Brief Solution Focused Approaches in Working with Young People

Brief Solution Focused Therapy, or the Solution Focused Approach is a practical, enabling method which allows for new thinking and new actions with clients. The language of the approach encourages a move from the pathology of the problem towards possibilities for change. The young person is recognised as the expert of their past and current experiences and that expertise is utilised to identify goals and the means to achieving them.

Target group:

Anyone who is working with young people to assist in building coping strategies, progressing towards recovery or achieving change.

Course Aims:

To develop a future-focused approach to helping young people which conveys a clear message that positive and lasting change is achievable.

Learning Objectives:

• To develop a framework of collaborative, respectful interventions with clients by taking a collaborative rather than leadership role in the process of change.

• To increase the ability in identifying client strengths and resources as the basis for movement towards preferred futures.
• To increase questioning skills enabling client to identify their own goals in keeping with their own socio-economic, ethnic and individual culture.

Course methodology:

The programme will cover all the main elements of solution focused therapy including:

• Introduction to the model
• Historical context
• Notions and concepts
• Core beliefs
• Main components of model
• Working with the model
• The process
• Tools and techniques
• Trouble-shooting

Course Dates:

• 2,3 16 November 2011

Schedule

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