Date: 2/10/25 @ 8:45am-4pm (EST) Cost: $150 Instructor: Tatia Williams, Psy.D., LPCC-S, Psychologist
CE Credit Hours: 6
Training Description:
While the notions of years of psychoanalysis or 1x weekly outpatient psychotherapy are still part of our larger social awareness of therapy, the reality is that, for most of us and our clients, therapy is in fact brief. Brief therapy occurs for a variety of reasons, both intentionally and unintentionally, and sometimes less really can be more. In this age of managed care, there is a great deal of pressure to engage in brief therapy even when an individual could more greatly benefit from prolonged psychotherapy. Brief therapies tend to be strength-based, harnessing clients' strengths/resources with a future focus, as opposed to insight-oriented, but have marked effectiveness, nonetheless. In this workshop, Solution-focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) and many of its accompanying interventions will be explored and practiced.
Goal:
- To introduce clinical mental health professionals to Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and initiate the development of skills through hands-on practice in order to provide its interventions effectively.
Objectives:
- Attendees will be able to describe the mechanisms of change that accompany brief therapy modalities and verbalize the appropriateness of their use.
- Attendees will be able to implement at least 3 new evidence-based brief interventions.
Workshop Outline:
8:45-10 Introduction and the rise of brief therapies and brief therapy goals; Diversity Considerations when applying SFBT
10-1030 SFBT mechanisms of change
1030-1045 BREAK
1045-1130 Ten principles of SFBT and important types of questions
1130-1215 Session one and subsequent session strategies
1215-1 BREAK
1-115 Nonverbal strategies
115-145 Responding to "I don't knows"
145-215 Homework suggestions
215-230 BREAK
230-3 Concluding sessions and discontinuation
3-4 Application and skill practice
Level: Introductory-Intermediate
Mid-Ohio Psychological Services, Inc. has been approved as a CE provider by the Ohio Psychological Association (#311358292), the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage & Family Therapist Board (RCS060502), and as a NBCC ACEPTM No. 7265.
