Solutions Focused Coaching is a way of providing community-wide early help for children and young people with complex needs leading to social, emotional, behavioural and wellbeing issues.
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Solutions Focused Coaching in Schools for mental health and wellbeing
Solutions Focused Coaching in Schools (SFCiS) enables school staff to provide community-wide early help for children and young people with complex needs leading to social, emotional, behavioural and wellbeing issues.
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This is a bespoke service for people who experience challenges like anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, or relationship difficulties. We can provide 1-2-1 personalised sessions for anyone needing to change from negative patterns to a more positive and fulfilling life.
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Solutions Focused Coaching in Social Care settings for mental health and wellbeing
Solutions Focused Coaching in Social Care settings (SFCiSCs) enables wellbeing workers to provide community-wide early help for adults with complex needs including social, emotional, mental health and wellbeing issues.
Lisa Feldman Barrett, professor of psychology at Northeastern University, Boston author of ‘Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain’ says this (see Guardian March 1st 2022 ‘The big idea: is it time to stop talking about ‘nature versus nurture ?’): "Few scientists today would say that 100% of your attributes are inborn or are learned; […]
I’ve often been asked to work with a child in school when the adults around them have tried everything they can think of without success and everyone feels stuck. It might seem like I’m walking into a hopeless situation, skilled professionals using what’s available; rewards and punishments and kindness and understanding. And still the child refuses or fights, isn’t coming into school or doesn’t stay in class when they’re there.
Sometimes children can seem so mysterious, separate, impossible to know, even harder to help. Even to ourselves as children.
As adults working with children, whatever our role, we do our best to be present and support them, at the same time as granting them the freedom to discover themselves in their world, without running into danger.
Sometimes children can seem so mysterious, separate, impossible to know, even harder to help. Even to ourselves as children. As adults working with children, whatever our role, we do our best to be present and support them, at the same time as granting them the freedom to discover themselves in their world, without running into […]
I’ve often been asked to work with a child in school when the adults around them have tried everything they can think of without success and everyone feels stuck. It might seem like I’m walking into a hopeless situation, skilled professionals using what’s available; rewards and punishments and kindness and understanding. And still the child […]
What can we do to prevent molehills turning into mountains when overwhelmed and depleted specialist mental health services are unable to act rapidly enough to keep children safe and well? Facing a crisis in specialist mental health provision, concerned professionals inside and outside medicine are doing their creative best to offer something concrete to children […]
Last week (Dennis Campbell, Health Policy Editor Oct 25 2022) the Guardian reported on a research study into “social prescribing” as an approach to improved mental wellbeing. The trial, run by University College London and funded by the Prudence Trust, a charity which supports young people’s mental health services, will seek engage 600 young people […]
Schools are coming under ever increasing pressure to support and include children who are struggling with many issues, pre-existing and those coming out of the Covid experience and it's associated losses and stresses. This is creating both old and new problems for the staff trying their best to teach them at the same time as […]
“There’s only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve; the fear of failure” Paulo Coelho de Souza What protects a child from fear of failure? It’s being able to see the way ahead with realistic optimism, building the sense of security that comes from meeting challenges on the way and overcoming them, […]
It’s the start of another school day. A ten year-old boy gets to the school door but on this day he just can’t go in, it’s simply too much. He does everything he can to stop it happening, hitting himself on the wall, refusing help, clearly in distress, not running away or hurting anyone else. […]
I watched the Panorama programme ‘Mental health: Young lives in crisis’ last night. It struck me on one hand as a message of hope over experience, on the other as a story of people reaching out in desperation as they struggle to stay afloat, treading water with a mass of others in the same condition. […]
From Ben Davis, Headteacher at St Ambrose Barlow Catholic High School, Swinton ( Twitter @bendavis ) Normally when I tweet (which is not often) I get a handful of likes and a couple of comments so I was entirely unprepared for the reaction to my short thread on Sunday, June 19th, 2022 in which I […]
My article last week ‘It’s time to scrap exclusion from schools attracted a few replies on Twitter, among them: * This is interesting. Reasoned sensible argument about exclusions. Thank you Geoff.The need for change. * And prison of course. Let us not safeguard children. * I’d be all for a system that doesn’t include exclusion. […]
It’s time to scrap school exclusion. Why? Because Plan A isn’t working. A story - Plan B. A young man on the edge of adulthood, experiencing such severe panic attacks it’s causing him to disengage and putting his educational future at risk. As part of a school team developing Solutions Focused Coaching as a […]
The Problem Talk from Twitter this week; A July 2020 report from the then new Children’s Commissioner (England) ‘Vulnerable teenagers; where did it go wrong?’ Shining a light on the extent and impact of child vulnerability in England, focusing in particular on children with undiagnosed mental health issues, those excluded from mainstream education and children […]
Case note 1: “Some members of my team who are in school now starting to deliver Solutions Focused Coaching sessions shocked the socks off the school and surprised the young people - two very, very good sessions with two disillusioned young people. It was an incredibly uplifting professional experience to break through that original cynicism, […]
Last May, as the pandemic was in full flood, this arrived in my email inbox; “Hi Geoff, I have been working from home today and I remembered the job that you gave me which was to notice when things are going well. Throughout the day I have noticed quite a few things going well, one […]
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