A different way of listening to the Person who Stutters: Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SBT) with Stuttering

Webinar Description: Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is an approach to psychotherapy based on solution-building rather than problem-solving. It explores current resources and future hopes rather than present problems and past causes. SFBT has been widely used in the treatment of stuttering over the past years. Shifting focus from problems to solution involves thinking about the process of change differently. Adopting a not-knowing stance, acknowledging clients as the experts and listening to them in an alternative way, a new world reveals to the client and the therapist. The aim of this webinar is to discuss key theoretical and clinical principles of the SFBT approach, to explore its use with persons who stutter and to present clinical examples of its use.

Speaker: George Fourlas, M.Ed., M.Sc.SLT, MRCSLT, HCPC, is a stuttering specialist SLT, lecturer and clinical coach. George is a Speech and Language Therapist, certified stuttering specialist (CESS), head of specialty at the Stuttering Research and Therapy Centre (ΚΕΘΤ) in Athens, Greece (travlismos.gr). He is lecturer and coach in the European Stuttering Specialization course (ESS). He is involved in clinical work with children and adults, research, teaching and clinical coaching. He has published papers and chapters in books, he has given presentations in national and international conferences and workshops and he is co-author of the Lexipontix program for school-age children who stutter (lexipontix.gr). He is the editor of a learning platform for stuttering in Greece (seminars.travlismos.gr) and an active member of the Special Interest Group in Stuttering of the Panhellenic Association of Logopedists-Speech Therapists.