Solutions Focused Brief Approach

Solutions Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) was developed in the 1980s as a pragmatic approach to psychotherapy. Since then it has developed more than 20 years of sound evidence as being effective in a variety of settings, with a variety of populations - from social services to business applications. The basic principles of the SFBA are:

• Problems are symptoms that what you're doing is not working. Therefore, solutions are not found by exploring the problem, or by exploring the emotions resulting from the problem
• The client is the expert in/of their own life. Do not see the person as someone who needs to be rescued
• If it's not broken don't fix it (including: don't do for them what they can do for themselves)
• If what they/you are doing is working, do more of it
• If what they/you are doing is not working, try something else
• Look to a positive future

SFBA is very compatible with current contemporary practice particularly Wellness/Enabling; Person Centred; and Strengths Based practice.