ABSTRACT
Working with challenging youth clientele often requires professionals to step out of their norms and comfort zone. Like all Solution Focused (SF) practitioners always say, “if something ain’t working, do something different.” So it’s with this mentality that the SF coaching approach is used to experiment in a setting where counselling, casework and social work are more often practiced. The author will be sharing his experiences where the SF coaching approach is carried out with youths aged between 18 and 25 years old in a particular institutional setting. In this chapter, he will be sharing a simple programme called “I-Coach,” where he divided the coaching process into different sessions and facilitated the sessions to get the youths to take away key questions and ideas focusing on certain objectives for each session. In the chapter, the author will also draw on 2 personal interviews done with N, male, 22 years old, and H, male, 21 years old currently. Both of these youths had just left the institution within a recent one year time period, and their sharing and insights demonstrate their perspectives.
