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It describes how SFBT is future-focused and goal-oriented, emphasizing client strengths, exceptions to problems, and therapists’ collaborative stance that treats clients as experts on their own lives. The text also outlines key beliefs and techniques aimed at helping clients amplify effective past behaviors and create desired change in the present.","Chapter 16  \nSolution-Focused Brief Therapy and Motivational Interviewing in Groups  \n\n| Insoo KIm Berg |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Courtesy Brief Fam i ly Therapy Center\u003Cbr>INSOO KIM BERG (1934– 2007) was a Korean-born American psychotherapist and a pioneer of solutionfocused brief therapy (SFBT) . In 1978 she and her husband, Steve de Shazer, cofounded the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.\u003Cbr>As a leader in the practice\u003Cbr>of SFBT, she consulted with a diverse range of\u003Cbr>\u003Cbr>institutions, including human service agencies, mental health centers, substance abuse treatment facilities, homeless shelters, correction departments, battered women’s shelters, schools, and universities. She provided workshops in the United States, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Denmark, England, and Germany. Berg published 10 groundbreaking | books that elucidated the application of SFBT in a wide variety of clinical settings, among them are Family Based Services: A Solution-Focused Approach (1994), Working With the Problem Drinker: A Solution-Focused Approach (Berg & Miller, 1992), and Interviewing for Solutions (De Jong & Berg, 2013) .\u003Cbr>Berg was very generous with her time in talking to other professionals; she listened carefully to her clients, demonstrated a high degree of patience, and was always very respectful. Her colleagues described her as inspiring, humble, and passionate. Berg was committed to her work and rarely took time off, but she did enjoy a wide range of physical activities: stretching exercises, yoga, walking, and gardening. In January 2007 Berg died unexpectedly as she relaxed in a steam room after exercising—just 16 months after the death of her husband and colleague, Steve de Shazer. |\n| steve de shazer |  |\n\nCourtesy Brief Fam i ly Therapy Center  \nSTEVE de SHAZER (1940–2005) was one of the pioneers of solution-focused brief therapy. For many years he was the director of research at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he and his wife, Insoo Kim Berg, developed solution-focused brief therapy. He wrote  \nseveral books on SFBT, including Keys to Solutions in Brief Therapy (1985), Clues: Investigating Solutions in Brief Therapy (1988), Putting Difference to Work (1991), and Words Were Originally Magic (1994) .  \nAlong with Berg, de Shazer developed a keen interest in what clients were already doing to solve their problems. He was interested in hearing their ideas about how life could be different and what it would take to bring about the desired changes. De Shazer viewed clients as being the experts in their own lives, and he did not believe it was important to learn about the origins of problems to bring about change. De Shazer focused on how change can occur in the present, and he used a number of SFBT techniques to help clients create a better future.  \nDe Shazer loved baseball, was a gourmet cook, and made time for long daily walks. Some of his leisure pursuits included reading philosophy tracts  \n419  \nin the original German or French, listening to jazz, and perusing esoteric cookbooks. He was trained as a classical musician and played several instruments at a professional level. During his youth he made his living as a jazz saxophonist. He presented  \nworkshops, trained, and consulted widely in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. While on a teaching tour in Europe, de Shazer went to a hospital in Vienna for medical help; he died several hours after being admitted.  \n\n| William R. milleR |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Dr. Wi l l iam R . Miller\u003Cbr>WILLIAM R. MILLER is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico, where he joined the faculty in 1976 after receiving his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon. He served as Director of Clinical Training for UNM’s\u003Cbr>APA-approved doctoral program in clinical psychology and as Codirector of UNM’s Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions (CASAA) . 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