United Kingdom Association of Solution Focused Practice
- an organisation for solution focused practitioners in the United
Kingdom. They provide a national profile of solution focused practice;
networking opportunities for people using solution focused practice
in their work; providing development, support and information.
Brief Therapy North East is “a resource for practitioners in the North
East of England and adjoining regions, who are interested in developing and promoting
models of collaborative brief therapy. We offer friendship, support, information
and learning through events and publications”. This site will tell you what
the group is up to.
The group, open to allcomers, meets five times a year with
a presenter and topic as well as offering support and networking opportunities
for local practitioners. Like Brief Therapy North East the are playing
a significant part in the development of brief therapy in Britain.
Alasdair McDonald is the President of the European Brief Therapy
Association and has long been a leading figure in the field of research in the
approach. This site offers you an up-to-date list of the studies available.
BTPress publish a series of mainly British based texts on Solution
Focused Brief Therapy. In addition they make available Norton, Dulwich Centre
and other texts and resource materials relevant to solution focused, narrative,
collaborative, appreciative enquiry and resource-centred approaches. From St Luke’s
in Australia BTPress distribute great resources for working with children and
adolescents. Here is the place also to pick up your copy of 'Problem to Solution:
Brief Therapy with Individuals and Families'. This introductory text, written
by the Brief Therapy Practice team, was the first British solution focused text.
Mail order service available.
WaysForward produce well-reviewed Counselling Software that offers a Solution Focused session on the computer - an alternative to Computer CBT. Especially suited for young people, and those having trouble engaging with face to face therapy. The new Internet program offers a 24/7 helping response that organisations can put on their website as an out of hours emergency resource for their clients or staff.
The European Brief Therapy Association is the world’s
first such association, set up in 1993 to support and to promote Solution Focused
Brief Therapy across Europe. The Association runs an Annual Conference, Amsterdam
in September 2004 and Salamanca in 2005, and supports research in the field.
This site will enable you to get in touch with a Solution Focused
list, moderated by Harry Korman from Malmo. Solution Focused practitioners from
all over the world discuss their work, their current thinking, search for resources,
ask for consultation and have a laugh. A good-natured and friendly discussion
is guaranteed for people willing and able to read up to 30 postings a day.
Harry and Jocelyn Korman from Malmo in Sweden give you access
to an interesting article 'On the Ethics of Diagnosis' that Harry wrote and to
a book that he jointly authored with Martin Sonderquist on their experience of
using solution focused brief therapy in a heroin programme.
Walter makes available on his site a competency-focused
questionnaire for working with children which you can down-load. They are also
the organising group for EBTA 2004 which will take place from 16 – 19 September
in Amsterdam- There is a link to Conference information on their site.
This is the website of Andrew Turnell and describes the work he has undertaken with children's services practitioners and organisations around the globe to apply brief therapy ideas to the child protection task. The site contains a lot of resources and information to inspire those undertaking this challenging work.
The Brief Family Therapy Centre in Milwaukee is the home of
solution focused brief therapy. Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg make available
on this site their books and audio and video-tapes.
Bill O’Hanlon’s site makes space for frequently
asked questions, while in Bill’s Attic everyone will find something of interest
to take away – perhaps a hand-out to be down-loaded or information about
a book that Bill has read recently.
The Talking Cure site is the home of Scott Miller and the Institute
for the Study of Therapeutic Change. This is a resource-rich site that takes a
particular interest in the whole question of effectiveness in the world of therapy.
The Brief Therapy Insitute of Sydney has a great section of
links which starts off by taking us through the history of the development of
the approach. Michael Durrant’s travels around the world mean that he knows
everyone and his links section is how we benefit. Thank-you Michael.
Peter Szabo is a Master Certified Coach and a Doctor of Law. After 15 years in corporate HR management he has specialized in brief coaching for corporate and private clients.
I have recently returned from Palestine, where I delivered two courses in solution focused brief therapy, which as far as I am aware was the first time that the approach has been introduced there.
