Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Insoo Kim Berg, Speaker

Insoo Kim Berg introduces the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Model she co-developed as an approach to working within the managed care climate. Stressing solutions, rather than pathology, clients’s strengths and their strategies for past successes, you will learn step-by-step ways to help clients heal themselves. The outcome is a respectful and collaborative way to work with even those who are mandated to treatment by their families, employers and DWI. We will discuss assumptions we have about parents, children, and the solution building process. Tips and questions from the audience will be encouraged. Learn more about this therapy method that is effective, efficient, and highly respectful of the client and staff resources.

Her many publications include the popular Family Based Services (94’), Interviewing for Solutions, 2e (with DeJong, 2002); Substance Abuse Treatment Manual (with Reuss, ’97); Building Solutions in Child Protective Services (with Kelly, ’00); Tales of Solutions (with Dolan, ’01); and Children’s Solutions Work (with Steiner, ’02), and Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions (with Szabo, ’05). Her books and papers are translated into 14 languages.

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