The following is evidence of how world-wide the practice of Solution Focus 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.

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 (counseling) service with ongoing quality control and accountability.

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.  

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.

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.

Janet Campbell is a solution-focused colleague with several offices in the mid-Hudson Valley region of New York State.  I have frequently had an opportunity to refer clients to her and have done so without hesitation.  Janet says of herself  and her practice "I use a Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) approach. My focus is on how you want your life to be and how to get there (whether you're struggling with relationship/family issues, mood problems, school/work issues, other obstacles... or just have a sense of being off track)." 

Kirstin Mahlberg and Maud Sjoblom's interest and expertise are in the application of solution-focus in education.  They state: "Solution-Focused Education is a very proactive way of working and thinking for educational professionals in order to promote and reinforce positive behaivor in the classroom."

Centre for Solutions Focus at Work (Mark McKergow and Jenny Clarke) provides solution- focused consultancy, training, coaching, keynote speeches, books and resources to leaders, managers, consultants and coaches on every continent. 

The Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy (Yvonne Dolan, Terry Trepper, and Jennifer Yalowitz)  is committed to providing outstanding training, counseling, and research in the growing field of Solution-focused Brief Therapy. Over the years they have offered training to thousands of therapists, educators, and business people all over the world, and have provided counseling and therapy for a wide array of presenting problems. They also have been involved in state of the art research, and their staff is known internationally as leaders in the field.

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