Suspending Disbelief – Using Solution Focused Practice With Young People in Mental Health Crisis 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇹🇼 🇵🇱 🇷🇴

This article is a reflective account from two registered social workers who have undertaken extensive further training and accreditation in Solution Focused practice (SFP); have developed their knowledge through frontline work in their respective settings; and have delivered training on applying SFP in different workplace contexts. The article attempts to tackle scepticism from some participants in these training courses that SFP is something that can be helpful when working with young people in mental health crisis. The two anonymised case studies seek to show how a Solution Focused approach can deliver a successful social work intervention in two very different settings; support risk assessment and anti-racist practice; increase and co-create safety; and prioritise the voice, as well as the agency, of young people at their most stressed and vulnerable. The case studies are written in quite different ways, reflective of the different statutory systems and their reporting requirements. Japanese (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gpTvloqnKQvrW4CL02ym9pD_ju8M5ok0/view?usp=sharing) Chinese traditional (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dFqnCSkzmQKJUs_V9ygfIT7EzuCqkp3y/view?usp=drive_link) Chinese simplified (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dFqnCSkzmQKJUs_V9ygfIT7EzuCqkp3y/view?usp=drive_link) Polish (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wd63QLA7H8IkinJFaK8SNOs7fLgnxG6P/view?usp=drive_link) Romanian (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HVBmxs4YPzIsC6SJ9H-N-MtKNBDsb9ej/view?usp=drive_link)