addictions
"Christine Woodward" 01:44 04/03/2007
Hi
Just wondering if anyone has experience of working with addictions.
Regards
Christine Woodward

Steve Freeman wrote:
Hi Ian, Craig and team,
First up apologies for the 'clinical' language.
There has been some work done on the use in acute mental health nursing in the UK and US but there is, as you suggest, loads of scope for more to be done. I'll dig out the references I have later.
In NStaffs there seem to be three strands to the use of SFA in acute services; the link to SFA based Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment teams, the use in specific areas (personality disorder, eating disorder etc) and in the useful conversations with patients, carers and colleagues from the MDT.
Some of the key figures in this area are Alasdair Macdonald, Penny west, Greg Vinnicombe, Nick Bowles (and a few others at NIMHE e.g. Tony Dodd?) and Paul Hanton.
I'm doing some work with a 'virtual' team who want SFA to be the basis of their work with personality disorder. I put a call out for information on the Mental Health Foundation list for ideas/information; the results were mixed between people we already know in the SFA field and people asking to be copied in on any responses.
I've also been doing some work with carers lately and their views are both passionate and positively in favour of SFA (not a big sample though so won't add to the evidence base!)

See you soon

Steve

Steve Freeman
Research Nurse/Solution Focused Approaches Manager,
Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.
Lecturer Keele University
Chair UK Association for Solution Focused Practice.
www.ukasfp.co.uk
www.solutionfocusedapproaches.co.uk
"Steve Freeman" 02:51 04/03/2007
Hi Christine,
Any specific area of addiction? This may not be relevant if we're working with the person not the problem of course.

Paul Hanton springs to mind. Luc Isobert and team in Brugge ( www.korzybski.com ), 'Talk about a Miracle' from Harry Korman's website ( www.sikt.nu )and Insoo Kim Bergs work are also first thoughts ( www.brief-therapy.org/ ).
There will be lots more ideas from others on the list too, just a few thoughts to get us going.

All the best

Steve




Steve Freeman
Research Nurse/Solution Focused Approaches Manager,
Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.
Lecturer Keele University
Chair UK Association for Solution Focused Practice.
www.ukasfp.co.uk
www.solutionfocusedapproaches.co.uk
"craig osment" 02:42 04/03/2007
one of my team is addicted to solution focused brief therapy I am currently trying not to look for exceptions!
----- Original Message -----
From: Christine Woodward
To: craig
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:44 PM
Subject: [members] addictions


Hi
Just wondering if anyone has experience of working with addictions.
Regards
Christine Woodward

Steve Freeman wrote:
Hi Ian, Craig and team,
First up apologies for the 'clinical' language.
There has been some work done on the use in acute mental health nursing in the UK and US but there is, as you suggest, loads of scope for more to be done. I'll dig out the references I have later.
In NStaffs there seem to be three strands to the use of SFA in acute services; the link to SFA based Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment teams, the use in specific areas (personality disorder, eating disorder etc) and in the useful conversations with patients, carers and colleagues from the MDT.
Some of the key figures in this area are Alasdair Macdonald, Penny west, Greg Vinnicombe, Nick Bowles (and a few others at NIMHE e.g. Tony Dodd?) and Paul Hanton.
I'm doing some work with a 'virtual' team who want SFA to be the basis of their work with personality disorder. I put a call out for information on the Mental Health Foundation list for ideas/information; the results were mixed between people we already know in the SFA field and people asking to be copied in on any responses.
I've also been doing some work with carers lately and their views are both passionate and positively in favour of SFA (not a big sample though so won't add to the evidence base!)

See you soon

Steve

Steve Freeman
Research Nurse/Solution Focused Approaches Manager,
Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.
Lecturer Keele University
Chair UK Association for Solution Focused Practice.
www.ukasfp.co.uk
www.solutionfocusedapproaches.co.uk
"jane woollatt" 03:46 04/03/2007
Hello Christine,

I don't have specific experience of working with people who misusing alcohol
however have been using SF with people with severe eating difficulties for
the past 2 years -

that is to say all my SF experience is with people who habitually take
laxatives binge on food alcohol exercise and/or starve
themselves..........and a whole host of other distructive and disruptive
behaviours.......

