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The Solution Focused Approach: An Overview

Solution Focused practice emerged from Solution Focused Brief Therapy and was developed primarily by Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg and their team at the Brief Family Therapy Centre in Milwaukee, USA and later in Britain by members of BRIEF.

10 Good reasons for using the Solution Focused approach

Probably the thing that matters most to the people that we work with and those who commission our work is effectiveness. An increasing body of research shows that Solution Focus works and that changes are well maintained.

What is BRIEF Coaching?

Brief coaching is based on the solution focused approach developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg who worked together in Milwaukee, USA. Their research on successful interventions highlighted an interesting finding, namely that change is associated with 'solution talk'. In other words when clients are invited out of 'problem talk' into 'solution talk', they are more likely to change. So Brief Coaching is a description of a way of talking with clients – a very particular style of conversing.