Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Leading Figures
The original leading figures were founder Steve de Shazer and co-founder Insoo Kim Berg whom pulled their roots from the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, California (Evans & Evans, 2013; Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013; Murdock, 2013; Taylor, 2009; Trepper, Dolan, McCollum, & Nelson, 2006). The second generation were Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) evolved into Brief Family Therapy (BFT) with the aid from the Milwaukee training members: Gale Miller, Kate Kowalski, Eve Lipchick, Wallace Gingerich, Michelle Weiner-Davis, Yvonne Dolan and Bill O’Hanlon (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013; Murdock, 2013; Trepper, Dolan, McCollum, & Nelson, 2006).
These individual starting with founders laid a great foundation to an evident-based approach therapy that is even popular internationally (Evans & Evans, 2013; Murdock, 2013; Trepper, Dolan, McCollum, & Nelson, 2006). De Shazer and Berg set out to create something that was ultimately to expound on the freedoms non-problem focused therapy. They tend to push against the grain and when every theorist was running left they were jogging to the right (Kiser & Piercy, 2001). They found that “theoretical isolation enhanced the creativity of the founders of solution-focused therapy” ((Kiser & Piercy, 2001, p.63). …show more content…
The development of SFBT and how some of the assumption can about will discussed in further depth in later sections. Due to true believers of SFBT effectiveness, new avenues are being explored in clinical, medical, and even school settings. Although, De Shazer and Berg along with other intellectual theorist develop Solution-Focused Brief Therapy nearly thirty-eight years ago it is present activist keeping SFBT relevant and improved (Trepper, Dolan, McCollum, & Nelson,
Leading Figures
The original leading figures were founder Steve de Shazer and co-founder Insoo Kim Berg whom pulled their roots from the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, California (Evans & Evans, 2013; Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013; Murdock, 2013; Taylor, 2009; Trepper, Dolan, McCollum, & Nelson, 2006). The second generation were Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) evolved into Brief Family Therapy (BFT) with the aid from the Milwaukee training members: Gale Miller, Kate Kowalski, Eve Lipchick, Wallace Gingerich, Michelle Weiner-Davis, Yvonne Dolan and Bill O’Hanlon (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013; Murdock, 2013; Trepper, Dolan, McCollum, & Nelson, 2006).
These individual starting with founders laid a great foundation to an evident-based approach therapy that is even popular internationally (Evans & Evans, 2013; Murdock, 2013; Trepper, Dolan, McCollum, & Nelson, 2006). De Shazer and Berg set out to create something that was ultimately to expound on the freedoms non-problem focused therapy. They tend to push against the grain and when every theorist was running left they were jogging to the right (Kiser & Piercy, 2001). They found that “theoretical isolation enhanced the creativity of the founders of solution-focused therapy” ((Kiser & Piercy, 2001, p.63). …show more content…
The development of SFBT and how some of the assumption can about will discussed in further depth in later sections. Due to true believers of SFBT effectiveness, new avenues are being explored in clinical, medical, and even school settings. Although, De Shazer and Berg along with other intellectual theorist develop Solution-Focused Brief Therapy nearly thirty-eight years ago it is present activist keeping SFBT relevant and improved (Trepper, Dolan, McCollum, & Nelson,