BRIEF News

Since September 2024 we have been putting together our A- Z of Solution Focused Practice. This week we got to V is for Visualisation.  W X Y Z - now it gets tricky. I hope that these short articles are of interest to you. You can find them all in Resources.

The new edition of the Journal of Solution Focused Practices is now available. Some great pieces including on the state of SF in Finland and Iran as well as and opinion piece on A Solution Focused Approach in Times of War: Views From the Inside by Victoria Spashchenko. You can find the full list of contents and the link by clicking on READ MORE.

At BRIEF we have been sharing our thinking about Solution Focused Practice online for many years. We have put together a bundle of useful short presentations on the approach addressing the key questions and practice issues. To make access easier here is an 'index' of those presentations and the relevant links.

An exciting new development.

The most recent edition of the Journal is now available for free online. There are a host of interesting articles including one with the premises of which I rather disagree. Click Read Below and you will find the link.

The UKASFP Conference is taking place in Oxford in July, from Thursday 6th to Friday 7th. if you book before 30th April you will benefit from the 'early bird' rate. Find out more about the conference by clicking on Read More.

Medina, Beyebach and García have published an important paper exploring «the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a solution-focused intervention in child protection services». Despite the methodological issues, which the authors highlight, this paper is both interesting and promising. Download a pdf for free HERE. 

Our learning from Summer School takes a time to process. I am beginning to have some ideas about where Summer School might take me but it is a bit early to write them down. So what can I say?

Congratulations to Stephan Natynczuk on the forthcoming publication of his book Solution-Focused Practice in Outdoor Therapy.

Practicing Solution Focus requires a certain humility and so blowing our own trumpet does not come easily to SF practitioners - but every now and again it may be right to try. So here goes!