Self-Paced Solution-Focused Therapy Training:
SFT Essentials (Solution-Focused Therapy)
On-demand / self-paced learning
18 hours CPD
$430 CAD per person
Written and narrated by Dr William Davies
The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT) is a leading provider of Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) training training and our APT-Accredited SFT Essentials course is available to study 'online anytime' (self-paced/on-demand learning).
This provides an opportunity to obtain APT-quality input at a time that is convenient to you and your colleagues, and minimises the need for 'cover' normally associated with training.
The benefits of 'online anytime' training:
- 3 years access to the course.
- Start and access the course at anytime, whenever is best for you.
- Equivalent to 18 hours CPD (Continuing Professional Development).
- An APT Accredited course.
- Exercises that help you assimilate the material and relate it to your own work.
- Narration that adds observations and depth to the material, by Dr William Davies (founder and Head of Applied Clinical Psychology at the APT) .
- Video.
- An inbuilt exam to test your knowledge and give you APT Accreditation in Solution-Focused Therapy, Level 2. (The exam is multiple-choice and if you don’t pass first time, you have 3 attempts to complete it.)
- Access to associated resources, which you can use on the course and download subsequently for use in your own practice. Available for the duration of your accreditation, renewable after 3 years.
- Completion guarantee for managers: if a course isn't completed you can transfer the place to another person (valid for up to 3 years from the date the training was assigned).
- A downloadable certificate when you pass the exam, stating your level of accreditation and CPD hours.
- Live training for individuals and whole teams also available.
Executive Summary:
Solution-Focused Therapy can seem a refreshingly easy therapy to conduct, and to be the recipient of. This is because many of its techniques capitalise on circuits in the brain that already exist. Utilising these, rather than trying to develop new circuits by discussion and experimentation, often achieves results that are rapid, fundamental, and stable.
This course therefore teaches the principles and practice of Solution-Focused Therapy in a way that delegates can - and will want to - use with their own caseload.
Who should attend?
Mainly professionals who see patients 1:1 and want to become acquainted with Solution-Focused Therapy in a way in which they can use it.
The course covers a great deal:
- What is Solution-Focused Therapy? An examination of its background, history, definitions and current usage. Includes video of Bill Hanlon.
- The miracle question, and other powerful questions to ask to help patient move in the direction they want.
- Finding a solvable problem; asking solution-focused questions so that answering them produces the solution to the problem rather than simply elaborating it.
- How the solutions that clients adopt sometimes fuel the problem, and how to introduce new solutions.
- ‘Victor’: a video case analysis.
- Assessment and the first session or two.
- How to structure SFT treatment sessions with individuals.
- Informal SFT: how to use SFT strategies in everyday interactions.
- An exercise (one session on each of the first two days) where the tutor takes the role of a patient and the group has the chance to interview using SFT techniques and strategies.
- Exploring for solutions the client already has but only uses occasionally. Finding ‘the template for success’.
- Chair work: especially enabling patients to clarify their problems and give themselves effective advice.
- Practice-based evidence: evaluating progress (in a solution focused way).
- The use of (anecdotes, parables and) metaphor in therapy. Why they work so effectively and how to generate them. The importance of imagery.
- Re-framing the problem; seeing the problem in a different light can sometimes radically alter its effect. Video: Kelly McGonigal.
- The changing of failing strategies. The paradox whereby some patients (and professionals) will indulge in more rather than less of a failing strategy. Changing to successful strategies.
- Exercise to illustrate the use of Brief, Solution Focused Therapy in that delegates’ own work setting.
- The Ladder: how to motivate patients to address the logical steps necessary to achieve what they want.
- Where to from here? How to capitalise on the course.
What this course will do for you. You will...
- You will know about Solution-Focused Therapy: what it is and is not.
- You will be able to fundamentally re-phrase problems so that they are not only solvable, but exciting to solve.
- You will understand why (for example) that the harder one looks for happiness the less happy one becomes, the more one tries to stop worrying the more worried one becomes, and so on.
- You will know better what to do with patients you are currently unable to make progress with.
- You will know about 're-framing', why so many people rave about it, and how to do it.
- You will know how to 'dissolve' the resistance that some patients have about tackling their problems, and give them a framework that motivates and relaxes them.
- You will know why it is so important to spot 'problem-free' times and places, and how to utilise those.
- You will be introduced to the miracle question and other powerful questions that move a person forward quickly.
- You will know how to give a person a sense of direction and hope for the future.
- You will know how to capitalise on what you have learned on the course.
Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 98%
Relevance: 95%
Online Live
Presentation: 95%
Relevance: 96%
Written Feedback.*
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the 'live' SFT Essentials course has received.
"An absolutely brilliantly presented course ... I would highly recommend this course to anyone who has client contact. Amazing!"
"This has been the most useful, interesting and relevant course I've been on in the last 26 years. Thank you."
*This feedback is taken from the 'live' version of this course.
