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Steve de Shazer, the director of BFTC, referred to this group as a "therapeutic think tank". [29] Over time people began to request training, so BFTC became a research and training center. [29] SFBT has its roots in brief family therapy, [30] a type of family therapy practiced at the Mental Research Institute (MRI). [31]
Steve de Shazer (June 25, 1940, Milwaukee – September 11, 2005, Vienna) was a psychotherapist, author, and developer and pioneer of solution focused brief therapy. In 1978, he founded the Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife Insoo Kim Berg .
By becoming aware of these new understandings, successful clients will de facto undergo spontaneous and generative change. Brief therapy is often highly strategic, exploratory, and solution-based rather than problem-oriented. It is less concerned with how a problem arose than with the current factors sustaining it and preventing change.
The Brief Therapy practice [25] teaches a solution focused approach based on the work of Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg which uses the concepts of respectful curiosity, the preferred future, recognition of strengths and resources, and the use of scaling to assist the practitioner to progress (described in [26]).
Steve de Shazer, using a solution-focused therapy model, declared in the mid-1980s that resistance was dead, and that clients who do not follow therapists' directions should be seen as "cooperating" by showing therapists how best to help them. [43] Psychoanalysts and their critics remain divided with regard to the concept of resistance.
Kim Insoo Berg, Steve de Shazer, William O'Hanlon, Michelle Weiner-Davis, Paul Watzlawick: The inevitable onset of constant change leads to negative interpretations of the past and language that shapes the meaning of an individual's situation, diminishing their hope and causing them to overlook their own strengths and resources.
In 1978, Berg and de Shazer co-founded the Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC) in Milwaukee. [4] Berg was the executive director and a clinician at the BFTC. [ 6 ] [ 4 ] Berg and de Shazer are recognized as the primary developers of solution-focused brief therapy , which emerged from research they conducted at the BFTC in the 1980s, building ...
The character strengths in the four factor model could be organized into the following four groups: Niceness, Positivity, Intellect, and Conscientiousness. [15]: 792 Peterson and Seligman conducted a factor analysis and found that a five factor model, rather than their six hierarchical virtues model, best organized the strengths. [1]