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The Solution Focused Approach: Harnessing Hope to Create Lasting Change

Virtual
On Demand
1.5 CE Hour
Clinical
Free

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Description

This presentation will introduce participants to The Diamond Approach (Connie & Froerer, 2022) of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. The presenter will cover each of the components necessary to carry out a session from this approach, namely, 1) acquiring a desired outcome/transformation, 2) developing a coconstructed description of the desired transformation with details from the history, resources, and a preferred future, and 3) closing a session in a way that is meaningful and that honors the client’s autonomy and agency. Participants will watch recordings of sessions from this approach and have in-depth discussions about how this therapy is carried out. Finally, participants will have several opportunities to practice the skills needed to do this work.

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Psychologists
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
Educational Goal

Participants will gain competency in Solution Focused Therapy.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Identify 3 components of the Diamond Approach to Solution Focused Brief Therapy.
  2. Incorporate the Diamond Approach into their work with clients.
  3. Differentiate between the Diamond Approach to SFBT and other modalities of psychotherapy.
References

  • Franklin, C., Zhang, A., Froerer, A. S., & Johnson, S. (2017). Solution focused brief therapy: A systemic review of process research. The Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 43(1), 16-30. doi: 10.1111/jmft.12193.

  • Froerer, A. S. and Connie, E. E. (2019). The best hopes miracle: Why solution focused brief therapy has best hopes and miracle questions. Solution Focused Literature, 2(2), 1-14.

  • Froerer, A. S. & Connie, E. E. (2016). Solution-Building, The Foundation of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Qualitative Delphi Study. Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 27(1), pp. 20-34.

  • Kim, J., Smock Jordan, S., Franklin, C, and Froerer, A. S., (2019). Is solution-focused brief therapy evidence-based? An update 10-years later. Families in Society: The Journal of Conte

  • Kort, B., Froerer, A. S., and Walker, C. R. (2021). Creating a common language: How solution focused brief therapy reflects current principles of change and common factors. Journal of Solution Focused Practices, 5(1), 30-44. Doi: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/journalsfp/vol5/iss1/5.

  • Walker, C. R., Froerer, A. S., & Gourlay-Fernandez, N. (2021). The Value of Using Emotions in Solution Focused Brief Therapy. The Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. Doi: 10.1111/jmft.12551.

Introductory
Clinical
Counselors

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Addiction Counselors

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

Psychologists

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Social Workers

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5 continuing education credits.

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

CE Policy
Please note that the references for this program include books authored by Elliott Connie, LPC, the program's instructor. Participants are not required to purchase books authored by Elliott Connie, LPC. However, if participants do purchase these books, Elliott Connie, LPC will receive financial compensation for such purchases. This course is fiscally sponsored by Aetna Better Health Louisiana. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
Elliott Connie

Elliott Connie, MA, LPC is a psychotherapist practicing in Keller, Texas. He has worked with thousands of individuals, couples, and families applying the solution focused approach to help them move their lives from the current problems towards their desired futures. He is the founder and Director of The Solution Focused Universe, an online learning community that also conducts trainings to help professionals master the Solution Focused Approach in their work. He is recognized around the world speaking at national and international conferences and events in such places as the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, South Africa, Russia, Switzerland, England, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, Holland, Canada, and Asia, training practitioners to apply solution focused questions and techniques in their work. He has authored or co-authored four books including “The Art of Solution Focused Therapy”, “Solution Building in Couples Therapy”, “The Solution Focused Marriage”, and “Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Clients Managing Trauma”.

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