Working with Solution Focused Brief Therapy in Healthcare Settings

A Practical Guide

Kidge Burns, Sarah Northcott

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000598681
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Audiology & Speech Pathology

Solution focused brief therapy is an evidence-based approach that enables people to make meaningful change in their everyday lives. This book shares ideas on how speech and language therapists and others working in medical settings can integrate SFBT into their therapeutic interactions to support clients handling acute or chronic health conditions. It outlines core aspects of the approach in an accessible format, bridging the gap between theory and practice, and provides guidance on adapting SFBT for clients living with communication disabilities. There are suggestions for different clinical situations, with real-life case examples drawn from working with people living with Parkinson's disease, stroke, motor neurone disease, cancer and chronic pain.

Combining practical advice with photocopiable resources, this book covers:

• Establishing person-centred, holistic goals for therapy
• Future focused descriptions
• Building on a person's resources and successes
• Responding to distress
• Supervision and support

This accessible book can be read as an introductory text for those new to this approach and will also be invaluable to clinicians who have already received some training in SFBT. It is likely to become a trusted resource, supporting allied health professionals and others to ensure their therapy is grounded in client priorities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 What is solution focused brief therapy?
• 2 Establishing the desired outcome
• 3 Future focused descriptions
• 4 Getting descriptions of past and future progress
• 5 Compliments, ownership and ending a session
• 6 Follow-up sessions
• 7 Responding to distress and the role of the allied health professional
• 8 SFBT and adults with an acquired language disability
• 9 Supervision and support
• Exercises
• Exercise: practising your SF thinking with a referral to a multidisciplinary stroke team
• Exercises for our clients
• Solution focused mindset
• Appendix A: Ten-minute talk, record of supervision
• Appendix B: Crib sheet of standard SFBT questions
• References
• Index