Solution-focused brief therapy with families

Abstract

Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) is an evidenced-based, collaborative, strengths-based model developed in the 1980s by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg and is now in use as an organizing treatment approach all over the world. This article examines the use of SFBT in family therapy. The history of SFBT, the major tenets as applied to family therapy, and the research in SFBT and SFBT for families are discussed.