MODELS OF INTERVENTION (THERAPEUTIC CHANGE WORK)
(Young People & Adults)

This two-day course is designed to comprise an outline introduction to intervention for change with parents / carers of children although it is also suitable for any social care staff working with adults to effect change. This course is derived from extensive Osiris materials on change work with adults and children including a ten day NLP / Brief Therapy course.

We think that much of the more important work conducted by child care staff occurs under the auspices of Section 17 of the Children Act and most of this is about change. However, whatever the level of social care work, staff need the tools for doing change work with people and a two day introductory course is at least a start in the right direction. This kind of knowledge and skill set is simply unavailable through standard College training courses and it seems to us that many qualified social workers have had no "hands on" training on therapeutic change methodology. This is a massive gap that badly needs to be closed. 

•     Models of intervention

•     The Brief Therapy / NLP Models and CBT

•     Systems Theory

•     Behavioural interventions

•     Rapport building and maintaining

•     The Well Formed Outcome Model

•     Motivation & Co-operation: assessment and intervening to improve motivation

•     Strategies and techniques (exercises) to achieve change.

The time limited nature of this course provides only for an outline introduction to what is probably the most important facet of social care practice – achieving change in people. The principal models advocated are the Brief Therapy / NLP models as they encompass both future- oriented change work and (with NLP) take the effects of past trauma seriously. Included is the much neglected issue of motivation: what it is and how it can be assessed and (where possible) improved. Various other strategies for effecting change are discussed and where possible practised within groupwork exercises.

 See also pages on NLP and Direct Work our Models of Mind course. The latter extends the change techniques
 taught on this course.

  Course Key Texts:

            Bandler R & Grinder J (1979) Frogs into Princes

            Hawkes. D. et al (1998) Solution Focused Therapy: A Handbook for Health Care Professionals (Oxford,
            Butterworth / Heinemann)

 Young P (2001) Understanding NLP (Carmarthen, Crown House)

           Hill. M. (ed) (1999) Effective Ways of Working with Children and their Families (London, Jessica Kingsley)

           Osiris Course Handout

            Selected Supplementary Reading:

             Berg. I. K. (1988) Family Preservation: A Brief Therapy Workbook (ed George. E.) (London, BT Press)

             Hall. L. M and Belnap B (1999) The Sourcebook of Magic: A Comprehensive Guide to the Technology of NLP
            (Carmarthen, Crown House)

             Hall. L. M et al (2001) The Structure of Personality: modelling “personality” using NLP and Neuro-Semantics
             Carmarthen, Crown House) 

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