Belfast Workshop: Brief Solution Focused Therapy
Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Paul Grantham of Skills Development Services (www.skillsdevelopment.co.uk) will be holding a one-day workshop in Belfast on Brief Solution Focused Therapy on 9th March 2010.
The course will be held at the Ramada Encore Belfast City Centre Hotel. The outline of the programme is as follows:
09.00 Registration & Refreshments for 10.00 start
10.00 Key components of a brief solution approach – revisiting and rethinking
10.30 Adaptions and alternatives to the Miracle Question
- Working with unhealthy or `unrealistic client goals – an issue revisited
- Strategies for enhancing and adapting the “Miracle Question”
- Techniques for working with a “preferred futures” with specialist client groups including those with ASD, cognitive impairment and those with serious mental health problems
11.15 Refreshments
11.45 A Brief Solution approach to “involuntary and unmotivated clients”
- Brief solution techniques for motivating clients who hate you and don’t want to work with you
- Turning poor motivation into client led optimism and solutions
- How to view resistance as co-operation
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Three Brief Solution techniques for moving clients forward
- Circular questioning
- Mutualising
- The use of the prediction task
- (Demonstrations and discussion)
14.45 Refreshments
15.15 Case consultancy
- Exploration of cases raised by the group
- Examination of techniques by the group
16.30 Finish
To book a place, please click here.
About Brief Solution Focused Therapy:
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. Historically questioned regarding its applicability to “difficult clients” this seminar highlights it’s use with complex clients also outlining a range of techniques not demonstrated in previous SDS seminars.