Steve de Shazer, Pioneer of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

  Steve de Shazer is recognized worldwide as one of the pioneers of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). This is a modality of intervention based on conversation and the principles of social constructionism. The latter emphasizes the way in which the context affects perceptions, affections, and reality. Solution-focused brief therapy adopts a minimalist approach. It employs a series of small steps capable of producing change. This is gradually extended until it generates systemic or global changes. Another of this specialist’s great contributions to the field of psychology was the depathologization of problems. Indeed, instead of focusing on deficits and abnormalities, he…