In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Cynthia Franklin, an internationally recognized leader and one of the 100 Most Influential Contemporary Social Work Faculty worldwide. Highly regarded as a premier authority on Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Cynthia has spent over three decades shaping evidence-based mental health practice, authoring 16+ books and 200+ publications, and serving as Editor-in-Chief of Oxford University Press’s Encyclopedia of Social Work. She currently serves as the Stiernberg/Spencer Family Professor in Mental Health at UT Austin’s Steve Hicks School of Social Work, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at Dell Medical School. In this great conversation, Cynthia shares how SFBT in schools works and becomes sustainable when young peoples' needs and wants are prioritized and when leaders support a whole-school approach.

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