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Solution Focused Brief Therapy with Children and Young People who Stammer and their Parents: A Practical Guide from the Michael Palin Centre

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Ali Berquez, Martha Jeffery

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  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy with Children and Young People who Stammer and their Parents

232 pages
2024
ISBN: 9781032393735

This book offers speech and language therapists, and other allied health professionals, a practical resource for working in a distinctive way with children and young people, and their parents, to achieve their ‘best hopes’ from therapy. The authors share a wealth of knowledge and experience from the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering about how they use Solution Focused Brief Therapy to enhance their practice. This resource manual:

  • Provides a step-by-step guide to starting solution-focused conversations, having follow-up meetings, drawing attention to what’s working, and ending well.
  • Illustrates work with a broad range of clients who stammer, including clients with additional physical, learning, and emotional needs.
  • Demonstrates the benefits of working systemically with children and young people and their parents or carers.
  • Supports therapists to develop skills in working collaboratively with clients on what they want to achieve from therapy.
  • Gives examples of how to ask helpful questions and have hope-filled conversations.
  • Considers the benefits and challenges of working in a solution-focused way. Describes how to adapt solution-focused conversations according to the client’s age and stage. Presents a range of applications of SFBT including in groups and in clinical supervision.

The manual is illustrated by a rich variety of case examples which brings the material to life and enables the reader to apply the principles to their own setting. It is an essential practical resource for therapists hoping to develop their skills in empowering parents and in supporting children and young people towards living their best life.

Contents

List of figures

Foreword by Evan George

Preface

Acknowledgements

  1. Introduction
    • You (the reader) and SFBT
    • An introduction to Solution Focused Brief Therapy
    • A brief history of SFBT at the Michael Palin Centre
    • Current thinking about stammering and how SFBT helps us
    • Our assessment process and SFBT
    • How we use SFBT in therapy – an eclectic approach
  2. Our First Solution-Focused Conversation
    • Meeting the person, not the problem
    • Exploring best hopes
    • Looking for solutions and what’s already working using scaling
    • Compliments
    • Summing up and ending the session
  3. Progress over Time
    • What’s going well
    • Thinking more about scaling and best hopes
    • Broadening the view of self
    • When it’s not going so well
    • Process of change and coping with setbacks
    • How to manage diverging hopes
    • Follow-up sessions with young adults
    • When to meet again
    • Ending therapy
  4. Solution-Focused Conversations with Children and Young People
    • Talking to younger children
    • Exploring best hopes with younger children
    • Exploring the concept of scaling
    • Using metaphors and imagery
    • Talking to young people
    • Children and young people with learning or language needs
    • Autistic children and young people
    • Children and young people with physical disability
    • Children and young people with emotional health needs
  5. Solution-Focused Conversations with Parents
    • Why include parents?
    • Parenting children who stammer
    • Parenting children with additional needs
    • Working systemically
  6. Using SFBT in Groups
    • Working in groups
    • The benefits of group therapy
  7. The Evidence Base, the Benefits, and the Challenges
    • The evidence base for SFBT
    • Benefits of SFBT
    • Challenges of SFBT
    • Frequently asked questions
  8. Other Applications of SFBT
    • Exploring a stammering ‘toolkit’ using a SF perspective
    • Handling criticism using SFBT
    • SFBT in other settings
  9. Becoming a Solution-Focused Therapist
    • Therapist skills
    • Using SFBT in supervision
  10. Conclusion

Resources

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

"The first text to focus uniquely on the use of the approach in the field of stammering, this book is indeed a ‘Practical Guide’, setting out the model clearly and taking us step by step through the key elements of practice. The theory is illuminated and brought to life through a wealth of case descriptions and pieces of transcript which will not only inform readers, setting out how the approach can be put to work, but will also inspire. This book shines a light on a path that many Speech and Language Therapists will choose to follow and in so doing they will also be part of shaping the future of Solution Focused Brief Therapy with Children and Young People who Stammer and their Parents."
- Evan George, BRIEF


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