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Facilitating Client Growth For Therapists in Solution Focused Work (CM 6)

CE Hours 6

About this course

Real change happens between sessions — when the work that surfaces in the room becomes thinking, reflection, and action that the client carries into their week. This course offers practitioners practical tools for facilitating that growth in solution-focused work, including how to partner with clients in designing specific and meaningful action steps, how to support client-driven accountability rather than therapist-driven compliance, and how to consolidate learning at session's end so it can travel forward. Drawing on recent meta-analyses of solution-focused brief therapy, between-session homework research, and the psychology of implementation intentions, the course addresses common challenges including incomplete actions, unexpected results, and goals that the client cannot fully control. Participants will leave with a practical framework and clinical language they can apply immediately in their next session.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe the three dimensions of post-session work in solution-focused practice — thinking, reflection, and action — and identify the clinical purpose of each.
  • Apply the principle of client-designed actions and accountability, including how to support a client in defining specific, accessible, and meaningful between-session steps.
  • Demonstrate the use of evocative questioning to help clients refine vague intentions ("I'll be more positive") into concrete, workable actions tied to their goals.
  • Differentiate between practitioner-driven accountability (which can recreate compliance patterns) and client-driven accountability (which supports autonomy and sustainable change).
  • Analyze scenarios involving incomplete actions, unexpected results, and goals outside the client's direct control — and identify clinical strategies that preserve forward momentum without shame, judgment, or scope creep.

Learning Levels

  • All

Course Instructor(s)

  • Dr. Liz Lasky, PhD, LCSW, ACC

    Dr. Liz Lasky, PhD, LCSW, is the founder of The Coach Training Program For Helping Professionals™ and lizlasky.com. She is passionate about teaching therapists how to coach ethically and well. Dr. Liz Lasky is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (NY State, MSW from Yeshiva University). She holds a PhD from Yeshiva University in Social Welfare. She is also a New York University Certified Coach and holds the International Coach Federation credential of Associate Certified Coach (ACC). She is an adjunct professor at Fordham University. She is a published author (both in peer reviewed academic journals and her own book), a professional expert for Bravo TV, and presents her research on coaching single women internationally, most notably at Harvard University. She is also a proud Fellow of The Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, Harvard University.

Disclosure

DISCLOSURE OF RELEVANT FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS CE Learning Systems adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity ― including faculty, planners, reviewers, or others ― are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (formerly known as commercial interests). The following relevant financial relationships have been disclosed by this activity’s planners, faculty, and the reviewer: PLANNERS AND REVIEWER The planners of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships. FACULTY The faculty of this activity have reported that they have no relevant financial relationships.

References

  • Franklin, C., Ding, X., Kim, J., Zhang, A., Hai, A. H., Jones, K., Nachbaur, M., & O'Connor, A. (2024). Solution-focused brief therapy in community-based services: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled studies. Research on Social Work Practice, 34(2), 165–180. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497315231162611
  • Gollwitzer, P. M., & Sheeran, P. (2006). Implementation intentions and goal achievement: A meta-analysis of effects and processes. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 69–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(06)38002-1
  • Miller, W. R., & Rollnick, S. (2012). Motivational interviewing: Helping people change. Guilford press.
  • Ryum, T., & Kazantzis, N. (2024). Between-session homework in clinical training and practice: A transtheoretical perspective. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.12607
  • Vermeulen-Oskam, E., Franklin, C., Van't Hof, L. P. M., Stams, G. J. J. M., van Vugt, E. S., Assink, M., Veltman, E. J., Froerer, A. S., Staaks, J. P. C., & Zhang, A. (2024). The current evidence of solution-focused brief therapy: A meta-analysis of psychosocial outcomes and moderating factors. Clinical Psychology Review, 114, 102512. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102512

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  • Joint Accreditation (JA)

    In support of improving patient care, CE Learning Systems is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

  • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

  • New York Education Department's State Board for Social Work (NYEDSW)

    CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #0060.

  • New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors (NYSEDLMHC)

    CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0072.

  • New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology (NYEDPSY)

    CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #PSY-0016.

  • New York Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy (NYEDMFT)

    CE Learning Systems, LLC  (d/b/a impactce.com) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MFT-0045.

Facilitating Client Growth For Therapists in Solution Focused Work (CM 6)
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  • Type
    Self-Paced
  • Publication Date
    Apr 29th, 2026

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