What other models view as "resistance" is viewed in SFBT as people's natural protective mechanisms or a previous therapist’s error that does not fit the client's situation. Practitioners maintain the assumption that people have the strength, wisdom, experience, and resilience to effect change.
One of the tenets of SFBT is a positive, respectful, and hopeful outlook on the part of the clinician. Along with your therapist, you will begin to chart small, pragmatic ways to make changes in your life to achieve your goals. One of the first questions a therapist asks is called the “miracle question”: “If a miracle occurred while you were asleep tonight, what changes would you notice in your life tomorrow?” This opens up your mind to creating a plan to reach your goal. Goal-setting is the foundation of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Researchers suggest that the efficacy, practicality, and optimistic nature of the treatment translate well across cultures, and that the approach allows patients to maintain familial relations and personal dignity while addressing mental health issues. The treatment received attention and study, and soon after reached Mainland China. In the 1980s, Berg was invited to speak and give workshops on the technique in Hong Kong. The approach is particularly popular in Asia. Though the treatment started in North America, since 2013 the amount of research on SFBT in non-Western countries is twice that of Western countries. SFBT has become particularly popular in non-Western countries, another study showed. Originally begun out of Berg’s living room, the group went on to found the Milwaukee Brief Family Therapy Center in the early 1980s.Ī review of 43 studies on SFBT found that there was “strong evidence that Solution-Focused Brief Therapy was an effective treatment for a wide variety of behavioral and psychological outcomes.” Disillusioned by the results of traditional psychoanalysis, Berg and de Shazer wanted to create a new type of therapy that dealt less with the “why” behind challenges patients face, and more with the “how” of treating them. SFBT was developed by Insoo Kim Berg, Steve de Shazer, and their colleagues in the late 1970s. This method takes the approach that you know what you need to do to improve your own life and, with the appropriate coaching and questioning, are capable of finding the best solutions. Unlike traditional forms of therapy that take time to analyze problems, pathology, and past life events, SFBT concentrates on finding solutions in the present and exploring one’s hope for the future in order to find a quick and pragmatic resolution of one’s problems. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is one of the world's most widely used therapeutic treatments (De Shazer, 2007, Hsu, 2011).
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