We
offer the following groupwork programmes as discrete Training
Programmes and as part of the complete Project Management
Prevention & Intervention Training Programme.
In some instances, agencies will commision the Consultancy
to deliver the Programmes directly to the Service User.
These programmes can now also be purchased individually or
complete, direct from the administration team. If you
are a Local Authority or an organisation would wish to
buy copies of these programmes please contact us on Tel
0208 542 9310 or
email info@brief-therapy-uk.com.
For INDIVIDUAL's who wish to purchase, please see the
Buy Now link below each programme.Postage and delivery
of the programmes is inclusive for UK buyers only.
If
you are an International purchaser please e-mail info@brief-therapy-uk.com
for applicable postage costs before purchasing. We will
then provide the correct transaction button in a return
email.
The
complete programme is also available for purchase and
details can be found at the foot of the page.
For further
details on any of the above applications - please contact
us.
Parenting
The 21st Century Child
The
Parenting Skills Programme is designed for implementation
with young people who are parents of babies and young
children or for young people who are at risk of parenting
in transitional relationships.
The
participative exercises and discussions are designed to
raise participants' awareness of the developmental needs
of children and the responsibilities of parenthood.
The
programme has been devised to convey research and to encourage
discussions within the particpant group. The Facilitator
shares child development research and encourages parents
to assess "how" they can implement the findings within
their culture and home surroundings.
An
example exercise - Facilitator shares the ethos of the
programme as being based in the belief that by offering
children a sense of self-worth we can encourage inclusiveness
and stability and by communicating with them in a respectful
and loving way we can encourage them to express their
emotions appropriately and safely.
The
facilitator then asks each participant, in the healthy
presumption that a parent would wish this for their child
- "how can we do this in practical ways within the home?"
All exercises are focused on actions rather than feelings
alone. When parents talk about "loving" their child,
the facilitator encourages further talk about "what conveys
love to a child?"; "what small actions or non-verbals tells
a child that he is wanted?" In this way, the facilitator
can be sure that he or she is working in real and practical
ways.
The
role of the facilitator is to encourage participants,
through discussion and experiential exercises, to be more
aware of how even small positive interactions, can be
of immense benefit to a child. The ethos is offered within
a non-judgemental, safe, learning forum.
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Anger
Control
The
ethos of this programme is that often, just talking about
controlling anger and becoming more self-disciplined is
a useful starting point: talking about change excites
change and instigates the idea that change is possible.
The
Anger Control Programme is designed for implementation
with participants who are experiencing difficulties expressing
their anger in appropriate ways.
The
programme reinforces the principle the anger in itself
is not a negative thing - it is a natural component of
human emotions - it becomes a problem if we can not control
it and if we express it without using violence towards
ourselves or others.
The
participative exercises and discussions are designed to
offer a forum for participants to look at how they deal
with anger; to take responsibility for their actions and
for instigating change. The programme helps participants
to examine the strategies that work for them and build
on those.
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Art
Expression
The
Art Expression Programme is designed to provide a safe
and non-judgmental environment for the participants to
explore and express their feelings through visuals.
Participants
will be asked to attend a six-session programme, although
the exercises can be offered as 1:1 work if Groupwork
is not appropriate.
Each
session has a different theme designed around the Solution
Focused Method. Through the process of painting and drawing,
emotions such as: Anger, Jealousy, Sadness, Doubt etc,
can be expressed in a safe and non-judgmental environment.
The
aims of the programme are not limited to encouraging participants
to express emotions but to further the work by the use
of Solution Focused language to explore what needs to
happen in small, practical ways for change to happen.
Art
sessions should be enjoyable as well as therapeutic and
can encourage an individual to find their own sense of
creativity.
Art
Expression exercises are kept short with perhaps one exercise
in the average each session with the rest of the time
being used for free painting/drawing and discussions arising
from the themes if appropriate.
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Developing
as a Young Person
The
Developing as a Young Person Programme is designed for
implementation with young people who are experiencing
difficulties with low self-esteem; displaying disruptive
behaviour or inappropriate sexual behaviour.
The
ethos of the programme is that while self-esteem is vital
to our sense of self worth - it is equally important that
the participants understand that maintaining our self-esteem
people cannot restrict others giving critical feedback
on our destructive behaviour.
The
Groupworker normalises feelings of low self-esteem when
we behave badly given that our self-esteem is often a
gauge for how we are living our life. Equally, we need
to balance this with rejecting people who deliberately
undermining our sense of self-worth and the participants
are encouraged to realise the difference.
This
is acknowledged by Mark Tyrrell (Human Givens Vol.8 No.4)
..... people brought up on unconditional positive regard
are learning that what they do has no impact on their
circumstances. Whatever they do, they are still loved
and admired and valued. Although seemingly positive, this
is a direct equivalent to learned helplessness where people
come to feel that they have no impact on their circumstances
and therefore give up trying..learned helplessness is
linked with depression".
The
participative exercises and discussions are designed to
offer a forum for young people to discuss issues that
affect them as they develop from a child to a young person
and the changes, including our sense of self, that accompany
that period.
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Education
Support
The
Education Support Programme is designed for implementation
with young people who are experiencing behavioural difficulties
within the school structure or who have rejected education.
Children and young people who are experiencing difficulties
often become isolated from the school structure and the
principles of education and have developed negative views
of themselves and others. The aims of the programme are
to introduce an element of doubt into this negative view
in a consistent approach of highlighting strengths, competencies
and exceptions in order to help the participant break
negative patterns.
The
participative exercises and discussions are designed to
offer a forum for young people to assess and build on
their coping strategies and an opportunity to see how
they themselves can affect change.
Each
session is timed to cover approximately 1 ½ hours.
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Parenting
the Teenager
Recognising
that it is easy to fall into a punitive parenting mode
which causes communication breakdown or indeed withdraw
the supervisory approach leaving the young person’s confrontational
behaviour to spiral
out of control – the programme’s discussions and exercises
include the importance of the Rites of Passage
and appropriate discipline and how families can achieve
this within the home.
For
implementation with parents in both a preventative mode
and those referred as part of Parenting Orders and related
Statutory Orders, the experiential exercises offer
a healthy and effective approach which helps parents to
ensure their young person benefits from their attendance
on the Programme and allows the parent to play an important
guiding role.
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