Description
Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) promotes collaborative work and positive outcomes. It is an approach that can be used with individuals, families and groups in acute hospitals as well as with clients who are seen as outpatients or in the community. Written in an accessible style with over seventy case examples, this new edition of 'Focus on Solutions' shows how SFBT can help people who are suffering from voice or memory difficulties, a stammer, a stroke, HIV, traumatic brain injury or illness such as cancer or Parkinson's disease. Two new full session transcripts show clients beginning to shift from focusing on the problems in their lives towards a clear description of how they want their lives to be different. Recent outcomes are included on solution focused supervision within the NHS and examples of ways to help clients monitor progress and give feedback. 'Focus on Solutions' contains many useful ideas for experienced practitioners and those new to solution focused work, which is of growing importance in the health service as well as business and education. Therapists, doctors, nurses and psychologists will find this book an invaluable contribution to the field of reflective practice. 'Focus on Solutions' is a clear and inspiring application of the solution-focused approach in a medical and community setting . . . Bonus content includes how to be solution-focused in supervision, training new practitioners and measuring client outcomes. The varying and updated case examples brings the approach to life, demonstrates its practical nature and how it can be incorporated into existing speech and language therapy frameworks.
About the Author
Kidge Burns started working with solution focused (SF) practice and people with chronic physical ill-health in 1997. Kidge left the NHS in June 2016 and continues to provide supervision and training in SF practice, as well as seeing some private clients. She is currently a SF supervisor for a study at City University on SFBT in Aphasia. She set up a supervision process ('Ten Minute Talk'), which helped embed SF principles within her department and has delivered training throughout the UK and abroad, also contributing SF material to other books in 2009 and 2012. Her book Focus On Solutions (second edition 2016) presents a unique guide to using SF methods in a range of healthcare settings.
Reviews
This revised edition of Focus on Solutions is a clear and inspiring application of the solution-focused approach in a medical and community setting. Besides its lucid explanations of solution-focused principles and practices, the book is rich with case data in the form of detailed solution-building dialogues with clients. In this way the author Kidge Burns, a gifted speech and language therapist, opens the reader to the heart of what it is to be solution-focused with clients.;Bonus content includes how to be solution-focused in supervision, training new practitioners, and measuring client outcomes. Practitioners and managers in any human service setting will find this book a rich resource for introducing and sustaining client-centred and competency-based practice in their contexts. ;Peter De Jong;Professor of Social Work, Emeritus, Calvin College, Grand Rapid, Michigan USA;;A book for clinicians who like people! Full of good ideas and rich stories that will stimulate creative and effective practice in both newcomer and experienced SF practitioner alike. ;Dr. Dominic Bray, Head, Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust Clinical Health Psychology Dept;;The way Kidge explains how the Solution Focused Brief Therapy approach can be used in Speech & Language Therapy is enlightening and exciting, while still being clear and practical, and thus achievable for the rest of us to use. Kidge is skilled in showing us how to use this approach to facilitate a positive and respectful conversation in the therapy session. She shows us how this approach can ensure an appropriate balance of responsibility for the changes that patients aim for, and how we can support them in choosing and reaching their own meaningful and achievable outcomes.;Dr Lisa Hirst, Head of Service, Speech & Language Therapy Services, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust;;As a practitioner of SFBT I have found this revised edition invaluable in reaffirming the kind of conversations I have with my adult and paediatric clients, work colleagues and myself! The new, detailed transcripts are particularly helpful in seeing how the seemingly 'simple' questions can elicit such meaningful solutions. I will keep this book close at hand in all my future work. ;Lisa Aldwinckle, Speech and Language Therapist (Adult and Paediatric Speciality), Central London Community Healthcare;;This is an extended second edition of the excellent textbook written by Kidge Burns who is a leading speech and language therapist in London. The book has been a continuing success since first publication because of its readable style and clinical expertise. There is no other book currently available in English which deals as explicitly with the use of solution-focused brief therapy in the field of acute and chronic physical ill-health. This new edition provides extensive technical information in succinct form. It includes a wide variety of original ideas from the author's own experience. She emphasises the importance of a non-problem focus and of following the patient's own goals and leads. Her case examples demonstrate the application of the method in many situations and show also how to combine its use with the work of the patient's professional and professional carers;Dr Alasdair Macdonald, author, Solution Focused Therapy: Theory, Research and Practice;;It is good to see a second edition of this book that brings in some contemporary thinking around SFBT. Kidge has a style that whilst close to the practice of BRIEF has its own 'Kidge flavour'. She manages to show the difference between behavioural approaches (such as CBT) and observational approaches without making that explicit in relation to each other. The talk of movement from symptom recovery to personal recovery is completely in line with current international thinking in this area and adds strength to this edition. The case studies are in many cases moving and illustrate well that a solution focused approach does not need to be formulaic. Congratulations on this book and it will no doubt be a valuable addition to the solution focused practitioners bookshelf.;Paul Hanton, Solution-Focused Brief Therapist, New Zealand
Book Information
ISBN 9780993346323
Author Kidge Burns
Format Paperback
Page Count 210
Imprint Solutions Books
Publisher Solutions Books
Weight(grams) 289g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm
About the Author
Kidge Burns started working with solution focused (SF) practice and people with chronic physical ill-health in 1997. Kidge left the NHS in June 2016 and continues to provide supervision and training in SF practice, as well as seeing some private clients. She is currently a SF supervisor for a study at City University on SFBT in Aphasia. She set up a supervision process ('Ten Minute Talk'), which helped embed SF principles within her department and has delivered training throughout the UK and abroad, also contributing SF material to other books in 2009 and 2012. Her book Focus On Solutions (second edition 2016) presents a unique guide to using SF methods in a range of healthcare settings.
