CYC 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Play Therapy, Insoo Kim Berg, Steve De Shazer
Document Summary
Beginnings of brief therapy can be traced to the mental research institute. Solution-focused brief therapy began in the 1980s under the leadership of steve de. Shazer, insoo kim berg, and other practitioners at the brief family therapy centre. Solution-focused practitioners believes that when people are not well, pieces of solutions are still happening: counselors assume they should begin by finding out what the client is doing that works. Solution-oriented therapy is based on the same premise but is more flexible about the time spent talking about problems: most of the time is spent on solution talk. Solution-focused brief counselors view their clients as being free to make choices and not be victimized by their heredity or environment. These counselors hold a positive view of people that rivals that held by followers of. It would be difficult to find an approach to counseling holding a more humanistic view of nature that that embodied in solution-focused brief counseling.