Solution-Focused
Brief Therapy Training
Essential Skills
For Evidence-Based Practice
Why provide
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Training for your staff?
Today's clinicians face many uncertainties and hard realities with managed behavioral health care demanding they become more outcome oriented (effective) and time-sensitive (efficient). Brief therapy skills that are based on empirical evidence are essential in today's environment, yet many clinicians are inadequately trained to provide these services. This can challenge clinicians sense of autonomy, professionalism, and competence, as well as their commitment to quality care.
Today's clinicians need the broad range of clinical skills which
research has shown to be common to all effective therapies. They also need skills best articulated by the
brief therapies, including the ability to rapidly negotiate and accomplish
treatment goals with a wide variety of clients.
Providing staff with these skills can increase morale, which is
essential to preventing "burn out" and to retaining experienced,
committed staff. Conscientious
clinicians are often relieved and excited to learn a compassionate, respectful,
and hopeful way to work that truly helps people change, and that does so
time-efficiently, whether the people they serve change rapidly or require
services over an extended period of time.
What is unique about Kreider's SFBT Training?
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is not just an abbreviated version of long-term therapy, but rather an exciting development in the field of psychotherapy offering a non-pathological, competency-based approach to resolving human problems. Kreider's approach to SFBT is based on a synthesis of the innovative research and work of The Brief Family Therapy Center (originators of the model), Milton H. Erickson, and Kreider's nearly 30 years of experience with hard to treat individuals and families.
Kreider's trainings provide a coherent theory base supported by current outcome research as well as numerous practical interventions that reduce resistance by focusing client strengths, creativity, and abilities on solution development. He demonstrates how to employ the approach with a wide range of clients that have varied diagnoses, histories and symptom patterns by facilitating rapid development of a collaborative therapeutic alliance focused on achievable goals.
Kreider teaches how to use this active, focused, flexible approach to increase client's hopefulness, motivation, participation, and responsibility in order to facilitate therapeutic change with families, individuals, couples, and groups.
What about brief therapy
with "long-term" clients?
80% or more of outpatient clients satisfactorily complete therapy in 6 to 10 visits, with the most frequent number of sessions being 1 or 2. Some clients, however, present with problems which are very challenging to resolve regardless
of treatment method (dissociative disorders, persistent substance abuse, severe trauma, personality disorders, etc.) Outcome research shows that the majority of these clients respond to various brief therapies, but sometimes their belief systems, emotional reactivity, relationship reluctance, vagueness, external locus of control, or lack of functional supports slow progress.
The SFBT approach is uniquely effective in helping therapists collaborate with these more challenging clients.
The model's readily learned skills help access internal resources, capitalize on existing motivations, facilitate a therapeutic focus, and utilize extra-therapeutic factors to help clients discover how to make and maintain therapeutic changes, making, therapy both briefer and more effective, even with "long-term" clients and complex systems.
What do participants say
about Kreider and his trainings?
Jim has a deeply sophisticated understanding of
psychotherapy
and the ability to articulate
it clearly. He is a gentle, gifted
teacher, committed to quality...
Randall Krehbiel,
LSCSW, BCD
Director of Clinical Services
Jim....offers a good solution to the pressing
expectation from payers to provide a focused, time-limited approach to
treatment, even when treating complex cases.
Marlin Cook, ACSW, LSCSW
Clinical Program Manager
Jim's knowledge of the literature is
impressive...clear and simple enough to be understood by beginners, yet
sophisticated enough to challenge even the "old pros." He challenges his audience to change how they
think and work.
Diane Bythell,
Ph.D.
Sexual
Abuse Prog. Coordinator
Jim helped equip our staff with new
skills...synthesizing information from hypnotic and other approaches to expand
the SFBT model in a manner which enhances its applicability to difficult, more
chronic cases.
Thomas Locke, Ph.D.
Adult
Offender Prog. Coordinator
In the past I often felt like I was the only one in
the room working. Now even court ordered
clients seem to take more responsibility for change.
Monique Faultemier,
LSCSW
Drug & Alcohol Counselor
About the presenter....
Jim Kreider has been
training other therapists for over 30 years.
He is a seasoned clinician who has worked extensively with sexual and
substance abusing families, as well as personality, dissociative,
and thought disordered adults, children, and adolescents. Consequently, he understands firsthand the
dilemmas of providing quality care in today's behavioral healthcare market.
Kreider uses demonstrations,
experiential exercises, video, case examples and active audience interaction to
energize his lectures and to bridge the conceptual to the practical. His focus on active yet sensitive use of the
therapeutic relationship in conjunction with powerful yet respectful techniques
that have empirical support distinguishes his approach to therapy
training. He teaches how to do therapy
well, not just briefly.
Kreider maintains an active
clinical practice and also teaches graduate courses at the
Training Fees
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For further
information about SFBT training, contact:
Kreider Consulting, LLC
jkreider@ku.edu
785.331.2811