| A two-day
strength-based skill development workshop.
Solution-Focused Interviewing (SFI), adapted from the
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy model, is a set of interpersonal
helping skills and strategies that engages clients in discovering
how their strengths and resources can be marshalled to find
solutions to their psychosocial difficulties. SFI training addresses solutions rather
than problems by emphasizing client strengths, competencies, and
possibilities rather than weaknesses, deficits, and limitations.
The core of the solution-focused approach engages the client
by asking one or more of the five “solution-talk” questions. These
helpful questions and related strategies are client centred and
strength based, and represent a paradigm shift from the dominant
expert oriented, and deficit based problem solving model.
Ronald
E. Warner,
Ed.D., C. Psych., CSFT
Dr Warner, a psychologist residing in
Kingston, is the Program Director and founder of the
Solution-Focused Counselling Certificate Program at the University
of Toronto, Faculty of Social Work, He holds adjunct
 appointments
in the Counselling Psychology Program at the OISE /University of
Toronto; and the Department of Family Medicine at Queens University.
He is a Ryerson University Professor Emeritus, and the Examiner for
the Certified Solution-Focused Therapist (CSFT) and Practitioner (CSFP)
specialist designations.
Completion of this SFI workshop entitles participants to attend
advanced workshops in the SFI Certificate program (contact Dr Warner
or his website for details), and may also entitle participants (if
qualified) to an exemption of the Basic Skills module
in the Solution-Focused Counselling Certificate offered at the
University of Toronto.
SFI also qualifies as 12 CEU credits towards completion of the Certified
Solution-Focused Practitioner (CSFP), and Therapist (CSFT)
specialist designation offered by the Canadian Council of
Professional Certification (visit the website
http://ccpcprofessionals.com
)
For more information about the
workshop, download the Workshop Brochure
(PDF format)
For more
information about SFI or Dr. Warner, visit
http://SolutionFocusedInterviewing.ca |
