Advanced Certificate in Solution-Focused School-Based Practice

This course offers solution-focused brief conversational skills that can be implemented within educational settings across the developmental spectrum. Text and lecture-based course, with exams. 19 CE Credit/Clock Hours

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Course curriculum

1. START HERE: Welcome to Advanced Certificate in Solution-Focused School-Based Practice
2. IF YOU NEED TECHNICAL HELP
3. HOW TO NAVIGATE THIS COURSE
4. CORE SOLUTION-FOCUSED QUESTIONS
5. CORE SOLUTION-FOCUSED ASSUMPTIONS IN SCHOOLS
6. 4-Square Solution-Focused Framework Updated 2025
7. REFERENCES FOR SOLUTION-FOCUSED CONVERSATIONS IN SCHOOLS
8. Summary of Solution-Focused Practice and Group Exercises
9. Research Updates 2025
10. Updated School References 2025
1. TABLE OF CONTENTS: SOLUTION-FOCUSED CONVERSATIONS IN SCHOOLS
2. CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION TO SOLUTION-FOCUSED CONVERSATIONS IN SCHOOLS
3. CHAPTER TWO: FUNDAMENTALS OF SOLUTION-FOCUSED CONVERSATIONS IN SCHOOLS
4. CHAPTER THREE: AMYGDALA WHISPERING: COPING WITH INTENSE EMOTIONS
5. CHAPTER FOUR: SOLUTION-FOCUSED ENGAGEMENT: AGENCY AND RESOURCE ACTIVATION
6. CHAPTER FIVE: VIP MAPPING: CULTIVATING CONNECTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
7. CHAPTER SIX: BEST HOPE MAPPING: GOAL NEGOTIATION
8. CHAPTER SEVEN: SOLUTION-FOCUSED SCALING IN SCHOOLS
9. CHAPTER EIGHT: SOLUTION-FOCUSED SAFETY ASSESSMENT (SFSA) IN SCHOOLS
10. CHAPTER NINE: SOLUTION-FOCUSED FOLLOW-UP CONVERSATIONS
11. CHAPTER TEN: SOLUTION-FOCUSED TEAM MEETINGS AND CONSULTATIONS
12. CHAPTER ELEVEN: SOLUTION-FOCUSED APPLICATIONS AND RESEARCH IN SCHOOLS
13. CHAPTER TWELVE: SOLUTION-FOCUSED RESOURCES FOR SCHOOLS
14. COMPLETE WRITTEN COURSE: Solution-Focused Conversations in Schools: An Integration of Education and Mental Healthon
1. Assignments for Section One: Introduction to Solution-Focused Conversations in Schools
2. Chapter One: Introduction to Solution-Focused Conversations in Schools
3. Video Lecture Section One: Introduction to Solution-Focused Conversations In Schools
4. VIDEO DEMO #1: Reflection on a challenging event without exploring the problem
5. Section One Resources: Slides, Closed Captioning and Transcript
6. Instructions for Section One Exam
7. Section One Quiz: Introduction to Solution-Focused Conversations in Schools
1. Assignments for Section Two: Fundamentals of Solution-Focused Conversations (SFCs)
2. Chapter Two: Fundamentals of Solution-Focused Conversations in Schools
3. Video Lecture Section Two: Fundamentals of Solution-Focused Conversations in Schools
4. Section Two Resources: Slides, Closed Captioning and Transcript
5. VIDEO DEMO #2: What did you most enjoy this past week?
6. VIDEO DEMO #3: Where to start with mother and adolescent with SUD
7. VIDEO DEMO #4: Languaging with a stressed teacher
8. Instructions for Section Two Exam
9. Section Two Quiz: Fundamentals of Solution-Focused Conversations (SFCs) in Schools
1. Assignments for Section Three: Amygdala Whispering: Coping With Intense Emotion
2. Chapter Three: Amygdala Whispering
3. Chapter Four: Solution-Focused Engagement: Agency Activation
4. Video Lecture Section Three : Amygdala Whispering, Agency and Resource Activation
5. Section Three Resources: Slides, Closed Captioning and Transcript
6. VIDEO DEMO #5: Amygdala whispering with a stressed parent
7. VIDEO DEMO #6: Delicious complaining with father and son
8. VIDEO DEMO #7: Shifting complaints to agency with a stressed parent
9. VIDEO DEMO #8: Exploring coping with stressed mother
10. VIDEO DEMO # 9: High school students coping with academic pressure
11. VIDEO DEMO #10: Exploring positive differences with father and son
12. VIDEO DEMO #11: Amplifying positive differences with mother and child with SUD
13. Instructions for Section Three Exam
14. Section Three Quiz: Amygdala Whispering: Coping With Intense Emotion
1. Assignments for Section Four: VIP Mapping: Cultivating Connections and Relationships
2. Chapter Five: VIP Mapping: Cultivating Connections
3. Video Lecture Section Four: VIP Mapping: Cultivating Connections and Relationships
4. Section Four Resources: Slides, Closed Captioning and Transcript