Reviews
This revised edition of Focus on Solutions is a clear and inspiring application of the solution-focused approach in a medical and community setting. Besides its lucid explanations of solution-focused principles and practices, the book is rich with case data in the form of detailed solution-building dialogues with clients. In this way the author Kidge Burns, a gifted speech and language therapist, opens the reader to the heart of what it is to be solution-focused with clients.;Bonus content includes how to be solution-focused in supervision, training new practitioners, and measuring client outcomes. Practitioners and managers in any human service setting will find this book a rich resource for introducing and sustaining client-centred and competency-based practice in their contexts. ;Peter De Jong;Professor of Social Work, Emeritus, Calvin College, Grand Rapid, Michigan USA;;A book for clinicians who like people! Full of good ideas and rich stories that will stimulate creative and effective practice in both newcomer and experienced SF practitioner alike. ;Dr. Dominic Bray, Head, Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust Clinical Health Psychology Dept;;The way Kidge explains how the Solution Focused Brief Therapy approach can be used in Speech & Language Therapy is enlightening and exciting, while still being clear and practical, and thus achievable for the rest of us to use. Kidge is skilled in showing us how to use this approach to facilitate a positive and respectful conversation in the therapy session. She shows us how this approach can ensure an appropriate balance of responsibility for the changes that patients aim for, and how we can support them in choosing and reaching their own meaningful and achievable outcomes.;Dr Lisa Hirst, Head of Service, Speech & Language Therapy Services, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust;;As a practitioner of SFBT I have found this revised edition invaluable in reaffirming the kind of conversations I have with my adult and paediatric clients, work colleagues and myself! The new, detailed transcripts are particularly helpful in seeing how the seemingly 'simple' questions can elicit such meaningful solutions. I will keep this book close at hand in all my future work. ;Lisa Aldwinckle, Speech and Language Therapist (Adult and Paediatric Speciality), Central London Community Healthcare;;This is an extended second edition of the excellent textbook written by Kidge Burns who is a leading speech and language therapist in London. The book has been a continuing success since first publication because of its readable style and clinical expertise. There is no other book currently available in English which deals as explicitly with the use of solution-focused brief therapy in the field of acute and chronic physical ill-health. This new edition provides extensive technical information in succinct form. It includes a wide variety of original ideas from the author's own experience. She emphasises the importance of a non-problem focus and of following the patient's own goals and leads. Her case examples demonstrate the application of the method in many situations and show also how to combine its use with the work of the patient's professional and professional carers;Dr Alasdair Macdonald, author, Solution Focused Therapy: Theory, Research and Practice;;It is good to see a second edition of this book that brings in some contemporary thinking around SFBT. Kidge has a style that whilst close to the practice of BRIEF has its own 'Kidge flavour'. She manages to show the difference between behavioural approaches (such as CBT) and observational approaches without making that explicit in relation to each other. The talk of movement from symptom recovery to personal recovery is completely in line with current international thinking in this area and adds strength to this edition. The case studies are in many cases moving and illustrate well that a solution focused approach does not need to be formulaic. Congratulations on this book and it will no doubt be a valuable addition to the solution focused practitioners bookshelf.;Paul Hanton, Solution-Focused Brief Therapist, New Zealand
Book Information
ISBN 9780993346323
Author Kidge Burns
Format Paperback
Page Count 210
Imprint Solutions Books
Publisher Solutions Books
Weight(grams) 289g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm
