2012 Solution-Focused training
2012 dates for our popular training course Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Comprehensive Introduction have been announced.
2012 Solution-Focused training in Melbourne and Orange
The two day course Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Comprehensive Introduction will be offered in Melbourne in April and Orange in June.
Frances Huber presents at European conference
Frances Huber, along with Dr Harry Korman from Sweden, gave an acclaimed presentation at the European Brief Therapy Conference. "To break, or NOT to break ... that is the question!"
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Read our latest newsletter, with information about training and other items of Brief Therapy interest.
Allan Wade workshop HIGHLY successful
The two day workshop with Dr Allan Wade was widely aclaimed by participants as being entertaining and extremely useful in working with violence.
APS, AASW and ACMHN accreditation
The two day Solution-Focused Brief Therapy training has been granted accreditation by APS (Clinical, Counselling and Education Development colleges), by AASW (for mental health social workers) and by the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses for CPD/CPE purposes.
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We will be making available here various resources that people might find helpful in exloring Solution-focused Brief Therapy. Please feel free to copy and share them; However, PLEASE only copy and share them in their complete form. If you have suggestions for improvements, or stories about how the resources have been useful for you, please email them to us.
SFBT FIRST SESSION SUMMARY FORM
This form was developed as a way of taking notes during a first session and guiding you systematically through the major parts of a Solution-focused first session.
It is two pages, designed to fit on two sides of an A4 sheet.
UPDATED!! NOTE that this form was developed a few years ago. Back then, we were still beginning sessions with some version of "What brings you here?" (which is really just another way of asking "What's the problem?"). More recently, we have appreciated the difference generated by beginning with some version of "How will you know that talking to me today has been useful?". The form has been changed quickly to reflect this development. Please email us and suggest how the form shoud be revised to incorporate this development even more.
ARTICLES FROM THE JOURNAL FAMILY THERAPY CASE STUDIES
The journal Family Therapy Case Studies was published by Eastwood Family Therapy Centre (Michael Durrant's earlier venture) in the 1980s and 1990s. It was later called Case Studies in Brief and Family Therapy. The journal contained case studies, and other papers, that illustrated various therapy aspects and applications.
We have been encouraged to make papers from the journal available for people to download.
NOTE that the journal was NOT specifically Solution-focused in its content and that some of the articles represent a "snap-shot" of the particular authors' practice at that particular time in their development. Nonetheless, we hope these may be of interest.
The articles are available here, as PDF files, with the authors' permission, for which we thank them.