Many of the people have families husband parents who would like them to stop
the behaviour/s. I have done some sessions with all family members together.
I have found that using a (fairly - I am a bit messy) pure SF approach
creates change that is usually for the better for all parties involved -

the main reasons are I believe, that the approach reduces the risk of blame
it allows for the difficulites to be seen as happening between the people
involved (rather than possibly one person being viewed as all good and the
other as all bad)

By looking for exceptions and scope for change hope gets highlighted.

I guess it is about trusting that they will want to make the changes that
they know are the right ones for them and not neccessarily viewing the
problem/alcohol and the possible solution -> as being conected in any
obvious or predictable way ...........

I just know it works and somehow this approach brings together the good
(common factors of therapy) stuff of working with people in a way that
allows them to make good use of what they come up with and notice within the
conversation with you...............Jane

I hope this makes sense........................... :-)


>From: Christine Woodward
>Reply-To: members@ukasfp.co.uk
>To: "Jane Woollatt"
>Subject: [members] addictions
>Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 15:09:13 +0000 (GMT)
>
>Craig,
> Good answer, and thank you Steve for your suggestions. I am working
>with a couple with a drink issue and hence a relationship issue too. I
>only dabble in SF work. Just thinking about how I might empower someone to
>seek help while working with the relationship issues. I have a copy of
>'the Miracle method' by Scott Miller and Insoo Berg and 'Working with the
>problem drinker. At my agency I can't work with any kind of abstience
>programme but can work to facilitate change.
> Christine
>craig osment wrote:
> one of my team is addicted to solution focused brief therapy I am
>currently trying not to look for exceptions!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Christine Woodward
> To: craig
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:44 PM
> Subject: [members] addictions
>
>
> Hi
> Just wondering if anyone has experience of working with addictions.
> Regards
> Christine Woodward
>
>Steve Freeman wrote:
> Hi Ian, Craig and team,
> First up apologies for the 'clinical' language.
> There has been some work done on the use in acute mental health nursing
>in the UK and US but there is, as you suggest, loads of scope for more to
>be done. I'll dig out the references I have later.
> In NStaffs there seem to be three strands to the use of SFA in acute
>services; the link to SFA based Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment teams,
>the use in specific areas (personality disorder, eating disorder etc) and
>in the useful conversations with patients, carers and colleagues from the
>MDT.
> Some of the key figures in this area are Alasdair Macdonald, Penny west,
>Greg Vinnicombe, Nick Bowles (and a few others at NIMHE e.g. Tony Dodd?)
>and Paul Hanton.
> I'm doing some work with a 'virtual' team who want SFA to be the basis
>of their work with personality disorder. I put a call out for information
>on the Mental Health Foundation list for ideas/information; the results
>were mixed between people we already know in the SFA field and people
>asking to be copied in on any responses.
> I've also been doing some work with carers lately and their views are
>both passionate and positively in favour of SFA (not a big sample though so
>won't add to the evidence base!)
>
> See you soon
>
> Steve
>
> Steve Freeman
>Research Nurse/Solution Focused Approaches Manager,
>Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.
>Lecturer Keele University
>Chair UK Association for Solution Focused Practice.
>www.ukasfp.co.uk
>www.solutionfocusedapproaches.co.uk
>
>

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"Christine Woodward" 03:09 04/03/2007
Craig,
Good answer, and thank you Steve for your suggestions. I am working with a couple with a drink issue and hence a relationship issue too. I only dabble in SF work. Just thinking about how I might empower someone to seek help while working with the relationship issues. I have a copy of 'the Miracle method' by Scott Miller and Insoo Berg and 'Working with the problem drinker. At my agency I can't work with any kind of abstience programme but can work to facilitate change.
Christine
craig osment wrote:
one of my team is addicted to solution focused brief therapy I am currently trying not to look for exceptions!
----- Original Message -----
From: Christine Woodward
To: craig
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:44 PM
Subject: [members] addictions


