This book provides an interdisciplinary understanding of Solution Focused Practice (SFP) and how to use the approach when working with people in mental health crisis.
The book takes a whole systems perspective, presenting SFP as a "common language" between different professional cultures and making the case for its use across all environments of mental health crisis care. The chapters explore the uniqueness of SFP, chart its history in the UK, and outline ways in which SFP can optimise client agency as well as positively impact worker wellbeing. Anonymised accounts of professional experiences are included throughout to give readers an understanding of how Solution Focused questions can change the balance of power within practice situations and provide inclusive support towards safety and hope.
This will assist a wide range of professionals involved in and working alongside the mental health system including psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, psychologists, therapists, counsellors, and other support staff. We hope it will also be useful for service users.
This book provides an interdisciplinary understanding of Solution-Focused Practice (SFP) and how to use the approach when working with people in mental health crisis.
1. An Introduction and a Welcome!
2. The Uniqueness of Solution Focused
Practice
3. The Impact of Solution Focused Conversations on the Structure of
the Brain (And Why We Should All Be Using This Approach to Treat Trauma)
4.
Extemporising Solution Focused Practice Using the Approach Moment by Moment
5. Solution Focused Practice in UK Mental Health Settings Where Next?
6.
This Magical Lightbulb Went Off in My Head - How Training NHS Staff in
Solution Focused Practice Can Change the Experience of People Presenting in
Mental Health Crisis
7. Service Users Are Doing it for Themselves
8. Using
Solution Focused Practice to Shape Mental Health Services for Children and
Young People
9. Statutory Childrens Workers: Modelling Hope to Engage and
Support Young People in Crisis
10. How Solution Focused Practice Aligns With
the Principles of Procedural Justice and Can Change Frontline Policing for
the Better
11. Solution Focused Practice Can Help Us to Deliver a More
Inclusive and Empowering Psychiatry
12. Using Solution Focused Practice to
Assess and Manage Suicide Risk
13. Helping AMHPs to Be AMHPs - Solution
Focused Practice Under the Mental Health Act 1983 (as Further Amended)
14.
The Wellbeing Benefits of Solution Focused Practice for Helping Professionals
15. Some Conclusions, and Some More Best Hopes
Nick Perry is a registered social worker, an Approved Mental Health Professional, and is accredited by the UK Association for Solution Focused Practice. He has experience as an educator, supervisor, inspector and practice lead, and is a visiting lecturer at Brighton University.
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