Course Description:

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused, evidence-based therapeutic approach that helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than dwelling on problems. In the most basic sense, SFBT is a future-oriented, hope-friendly, and positive emotion eliciting vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change. Discover how SFBT is based on resiliency and clients’ own previous solutions and exceptions to their problems, which can be applied to virtually any problem, including family and couples, domestic violence, trauma, sexual abuse, substance abuse, and childhood and adolescent disorders. Learners will gain valuable insight into an introductory on the state-of-the-art SFBT in clinical practice, the origin and development of SFBT, SFBT evidence and research, SFBT major tenets, and key components of SFBT in clinical practice.

Learning Objectives:

• Recall the historical roots and early history of SFBT.
• Identify at least five SFBT techniques suitable for clinical practice.
• Describe the major tenets underlying SFBT philosophies and practices.
• Describe the overall clinical process of SFBT, including the role of the therapist, the solution-development process, and how solution-focused assessment differs from traditional assessment.
• Explain the implementation of specific SFBT techniques such as scaling, the miracle question, ROPES, and problem-free talk.
• Summarize the value of incorporating SFBT practices into clinical work.