Hi
Just wondering if anyone has experience of working with addictions.
Regards
Christine Woodward

Steve Freeman wrote:
Hi Ian, Craig and team,
First up apologies for the 'clinical' language.
There has been some work done on the use in acute mental health nursing in the UK and US but there is, as you suggest, loads of scope for more to be done. I'll dig out the references I have later.
In NStaffs there seem to be three strands to the use of SFA in acute services; the link to SFA based Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment teams, the use in specific areas (personality disorder, eating disorder etc) and in the useful conversations with patients, carers and colleagues from the MDT.
Some of the key figures in this area are Alasdair Macdonald, Penny west, Greg Vinnicombe, Nick Bowles (and a few others at NIMHE e.g. Tony Dodd?) and Paul Hanton.
I'm doing some work with a 'virtual' team who want SFA to be the basis of their work with personality disorder. I put a call out for information on the Mental Health Foundation list for ideas/information; the results were mixed between people we already know in the SFA field and people asking to be copied in on any responses.
I've also been doing some work with carers lately and their views are both passionate and positively in favour of SFA (not a big sample though so won't add to the evidence base!)

See you soon

Steve

Steve Freeman
Research Nurse/Solution Focused Approaches Manager,
Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.
Lecturer Keele University
Chair UK Association for Solution Focused Practice.
www.ukasfp.co.uk
www.solutionfocusedapproaches.co.uk
"Christine Woodward" 04:00 04/03/2007
Thanks for that encouragement Jane. I guess I have to try harder to convince the non alcoholic that this is a shared relationship problem.
Christine

jane woollatt wrote:
Hello Christine,

I don't have specific experience of working with people who misusing alcohol
however have been using SF with people with severe eating difficulties for
the past 2 years -

that is to say all my SF experience is with people who habitually take
laxatives binge on food alcohol exercise and/or starve
themselves..........and a whole host of other distructive and disruptive
behaviours.......

Many of the people have families husband parents who would like them to stop
the behaviour/s. I have done some sessions with all family members together.
I have found that using a (fairly - I am a bit messy) pure SF approach
creates change that is usually for the better for all parties involved -

the main reasons are I believe, that the approach reduces the risk of blame
it allows for the difficulites to be seen as happening between the people
involved (rather than possibly one person being viewed as all good and the
other as all bad)

By looking for exceptions and scope for change hope gets highlighted.

I guess it is about trusting that they will want to make the changes that
they know are the right ones for them and not neccessarily viewing the
problem/alcohol and the possible solution -> as being conected in any
obvious or predictable way ...........

I just know it works and somehow this approach brings together the good
(common factors of therapy) stuff of working with people in a way that
allows them to make good use of what they come up with and notice within the
conversation with you...............Jane

I hope this makes sense........................... :-)


>From: Christine Woodward
>Reply-To: members@ukasfp.co.uk
>To: "Jane Woollatt"
>Subject: [members] addictions
>Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 15:09:13 +0000 (GMT)
>
>Craig,
> Good answer, and thank you Steve for your suggestions. I am working
>with a couple with a drink issue and hence a relationship issue too. I
>only dabble in SF work. Just thinking about how I might empower someone to
>seek help while working with the relationship issues. I have a copy of
>'the Miracle method' by Scott Miller and Insoo Berg and 'Working with the
>problem drinker. At my agency I can't work with any kind of abstience
>programme but can work to facilitate change.
> Christine
>craig osment wrote:
> one of my team is addicted to solution focused brief therapy I am
>currently trying not to look for exceptions!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Christine Woodward
> To: craig
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:44 PM
> Subject: [members] addictions
>
>
> Hi
> Just wondering if anyone has experience of working with addictions.
> Regards
> Christine Woodward
>
>Steve Freeman wrote:
> Hi Ian, Craig and team,
> First up apologies for the 'clinical' language.
> There has been some work done on the use in acute mental health nursing
>in the UK and US but there is, as you suggest, loads of scope for more to
>be done. I'll dig out the references I have later.
> In NStaffs there seem to be three strands to the use of SFA in acute
>services; the link to SFA based Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment teams,
>the use in specific areas (personality disorder, eating disorder etc) and
>in the useful conversations with patients, carers and colleagues from the
>MDT.
> Some of the key figures in this area are Alasdair Macdonald, Penny west,
>Greg Vinnicombe, Nick Bowles (and a few others at NIMHE e.g. Tony Dodd?)
>and Paul Hanton.
> I'm doing some work with a 'virtual' team who want SFA to be the basis
>of their work with personality disorder. I put a call out for information
>on the Mental Health Foundation list for ideas/information; the results
>were mixed between people we already know in the SFA field and people
>asking to be copied in on any responses.
> I've also been doing some work with carers lately and their views are
>both passionate and positively in favour of SFA (not a big sample though so
>won't add to the evidence base!)
>
> See you soon
>
> Steve
>
> Steve Freeman
>Research Nurse/Solution Focused Approaches Manager,
>Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.
>Lecturer Keele University
>Chair UK Association for Solution Focused Practice.
>www.ukasfp.co.uk
>www.solutionfocusedapproaches.co.uk
>
>

