Please note: The links below are in no particular order of importance or content. They were placed here by Webmaster Johnny Tidwell in the order they were received or as I thought of them. //jct//

Solution News (UK) Solution News is the freely available bulletin of the UKASFP (United Kingdom Association of Solution Focused Practice), 
and is published quarterly. To view an issue, you will need adobe reader v.6.0 or later, which can be downloaded for free by clicking on the 
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DFW Area SFBT Links

Salesmanship Club Youth and Family Centers -  The mission of Salesmanship Club Youth and Family Centers, Inc.: Helping transform 
children's futures...creating new possibilities for success. 
 
The Reunion Institute The mission of the institute is to cultivate a community of learners where collaborative, humane and respectful 
approaches to training, research and change in human systems will be generated.
All Church Home for Children - All Church Home for Children is a nonprofit children and family services agency located in 
Fort Worth, Texas. ACH has been serving children and families in the greater Tarrant County area and beyond for over 90 years. Since 1915, 
All Church Home has brought hope to families in crisis.

World wide Solution Focused Brief Therapy Links  
Brief Family Therapy Center ~ Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  The home of Solution-Focus Brief Therapy.  The site includes articles by 
Insoo Kim Berg, Steve de Shazer, Gale Miller and Peter DeJong. 
 
Wally Gingrich  - Professor of Social Work at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, 
Cleveland, Ohio.  Good SFBT research site and more SFBT links.
 
Alasdair MacDonald,    - Alasdair is a practicing psychiatrist working in the London area.  He has experience in psychotherapy and general 
psychiatry including psychiatric intensive care.  He is the Research Coordinator and former President and Secretary of the European Brief 
Therapy Association. He works as a trainer and supervisor and as a management consultant. Training workshops include solution-focused 
therapy, solution-focused approaches to mental health and organisational skills for finding cooperation in the workplace. 
 
Harry Korman and Jocelyne Korman - Harry is a child psychiatrist living in Sweden, and SF trainer.  Harry's wife, Jocelyn, is a social worker 
who also practices and teaches SFBT.  Harry is also the list owner of the Solution Focused List Serve (SFT-L)
 
Divorce Busting - Long before it was in vogue or politically correct to question the sanity of rampant divorce, Michele Weiner-Davis, M.S.W., 
best-selling author and marriage therapist, took a stand. She believes that the vast majority of divorces in our country are absolutely 
unnecessary because most relationship problems are solvable.
 
Brief Therapy Institute  Michael Durrant is from Sydney, Australia.  The Brief Therapy Institute of Sydney is a therapy and training centre that 
offers a professional brief psychotherapy (counselling) service with ongoing quality control and accountability.
 
The Brief Therapy Practice is the birth place of SFBT in Britain (1989).  They offer training, consultation and therapy.
 
Solutions Focused Approach Center - Home page of Tomasz Switek, materials in Polish, English, Dutch, German and Spanish.  
Newly updated with information on problem scaling toward solutions,  solution talk about problems and the "night-time miracle question."  
This is the English version.  
 
Jefferson County, Colorado The Substance Abuse Counseling Program (SACP) offers a unique treatment program based on the 
Brief Counseling and Solution Focused Models of Treatment.  They are also co-sponsor (with SFBTA) and site of the 2006 Conference 
on Solution Focused Practice.
Signs of Safety - Andrew Turnell is a family therapist and child protection consultant from Perth, Western Australia. 
He has spent the last 17 years exploring the application of brief therapy ideas and thinking to child protection practice and is the author 
and co-creator of the Signs of Safety approach. Andrew focuses on eliciting, amplifying and describing child protection that makes a difference 
and creates safety for children.  Interview with Andrew Turnell
 
Ben Furman - We are a company based in Finland, called 'Helsinki Brief Therapy Institute Ltd.'  (Lyhytterapiainstituutti Oy). We develop and 
teach solution oriented psychology and psychotherapy, we consult in organizations, create solution-oriented health promotion programmes, 
and publish and  videos related to solution-oriented psychology. 
 
AngerBusters (Newton Hightower) .The Center For Anger Resolution, Inc., offer's a positive (Solution Focused) approach to resolving rage 
and improving the quality of life. Newton was trained by Insoo Kim Berg.
 
Solutions Focused Change - Coert Visser's Blog  - Lots of information on SF coaching.
 
Solutions in Organisations Linkup - SOL - This is the homepage for Solutions in Organisations Linkup - SOL. We are the forum for sharing 
and building Solution Focused practice in organizations. Whether you are a leader, manager, consultant, facilitator, coach, strategist or other 
practitioner, welcome.
 
Mark Mitchell - Mark has been a Solution Focused consultant for over 20 years to schools, corporations and organizations. .
Clients have been Boeing, US Marine Corps, Los Angeles Unified School District, MTV, NBA, and others. He was trained personally 
by Insoo Kim Berg and Steve deShazer, founders of Solution Focused Brief Therapy, at BFTC, Milwaukee in 1987.
 
The Solutions Focus - Paul Z Jackson and Janine Waldman lead an experienced, world-class team ready to bring out 
the best in you.

 

The Solutions Focus introduces a concept that is both elegant and powerful in its simplicity. For too long, business has wasted time focusing 
on the blocks to progress rather than finding the routes to success - the Solutions Focus gives you the opportunity to find the routes to success. 
Don't be fooled, this process is Simple but it is far from simplistic! 

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The Centre for Solutions Focus at Work - Mark McKergow and Jenny Clarke Co-Directors - Offering - Consultancy Open consultation days Training in Solutions Focus - Peter Szabo - Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions - Solutions Focus and jazz improvisation - -Coaching with OSKAR Performance Management - SF Professional training SF Professional  - FAQs Bespoke programmes - Team coaching - Coaching Key note speaking - Practitioner's group (the EDGe).

The SolutionStage - The SolutionStage created by Hans-Peter Korn is a "staging room" to install and try out different versions of "realistic models" for working environments in organisations in a Solution Focused way.