The purpose of this session is to name all the different methods and techniques that team members use to work with young people and their families. The intention is to be as inclusive as possible.
List all the different interventions that you do (20 minutes)
- Put all the different techniques you use on post-it notes.
- Aim to get coverage of the wide range of different conversations and activities that the team does...
- Include everything! (we want a MINIMUM of 50 post-it notes!) from the highly specialised "clinical" work (such as Cognitive Behavioural therapy) to non-specialist activities ("Going for a cup of tea in the local cafe as a way of engaging a young person", "texting somebody in the week to see how they are doing", "Reviewing someone's suicide risk", "Arranging a family outing", "Taking a young person to meet with a teacher.")
- Post them under headings (stick notices up around the room) for all the different domains in which we work
- Main domain: Individual, Family, Social ecology, Systems-network of care
Look at your manual (20 minutes)
- Look at the Domains and Interventions in the manual to see what is there...
- Are all your methods and techniques represented? (10 minutes)
- Are there things that we do NOT do? Why is this? (10 minutes)
Manualize one local method of working that the team use (20 minutes)
- Are there things that we DO that are NOT reflected at all (or are poorly represented) in the manual?
- Make a sub-topic of one of these in the manual