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"jane woollatt" 07:04 04/03/2007
Hi Christine, in my experience, and I guess opinion - so long as you don't
try to hard to convice anyone , person drinking/ person not drinking that it
is anypersons problem - but rather create questions that look for how life
will be/could be if............. then let them fill in the blanks - things
may change........

I acknowledge that the "problem" probably is the "drinking" but that may be
an "assumption" and focusing on it will probably be nothing to do with the
solution..........

I would try and I mean this most politely not to try "harder" but to do less
- if you get what I mean - do lots of listening for clues about what helps
them stay together, what is good, what works, when does it work and so
on.........I hope this is helpful

Jane (I don't know that much about this stuff but have had some sucesses and
- it is a little quiet at the mo, I am starting to be able to feel more
confident to offer answers - however there will be others with more {what
ever than me} than me) my thoughts are though - give it a go and keep asking
questions and exploring, reading and llistening - gradually it seems to make
more sense.........I think

Jane.


>From: Christine Woodward
>Reply-To: members@ukasfp.co.uk
>To: "Jane Woollatt"
>Subject: [members] addictions
>Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 16:00:35 +0000 (GMT)
>
>Thanks for that encouragement Jane. I guess I have to try harder to
>convince the non alcoholic that this is a shared relationship problem.
> Christine
>
>jane woollatt wrote:
> Hello Christine,
>
>I don't have specific experience of working with people who misusing
>alcohol
>however have been using SF with people with severe eating difficulties for
>the past 2 years -
>
>that is to say all my SF experience is with people who habitually take
>laxatives binge on food alcohol exercise and/or starve
>themselves..........and a whole host of other distructive and disruptive
>behaviours.......
>
>Many of the people have families husband parents who would like them to
>stop
>the behaviour/s. I have done some sessions with all family members
>together.
>I have found that using a (fairly - I am a bit messy) pure SF approach
>creates change that is usually for the better for all parties involved -
>
>the main reasons are I believe, that the approach reduces the risk of blame
>it allows for the difficulites to be seen as happening between the people
>involved (rather than possibly one person being viewed as all good and the
>other as all bad)
>
>By looking for exceptions and scope for change hope gets highlighted.
>
>I guess it is about trusting that they will want to make the changes that
>they know are the right ones for them and not neccessarily viewing the
>problem/alcohol and the possible solution -> as being conected in any
>obvious or predictable way ...........
>
>I just know it works and somehow this approach brings together the good
>(common factors of therapy) stuff of working with people in a way that
>allows them to make good use of what they come up with and notice within
>the
>conversation with you...............Jane
>
>I hope this makes sense........................... :-)
>
>
> >From: Christine Woodward
> >Reply-To: members@ukasfp.co.uk
> >To: "Jane Woollatt"
> >Subject: [members] addictions
> >Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 15:09:13 +0000 (GMT)
> >
> >Craig,
> > Good answer, and thank you Steve for your suggestions. I am working
> >with a couple with a drink issue and hence a relationship issue too. I
> >only dabble in SF work. Just thinking about how I might empower someone
>to
> >seek help while working with the relationship issues. I have a copy of
> >'the Miracle method' by Scott Miller and Insoo Berg and 'Working with the
> >problem drinker. At my agency I can't work with any kind of abstience
> >programme but can work to facilitate change.
> > Christine
> >craig osment wrote:
> > one of my team is addicted to solution focused brief therapy I am
> >currently trying not to look for exceptions!
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Christine Woodward
