I believe in miracles...
Author: Avril Nicoll
Magazine issue: Winter 06
Page numbers: 14-16
Date: 27 November 2006
URL: http://www.speechmag.com/content/files/Win06MiracleFeature.pdf
Speech and language therapy services, particularly in England, are experiencing high levels of stress due to stringent budget cuts and a freeze on recruitment. Editor Avril Nicoll uses the ‘miracle question’ of Solution Focused Brief Therapy to focus the attention of interviewees and readers on what they are already doing to cope, and what further small changes they could make to make a difference. Maintaining a client focus and contact, recognising the interdependence of our relationship with clients, believing in the fundamental resourcefulness and reasonableness of people, giving and receiving compliments, organising in small teams, networking, thinking radically and taking risks are all explored. Interviewees are Kidge Burns, Kim Mears, Sally Byng, Deborah Green, Emily Williams, Jacki Pearce, Janet O’Keefe and Amanda Medhurst.
