Advanced Self-Paced Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Agencies

This self-paced course offers a sustainable, flexible, and customizable solution to provide organizations training and continuing education even if participants cannot be present for the 12 hours of live-interactive ADVANCED- Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Agencies course. This course is structured as an online self-paced customized video lecture with an exam, including case-based demonstrations, recorded discussions, and recommended clinical practice exercises. This course is designed to provide practical skills and opportunities to practice the ADVANCED solution-focused skills under the guidance of a master solution-focused practitioner and trainer. This course offers a sustainable, flexible, and customizable solution to provide organizations advanced training and continuing education even if participants cannot be present for the 12 hours of live-interactive ADVANCED – Solution-focused skills and practice for agencies course. This course requires completion of Basic Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Agencies.

The most effective way for behavioral health organization staff to learn solution-focused professional skills is to have intensive guided practice. This self-paced course is designed to provide practical skills and opportunities to practice ADVANCED solution-focused skills under the guidance of a master solution-focused practitioner and trainer. It also provides practical skills and opportunities to practice advanced solution-focused skills. The course includes 12 hours of video lectures, clinical demonstrations, personal and professional training practice exercises, case presentations, and role-plays.

This self-paced customized recorded course based on your live ADVANCED – Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Agencies is ideal for organizations to sustain evidence-based practices while managing complex workforce and staffing challenges. To meet the challenges of training mental health organizations with complex staffing needs, onboarding new staff, staff turnover, unanticipated crises that require immediate staff attention, or any of a variety of unpredictable events that make it difficult for staff to participate in all 12 hours of the live session, the ADVANCED self-paced solution-focused skills and practice for agencies offers a customized solution to meet your needs.

This course offers a sustainable, flexible, and customizable solution to provide organizations training and continuing education even if participants cannot be present for the 12 hours of live-interactive ADVANCED – Solution-focused skills and practice for agencies course. Continuing education mandates require participants to be present for the entire live synchronous courses. This self-paced course offers a creative solution. This course has a required exam to earn continuing education credits.

Last Updated: February 2025

Target Audience: Social workers, psychologists, mental health counselors, educators, and medical professionals;  appropriate for intermediate and advanced levels of knowledge.

1. Distinguish how solution-focused conversations apply across clinical and transdisciplinary settings by identifying key distinctions in case-based multiple-choice questions.
2. Recognize appropriate solution-focused language techniques by selecting their correct application in case study-based assessments.
3. Identify effective solution-focused strategies to engage externally motivated children and families by evaluating their use in video case studies and scenario-based questions.
4. Select appropriate solution-focused conversation techniques to support clients experiencing grief through case-based multiple-choice assessments.
5. Determine how solution-focused conversations are effectively implemented within school settings by analyzing video and case study examples.
6. Differentiate solution-focused strategies used in conversations with clients and families experiencing substance use disorders by evaluating their effectiveness in multiple-choice case scenarios.
7. Assess solution-focused techniques that enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion by selecting best practices in case-based multiple-choice exercises.
8. Recognize solution-focused methods applicable to children, families, and adults who have experienced trauma by correctly identifying strategies in case-based learning modules.
9. Evaluate solution-focused approaches for integrating wellness and self-care practices for practitioners and clients through scenario-based multiple-choice assessments.
10. Analyze solution-focused techniques within clinical case examples by identifying their appropriate application in professional practice scenarios.
11. Summarize key solution-focused concepts and their application by completing knowledge-check assessments based on video demonstrations and case studies.

This course consists of the following components. The program must be completed in order, and your certificate of completion will only be given once all components are complete.

1. Course Introduction
2. Video Lecture
3. Exam Instructions and Exam Preview
4. Course Exam
5. Course Evaluation
6. Certificate of Completion

There will be a 57-item exam designed to assess your understanding and ability to apply the course material. You may take the exam multiple times until you pass the exam.

After you have completed all of the sections, passed each of the section exams, and completed the course evaluation, you will receive your certificate of completion for the course. You will be able to save and print the certificate.

12 CE Credit/Clock Hours are available for this live course.

Please see our Continuing Education Information page for information about CE credits and clock hours and our accreditations and approvals for psychologists, social workers, counselors, and marriage & family therapists.

Students should check with their professional licensing boards to ensure that a specific course will be accepted for their continuing education requirements.

To receive continuing education hours, the student must:

• Enroll in the course
• Watch the entire online lecture
• Complete the course exam, and receive a passing grade of 80%
• Complete the course evaluation

Upon successfully completing the course, participants will be given instructions on downloading and printing their Certificates of Completion.

Once enrolled, you may begin your course at any time.

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