2-Day Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) Certificate Training
A Start to Finish Intensive for Mental Health Professionals
- Speaker:
- Joel Simon, LCSW, ACSW, BCD
- Duration:
- Two Full Days
- Product Code:
- LWC150988
- Brochure Code:
- PWZ96447
- Media Type:
- Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar
Description
Get everything you need to confidently use Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) in this 2-day training.
- Perfect for anxiety, stress, depression or relationship issues
- Proven interventions you can use immediately
- Demonstrations and hands-on exercises so you’ll know what to do in sessions
Your clients don’t just want to cope and deal with problems.
They want solutions that quickly move them toward the life they want.
But so many approaches pull clients backward, focusing on problems, pathology, and past events instead of exploring the future they hope to create.
That’s where Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) give you something other therapies don’t.
Proven, practical tools that shift therapy away from problems and help clients take meaningful steps toward what they want rather than what they fear or feel stuck in … whether you’re working with anxiety, chronic stress, depression or relationship issues.
Now in this 2-day training you can learn how to use SFBT to create momentum, build hope, and catalyze change within just a few sessions …
You’ll join Joel Simon, LCSW, ACSW, BCD – founding member of the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association - who has taught thousands how to facilitate rapid transformation using SFBT.
Through step-by-step instruction, demonstrations and exercises he’ll show you how to use SFBT tools to create “wins” in therapy that fuel confidence, hope and rapid progress by helping clients see their strengths, lean into what’s already working, and focus on what’s possible instead of what’s wrong …
There’s no jargon. No confusion. Just clear, effective strategies you can apply with your very next client.
This training is sure to bring immediate value to your practice – maybe even transform how you think about therapy.
PLUS you’ll earn your Solution Focused Brief Therapy Certificate, letting clients and colleagues know you’ve completed this extended training.
Register now!
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Speaker
Joel Simon, LCSW, ACSW, BCD Related seminars and products
Clinical Social Work/Therapist
Center for Solution-Focused Training
Joel Simon, LCSW, ACSW, BCD, has been in clinical social work practice for over 45 years in a variety of both inpatient and outpatient settings. He has been providing Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), training, supervision, and consultation since 1992. Joel attended 3 advanced SFBT trainings at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee (the original home of SFBT) with the co-developers of the model, Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer. He holds advanced certification in Ericksonian psychotherapy and hypnosis from the New York Ericksonian Society. Joel is a founding member of the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association (SFBTA) and a recipient of the Steve de Shazer memorial award. Currently, he is in private practice as a therapist, supervisor, and trainer. Joel co-authored several articles on solution focus, including two with Insoo Kim Berg. Joel has authored and co-authored 4 books on solution-focused topics.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Joel Simon has an employment relationship with Center for Solution-Focused Training. He receives royalties as a published author. Joel Simon receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Joel Simon has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Additional Info
Access Period for Live WebcastYou will have access for 90 days after the program for review. For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. Please note that this requirement may vary by credit type. Please see detailed credit information for specific requirements for each credit type.
Webcast Schedule
Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
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Objectives
- Examine the advantages of brief, time limited therapy structures.
- Summarize research demonstrating that SFBT produces significant positive outcomes across diverse clinical issues including anxiety, stress, depression and relationship issues.
- Define the core principles of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT).
- Differentiate solution building from problem solving.
- Examine the role of co construction as the core mechanism of change in SFBT, including how preferred futures, strengths, and micro changes guide therapeutic progress.
- Identify key techniques of SFBT, including the Miracle Question, Scaling, and Exception finding.
- Use insights gained from the Miracle Question to collaboratively develop realistic and actionable goals with clients.
- Determine how SFBT uses clients’ preferred future descriptions to guide therapeutic interventions.
- Identify how SFBT utilizes clients’ existing strengths and resources to promote change.
- Choose different solution focused questions that can be used with a variety of clients, including those who are not naturally solution minded.
- Use opportunities analysis in interviewing.
- Use invitation questions to initiate a collaborative, future-oriented dialogue, shifting the focus of therapy from problems to solutions.
- Use coping questions to support clients in identifying internal and external resources that enabled them to cope during difficult periods.
- Use scaling questions to identify small, achievable next steps clients can take toward their goals.
Outline
SFBT Foundations: Understanding the Big Picture
- What you’re already doing that works with your clients
- How SFBT is different than problem-focused approaches
- Why SFBT is brief – not short term (and why that matters)
- What do we mean by co-construction?
- SFBT assumptions
- The 7 SFBT intervention tools
- How to continue solution building when the client returns
- Research, risks and limitations
Why the Solution-Focused Lens Works
- How humans orient toward meaning, hope, and preferred futures
- Why focusing on problems often reinforces them
- How language shapes experience
- The power of noticing exceptions
A Philosophy of Possibility: Seeing Clients Through an SFBT Lens
- The “not knowing” stance
- Co-constructing change rather than diagnosing deficits
- How small changes lead to bigger changes
- How SFBT creates momentum quickly
- Demonstration
The First Session: Setting the Stage for Change
- How to begin a SFBT session
- Helping the client to create a realistic vision of a more satisfying future
- Using the client’s language to build engagement and co-construct change
- Identifying resources and strengths early
- Between-session suggestions that help clients continue solution building
- Full session video demonstration
SFBT in Brief Therapy: Making Every Intervention Count
- The three essential ingredients of rapid change
- The brief solution-focused first session interview
- Micro interventions that create big shifts
- Case demos and practice
Using Language as Intervention in SFBT
- How to ask questions that open possibilities
- How to “listen for” solutions
- Co-constructing meaning with clients
- Case demonstration and practice
“Set Piece” Interventions That Move Clients Forward
- Staying future oriented
- Using exceptions to deconstruct problems
- Using scales to make meaning of numbers
- Complimenting with precision
- Suggestions that builds momentum
Values, Strengths, and Preferred Futures
- How SFBT naturally evokes values without formal exercises
- Helping clients create details of change
- Connecting values to small, meaningful actions
- Case demonstration and practice
Case Conceptualization: What Am I Building with the Client?
- SFBT case maps: simple, elegant, and practical
- Tracking progress session to session
- The Problem-Exception-Preferred Future-Next Step framework
- Using client language to guide your next question: opportunities analysis
- Case demonstration
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Counselors
- Psychologists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Registered Psychotherapists
- Case Managers
- Mental Health Professionals
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