Solution focused brief therapy skills
Sunday February 19th 2012
Train with us on Sunday and use your new skills at work on Monday
We can all get bogged down with the mass of information that a client gives us. Sifting through all the detail to find a solution, can feel like wading through treacle. Sessions can become overwhelming, upsetting for the client and it is easy to feel ‘stuck.’
If you have ever felt as if you are going around in circles with a client or feel drained after a client session, then solution focused therapy skills could be the answer.
You will be able to
- Ask questions that quickly shift a client’s negative orientation
- See through the confusing detail so you can identify and address patterns that hold the problem thinking or behaviour in place
- Discuss a preferred future and make clear mutually agreed goals
- Manage client sessions so that you help the client develop a positive expectation
- Relax your client’s emotional brain, help them gain access to their cognitive processes
- Relp the client recognise the positive changes in between sessions
- Reconnect the client with their unique experiences to bring a sense of resourcefulness and hope
- Use scaling to clarify goals and positive emotional changes
- Keep the therapy moving in the right direction
‘Jill, I can’t thank you enough for bringing Solution Focused therapy training into my professional life. Although I had spent years working as a Psychodynamic therapist, within weeks of practicing my new skills and awareness I saw clients literally transform before my eyes! All I can say is I wish I had done this training years ago and been able to help so many more people more quickly. I now enjoy my work more and find it less stressful and more satisfying. Thank you!’
SB Psychodynamic Therapist
What is solution focused brief therapy?
Solution focused brief therapy concentrates on a preferred future rather than the problem. It is goal orientated practical and recognises that the client has resources and strengths that will contribute to the solution.
You are encouraged to talk about past experiences to construct a way forward, and highlight the client’s skills and resources.
Solution focused therapy has basic understandings such as
- The client possesses unique skills, resources and strengths that can help them overcome any difficulties
- A detailed history is not essential. (In some cases retrospective analysis can make a client worse. Especially when a client is very anxious or depressed
- Articulating the preferred changes is more important than understanding the problem
- Setting clear achievable, mutually agreed goals is essential for the direction of therapy
- Do more of what is working
- Effective therapy is a collaborative process, the therapist is mindful of the client’s unique circumstances experience and character
You will learn how to
- Use questions to initiate expectation of positive change
- Set goals to create a clear mutually understood path for therapy
- Look at patterns not detail: how to avoid getting sucked in to a client’s negative mind set
- Uncover and utilize a clients innate resources and areas of competency
- Teach missing skills to aid recovery
- Use scaling to clarify goals and decrease emotional arousal
Develop skills to
- Change limiting labels
- Reframe unhelpful beliefs
- Help your client gain clear perspective
- Set tasks for continued change outside the therapy room
- Keep therapeutic intervention moving towards the goals
- Separate fact from imagination
Solution focused brief therapy: The increasing choice of many professionals
From its initial development in Milwaukee in the 1970’s by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, Solution focused brief therapy has become the choice of therapy for many professionals working in education, family centres, the health service, psychotherapy and complementary medicine.
How effective and how brief?
The Milwaukee Brief Family Therapy Clinic conducted a study which showed that one year after the therapy; seventy percent of patients felt their problems were resolved or significantly better.
Although there is no study to conclude how many sessions are needed, many suggest between one and six sessions to achieve the clients goal. It is our experience that often just one session is needed and when more, you can still expect good outcome from the first session
Cost
£169.00. Pay in full now or secure your place with a £25.00 deposit and pay the rest on the day.
You will receive
- A comprehensive set of course notes
- A one hour follow up teleconference with the trainers to discuss aspects of your experience using solution focused therapy
- visual aids for scaling with clients
- coffee, tea etc through the day
Where
Mayfield House Brighton University. East Sussex.
The Trainers
All the trainers at Within Sight have a fun and memorable style of presenting. Sally and Jill have used their brief therapy skills with thousands of clients; so bring a wealth of experience.
Sally and Jill will bring in practical sessions to help you embed the solution focused approaches, and learn to flexibly apply the new techniques. You will be able to apply your knowledge and skills the day after the course. See Jill and Sally's biographies
In house training for business's, health organisations and charities available
Are you looking for a specifically tailored in house course? Call 01273 738663 and let's see how a brief therapy course will increase effectiveness, motivation and self esteem of staff and client's alike.
