Full Description
This book offers speech and language therapists, and other allied health professionals, a practical resource for working in a distinctive way with children and young people, and their parents, to achieve their 'best hopes' from therapy. The authors share a wealth of knowledge and experience from the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering about how they use Solution Focused Brief Therapy to enhance their practice. This resource manual:
Provides a step-by-step guide to starting solution-focused conversations, having follow-up meetings, drawing attention to what's working, and ending well.
Illustrates work with a broad range of clients who stammer, including clients with additional physical, learning, and emotional needs.
Demonstrates the benefits of working systemically with children and young people and their parents or carers.
Supports therapists to develop skills in working collaboratively with clients on what they want to achieve from therapy.
Gives examples of how to ask helpful questions and have hope-filled conversations.
Considers the benefits and challenges of working in a solution-focused way.
Describes how to adapt solution-focused conversations according to the client's age and stage.
Presents a range of applications of SFBT including in groups and in clinical supervision.
The manual is illustrated by a rich variety of case examples which brings the material to life and enables the reader to apply the principles to their own setting. It is an essential practical resource for therapists hoping to develop their skills in empowering parents and in supporting children and young people towards living their best life.
Contents
List of figures
Foreword by Evan George
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
You (the reader) and SFBT
An introduction to Solution Focused Brief Therapy
A brief history of SFBT at the Michael Palin Centre
Current thinking about stammering and how SFBT helps us
Our assessment process and SFBT
How we use SFBT in therapy - an eclectic approach
2 Our First Solution-Focused Conversation
Meeting the person, not the problem
Exploring best hopes
Looking for solutions and what's already working using scaling
Compliments
Summing up and ending the session
3 Progress over Time
What's going well
Thinking more about scaling and best hopes
Broadening the view of self
When it's not going so well
Process of change and coping with setbacks
How to manage diverging hopes
Follow-up sessions with young adults
When to meet again
Ending therapy
4 Solution-Focused Conversations with Children and Young People
Talking to younger children
Exploring best hopes with younger children
Exploring the concept of scaling
Using metaphors and imagery
Talking to young people
Children and young people with learning or language needs
Autistic children and young people
Children and young people with physical disability
Children and young people with emotional health needs
5 Solution-Focused Conversations with Parents
Why include parents?
Parenting children who stammer
Parenting children with additional needs
Working systemically
6 Using SFBT in Groups
Working in groups
The benefits of group therapy
7 The Evidence Base, the Benefits, and the Challenges
The evidence base for SFBT
Benefits of SFBT
Challenges of SFBT
Frequently asked questions
8 Other Applications of SFBT
Exploring a stammering 'toolkit' using a SF perspective
Handling criticism using SFBT
SFBT in other settings
9 Becoming a Solution-Focused Therapist
Therapist skills
Using SFBT in supervision
10 Conclusion
Resources
Bibliography
Index
