Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Basic Training

Back by overwhelming demand!

3 Part Series
Thursday, August 19: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Friday, August 20: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Saturday, August 21: 9:00am – 12:00pm
NYSED Approved for 15.0 CEs

Participants must attend all three sessions of this program in order to be awarded credit. No partial credits will be awarded.

Presenter(s): Joel K. Simon, LCSW, BCD, ACSW

NASW-NYS Members: $150

NASW Other Chapter Member: $225

Non-Members: $300

This workshop is approved for 15.0 continuing education credit hour(s) for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, and licensed marriage and family therapists.

Workshop Description

The purpose of the workshop is to provide an introduction and basic training in solution-focused brief practice. The model has been accepted as an evidenced based practice and there has been much research demonstrating the effectiveness of solution focus with varied populations and in varied contexts. The following topics will be covered during the 3 days:

The model’s development and evolution
Assumptions
Solution-building versus problem-solving
Co-constructive language
Listening to clients with “solution-focused ears”
The seven practical tools that keep the solution focus model effective and brief with video examples

The training is structured to encourage and allow discussion and sharing of ideas. Solution-focus follows many of the social work precepts: “staying where the client is,” viewing clients as an integral part of their social environments, creating a collaborative relationship, and developing a client-centered approach.

Learning Objectives

After the completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

Name the 7 tools of solution-building
Name the 3 basic rules of solution building
List the 5 elements of the “thinking break”
Define post-structural thinking
Name the characteristics of a useful goal
List the basic solution focused assumptions
Name the 4 stages of E.A.R.S.
Through role-plays, participants will be able to demonstrative a beginning facility using the 7 tools of solution-building.
Define microanalysis
Demonstrate the ability to use the microanalysis process to isolate possible opportunities for solution-building in 2 utterance examples
Demonstrate the ability to extract possible solution-building responses to above isolated opportunities
Verbalize their solution-building rationales for their chosen responses

This workshop is approved for 15.0 continuing education credit hour(s).

NASW-NYS is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (Provider ID #0014), licensed mental health counselors (Provider ID #MHC-0053), and licensed marriage and family therapists. (Provider ID #MFT-0037).

Presenter(s):

Joel Simon, LCSW, BCD, ACSW is a solution-focused therapist, trainer, supervisor, an author and co-author of three books on Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, and an organizational consultant with over 40 years of post-graduate experience and over 25 years as a solution-focused clinician, supervisor, and trainer. He is a frequent presenter of solution-focused practice at conferences and an author and co-author of articles on solution-focus published in professional journals including two with Insoo Kim Berg, a co-developer of the solution-focused approach (see resume). He is also a founding member of the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association (www.sfbta.org).