SFBT: keywords are...
CHANGE
KEY
INSIGHT
HIERARCHY
SFBT: Discourage looking for family .
SFBT: The language people use to talk about their problems is very important.
SFBT: Clients should ______________ possible solutions.
reject
like
construct
ignore
SFBT: Solution Self Poetry Problem( Solution, Self, Poetry, Problem )-talk - how can we all work together to make this change?
SFBT: Family creates new stories about themselves.
Steve de Shazer
social worker
Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC)
professor
married to Insoo Berg
Founder of SFBT
Founder of Contextual Theory
Insoo Berg
Mind & Body Institute
1 of the primary architects of SFBT
Trained many in Cybernetics
Worked specifically in alcoholism
Worked in marital therapy
Worked in PTSD
Worked in family-based services to the poor
Scott Miller
Worked at BFTC for 3 years
Directed adolescent services
Directed alcohol and drug treatment services
Wrote a lot about SFBT
Married Insoo Berg
Eve Lipchick
Applied SFBT to wife battering
Applied Bowenian theory to alcoholism
Published one of the most useful books on how to do SFBT
Published a useful book on Bowenian theory
Michele Weiner-Davis
Wrote a book called Divorce-Busting
Wrote a book called Bust-Divorcing
SFBT: Dysfunction arises from at solving problems.
SFBT: The people attribute to limit the range of alternatives they will use to deal with the situation.
SFBT: Help families change ❌ and ❌ about dealing with the problem.
SFBT: Clients do not have the capabilities to solve their problems on their own.
SFBT: Creative of behaviors
SFBT: Question to ask:
What was it like growing up in your family of origin?
What do you want to be different, and what's one way you can think of to get there?
Where do you think this problem might be coming from?
SFBT: # of therapy sessions
5-10
10-20
As many as the client thinks they need
Infinite.
SFBT: Use language of when whether whom( when, whether, whom ), rather than if how imagery( if, how, imagery ).
SFBT: Allows client to view changes as self-.
SFBT: Therapist should ❌ and ❌ change.
SFBT: There is no _____________ reality; therapists should not impose their view of _____________.
imagined, morality
absolute, normal
false, literature
SFBT: don't look for the client doesn't wanting to change.
SFBT: Clients don't want to change. They resist anything that makes them uncomfortable.
SFBT: Clients want to change, and resist only when interventions don't fit, for some reason.
SFBT: clients to facilitate cooperation.
SFBT: Focus on client strengths needs weaknesses pathology( strengths, needs, weaknesses, pathology ).
SFBT: Focus on client's past ❌.
SFBT: To suggest something new, the therapist must first with the client/family.
SFBT: These people are at therapy because someone else wants them there. They don't expect change, and don't engage in therapy.
Complainants
Visitors
Customers
SFBT: These clients are willing to talk about their unhappiness, but are waiting for someone else to change.
SFBT: These clients can describe their complaints and are prepared to take action.
SFBT: Make small changes remarks pictures desserts( changes, remarks, pictures, desserts ) that lead to bigger ones.
SFBT: If the problem was solved, how would you know?
The Miracle Question
Exception Finding Question
Scaling Questions
More of the Same Assignments
Formula First-Session Task
SFBT: Tell me about a time when this wasn't a problem...
SFBT: How likely is it that you will... <insert some small change they want to make> ...this week?
SFBT: Find what works and do more of it.
SFBT: Between intake and next session, watch what happens in your ______ that you want to continue to have happen.
SFBT: important intervention strategy is to have the clients form their goals in _________ terms.
absolute
positive
concrete
negative
SFBT: ❌ help clients recognize that simply by enduring, they are more resourceful than they realize.