> > To: craig
> > Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:44 PM
> > Subject: [members] addictions
> >
> >
> > Hi
> > Just wondering if anyone has experience of working with addictions.
> > Regards
> > Christine Woodward
> >
> >Steve Freeman wrote:
> > Hi Ian, Craig and team,
> > First up apologies for the 'clinical' language.
> > There has been some work done on the use in acute mental health nursing
> >in the UK and US but there is, as you suggest, loads of scope for more to
> >be done. I'll dig out the references I have later.
> > In NStaffs there seem to be three strands to the use of SFA in acute
> >services; the link to SFA based Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment
>teams,
> >the use in specific areas (personality disorder, eating disorder etc) and
> >in the useful conversations with patients, carers and colleagues from the
> >MDT.
> > Some of the key figures in this area are Alasdair Macdonald, Penny west,
> >Greg Vinnicombe, Nick Bowles (and a few others at NIMHE e.g. Tony Dodd?)
> >and Paul Hanton.
> > I'm doing some work with a 'virtual' team who want SFA to be the basis
> >of their work with personality disorder. I put a call out for information
> >on the Mental Health Foundation list for ideas/information; the results
> >were mixed between people we already know in the SFA field and people
> >asking to be copied in on any responses.
> > I've also been doing some work with carers lately and their views are
> >both passionate and positively in favour of SFA (not a big sample though
>so
> >won't add to the evidence base!)
> >
> > See you soon
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Steve Freeman
> >Research Nurse/Solution Focused Approaches Manager,
> >Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.
> >Lecturer Keele University
> >Chair UK Association for Solution Focused Practice.
> >www.ukasfp.co.uk
> >www.solutionfocusedapproaches.co.uk
> >
> >
>
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"Paul Hanton" 05:18 07/03/2007
Hiya Christine,

sorry it has taken so long for me to reply to your post, i have been away working...........I have worked in the drug and alcohol field for about 15 years, not so much direct client work these days, more supervision and training, if there is anything I might be helpful with, please ask,

paul
----- Original Message -----
From: Christine Woodward
To: Paul
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:44 PM
Subject: [members] addictions


Hi
Just wondering if anyone has experience of working with addictions.
Regards
Christine Woodward
"jane woollatt" 06:02 07/03/2007
Hi Paul,

I am interested :-) (sincerity) - is there any do's and don'ts or additional
info that you would use/need when working with Clients with drug and alcohol
difficulties.

I am interested to learn -is/was my thinking along the best paths

and I am three days into my new job - so far so good (primary mental health
care worker) I am having to think on my toes and learn a lot and am way out
of my comfort zone - am interested to see how adaptable the SF approach can
be and so am interested to see how/if/what you added and changed if at all.

I am sure to meet parents/young adults with difficulties around drug and
alcohol misuse.

Thank you Jane :-)






>From: "Paul Hanton"
>Reply-To: members@ukasfp.co.uk
>To: "Jane Woollatt"
>Subject: [members] addictions
>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:18:19 -0000
>
>Hiya Christine,
>
>sorry it has taken so long for me to reply to your post, i have been away
>working...........I have worked in the drug and alcohol field for about 15
>years, not so much direct client work these days, more supervision and
>training, if there is anything I might be helpful with, please ask,
>
>paul
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Christine Woodward
> To: Paul
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 1:44 PM
> Subject: [members] addictions
>
>
> Hi
> Just wondering if anyone has experience of working with addictions.
> Regards
> Christine Woodward

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