5. VIDEO #12: What do you know about your child that they will succeed?
6. VIDEO #13: High school teacher VIP appreciation
7. VIDEO #14: High school peer VIP appreciation
8. VIDEO #15: Mother and daughter VIP appreciation
9. VIDEO #16: When there are no VIPs
10. Instructions for Section Four Exam
11. Section Four Quiz: VIP Mapping: Cultivating Connections and Relationships
1. Assignments for Section Five: Best Hope Mapping in Schools: Goal Negotiation
2. Chapter Six: Best Hope Mapping (Goal Setting)
3. Video Lecture Section Five: Best Hope Mapping in Schools: Goal Negotiation
4. Section Five Resources: Slides, Closed Captioning and Transcript
5. VIDEO #17: Best Hope mapping with father and son with attendance issues
6. VIDEO #18: Best Hopes with college student with anxiety
7. VIDEO #19: Exploring with you know and what you have tried
8. VIDEO #20: Miracle question with a scale with a stressed teacher
9. VIDEO #21: Miracle Question with a depressed "stuck" adolescent
10. Instructions for Section Five Exam
11. Section Five Quiz: Best Hope Mapping in Schools: Goal Negotiation
1. Assignments for Section Six: Solution-Focused Scaling In Schools
2. Chapter Seven: Solution-Focused Scaling
3. 6. Video Lecture 6 Solution-Focused Scaling in Schools
4. Section Six Resources: Slides, Closed Captioning and Transcript
5. VIDEO #22: Scaling confidence to get to school
6. VIDEO #23: Scaling coping with academic stress with a high school group
7. VIDEO #23: Scaling with a group of high school students coping with advance placement exams
8. VIDEO #24: Scaling with coping with high school students
9. VIDEO #25: Scaling confidence to take one small step
10. VIDEO #26: Scaling parental teamwork and coping
11. Instructions for Section Six Exam
12. Section Six Quiz: Solution-Focused Scaling In Schools
1. Assignments for Section Seven: Solution-Focused Safety Assessment In Schools
2. Chapter Eight: Solution-Focused Safety Assessment (SFSA) in Schools
3. SOLUTION-FOCUSED SAFETY ASSESSMENT TOOL (SFSA)
4. Video Lecture Section Seven: Solution-Focused Safety Assessment In Schools
5. Section Seven Resources: Slides, Closed Captioning and Transcript
6. VIDEO DEMO #27: Solution-focused safety assessment with college student with suicidal ideation
7. VIDEO DEMO #28: Scaling safety with a depressed suicidal adolescent with PTSD
8. Instructions for Section Seven Exam
9. Section Seven Quiz: Solution-Focused Safety Assessment In Schools
1. Assignments for Section Eight: Solution-Focused Follow-Up Conversations
2. Chapter Nine: Solution-Focused Follow-Up Conversations in Schools
3. Video Lecture Section Eight: Solution-Focused Follow-Up Conversations In Schools
4. Section Eight Resources: Slides, Closed Captioning and Transcript
5. VIDEO DEMO# 29: Are you up for the challenge of learning new skills
6. VIDEO #30: Ending with compliments with a group of high school students
7. Instructions for Section Eight Exam
8. Section Eight Quiz: Solution-Focused Follow-Up Conversations
1. Assignments for Section Nine: Solution-Focused Team Meetings and Consultations
2. Chapter 10: Solution-Focused Team Meetings and Consultations
3. Video Lecture Section Nine: Solution-Focused Team Meetings and Consultations In Schools
4. Section Nine Resources: Slides, Closed Captioning and Transcript
5. Instructions for Section Nine Exam
6. Section 9 Quiz: Solution-Focused Team Meetings and Consultations In Schools
1. Assignments for Section Ten :Solution-Focused Documentation, Applications and Research In Schools
2. Chapter Eleven: Solution-Focused Documentation and Templates in Schools
3. Chapter Twelve: Solution-Focused Games
4. Chapter Twelve: Solution-Focused Practice Exercises
5. Video Lecture Section Ten: Solution-Focused Documentation, Applications and Research
6. Section Ten: Resources for Solution-Focused Documentation, Applications and Research
7. Solution-focused Documentation and Rating Forms
8. REFERENCES FOR SOLUTION-FOCUSED CONVERSATIONS IN SCHOOLS
9. VIDEO #31: Solution-Focused Anxiety Triangle
10. VIDEO #32: Using Solution-Focused conversations to enhance self-care with a stressed high school teacher
11. VIDEO #33: Solution-focused complimenting to enhance agency and self-care with a stressed teacher
