Practitioners and supervisors working in collaboration with the diverse services available to children and their families.

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Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, is an evidence-based practice which focuses on clients' inherent strengths and competence. This future-focused, goal-directed intervention helps clients discover solutions to their challenges, rather than focusing on the problems they currently face.
The use of SFBT effectively addresses concerns of clients who face diverse challenges such as substance abuse, trauma, grief and loss, challenging or involuntary clients. This training is specifically designed to explore ways to utilize SFBT tools and strategies to engage our clients as they explore a future of possibilities specific to their own challenges and goals. One of the main highlights of this model is to view the client as the expert in their own lives, and the professional works to collaborate with them to best find solutions to their problems. The use of specific language with this approach often brings hope and has a positive effect on both the clients and the practitioners.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this workshop, participants will:
1. Incorporate and reinforce the basic components and strategies of SFBT into practice.
2. Utilize a solution-focused posture in working with children and families, weaving SF tools to address diverse challenges.
3. Build on the client’s response to solution-focused questions to reinforce engagement, goal setting, and to monitor progress.
4. Recognize and reinforce each client’s utilization of their existing strengths, abilities and additional resources.