News from SFBT

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

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

 


The 2009 Conference on Solution-Focused Practices in Albany, NY, November 5 -7.
Instutue team Yvonne Dolan, Terry Trepper, and Jen Yalowitz presented an advanced workshop on SF couples therapy.

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

 Solution-focused Group Therapy Article Published. New empirical study by Sara Smock and others, supporting SFBT as a treatment for substance abuse.

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 - Taylor & Francis. 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.

Institute Resources:

Training in SFBT:
Workshops
Agency Consultation
Supervision

Research:
Research in SFBT
Links

Publications:
Books

Institute Team:

Yvonne Dolan
Terry Trepper
Jennifer Yalowitz

Welcome!

The Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy is committed to providing outstanding training, counseling, 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 Solution-Focused Therapy, Solution-Building Practice 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. For a more complete description of SFBT, click here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy, PO Box 9261, Highland, IN 46322, phone & fax 708-782-2021