Approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Can be taken as an individual one-day course or as a part of a Certificate in Resource Based Therapies (4 days training) approved by the BPS Learning Centre.
Course Fees Per Day:
Early Bird Discount: £99 + VAT (£116.33) per delegate (available for all bookings received by SDS Ltd 1 month or more prior the course date). Regular price: £125 + VAT (£146.88) for bookings received within a month of a chosen date.
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Brief Solution Focused Therapy offers at least an enhancement to existing therapeutic approaches and at best an alternative to other evidence based therapies. It utilises process techniques that predate CBT but which the latter has begun to embrace, whilst sharing a great deal with both Systemic and Client Centred approaches. This course gives you an in-depth introduction to this effective approach.
Why you cannot afford to miss this seminar:
Learn how complex multiple problems don’t need lengthy complex solutions
Effect change in behaviour, thoughts and feelings with only 1-4 contacts…even with very “stuck” clients
Evidence based
Video demonstrations of techniques
24 photocopiable worksheets of techniques to use with your clients immediately when you get back to work
Techniques to prevent client dependency
Identify your most challenging clients’ undiscovered personal strengths and resources
Discover how to be optimistic and motivated with your most difficult clients
Learn how to be brief when you were trained to be deep and spot complex causes and needs
Invaluable in a range of health care and social services environments across the age span
Who should attend:
All helping professionals who want to develop new ways of working effectively with clients within time constraints. Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, G.P.s, Nurses, Health Visitors, Midwives, Community Practitioners Occupational Therapists, Speech & Language Therapists, Dietitians, Social Workers, Care Staff, Outreach Workers, Housing Support Staff, Homelessness Workers, Probation Officers, Substance Misuse Workers, Youth Workers.
What you will take away from the seminar:
An understanding of the principles and techniques contained within Brief Solution Focused Therapy (BSFT)
A toolbox of simple but effective strategies and tips for working more successfully with your clients, no matter how difficult or stuck they are
An approach for dealing with increasing work pressures more productively
Discover how “brief” doesn’t have to mean “superficial” or “second rate”, but can mean “better and more effective”
New insights into your clients and into solutions to their problems. Understand what “client centred” really means
Increased confidence for working with your most complex and difficult clients
Course Outline:
09.30 Registration & Refreshments for 10.00 start
10.00 Introduction to Brief Solution Focused Therapy (BSFT)
Evidence base and applicability to different client and staff groups. Understanding the trap of the
CLEPPER approach in traditional models of helping. Key underlying principles of BSFT and its
implications for practice. How brief is brief? Single five minute meetings through to longer term work.
Why more work occurs away from the practitioner than whilst clients are with them. Video illustration of
use of BSFT with a client on how longstanding problems can be addressed.
11.15 Refreshments
11.30 Softening Things Up
Rapport building (with a difference!). How to focus on presenting problems constructively without
getting drawn into the clients own negativity. Changing your and your clients attitudes to problems
through language change. “Doing the problem”. How to create a sense of hope and “possibility” and
“goal direction” for stuck clients. Why clients have difficulties finding their own solutions. The Miracle
Question – background, theory and application.
13.00 Lunch (by own arrangements)
14.00 Moving out of stuck behaviour and repetitive negative cycles.
Four effective techniques to help clients re-evaluate and change old negative patterns. The role of
“experimental behaviour” and how to use it with clients. Negotiating obstacles to change. Techniques
for “going against the flow”. New techniques for addressing negative cognition.
14.20 Focusing on solutions (1)
Three exercises to help clients discover their own internal resources for problem resolution. ”Why aren’t
things worse”, ”Doing the solution optimally”, “Competency transfer”. Video illustration of techniques
with a client.
15.00 Refreshments
15.15 Focusing on solutions (2)
The idea of “faking” new responses. Paradoxical interventions and their use with clients. A simple
”breaking pattern” exercise to use with clients.
16.20 Plenary and final questions
16.30 Finish
Course Leader:
Paul Grantham MSc, M.Clin.Psychol, C.Psychol
Paul is a clinical psychologist with a background within the NHS in community care. He currently trains extensively within the NHS, Social Services and the Independent sector on a range of therapy based topic areas. His interests currently lie in addressing obstacles to personal and behavioral change. An extensively informed, and humorous presenter, he emphasises the practical rather than just the theory of client based work
LONDON