SOLUTION-FOCUSED GROUP THERAPY (SFGT)

Solution-Focused Group Therapy (SFGT)

Solution-Focused Group Therapy (SFGT)

Solution-focused Group therapy (SFGT), also called solution-focused therapy or solution-building practice therapy, was developed by Steven de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg, and their colleagues. As the name suggests, SFGT is future-focused and goal-directed, and focuses on solutions rather than on the problems that brought clients to seek therapy.

De Shazar, Berg, and their collaborators established the Group Family Therapy Center (BFTC) in 1978 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as a training and research institution.

The entire solution-focused approach was developed inductively in the inner-city outpatient mental health service setting associated with the BFTC, in which ...