Rose McCabe, Fiona Robinson, Fiona Bird

Solution talk with young people in schools and Mental Health Support Teams: enabling staff to ‘do more with less’ 

Thursday 17th July, 11.45, room1.15

Professor Rose McCabe is a psychologist specialising in professional-patient communication in mental health care. She has expertise in developing and implementing solution focused interventions to improve wellbeing for young people.

rose.mccabe@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Dr Fiona Robinson is a mental health Research Fellow specialising in research with children/young people and parents. Her current work focuses on brief solution focused interventions to promote wellbeing among school students and staff.

fiona.robinson@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Fiona Bird is a Senior Mental Health Practitioner in a Mental Health Support Team in East Sussex.

Fiona.Bird@eastsussex.gov.uk

In this workshop, we will discuss our interconnecting strands of research on the potential of training school staff and school Mental Health Support Teams in solution focused practice (SFP); aiming to help staff to ‘do more with less’ whilst also improving morale and job satisfaction.   Our workshop will include the following:  

• Our Barts charity funded research project to co-design and pilot a whole-school solution focused programme, to promote a positive school culture, improve behaviour, wellbeing and staff job satisfaction.
• Discussion around implementing and evaluating a whole-school solution focused programme.   Producing a training manual and resources for school staff training in SFP.  
• Training school Mental Health Support Team practitioners in SFP for use in individual student counselling.  

The workshop will be a mix of presentation and interactive activities. Participants will gain an awareness of research being undertaken in the field of:  

• Training school staff and Mental Health Support Teams working with children and young people in SFP
• Developing school staff training and video resources  

Participants will have opportunities to discuss the impact of training professionals in SFP on staff job satisfaction, morale, and organisational productivity.

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