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Booking is now open for our next public course on 19th October 2010. Details are below:

A Solution Focused Approach to Working with Hard to Reach & Resistant Clients
Facilitated by: Eileen Murphy
Churchill Room,
Goodenough College
Mecklenburgh Square
London, WC1N 2AB,
DATE: 19th October 2010.
9.30am to 4.30pm
£130 plus VAT payable to Eileen Murphy Consultants & Associates or by Invoice (see below)

The course is especially useful for:

- Family Support Workers
- Family Intervention Officers
- MAST (Multi-Agency Support Teams)
- Alcohol and Drug Workers
- Primary Care Trusts
- Specialist Community Nurses
- School Parent Support Assistants
- Mental Health staff
- Youth Offending staff
- Background and history:

Historically, the term "Hard to Reach" and "Resistant Client" has had different meanings for different agencies. According to research by Dr.Nicola Brackertz, Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Centre for Social Investment & Philanthropy: "The problem with using the term ‘hard to reach’ is that implies a homogeneity within distinct groups, which does not necessarily exist. Thereby ‘it defines the problem as one within the group itself, not within your approach to them" (Smith 2006).

This course is about revisiting and revamping our thinking and our approach when we wish to reach "Hard to Reach and Resistant groups" in order that they are able to achieve better outcomes for themselves and their families.

Many groups actively avoid statutory and related services either because they feel we have nothing to offer or they feel what we have to offer brings them "above the radar" and therefore often results in an active choice to avoid us no matter how in need of that service they might be.

Ethos of the Approaches used in the Training:
The training provides approaches that engage and provide continuum. Traditionally, working with in a supportive or therapeutic capacity has focused on identifying the problems presented by individual pathologies and deficiencies. Forward looking approaches including Solution Focused Brief Therapy (deShazer '85) Examine, Repair & Move On (Murphy '93) and Optima Communication Skills (Murphy '06) shifts the focus towards the subtle examining of any existing successes; the future rather than the past and all work is tailored to how the clients live, their unique socio-economic and ethnic culture rather than engaging them "into the pattern of the service". Evaluations show these approaches are successful in engaging "Hard to Reach and Resistant Families".

The three models that make up the framework of this course are not just tools for "therapeutic intervention" but are practical, empowering, strengths based approaches that can be harnessed by workers across all fields for "conversations" that help adults, young people and families achieve better outcomes.
Agenda for the day:

There are NO Role Plays involved in the training - all exercises are real and private

- Hard to Reach & Resistant Research findings

- How the commercial world access Hard To Reach groups

- Engaging in the community

- Engaging at the first session

- Working with Families: Telling less - Asking More

- Harnessing the skills of the Expert: the individual

- The Silent Session:a tool for engaging & intervention

- The Physical Scaling Map; The 24 Hour clock; the Dustbin, The Cartoon - resources from the Examine, Repair & Move On Approach (Murphy '93)

- Creating small changes in attitude & built environment

- The Placebo Effect - ethical "placebo strategies" for use with clients

- Collaborative Goal Setting between worker and client

- Helping the Client Maintain Change

The training includes strategies and techniques when working to be more pro-active in the search for that untapped potential of individuals to make behavioural change or achieve goals.

To book a place on this course please click here and complete the required form and Fax to: 08717 143827 or post to Eileen Murphy Consultants & Associates, 277A Martin Way, London SW20 9BU.
Alternatively Tel your booking 0208 542 9310 or the Office Mobile on 07779 242 289 or email: info@brief-therapy-uk.com.

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To organise an in-house course for your team, please contact the Consultancy on Tel 0208 542 9310 or on the office mobile: 07779 242 289 or by email: info@brief-therapy-uk.com

Offering positive and future-focused tools to help break negative patterns of behaviour. Participants will come away with a clear understanding of how collaborative, solution focused working can prove effective in their work with clients.

In House Courses prospectus

Below are examples of in-house courses we provide across the UK as 1/2/3 day courses. We also provide our full Prevention & Intervention Programme training (please see menu pages on the left of the screen)

-Affecting Early Years: a specialist Early Intervention programme

- Working with young people & families
- A Solution Focused Approach for Drug & Alcohol Workers

- Working to prevent disaffection & exclusion

- Dealing with confrontation - Solution Focused Communication Skills

- Groupwork training

- Solution Focused Mentoring

- Youth Panel Training - working to reduce recidivism

- Introduction to Brief Therapy

- A Solution Focused approach to Probation - working with adult offenders

- A Solution Focused Approach for Residential Workers

- Offering Solution Focused Supervision

- Parenting the Teenager & Parenting the 21st Century Child - implementing Groupwork with parents.

- Drugs & The Law: Reclassification and beyond
Facilitator: Leonard Jason-Lloyd

We update the website with details of new courses as they are prepared. If however your interest is not covered by our courses - do please let us know by e-mailing us at info@brief-therapy-uk.com and we will advise you on the availability of the course required or redirect you to another training provider that covers your needs.