Nick Perry, Lauren Jerome, Guy Shennan, Rose McCabe, Natasha Adams, Michele Orr, Nick Perry, Lauren Jerome, Guy Shennan, Rose McCabe, Natasha Adams, Michelle Orr, Aamena Akubat

Doing More With Less - Using Solution Focused Practice in Mental Health Crisis

Nick Perry is a registered social worker and has been qualified since 2002.  He has been practising as an Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) continuously since 2007.  He has been in a dedicated AMHP and practice educator role for his employing local authority since 2016 and is currently seconded as a practice lead.  He is a visiting lecturer and has taught on the Brighton University AMHP training programme since 2020.  Nick undertook a foundation training in Systemic Therapy with the Kensington Consultation Centre in 2005; and during the pandemic was able to undertake the BRIEF online certificate in Solution Focused Practice.  He went on to complete the Advanced Certificate in 2022 and became accredited by the UK Association for Solution Focused Practice in 2023.  

 See an interview with Nick Perry about the book

A few days prior to the start of the Conference Routledge will publish a new book entitled 'Solution Focused Practice and Mental Health Crisis - Inclusive Support Towards Safety and Hope'.  This book provides an inter-disciplinary understanding of Solution Focused Practice (SFP) and how to use the approach when working with people in mental health crisis.  The book takes a whole systems perspective, presenting SFP as a ‘common language’ between different professional cultures and making the case for its use across all environments of mental health crisis care.   For this keynote, the editor of the book, Nick Perry, will unpack ideas of 'doing more with less' in environments of mental health crisis, and act as interviewer to a panel of contributors to the book.  He will be asking the panel members about their best hopes for their own chapters and the publication as a whole; what difference they hope the book will make; and how they will know that it might end up being useful. 

UKASFP2025 Conference will  hear the panel discuss the suitability of Solution Focused Practice as an approach for people in mental health crisis; discuss how SFP can amplify the strengths of people who are in acute distress; how it can help co-produce safety, as well as support anti-discriminatory practice.  The panel will make the case for the increased use of Solution Focused Practice by a range of mental health professionals across acute care in the UK and farther afield, and this will have implications and pose question regarding the training infrastructure of the approach.  Recipients will also have the opportunity to ask questions directly to the panel.  

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