Events

Master Class for Senior Educators - Solution Focused Therapy

Overview

An academic series of expert classes mainly held at Deanery House in Bristol on topical and emerging areas of importance in medical education for Postgraduate Medical Education. They are open to HEE Southwest, Postgraduate Medical Educational Teams, Educators in Trusts and GP Trainers. Global and nationally important speakers and subject experts are sought and invited.

Aim

A programme of faculty development for senior educators in the Severn and Peninsula to assist in creating a consistent understanding about current developments and issues affecting medical education.

 

The Solution focused approach

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a short-term goal-focused therapeutic approach, which helps client's change by constructing solutions rather than dwelling on problems.

Elements of the desired solution often are already present in the client's life, and become the basis for ongoing change.

SFBT was developed by Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg, and the team at the Brief Family Therapy Centre of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the mid-1980's

Although the solution-focused approach began twenty years ago as a model of therapy, it is now being widely applied across health, social care and educational settings. It is in fact relevant in any situation where change is desired, in groups, organisations and communities as well as for individuals. One of its great strengths is it conceptual simplicity, and its key elements are as follows.

 

Key elements

Rather than exploring problems, their history and possible causes, the approach seeks to establish a detailed picture of the preferred future-what is wanted rather than what is not wanted.

There is an assumption that part of this preferred future will already be happening, however small. The client will already be doing something, however small, which is moving them in the direction they wish to go. It is the task of the solution-focused practitioner to help the client focus on anything, which they are doing, which is helping them achieve what they want.

The solution focused practitioner will be constantly listening for and identifying the resources skills and strengths of the client, and bring them to their attention by offering direct feedback. Movement towards a more desired future will be achieved by the utilisation of the client's already existing resources.

It can be seen that the approach is based on resources rather than deficits: what is wanted rather than what is not wanted: on what is going right rather than what is going wrong. It is an empowering approach to working with people, which uses clients own ways of moving forward rather than a professional imposition of expert solutions.

 

Host:

Rob Black, Social Worker | Independent Trainer | Workshop Facilitator

in Solution Focused Practice

Rob spent his former years trying to make it in the music business. He became involved in youth work in 1986 and since then went on to qualify as a child care social worker. Over the last 18 years he has worked in a variety of voluntary and statutory sector settings. He was introduced and trained in the Solution Focused Model by Eileen Murphy in 1997 and went on to develop his own practice by taking on further training at the brief therapy practice. He has presented workshops and plenary presentations throughout the UK and Europe. 

 

To book a place please email Severn Education Team. When emailing please confirm the event title and the date you are interested in attending.