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Seminar with Harvey Ratner - Sydney, Australia 2007
"WHAT WORKS WITH CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES - ADVANCES IN SOLUTION-FOCUSED BRIEF PRACTICE"
This seminar was attended by over 75 people and there were still people on the waiting list!
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About Harvey Ratner:
Harvey worked for a number of years in public social services agencies in London. After qualifying as a family therapist in the 80s he worked for 10 years at the renowned Marlborough Family Service. In 1989 along with Chris Iveson and Evan George, he established the Brief Therapy Practice (now part of BRIEF), the first team in the UK to practice and teach solution-focused brief therapy. Their book Problem to Solution (BT Press, 1990) became a classic in the field. He also works as a counsellor in a mixed inner London comprehensive school, and has acted as a clinical consultant to a family therapy substance misuse service. He has carried out solution-focused group work in different settings. A current interest, with his colleague Yasmin Ajmal, is in using the solution-focused approach with teachers in the classroom (the increasingly well-known WOWW approach - Working on What Works). Along with the fifth member of BRIEF, Guy Shennan, Harvey is co-director of the Diploma in Solution-Focused Practice.
What did this seminar offer participants? Opportunities to
- reflect on their work in the light of international experience and trends
- refresh their knowledge about what the Solution-Focused Brief Approach is all about, and how it has developed over the decades
- hear and see examples of work with children and young people, and the significant people in their lives, eg, teachers, parents, workers, communities
- hear and see examples of how SFBP has been used with groups and in schools
- leave with renewed confidence, passion and some ideas about things they might like to experiment with in their work
- participate in conversations with colleagues who share their interests and concerns
Below is a list of websites which will link you to a wide variety of examples of applications of the Solution-Focused Brief Approach (SFBA) - happy browsing!
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