The Brief Therapy Toolkit Ebook V9
Welcome to the "Brief Therapy Toolkit" eBook. This book is crafted as a concise reference guide, complementing my training course under the same title. My goal is to distill the powerful principles of solution-focused brief therapy and tailor them specifically for you, the youth worker. By deconstructing the methodology, we aim to reconstruct it in a manner that transitions seamlessly from the therapy room to your youth club, school, or children's home. As a youth worker, you are often the first point of contact in times of crisis. Armed with these tools, you will gain confidence in your approach and be better equipped to make a difference. Welcome to the "Brief Therapy Toolkit" eBook. This book is crafted as a concise reference guide, complementing my training course under the same title. My goal is to distill the powerful principles of solution-focused brief therapy and tailor them specifically for you, the youth worker. By deconstructing the methodology, we aim to reconstruct it in a manner that transitions seamlessly from the therapy room to your youth club, school, or children's home. As a youth worker, you are often the first point of contact in times of crisis. Armed with these tools, you will gain confidence in your approach and be better equipped to make a difference.
Before he came along, the general belief was that mental problems had a deeper causation from the past which had to be routed out. In general, it was accepted that therapy would also be a long and painful process. Erickson took the opposite view, that therapeutic input could be brief and painless, often a single session. He also believed that a person and a problem were part of a bigger system, to this end, he might even include family members in the solution. He also worked on symptoms as opposed to root causes, believing that change happened in stages like the tipping of dominoes. Anyone who has researched or trained in Solution Focused work will find all of these principles very familiar indeed.
Then came a computer programmer named Richard Bandler and a linguist named John Grinder, captivated by Erickson’s work. They wanted to study successful people and work out how their behaviours and attitudes differed from the average person. They studied a handful of successful therapists in the same way, the objective being to breakdown their actions into a kind of program that could be replicated. A common trait they discovered was how successful therapists were deliberately vague in their suggestions, thus opening up the client's mind to subconscious suggestion. They also saw a pattern of rapport building and working within the model of the client's world and removing the traditional authority of the therapist. The result was NLP - Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a method of exploring how the way people feel and behave influences their life.
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Before he came along, the general belief<br />
was that mental problems had a deeper<br />
causation from the past which had to be<br />
routed out.<br />
In general, it was accepted that therapy would also be a<br />
long and painful process. Erickson took the opposite view,<br />
that therapeutic input could be brief and painless, often a<br />
single session. He also believed that a person and a<br />
problem were part of a bigger system, to this end, he might<br />
even include family members in the solution. He also<br />
worked on symptoms as opposed to root causes, believing<br />
that change happened in stages like the tipping of<br />
dominoes. Anyone who has researched or trained in<br />
Solution Focused work will find all of these principles very<br />
familiar indeed.
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