Institute News

New! International Solution-Focused Practitioner Certificate now offered by the Institute.

What is Solution-Focused Therapy: Yvonne Dolan Interview. See Yvonne Dolan interviewed by French filmaker Chrisitan LeBras about Solution-Focused Therapy.

The Institute is a founding member of IASTI, the International Alliance of Solution-Focused Teaching Institutes.

Yvonne Dolan's Five Tips For Solution Focused Therapy Yvonne offers tips for Solution-Focused Therapists

Yvonne Dolan's Reflections on Solution Focused Therapy. Here is an article on Yvonne's experiences and reflections on the history of SFBT.

Treatment Manual for SFBT. A treatment manual for SFBT researchers, program developers, and others, can be downloaded here.

 The Book More Than Miracles is now available. More than  Miracles, by Steve de Shazer and Yvonne Dolan, with Harry Korman, Eric McCollum, Terry Trepper, and Insoo Kim Berg, has recently been published by Routledge. This was the final work of both Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, and represents the latest and state-of-the-art thinking about Solution-Focused Brief Therapy.

New Book!

Solution Focused Brief Therapy: A Handbook of Evidence Based Practice Edited by Cynthia Franklin, Terry Trepper, Wallace Gingrich, and Eric McCollum, published by Oxford University Press.  This book offers the absolute state of the art of current empirical research, supporting Solution Focused Brief Therapy as an evidenced-based practice. More info...

Welcome!

The Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy is committed to providing outstanding training and research in the growing field of Solution-focused Brief Therapy. Over the years we have offered training to thousands of therapists, educators, and business people all over the world, and have provided counseling and therapy for a wide array of presenting problems. We also have been involved in state of the art research, and our staff are known internationally as leaders in the field.
 

What is Solution-Focused Therapy?

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), also called simply Solution-Focused Therapy, was developed by Steve de Shazer (1940-2005), and Insoo Kim Berg (1934-2007) and their colleagues beginning in the late 1970’s in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As the name suggests, SFBT is future-focused, goal-directed, and focuses on solutions, rather than on the problems that brought clients to seek therapy.

SFBT has not only become one of the leading schools of brief therapy, it has become a major influence in such diverse fields as business, social policy, education, and criminal justice services, child welfare, domestic violence offenders treatment.  More