| London Solutions Group | 09 February, 2012 |
| We have a regular group of keen solution focused people, but wonder if there are other people who would like to come and don't as yet know about us. Have a look at the Regional Group Page if you want to find out what we have been up to lately. Do contact Kidge Burns, our co-ordinator, for an invitation and details of the venue. | |
| New Resources on the UKASFP Website | 08 February, 2012 |
| Go to the UKASFP homepage click on the ‘member area’ box located in the top right-hand corner. ‘SF books’ and ‘SF research’ are blue tabs situated near the middle of this page.
The books are listed alphabetically by book title and you can browse the articles by category. Journal articles are added on a regular basis and can be browsed by subject headings including: • Addiction • Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome • Education • Learning disabilities • Mental health • Organisational • Physical health • Social work It is part of Joanne's preferred future to regularly add more articles and books so that UKASFP members have easy access to a rich, up-to-date SF evidence base. If you have a relevant book or article reference which you would like to be included in the SF research section, please send it to joanne.iddon@nhs.net. She would also love to hear from you if you have written a book review and would like to share it with other UKASFP members on the site. |
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| Booked your place for Edinburgh yet? | 19 January, 2012 |
| The first 20 early bird members have booked for the UKASFP conference being held in Edinburgh in June. The programme is looking good. The venue is great. The welcome will be warm. | |
| Season's Greetings from Andrew Callcott, UKASFP Chair | 23 December, 2011 |
| "Greetings Miracle Workers! It is a pleasure to send you all an end of year message from myself and the UKASFP board.
As we enter the festive season, I wonder....Will Santa Claus bring us a 2013 conference proposal? Does this fit with anyone's New Year's Resolution? or maybe even their best hopes?" Best wishes to all from Andrew Callcott, Chair of the UKASFP |
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| Request for Research Participants | 15 December, 2011 |
| You are receiving this email as a request to potentially participate in a qualitative Delphi study of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) clinicians/trainers/professionals regarding the nature of solution building. This research is being conducted by Adam Froerer and Elliott Connie. We are specifically looking for SFBT “experts” who are willing to answer three (3) rounds of questions about what solution building is and how SFBT therapists go about solution building with their clients. This study will be completed using electronic surveys through email and surveymonkey.com. Each round of questions will have an open response time of two weeks, and an additional two to four weeks will be used by the researchers to analyze the responses after each round of questions. Therefore, the total research study will last approximately 12-18 weeks.
In order to participate in this study participants must meet at least 2 of the following “expert” criteria: • Must have authored or coauthored at least two (2) peer reviewed articles, book chapters, or books in the last five years that are related to solution focused brief therapy. • Must have conducted at least three (3) workshops, trainings, or presentations at national/international conferences in the last five years that were related to solution focused brief therapy. • Must hold a training or education position (i.e. program director, professor, training supervisor, etc.) that leads participants/students to certification or degree with related solution focused brief therapy curriculum. In addition, participants in this study should be willing to revise or re-examine their initial or previous judgments or opinions about solution building, given group responses. Potential participants will be asked to supply the researchers with an email address at which they can be reached with information related to the study. These email addresses and all collected information will remain confidential. No identifying information will be asked for during the actual survey and researchers will be unable to link individual responses to specific participants. Results of each round of surveys and the final results will be presented as cumulative group results rather than individually identifiable results. It is anticipated that survey results will lead to a consensus of SFBT “experts” regarding what the aspects of solution building are and what clinicians do to help their clients solution build. It is also anticipated that SFBT clinicians and trainers will be able to draw on these results to enhance the solution building efforts of their clients. If you are interested in participating, please click on the link provided here to complete the qualification questionnaire: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3ZV2JCG. If you have any questions about the study please feel free to contact either of the researchers at the email addresses provided below. Finally, if you know of another individual who may be interested in this study and meets the “expert” qualifications, please feel free to forward this email and recruitment flier along. We appreciate your time and consideration of this study! Best, Adam Froerer afroerer@gmail.com Elliott Connie contact@elliottconnie.com |
