Research to show the effectiveness of SFBT

There has been much research to demonstrate the effectiveness of SFBT that shows its success rate to be 60% covering all social classes.

 1991 Steve DeShazer noted in his book ‘Putting Differences to Work’ , that out of a study of 29 cases,23, or 80% reported that they had either resolved their original difficulty or made significant progress towards resolving it. At 18 months success rate was 86% with 67% reporting their improvements also. The average number of sessions was 4.6 and those clients who had 4 or more sessions did better.

 “Keys to solutions in brief therapy” 1985 – Steve DeShazer. This research study consisted of 28 cases having received formula first session task. After a six month follow up, 23 or 82% improved, 11 others solved other problems all in an average of 5 sessions.

 Lee MY 1997 – from the American Journal of Family Therapy

This was a study of solution – focused brief family therapy: outcomes and issues on 59 children with various problems. At a 6 month follow up call by independent raters, 64.9% improved (achieved their goals54.4%, partial goal 10.5%). Therapy was over an average of 5.5 sessions.

Karen Taylor Hypnotherapy
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