Group Coaching – Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Agencies
The most effective way for behavioral health organization staff to sustain and strengthen solution-focused skills is to have ongoing intensive guided practice. We offer customized coaching sessions tailored to your group’s needs under the guidance of a master solution-focused practitioner and trainer.
Our group coaching sessions require the completion of either BASIC or ADVANCED – Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Agencies or Foundations of Solution-Focused Practices Online Intensive. Participant group sizes, in general, vary from 4-6 people per session. No continuing education is provided for coaching at this time.
Last Updated: April 2023
Target Audience: Social workers, psychologists, mental health counselors, educators, and medical professionals appropriate for intermediate levels of knowledge.
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate fluency in core solution-focused questions
- Demonstrate the use of evidenced-based compliments
- Demonstrate how to discover and amplify positive differences/exceptions using solution-focused questions
- Illustrate building a shared dialect incorporating client and solution-focused language
- Illustrate skills that facilitate the negotiation of goals and how to maintain a solution- focused conversation while gathering required clinical information.
- Integrate solution-focused safety questions within a case
- Apply solution-focused practices to work setting interactions or particular area of interest
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.
Instructional/CE Hours
No CE Credit/Clock Hours are currently available for this live course. To receive continuing education hours, the student must attend each live session, participate completely in all activities, and complete the course evaluation.
Continuing Education
CE Credit/Clock Hours are determined based on the enhancement training plan.
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 make certain that a specific course will be accepted toward their continuing education requirements.
To receive continuing education hours, the student 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.
Policy Information
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.