Solution-Focused Counselling – Systemic Conversation Skills

Solution-focused counselling course: miracle question, scaling questions and systemic conversation skills for child and youth welfare services, schools and participation support.

Online self-study course for professionals in counselling, child and youth welfare services, school social work and integration assistance for persons with disabilities (Eingliederungshilfe) – 8 modules, approx. 7 hours, at your own pace, with a confirmation of participation after working through all modules. Sources in APA 7, legal status as of September 2026.

The modules:

Solution-focused brief counselling: origins, stance, core assumptions
Legal framework: counselling in child and youth welfare services, schools and participation support
Opening the conversation and clarifying the mandate: what does the client want?
The miracle question and well-formed goals
Exceptions, resources and scaling questions
Feedback, compliments and follow-up conversations
Special cases: children, mandated contexts, crises and child protection
Quality, reflection and the limits of solution-focused counselling

📘 Subject knowledge on this topic: Solution-focused counselling: miracle question & scaling

Self-study without supervision, assignments or evaluation of learning progress by instructors; the voluntary self-reflection is for your own orientation only. Your confirmation of participation becomes available once you have marked all modules as done yourself.

What you will learn

You can describe the solution-focused approach of Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg and distinguish it from problem-oriented conversation.

You can explain why the solution-focused method itself is not regulated by law, but is applied within a clear legal framework.

You can explain why solution-focused conversations begin with the question of what the person themselves wants to achieve.

You can place the miracle question in its documented wording and explain why it is regarded as the central question of solution-focused brief therapy.

You can explain the concepts of exception, resource and scaling question in the sense of solution-focused conversation and distinguish them from one another.

You can explain what function the closing feedback fulfils in a solution-focused conversation and what elements it is made up of.

You can explain why solution-focused conversation has to be adapted in conversations with children, in mandated contexts, in crises and in child protection.

You can explain how the quality of solution-focused conversations can be recognised in everyday practice.

Self-study at your own pace

Confirmation of participation after working through all modules

Solution-Focused Counselling – Systemic Conversation Skills

Solution-Focused Counselling – Systemic Conversation Skills

What you will learn

Included in the e-learning flat rate

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