Solution-Focused Training for Schools:
Enhancing Mental Health in Educational Organizations
The Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy is passionate about empowering educators and school professionals to effectively tackle the growing child mental health crisis. With the increasing mental health challenges facing students, schools are on the frontlines, and educators play a crucial role in supporting students’ well-being.
Solution-focused conversations, rooted in evidence-based practices, offer brief, in-the-moment tools that are ideal for the fast-paced and challenging environment of school settings. These trauma-informed strategies can be seamlessly integrated into daily interactions, equipping educators with practical skills they can use immediately to create a positive, healthy school environment.
We offer both self-paced and live synchronous courses, tailored to meet the unique needs of school professionals. Our live courses are fully customized to address the specific challenges and dynamics of each school setting. Additionally, all our courses provide continuing education credits, ensuring that educators and school staff receive professional development that counts.
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Here’s what we offer:
- Taste – Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Schools: A 2-hour live online introduction to Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, perfect for schools exploring this evidence-based approach.
- Basic – Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Schools: A 12-hour live online synchronous course offering 12 continuing education credits, focused on building foundational solution-focused skills that can be used right away in educational settings. The 12 hours can be divided and customized based on the needs of your organization.
- Advanced – Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Schools: A 12-hour live online course that deepens expertise in applying advanced solution-focused techniques within schools.
- Solution-Focused Conversations in Schools: An Integration of Education and Mental Health: A comprehensive, online self-paced course offering 19 continuing education credits, teaching trauma-informed practices that enhance daily school interactions.
These courses are designed to empower educators with the knowledge and practical tools they need to foster a supportive, solution-focused environment in schools. With training options that are both flexible and comprehensive, every school professional can be equipped to make a meaningful impact on student mental health while advancing their own professional development.
Staff Training Options
Taste – Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Schools
2 CE Credit/Clock Hours
This 2-hour live course is designed to provide a “taste” of Solution-Focused Brief Practices in schools. It offers schools and educational institutions an opportunity to be introduced to the approach and consider further training if interested. Unlimited participants.
Basic – Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Schools
12 CE Credit/Clock Hours
This course includes 12 hours of live interactive teaching and is designed to provide practical skills and opportunities to practice the core solution-focused skills in schools. This course provides an additive live-interactive learning dimension to our self-paced school course offerings.
Advanced – Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Schools
12 CE Credit/Clock Hours
This 12 hour live online course is designed to provide practical skills and opportunities to practice more advanced solution-focused skills in schools, enhancing the practitioner and educator’s mastery and confidence in the solution-focused approach.
Group Coaching – Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for School
CE Credit/Clock Hours TBD
Customized Solution-Focused Group Coaching provides schools and educational staff opportunities to sustain and strengthen solution-focused skills under the guidance of a master solution-focused practitioner and trainer. This course requires completing the Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Schools (Basic or Advanced) or Solution-Focused Conversations in Schools: An Integration of Education and Mental Health.
Solution-Focused Conversations in Schools: An Integration of Education and Mental Health
19 CE Credit/Clock Hours / $450
This course offers comprehensive solution-focused brief conversational skills tailored for educational settings across the developmental spectrum. Solution-focused brief therapy equips transdisciplinary teams with solution-focused social-emotional learning techniques that can seamlessly integrate into school curricula and educational settings. The course structure includes an online self-paced, text-based, lecture-based course with exams. It has 34 video demonstrations.
Supervision – Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Schools
12 CE Credit/Clock Hours
Clinical supervision and consultation are complex activities occurring in various settings and are essential in schools. This live experiential course provides staff opportunities to learn solution-focused supervision and consultation skills under the guidance of a master solution-focused practitioner and trainer. This course requires completing the Solution-Focused Skills and Practice for Schools BASIC and ADVANCED or BASIC and Solution-Focused Conversations in Schools self-paced course.
Additional Training Customization
Follow-up live training sessions tailored to individual agency needs, mandates and targeted clinical populations may be added to any of these three options.
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.