Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Crash Course
Fast-Acting Tools from SFBT for Anxiety, Stress, Relationship Issues and More
- Speaker:
- Corey Pitts, LCMHC
- Duration:
- Full Day
- Language:
- Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR
- Product Code:
- LWC150703
- Brochure Code:
- PWZ95730
- Media Type:
- Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar
Description
This Training Helps You Give Clients What They Want Most: Progress They Can Feel --Fast
- Learn a proven approach trusted by clinicians
- Simple techniques you can apply immediately
- Learn the best questions to spark change
- Create client-driven goals that feel achievable and motivating
- Includes scripts, case studies and demonstrations
When clients come to you looking for relief they need to feel progress fast.
But so many therapies take so much time. Weeks, months, years. Digging into root causes. Analyzing the past. Focusing on problems.
And clients? They quickly feel overwhelmed and buried under their struggles. 15 sessions deep, they feel worse than when they started …
… and they start to think “therapy doesn’t work” or “this therapist can’t help me.”
That’s why you need Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT).
Because SFBT doesn’t rely on finding root causes or over-analysis, and instead asks “what’s already working and how do you do more of that?”
Its simple yet powerful tools create momentum fast … with clients often seeing progress in just a session or two. Best of all, this evidence-based treatment allows you to work from a positive, strengths-based approach that feels better for clients and for you.
Now in this one-day training you can learn to start using Solution-Focused Brief Therapy skills and tools in your own practice to bring rapid change to clients facing anxiety, stress, relationship issues and more.
You’ll join Corey Pitts, a licensed therapist with over a decade of experience using SFBT with clients in a variety of settings.
Whether you’re working in private practice, community mental health, schools, EAP programs or anywhere clients need quick results, he’ll make using SFBT feel easy with step-by-step instruction, real-world case studies, scripting you can use with your clients, and much more.
When every session counts, having the right tools matters.
Don’t miss this chance to add the evidence-based power of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to your clinical toolbox.
Register now!
Credit
Program Information
Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationshipsAll members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
NOTE: Each purchase includes CE credit for one individual (participants in full attendance will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, Q&A, and others.
Continuing Education Information: Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live, interactive webinar only. This webinar is being broadcast live in real-time and must be attended live, in its entirety, in order to earn credit. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether web-based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.
For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession.
PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This activity is approved for 6.0 credit hours.
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Course Level: Intermediate Format: Synchronous Distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities offered by providers approved by the ASWB ACE program for ongoing professional development.
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Speaker
Corey Pitts, LCMHC Related seminars and products
Corey Pitts, LCMHC, is a mental health therapist and clinical supervisor working in private practice. Corey has been a therapist for close to ten years and is an adjunct instructor with the Division of Mental Health Counseling at The University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill School of Medicine. He specializes in the treatment and management of co-occurring disorders such as trauma, anxiety/depression, substance use, as well as aspects of various mood and personality disorders. He uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy and has several years of experience implementing it in a wide array of treatment settings including community outreach models as well as Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in a rural community that was once fifth in the nation for opioid-related overdoses. Corey also holds tenure in providing DBT within co-morbid hospital-based intensive outpatient (IOP) settings (primarily substance use disorders/borderline personality disorder) holding both skills-based DBT groups and individual DBT therapy interventions. Corey is known for a teaching style that makes vague concepts seem simple to grasp and use.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Corey Pitts has employment relationships with BetterHelp.com, UNC School of Medicine, Teladoc Health, and E-Care Behavioral Health Institute. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Corey Pitts has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Additional Info
Program Information
Access Period for Live WebcastYou will have access for 90 days after the program for review. For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. Please note that this requirement may vary by credit type. Please see detailed credit information for specific requirements for each credit type.
Webcast Schedule
Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
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Objectives
- Analyze the core principles of solution-focused brief therapy and its application to clinical practice.
- Identify contradictions, potential risk factors and variable considerations in the use of solution-focused brief therapy.
- Evaluate the benefits and limitations of SFBT in the treatment of varying mental health disorders.
- Utilize three SFBT questioning techniques (Miracle Question, Scaling, Exception Questions) with clients.
- Integrate strategies and tools from solution-focused brief therapy into clinical practice in the management of anxiety, stress and depression.
- Utilize SFBT strategies to identify and amplify strengths and resources to facilitate positive change in relationships.
Outline
SFBT Overview and Core Concepts: Move Clients Away from Problems to Focus on What Works
- Why brevity matters
- “Present-oriented” approaches
- Core principles: future-focused, strengths-based, and goal-oriented
- Focus on “what works”
- Strategies to aid clients with autonomy
- Research, risks and limitations
The “How To’s” of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Strategies to Build Rapport, Instill Hope and Empower Your Clients
- Move from “problem expert” to “solution facilitator”
- Build rapid rapport and instilling hope
- Language that empowers clients
- Develop strategies to assist with goal-orientation (via SMART goals)
- Emphasis on collaborative partnership
Simple SFBT Techniques for Your Next Session: Use Questions to Unlock Solutions and Spark Change
- Motivation: how to work with the “visitor, complainant, and customer”
- How SFBT questioning enhances treatment
- The Miracle Question: Creating a vision for change
- Exception Questions: The key to identifying what already works
- Use Scaling Questions to measure progress and motivation
- Sequence questions for flow and impact
Structure Brief Sessions for Maximum Impact
- First-session strategies for immediate progress
- Keep therapy focused and time-efficient
- Manage setbacks and maintain momentum
- Indicators for when SFBT is (or isn’t) the right fit
Apply Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to Common Clinical Issues: SFBT in Action with Anxiety, Stress, Depression and Relationship Challenges
- Scale questions to break anxiety down into manageable steps
- Interrupt worry loops by identifying exceptions
- Reframe stress as manageable by emphasizing strengths and resources
- Shift relationship conversations from problems to possibilities
- Build trust through strengths-based language
- Cultural considerations and diverse client needs
- Scripts and language you can use tomorrow
- Case examples and role-play demonstrations
- Integrate SFBT with other modalities
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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