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

ISBN-13: 9781032393742 / Twarda / 2024 / 232 str.

Martha Jeffery

Opis

In this book, the authors share a wealth of experience from the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering about using Solution Focused Brief Therapy to enhance practice. It offers speech and language therapists, and allied health professionals, a practical resource for working with children, young people and their parents, to achieve 'best hopes'.

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

List of figures 

Foreword by Evan George

Preface

Acknowledgements

 

1.0 INTRODUCTION

A short history of 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

Client Story - Tianna’s hopes to talk and play more 

 

2.0 OUR FIRST SOLUTION FOCUSED CONVERSATION 

Meeting the person not the problem

Exploring best hopes

Describing the preferred future

Looking for solutions and what’s already working using scaling 

Compliments 

Summing up and ending the session

 

3.0 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

 

4.0 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 older children and 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 

 

5.0 SOLUTION FOCUSED CONVERSATIONS WITH PARENTS

Why include parents?

Parenting children who stammer 

Parenting children with additional needs

Working Systemically

What was it like? A parent perspective on SFBT in stammering therapy

6.0 USING SFBT IN GROUPS

Working in groups 

 

7.0 THE EVIDENCE BASE, THE BENEFITS AND THE CHALLENGES

The Evidence Base for SFBT

Benefits of SFBT

Challenges of SFBT

Frequently Asked Questions

 

8.0 Other applications of SFBT

Exploring a stammering ‘toolkit’ using a SF perspective

Handling criticism using SFBT

SFBT in other settings

 

9.0 BECOMING A SOLUTION FOCUSED THERAPIST 

Therapist Skills

Doing our own work and supervision

 

10.0 CONCLUSION

A Solution Focused Mindset

Being person-centred 

The role of the therapist in the process

What makes therapy successful

Empowering parents 

Supporting children and young people towards their best life

Resources

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Ali Berquez is Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) at the Michael Palin Centre (MPC), a Registered Certified European Stuttering Specialist and Chair of the UK’s National Stammering Clinical Excellence Network. She contributes to the Centre’s clinical work and development of therapy programmes, teaching, writing and research and offers clinical supervision to therapists in and outside the MPC. Ali started training in Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) with BRIEF in London in 1999 and completed a BRIEF certificate in Solution Focused Practice in 2019. Her SFBT research has focused on exploring parents’ and children’s expectations from therapy and what parents and children notice over time.

 

Martha Jeffery is a Highly Specialist SLT at the MPC.  Before speech and language therapy she had a former life in conference organisation and banking.  She came across SFBT in her first job as an SLT in 2009, but it wasn’t until she started at the MPC in 2013 that it became embedded in her practice.  Over time she learned not to dread the ‘What have you been pleased to notice?’ question in team meetings and supervision and to enjoy the way it turned her perspective around. She has an Advanced Certificate in Solution Focused Brief Therapy from BRIEF from their year-long programme in 2021.