Talk:Solution focused brief therapy

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I removed Scott Miller's name from the list of core members since he was not a core memnber. He worked with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg at Brief Family Therapy Center from approximately 1990 to 1995. I know this because I worked there also and I am Insoo Kim Berg's daughter.

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I am skilled in SFBC, I will add this article to my to list.--whicky1978 July 1, 2005 05:29 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

I have expanded the article so it is no longer a stub. It still needs some polishing up. Also, I'm not sure waht to do about SFBT vs SFBC--they are the same, but I think SFBC is the preferred term in liturature.whicky1978 16:14, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

I must say that the language used in this article is extremely confusing. I've studied an MA in SFBT and I can't follow some of what is being said here. Could I suggest that we could gradually simplify the language and remove unneccessary epitemological links, or relegate them to a seperate section further down the article? Doctorsticky 22:16, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Solution Focused Therapy v. Solution Focused Brief Therapy v. Solution Focused Brief Counseling

I'm afraid of creating a tempest in a teapot, but my reading of the literature is that the most common phrase is neither of your terms, but instead "SOLUTION-FOCUSED THERAPY." This is how Insoo Kim Berg and Bill O'Hanlon refer to it. Yvonne Dolan added "Brief" in the title to her book. Google has over 117,000 hits for "Solution-Focused Therapy" and over 59,000 hits for "Solution-Focused Brief Therapy" (and less than 2000 hits for "Solution-Focused Brief Counseling).

I bring this up because I searched on Wikipedia under the term that Google suggests most people use, Solution-Focused Therapy and got nothing. I almost wrote an article myself.

I suggest the following:

1. Create redirection pages to this article for all the possible terms (Solution-Focused, Solution-Focused Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Counseling).

2. Create a discussion here to determine the term most in use currently in the field.

3. In about 3-6 months, determine which term seems the most commonly used and place the main article under that pharase.

[edit] More SF terminology discussion

To add to the discussion suggested at (2) above, I can only agree re: the terminology use. I teach solution focused therapy on masters and doctorate level courses, and I have NEVER come across the term 'SFBC' other than on this wiki page!! The most commonly used terms are:

The terms 'Solution focused brief therapy' (SFBT)or 'Solution-oriented therapy' are most widely used in the USA, describing the Brief Family Therapy Centre and Bill O'Hanlon schools of thought respectively. In Europe, 'Solution-focused therapy', 'Solution focused therapy' (with no hyphen), 'solution focused approach' or even just 'solution focused' (or SF) used as a noun are by far the most common terms of reference.

[edit] Bandler/Grinder/Lankton

I added a sentence about the influence of Bandler, Grinder and Lankton in the development of brief therapy with a good reference. I was surprised that they were not mentioned in the current article. It was in a previous version but was removed by anonymous without comment. Look at the text, the influence may have been overstated[1]. ----Action potential t c 00:10, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Logical Levels

The idea of merging Brief Therapy with SFBT seems to be confusing logical levels. SFBT is a type of Brief Therapy. But there are brief psychodynamic therapies, brief behavioural therapies and brief cognitive therapies, all of which are part of Brief Therapy.

It is a little like suggesting that we merge Oranges and Fruit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TimMars1966 (talk • contribs) 19:01, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

I've just merged the Solution focussed counselling article in. Some of those other forms of brief therapy should covered in the brief therapy article. That's where the differences could be outlined. ----Action potential t c 04:28, 20 September 2007 (UTC)