SFT Essentials (Solution-Focused Therapy training)
Also known as SFBT (Solution-Focused Brief Therapy).
SFT Essentials is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of accredited Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT/SFBT) training courses.
It is the only Solution-Focused Therapy training that is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams and individuals and can be attended face-to-face or online. It can also be completed as part of The APT Diploma in Psychological Therapies.
Executive Summary:
Solution-Focused Therapy can seem a refreshingly easy therapy to conduct, and to be the recipient of. This is because many of its techniques capitalize on circuits in the brain that already exist. Utilising these, rather than trying to develop new circuits by discussion and experimentation, often achieves results that are rapid, fundamental, and stable.
This course therefore teaches the principles and practice of Solution-Focused Therapy in a way that delegates can - and will want to - use with their own caseload.
Who should attend?
Mainly professionals who see patients 1:1 and want to become acquainted with Solution-Focused Therapy in a way in which they can use it.
The course covers a great deal:
- What is Solution-Focused Therapy? An examination of its background, history, definitions and current usage. Includes video of Bill Hanlon.
- The miracle question, and other powerful questions to ask to help patient move in the direction they want.
- Finding a solvable problem; asking solution-focused questions so that answering them produces the solution to the problem rather than simply elaborating it.
- How the solutions that clients adopt sometimes fuel the problem, and how to introduce new solutions.
- ‘Victor’: a video case analysis.
- Assessment and the first session or two.
- How to structure SFT treatment sessions with individuals.
- Informal SFT: how to use SFT strategies in everyday interactions.
- An exercise (one session on each of the first two days) where the tutor takes the role of a patient and the group has the chance to interview using SFT techniques and strategies.
- Exploring for solutions the client already has but only uses occasionally. Finding ‘the template for success’.
- Chair work: especially enabling patients to clarify their problems and give themselves effective advice.
- Practice-based evidence: evaluating progress (in a solution focused way).
- The use of (anecdotes, parables and) metaphor in therapy. Why they work so effectively and how to generate them. The importance of imagery.
- Re-framing the problem; seeing the problem in a different light can sometimes radically alter its effect. Video: Kelly McGonigal.
- The changing of failing strategies. The paradox whereby some patients (and professionals) will indulge in more rather than less of a failing strategy. Changing to successful strategies.
- Exercise to illustrate the use of Brief, Solution Focused Therapy in that delegates’ own work setting.
- The Ladder: how to motivate patients to address the logical steps necessary to achieve what they want.
- Where to from here? How to capitalize on the course.
What this Solution-Focused Therapy course will do for you:
- You will know about Solution-Focused Therapy: what it is and is not.
- You will be able to fundamentally re-phrase problems so that they are not only solvable, but exciting to solve.
- You will understand why (for example) that the harder one looks for happiness the less happy one becomes, the more one tries to stop worrying the more worried one becomes, and so on.
- You will know better what to do with patients you are currently unable to make progress with.
- You will know about 're-framing', why so many people rave about it, and how to do it.
- You will know how to 'dissolve' the resistance that some patients have about tackling their problems, and give them a framework that motivates and relaxes them.
- You will know why it is so important to spot 'problem-free' times and places, and how to utilize those.
- You will be introduced to the miracle question and other powerful questions that move a person forward quickly.
- You will know how to give a person a sense of direction and hope for the future.
- You will know how to capitalize on what you have learned on the course.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.
Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
Booking this training is easy...Booking Options... for individuals or small groups For individuals or small groups:
An engaging and relevant online course that can be started and accessed at any time and completed at your own pace, taking breaks to assimilate and practice the skills as they are introduced. Price: $300 USD per person. The fee covers: 3 years access to the course, certification, registration, and Level 2 APT Accreditation by completing the course and inbuilt exam. Guaranteed completion; full refund if you don’t complete for any reason. For teams and organizations:
Engaging and relevant online course, your colleagues attend from home or workplace at times that suit. Price: $300 USD per person. (Completion guarantee, for attendees who don’t complete for whatever reason, you can transfer the training to other staff members.) Option 2: Online Live and Exclusive course: Live and interactive online course, delivered via Zoom or Teams* exclusively for your team or organization. Price: $6,090* for a group of up to 15 people (price includes a workbook for every delegate, posted to one address, or a PDF version can be provided). Extra delegates $390 per person. *We standardly deliver courses via Zoom (which is recommended). If you would prefer to use Microsoft Teams, there is an additional charge of $130 USD per day.
We bring the course and tutor to you, for an all-inclusive fee. Price: $9,195 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: $615 per person. Option 4: 'Train the Trainer': If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course - or your chosen modules from it - in your own organization, under license. his is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organization the tutor-component of the fee each time you run it or your chosen modules (50% of the 'Online Live and Exclusive' fee, regardless of whether the course is held face-to-face or online). To see the full benefits of this and to see whether you are eligible, click the button: |
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Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 98%
Relevance: 95%
Online Live
Presentation: 95%
Relevance: 96%
Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the Brief, Solution Focused Therapy course has received.
"An absolutely brilliantly presented course ... I would highly recommend this course to anyone who has client contact. Amazing!"
"This has been the most useful, interesting and relevant course I've been on in the last 26 years. Thank you."