12. VIDEO #34: Solution-Focused questions to appreciate co-regulation skills with a teacher
13. Instructions for Section Ten Exam
14. Section Ten Quiz: Solution-Focused Documentation, Applications and Research in Schools
1. 1. Reflection on a challenging event without directly exploring the problem
2. 2. Paradigm Shift: What did you most enjoy?
3. 3. Where to start: Agency and resource activation
4. 4. Languaging with a stressed teacher
5. 5. Amygdala Whispering
6. 6. Delicious Complaining video exercise
7. 7. Shifting complaints to agency with stressed parent
8. 8. Exploring Coping skills (A version of the Indirect Compliment) with a stressed parent
9. 9. Exploring coping skills with a group of stressed high school students
10. 10. Identifying and amplifying positive differences with a parent and child with attendance issues
11. 11. Identifying and amplifying relationship positive differences with a parent and her child who has substance use issues
12. 12. VIP Mapping with a parent and child struggling with attendance issues
13. 13. VIP Mapping with a group of high school students
14. 14. VIP Mapping with a group of high school students and peers
15. 15. VIP Mapping with a mother and daughter with substance use issues
16. 16. VIP Mapping - When there is no one with a depressed and suicidal adolescent
17. 17. Best Hope mapping with father and son with attendance issues
18. 18. Best Hope Mapping with an anxious college student dealing with academic stress
19. 19. Best Hope Mapping - what do you know and what have you tried with stressed college student
20. 20. Embedding the Miracle Question with a scale with a stressed teacher
21. 21. Miracle question with a "stuck" adolescent struggling to articulate her goals
22. 22. Solution-focused scaling with a father and son who is struggling with attendance issues
23. 23. Solution-focused coping questions with a group of high school students coping with school stress
24. 24. Solution-focused scaling with a group of frustrated high school students
25. 25. Solution-focused scaling confidence to take the next small step with a group of frustrated high school students
26. 26. Solution-focused scaling parental teamwork in coping with a child with autism
27. 27. Demonstration of the Solution-Focused Safety Assessment (SFSA) with a suicidal college student
28. 28. Solution-focused safety scaling with a depressed, traumatized and self-harming adolescent
29. 29. Are you up for the challenge of learning new skills (Solution-Focused homework)
30. 30. Ending sessions with compliments with a group of high school students
31. 31. The solution-focused anxiety triangle with a stressed college student
32. 32. Solution-focused techniques to enhance self-care with a stressed teacher
33. 33. Solution-focused complimenting to enhance self-care with a stressed teacher
34. 34. Solution-focused conversations to recognize co-regulation skills with a stressed teacher
1. Course Evaluation Instructions
2. *Evaluation Advanced Certificate in Solution-Focused School-Based Practice

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$450.00
161 lessons
14.5 hours of video content

Advanced Certificate in Solution-Focused School-Based Practice

Course curriculum

Welcome Before You Get Started

Solution-Focused Conversations in Schools: Book Chapters

Section One: Introduction to Solution-Focused Conversations In Schools

Section Two: Fundamentals of Solution-Focused Conversations (SFCs) in Schools

Section Three: Amygdala Whispering (Coping With Intense Emotion), Agency and Resource Activation

Section Four: VIP Mapping: Cultivating Connections and Relationships

Section Five: Best Hope Mapping In Schools: Goal Negotation

Section Six: Solution-Focused Scaling In Schools

Section Seven: Solution-Focused Safety Assessment In Schools

Section Eight: Solution-Focused Follow-Up Conversations

Section Nine: Solution-Focused Team Meetings and Consultations

Section 10: Solution-Focused Documentation, Applications and Research in Schools

Catalog of Demonstration Videos for SFCS in Schools

Required Course Evaluation. Congratulations! Now you can print your certificate of completion.

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