Advanced – Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Agencies
The most effective way to learn solution-focused professional skills is to have intensive guided practice. This course is designed to provide more advanced practical skills and opportunities to practice solution-focused skills in greater depth under the guidance of a master solution-focused practitioner and trainer. The course provides an additive live-interactive learning dimension to our self-paced agency course offerings. It also provides clinicians with more advanced practical skills and opportunities to enhance their solution-focused skills. It is designed to provide six bi-monthly group sessions (two hours each, 12 hours total) with live interactive teaching, personal and professional training practice exercises, case presentations, role-plays, and an optional final presentation from participants demonstrating how they have applied more advanced solution-focused skills in their unique area of practice. This course requires completion of Basic Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Agencies.
Learning Objectives
- Describe in-depth solution-focused skills that enhance engagement and the therapeutic alliance.
- Demonstrate more in-depth fluency in core solution-focused questions.
- Demonstrate the use of evidenced-based compliments in-depth.
- Demonstrate how to discover and amplify positive differences/exceptions using solution-focused questions in-depth.
- Illustrate fluency in building an emotional “yes-set” in-depth.
- Illustrate building a shared dialect incorporating client and solution-focused language in-depth.
- Illustrate the importance of a system’s perspective using VIPS by presenting oral examples.
- Illustrate skills that facilitate the negotiation of goals and how to maintain a solution- focused conversation while gathering required clinical information in-depth.
- Summarize qualities of well-formed goals in-depth.
- Explain ways scaling questions can be used to enhance goal negotiation including how to incorporate VIPs within scaling questions in-depth.
- Apply skills to amplify scaling questions in-depth.
- Integrate solution-focused safety questions within a case.
- Apply solution-focused practices to work setting interactions or particular areas of interest in-depth.
Course Assessment
Participants will be assessed in the following manner:
- Class Participation: Students are invited to clarify things they do not understand, pose questions, offer ideas, and broaden perspectives.
Continuing Education
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.
Participants should check with their professional licensing boards to make certain that a specific course will be accepted for their continuing education requirements.
To receive continuing education hours, the participant must attend the entire online presentation, engage in all activities, and complete the course evaluation.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be given instructions on how to download and print their Certificates of Completion.
If a participant is unable to be present for the entire presentation, they will not be eligible to receive continuing education credits due to continuing education requirements. We do offer the option of enrolling participants unable to attend in your customized self-paced ADVANCED Skills and Practice course. The self-paced course has a required exam in order to earn continuing education credits. For organizations that have new staff that are unable to attend or are new to the organization, we offer your customized course for the cost of $300.00 per participant, which includes 12 continuing education hours. We hope this will facilitate a sustainable training solution to workforce challenges.
Policy Information
Once enrolled, you may begin your course at any time and it does not expire.
For More Information
Pricing varies according to agency needs. Please contact us and consider scheduling a pre-training agency consultation.
Instructors and Authors
Want More Information about Arranging Live Synchronous Training for Your Agency Staff?
The Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy provides customized staff training designed to address the unique needs and goals of mental health, human service, medical, and educational organizations. If you are interested in scheduling a time to discuss staff training options for your workplace, simply fill out and return this short form and our Director Dr. Anne Lutz will contact you to set up a Zoom consultation.