IPS Solution-Focused Questions

Date: June 6, 2025

Time: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Where: Microsoft Teams

Materials: Digital copy of materials will be emailed to those that register online

Cost: Free

Solution-Focused Interviewing (SFI) originating with the work of Steve DeShazer and Insoo Kim Berg at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. SFI is a “questioning” approach or interviewing practice based on a simple idea with profound ramifications: The areas people pay attention to grow. It highlights strategies for child welfare professionals to ask families about their “acts of protection” and “risk” in equally rigorous ways and provides a series of micro-practices (exception questions, relationship questions) to help with this.

Evident Change introduced Solution-Focused Questions as a part of the Integrated Practice Strategies in strengthening practice with families. Five types of questions will be introduced, and participants will have an opportunity to practice using them in this two-hour virtual session.

Please contact your SFNFCI SDM consultants with any questions and/or further information: sdm@sfnfci.ca