Solution-Focused Brief Interventions (10 Contact Hours)
- 1 Section
- 12 Lessons
- 2 Quizzes
- 10h Duration
Course Content
- Course Overview & Introduction
- Module 1: Origins and Assumptions of Solution-Focused Practice
- Module 2: Engagement and the Helping Relationship
- Module 3: Well-Formed Goals
- Module 4: The Miracle Question
- Module 5: Exception Questions and Building on What Works
- Module 6: Scaling Questions
- Module 7: Coping Questions, Relationship Questions, and Compliments
- Module 8: Structuring a Solution-Focused Conversation
- Module 9: Solution-Focused Practice With Co-Occurring Conditions, Crisis, and Culture
- Module 10: The CMHP Role and Integrating Solution-Focused Tools
- References
- Post Test
- Program Evaluation
Solution-Focused Brief Interventions is a 10-hour continuing education course for Certified Mental Health Professionals (CMHPs) who want practical, strengths-based conversation tools for helping people move toward the lives they want. Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), developed by Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg, and colleagues, shifts attention from analyzing problems to building solutions: identifying what the person wants, noticing when things are already a little better, and taking small steps forward. This course teaches the assumptions of the solution-focused approach, engagement and relationship patterns, well-formed goals, the miracle question, exception questions, scaling questions, coping and relationship questions, compliments and feedback, and the use of these tools with co-occurring conditions, crisis, and diverse cultures, within the CMHP role.
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