraja. Solution focused coaching in Asia: History, key concepts, development and applications. Routledge.

Tuomola, J. (in press). Thriving through transitions using solution focused coaching. In D. Hogan, J.  Tuomola & S. Wignaraja. Solution focused coaching in Asia: History, key concepts, development and applications. Routledge.

Tuomola, J. (2024). Solution focused supervision from the perspective of gender and culture. In J. Von Cziffra-Bergs & A-M. Wulf (Eds). Women’s perspectives on the solution focused approach. Routledge.

Tuomola, J. (2017). Introduction to solution focused practice in therapeutic settings in Asia. In D. Hogan, D. Hogan, J. Tuomola & A.K.L. Yeo (Eds). Solution focused practice in Asia (pp9-13). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Tuomola, J. & Lee, Y.P.  (2017). From helpless and hopeless to empowerment and recovery: Using solution focused brief therapy with clients with psychosis. In D. Hogan, D. Hogan, J. Tuomola & A.K.L. Yeo (Eds). Solution focused practice in Asia (pp36-40). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Tuomola, J. (2017). From the blind leading the blind to leading from one step behind: Experiences with running a solution focused supervision group for case managers. In D. Hogan, D. Hogan, J. Tuomola & A.K.L. Yeo (Eds). Solution focused practice in Asia (pp90-94). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Research Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals (some published my maiden name of Powis)

Ee, J.P & Tuomola, J. (2016). Experiences of married men with HIV during the early phase of diagnosis within the context of mandatory disclosure in Singapore: An interpretative phenomenological analysis study. Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Sciences, 1-21.

Tuomola, J., Soon, J.Y. , Fisher^, P. & Yap, P.  (2016). Lived experience of caregivers of persons with dementia and the impact on their sense of self: A qualitative study in Singapore. Journal of Cross Cultural Gerontology. 31(2), 157-72.

Tuomola, J & Chew, K. (2015, March). Life after SFBT: What factors affect whether students of solution focused brief therapy go on to practise the approach? Presentation at the 5^th ASEAN Union of Psychological Socities Congress, Singapore. Retrieved from: http://www.arups2015.org/wp-content/uploads/ARUPS2015-Abstract-Book.pdf

Especkerman, J.F. & Tuomola, J. (2014, March). Understanding experiences of caregivers of adolescents with an intellectual disability and a mental illness: Initial findings in a Singaporean sample. Presentation at The Asian Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences, Osaka, Japan.

Tuomola, J., Games, N., Soh, S., & Ing, L. (2012, August). Solution focused research in Asia – What works? Presentation at the 4th Asia Pacific Solution Focused Therapy Conference, Singapore.

Thompson, A.R., Powis, J. & Carradice, A. (2008). Community psychiatric nurses’ experience of working with people who engage in deliberate self-harm. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 17(3), 153-161.

Hamill L., & Powis J. (2008). Audit of mental health promotion in primary care. Primhe: Primary Mental Health Care and Education. In Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry, 12(4), 28-31.

Powis, J., Thompson, A.R., & Carradice, A. (2005). Working with people who engage in deliberate self-harm: The experience of community mental health nurses. Poster Presentation at The British Psychological Society Quinquennial Conference, Manchester.

Graham, K.S., Patterson, K., Powis, J., Drake, J. & Hodges, J.R. (2002). Multiple inputs to episodic memory: Words tell another story. Neuropsychology, 16(3), 380-389.

Garrard, P., Lambon-Ralph, M.A., Watson, P.C., Powis, J., Patterson, K. & Hodges, J.R. (2001). Longitudinal profiles of semantic impairment for living and nonliving concepts in dementia of Alzheimer’s type. Cognitive Neuroscience, 13(7), 892-909.

Magazine Articles

Kulttuurishokki Uutis Sisu, November 2011, p16-17. Dr Jane Tuomola (Magazine of the Finnish Association of Singapore)

Coping with Culture Shock The BEAM (Official Magazine of the British Association). October 2011, p33. Dr Jane Tuomola

Post Natal Depression: What is it and what can you do to recover? Mother and Child Centre Singapore Resource List. 2010. Dr Jane Tuomola

Culture Shock: Grieving the loss of an old life and embracing a new start. Expat Living Kids Guide 2010, p44-45. Dr Jane Tuomola.

Sad in Singapore? The BEAM (Official Magazine of the British Association). July/August 2009, p19. Dr Jane Tuomola.