Solution Focused Psychotherapy: Building On Client Strengths To Motivate Change – Seth Bernstein

Designed to complement any theoretical framework, Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) engages and activates clients to make change, whether they are new to therapy or have found themselves “stuck” in the therapeutic process. Unlike traditional problem-driven approaches, Solution-Focused Therapy helps clients to identify personal strengths and areas of successful functioning which they can build upon.

SFT translates the idea of “strength-based treatment” into concrete, easily digestible concepts and skills. Packed with case examples; video and film demonstrations; discussion and practice, the workshop is engaging, informative and immediately useful to clinicians at any skill level.

Target Audience:

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other professionals who work as change agents.

Recorded on 25th June 2021

Learning Objectives

• Gain practical SFT skills that instill hope and promote change
• Learn how to quickly engage your most challenging clients to become active participants in therapy
• Enhance the effectiveness of your current therapeutic approaches and skill sets
• Experience greater creativity and satisfaction in your work
• Leave the workshop with the confidence to put the skills and concepts you have learned into practice the very next day

Schedule

Introduction

Hopes for the outcomes of today’s workshop
Workshop logistics
How SFT was started
The SFT Model
Strengths vs. psychopathology
SFT research
The SFT roadmap
The SFT “conversation”

Engagement Skills and Concepts

Key feelings: pain and hope
Assessments experienced as therapy
Engendering hope
Experience-based compliments
Coping comments and questions

Activation Skills and Concepts

Goals
Motivation
Problem-oriented vs future-oriented goals
Goals have three layers
The “miracle question”
Becoming a team

Recovery Skills and Concepts

Three Core SFT Strategies
Scaling
Between-session practice
Developing a theme
Anticipate & learn from failure
Winding down Therapy

Wrapping Up

SFT Limitations
Cultural Consideration
SFT Resources
Translating today’s training into action

About the Speaker

Seth Bernstein, Ph.D. is a practicing clinical psychologist who has been leading professional workshops since 1990. Originally trained as a psychoanalytic therapist, his practice has diversified to include a wide variety of effective, evidence-based techniques used within a solution-focused framework. His clinical experience is consistent with the findings of the scientific literature: SFT is an evidence-based approach to clinical practice that complements virtually any clinical treatment modality.

Dr. Bernstein has provided his trainings across the U.S. to therapists working in private practice, schools, the military, public and private health agencies, schools and universities, hospitals, etc. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Bernstein has written many articles and one book related to the subject of psychotherapy. Now, his passion is teaching – passing on to the next generation of therapists his love for SFT – an approach to psychotherapy that has made his past 10 years of clinical work the most enjoyable, relaxed, and creative of his professional career.

CPD/CE

CPD & CE credits available: 6

How do I receive these credits?

The participant must pass the multiple-choice test with a minimum score of 80%. There is a maximum of three attempts to achieve this.

The post-test is included in the price of the training.

Does my regulatory body accept the credits?

The CPD & CE credits awarded can be used towards your declaration to any governing regulatory body in your state or country, provided the content is relevant to your discipline.

Our trainings are accredited by:

– The CPD Group, London
– Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
– Australian Counselling Association