Brief Solution-Focused Intervention in Schools: Practical Skills and Strategies
(1 UW-L GRAD credit)

This practical workshop trains participants in the skills and strategies of Brief Solution-Focused Counseling, an efficient, research-supported, culturally responsive approach to working with students and others to resolve behavioral and social-emotional problems from preschool through high school. Participants will learn how to: build cooperative relationships with “resistant” students and adults; develop goals that matter to students, build interventions from “what is right” with students, do something different vs. more of the same, and collect systematic feedback to adjust and evaluate services. Videotaped and live demonstrations, experiential exercises, and practice activities are used to increase the practical application of techniques “the very next day on the job.”

John J. Murphy, Ph.D.

John J. Murphy, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Central Arkansas and an internationally recognized trainer and practitioner of brief therapy approaches with young people and school problems. He is a former finalist for NASP School Psychologist of the Year and author of several books that have been translated into several languages including Brief Intervention for School Problems (with Barry Duncan), the award-winning Solution-Focused Counseling in Schools and a brand new book entitled, Conducting Student-Driven Interviews.

John is a sought after workshop presenter who has trained thousands of school psychologists, counselors, teachers, parents and school administrators throughout the United States and many other countries. His passion for helping young people and caregivers change in dignified ways is central to his writings and training workshops.

 

The Wisconsin School Psychologists Association is approved by the American Psychological Association and the National Association of School Psychologists to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Wisconsin School Psychologists Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.