Solution Focused Brief Therapy with Children and Young People who Stammer and their Parents

This book offers speech and language therapists, and other allied health professionals, a practical resource for working in a distinctive way with children and young people, and their parents, to achieve their ‘best hopes’ from therapy. The authors share a wealth of knowledge and experience from the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering about how they use Solution Focused Brief Therapy to enhance their practice. This resource manual: * Provides a step-by-step guide to starting solution-focused conversations, having follow-up meetings, drawing attention to what’s working, and ending well. * Illustrates work with a broad range of clients who stammer, including clients with additional physical, learning, and emotional needs. * Demonstrates the benefits of working systemically with children and young people and their parents or carers. * Supports therapists to develop skills in working collaboratively with clients on what they want to achieve from therapy. * Gives examples of how to ask