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| New Sort Facility | 08 December, 2011 |
| It is now possible for anyone to 'Find a Member' using a wider range of criteria - 'SF Supervisor' has been added to the list, together with, SF counsellor, SF Coach, SF trainer, SF consultant. Could members please update their profile under 'Services Offered'. | |
| 2012 Conference in Edinburgh | 06 December, 2011 |
| Steve Smith and Colleagues in Scotland have prepared a great programme. You are now able to download the flyer to send far and wide, as well as book your place on this website. Solution Focus - The Way Ahead - for indiviudals, for organisations, for communities. See you in Edinburgh! | |
| Presentations from the 2011 SFBTA conference in the US | 05 December, 2011 |
| We had a great conference in Bakersfield, CA last month and have gathered some handouts and power point presentations for your viewing pleasure. None of us could make it to all of the great offerings, so we are grateful to those who sent in their materials for posting on the website. Go to www.sfbta.org, click on 'conferences,' then '2011,' and 'conference handouts.' Enjoy! - The SFBTA Conference 2011 Team | |
| Hot news from the UKASFP Committee Meeting | 01 December, 2011 |
| "The committee met in Manchester today (1st December) and had a demo of the capabilities of the new website. We will soon have some more goodies on the site to enrich your UKASFP 'membership experience'. We progressed all priorities on the Business Plan and started to plan our marketing strategy for the conference in Edinburgh in June. Next week we will hear from Steve Smith and the Scottish Organising Committee about the treats they have planned for us." Andrew Callcott, Chair | |
| Systematic review of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) with children and families published today | 24 November, 2011 |
| A systematic literature review has been published by the Department for Education. This research brief arises from the second Serious Case Review (SCR) following the death of Peter Connelly (Haringey Local Safeguarding Children Board, 2009) It is set against a background of government reports and recommendations for safeguarding and protecting children, which emphasise the need to ensure professionals’ decision-making is based upon sound professional judgements (HM Government, 2010; Laming, 2009; Munro, 2011). It can be downloaded from the UKASFP Documents section. | |
| MY UKASFP Profile | 07 November, 2011 |
| We have now improved the 'search' facility on this website, so that members of the public and UKASFP members can search for a counsellor, a coach, a trainer or a consultant. In order for this to work we need all members to visit their profile - MY UKASFP/Services Offered - and tick the appropriate boxes. In the 'Description' area you can add some more details, or marketing information, as well as upload a photo. | |
| Into the Dragons' Den | 31 October, 2011 |
| Becky Simm was very pleased to be invited to speak about SFBT, as part of a day exploring different psychological approaches to "the psychotherapeutic challenges of working with people with persistent physical symptoms", which was run jointly by the British Psychological Society and the Tavistock and Portman Foundation NHS Trust.
The day (7 October 2011) was interesting and thought provoking, and several different approaches (SFBT, CBT, Mentalization therapy, Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic therapy) were discussed by practitioners from a range of therapeutic orientations and professional backgrounds. |
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| SFCT Trainers Conference | 30 October, 2011 |
| The SFCT Trainers Conference held in Frankfurt this weekend has been hailed as 'inspirational' and a 'triumph'! This was the first international conference in six years to be specifically aimed at SF trainers. Well done to the organising committee. The SFCT website can be accessed through our LINKS page. | |
| Have you updated your profile? | 16 October, 2011 |
| We have changed the profile section quite a lot, so it would be a good idea to have a look at MY UKASFP and see if your profile is corrrect. Do you want to add more to it, or add your latest photo? | |
| The Salford Conference, Solution Focused Practice with Children and Families | 11 October, 2011 |
| It is all happening on 25th November. If you've not signed up yet and want to go, visit the Events Section or the link is:
www.fhsc.salford.ac.uk/conferences/solution-focused-practice.php |
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| SF Research papers and books | 07 October, 2011 |
| Joanne Iddon, Committee Member, has been beavering away collecting relevant research items and books to populate the Member Area. Members are invited to have a look and start to use this area to support their learning and practice. Any other ideas about relevant research, or books, do let Joanne know and we will start to fullfill our best hopes of making this site a real resource for members. | |
| SF Social Networking Sites | 07 October, 2011 |
| The UKASFP has a Facebook group (See bottom left of Home Page for link) which is open to all for thoughts, ideas and the usual FB stuff. Not a free advertising space though. We also have a Twitter feed (search for UKASFP) and a Linkedin group. | |