Introducing |
Brief Therapy SolutionS Brief Therapy Solutions provides professional therapeutic interventions, mentoring programmes and community based activities aimed at addressing the complexities associated with behavioural disorders, attachment issues and associated mental health issues in children, young people and their family's. Parent groups are available on a regular basis and specifically focus on parenting children with challenging behaviours including Attention Deficit Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder and attachment based challenges. BTS will take referrals from individuals and professionals living or located in South West Sydney, Southern Highlands and Illawarra regions of NSW on a fee for service basis. Brief Therapy Solutions also provides professional supervision, training and agency consultation in family work, solution focussed and attachment interventions in the context of child development and safety. Dr. Steven Walker is the founder and Director of Brief Therapy Solutions. Dr. Walker is a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers and an Accredited Social Worker. He completed his undergraduate studies in Youth Work and graduated from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Social Work. Steve completed his Master of Social Work and PhD. at Monash University, Melbourne. Dr. Walker's Doctoral Research at Monash University was a qualitative study focusing on how clients' made use of their experience of therapy in conjunction with events and others outside therapy. The emphasis of the study was on how clients' achieve therapy goals and how others help. Our Mission: Managing Challenging Behaviours CollaborativelyTo provide a high quality evidence based assessment and therapeutic social work service to families and individuals experiencing challenging and seriously disruptive behaviours. We achieve this by:
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Services in Summary |
Individual, Family and Group WorkBTS offers a range of services in the home and community context which are mobile and flexible. In summary, BTS provides the following services directly to families.
Mentoring and Community Access ProjectsBTS offers individually developed activities for children and young people to enhance personal confidence and social skills through mentoring activities on a one on one basis and group projects/ activities.
Professional Supervision and TrainingBTS offers a range of supervision and workshop opportunities to professional counsellors and therapists. Brief Therapy Solutions offers professional supervision and training for Social Workers, Welfare Workers, Youth Workers and other helping professionals, who as part of their practice work with individuals and families, and are interested in developing their integrated therapy expertise. |
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The Theory Behind |
As you investigate this site you will have the opportunity to consider the elements of Brief Solution Focussed Therapy (BSFT) within the context of 'what works' in psychotherapy (counselling) generally. There has been considerable research over 40 years or so that, in total suggests 4 areas of 'what works' related to positive outcomes (Bergin and Garfield, 1994; Miller, Hubble and Duncan, 1995, 1999;). Positive outcomes are related to around 15% Technique, 15% Placebo or expectance, 30% Client/ therapist relationship and 40% Everything else outside therapy (extra-therapeutic events). I have outlined these four areas in Article 2. Brief Solution Focussed Therapy (BSFT) has continued to develop from the mid eighties and has been influenced and in turn influenced the thinking around how to work with people in a different way. BSFT along with other approaches including, Narrative Therapy and Appreciative Inquiry to name a few, has its fundamental philosophy represented in Strength Based practice. The Strength Based view of the world is the foundation of Solution Focussed work providing a description of the underpinning philosophical view that is essential to good solution focussed practice. Saleebey (1992) argues that using Strength Based approaches require the practitioner to have “ a deep belief in the necessity of democracy and the contingent capacity of people to participate in the decisions and actions that define their world. (P8)” Saleebey(1992) identifies several assumptions that underpin strengths based work, these include:
Hence, Strengths Based ideology is the cornerstone to good solution focussed practice. Collaborative Problem Solving Strategies are also pivotal in the work of BTS. Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) strategies used by BTS draw upon the work of Dr Ross Greene and associates and consider challenging behaviours as emerging from learning deficit and not as deliberate, planned and purposeful acts. Support goes to the parents and carers to teach their children better strategies to manage behaviour over time. Bergin,
A. and Garfield, S. (Eds) (1994) Handbook of Psychotherapy and
Behaviour Change, John Wiley and Sons, NY. |
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