Solutions Focused Brief Approach - course details
Solutions Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) was developed in the 1980s as a pragmatic approach to psychotherapy. Since then it has developed more than 20 years of sound evidence as being effective in a variety of settings, with a variety of populations - from social services to business applications. The basic principles of the SFBA are:
- Problems are symptoms that what you're doing is not working. Therefore, solutions are not found by exploring the problem, or by exploring the emotions resulting from the problem
- The client is the expert in/of their own life. Do not see the person as someone who needs to be rescued
- If it's not broken don't fix it (including: don't do for them what they can do for themselves)
- If what they/you are doing is working, do more of it
- If what they/you are doing is not working, try something else
- Look to a positive future
SFBA is very compatible with current contemporary practice particularly Wellness/Enabling; Person Centred; and Strengths Based practice.
HCS 2, 3
Topics covered:
- Taking a Solutions Focused stance
- Real power sharing - working in partnership with the person
- Techniques of the SFBA - competency questions, miracle questions, scaling questions, coping questions, acknowledging competence, using exceptions and more
- When emotional support gets in the way of solutions focus
- When not to use the approach
Duration:
Full day ONLY
Suitable for:
Coordinators, Case Managers, Family Support Workers, Managers
Prerequisites:
none
Comments:
- none