Links: The following is evidence of how world-wide the practice of SFBT has become!

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association:  The SFBTA was established on October 20, 2002, "To foster the exchange of ideas and practices in the field of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy."   The website includes information regarding the next scheduled North American conference as well as photos and articles for downloading  from the most recent one. 

Harry Korman:  Harry is a child psychiatrist living in Sweden, a SF trainer, and our friend and colleague.  Harry's wife, Jocelyn, is a social worker who also practices and teaches SFBT.

Wallace Gingerich:  Wally is a professor of social work at Case Western Reserve in Michigan.  The website contains information regarding SF outcome studies.

FKC from Stockholm Sweden was established in 1989 and provides a special school, consulting and training.  

Talking Cure is Scott Miller, Barry Duncan and Mark Hubble.  This is an interesting site with a lot of information regarding research outcome of therapy in general.

Ben Furman is from Finland and runs the Brief Therapy Institute. 

Quality in Therapy is Richard Ebling.  He says of his own website: "A slowly growing assortment of ideas, links, tools, and references for providing high-quality therapy."

Brief Therapy Institute is Michael Durrant from Sydney, Australia.  The Brief Therapy Institute of Sydney is a therapy and training centre that offers a professional brief psychotherapy (counselling) service with ongoing quality control and accountability.

The Brief Therapy Practice is the birth place of SFBT in Britain (1989).  They offer training, consultation and therapy.

Phil Ziegler is author with Tobey Hiller of "Recreating Partnerships - A Solution-oriented, Collaborative Approach to Couples Therapy."

Solutions Focused Approach Center - home page of Tomasz Switek, materials in Polish, English, Dutch, German and Spanish.  Newly updated with information on problem scaling toward solutions,  solution talk about problems and the "night-time miracle question."  This is the English version.  

Solution is a Danish group offering solution-focused therapy and training.  This is the English version.

Jefferson County, Colorado The Substance Abuse Counseling Program (SACP) offers a unique treatment program based on the Brief Counseling and Solution Focused Models of Treatment

Lance Taylor  Our colleague from Calgary, Canada.  Offering workshops and on-line net training in solution focused therapy.

Focus 4 Solutions (Peter Adams, Pauline Hallett, and David Hingley) in the UK offers Therapy & Therapy Training, Team Building, Motivation Building, Assertiveness Training, and Consultancy using the solution-focused brief approach.

The Brief Therapy Network has been created to assist Mental Health professional in connecting with each other and to promote brief therapy as we have come to understand it and shape it.  Through networking and idea sharing the aim is to help continue and grow the systemic thinking of the past pioneers in the field.  Through sharing our work and discussing innovative ideas the hope is to continue to develop and fine tune this highly respectful way of working with clients to create human change.  

Carole Waskett is a trained and experienced solution focused practitioner in the UK with over 20 years experience.  She offers solution focused consultancy, staff training and development, coaching and supervision.

The Academy of Solution Focused Training, based in Singapore, is a counseling, training and consultancy company aimed at sharing and promoting the ideas of solution focused brief therapy developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg.  Debbie Hogan and her team of local and international trainers conduct international certification programs in solution focused brief therapy, school based programs and solution focused coaching.

The 2007 EBTA will be in Brugge. This link will take you to their webpage for further information.  

The Northwest Brief Therapy Training Center , directed by Stephen Langer, Ph.D. and located in Olympia , Washington , provides consultation, training and workshops using a solution-focused approach to a wide array of professionals regionally and internationally. Steve is a clinical psychologist with an active clinical and consulting practice and, with his colleagues, has used SFBT since the 1980's. He has trained and taught with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, founders of the solution-focused approach.

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