Brief Family Therapy: Solution Focused Therapy

Solution-focused therapy (SFT) is an outcome-oriented, competence based approach which originally developed as a short-term psychotherapy technique. Solution focused therapy was created at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1979 by Steve De Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg, and colleagues. Steve de Shazer worked at Palo Alto so solution focused therapy was strongly influenced by the MRI approach. Another primary founder of the solution focused approach, Insoo Kim Berg applied theory to a variety of problems such as alcoholism, marital therapy, and family-based services to the poor. Michele Weiner-Davis was trained by de Shazer. He applied the model to marital problems for couples who want to prevent divorce. He also wrote book