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.

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