SFBT Treatment Manual 3rd
Edition (2025)
SFBT Treatment Manual 2nd Edition (2013)
SFBT Treatment Manual 1st Edition (2010)
Materials
Thank you to Harry Korman!
Harry shared these materials with us. They were originally published on the SFBTA webpage after Steve De Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg had passed away. As the website has changed hands over the years, some of these materials fell into an archive. We are most thankful to Harry Korman for retrieving them.
After Insoo’s passing in 2007, her sister, CJ Kim and her daughter, Sarah Berg, decided to give the rights to BFTC’s various training materials to the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association (which Steve and Insoo helped to found in 2002). The Association is deeply grateful for having been granted stewardship of this tremendous legacy. At the following link, please find essays, handouts, etc., that were posted on the BFTC website. Please feel free to use these, giving credit to Steve and Insoo.
Please note that we’re no longer able to share many of the videos that were left with us, given that the only videos we’re able to sell in our online store were made using actors. To respect confidentiality, we are not selling any videos that include actual clients.
As we continue to find other legacy materials, we’ll share them here. If you have access to any additional materials, please share them with us at board@sfbta.org.
Thank you!
The following was a short message from De Shazer & Berg upon the closing of the Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC), located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Dear Friends,
With this short notice we bid a final farewell to all of you around the globe. Your friendship and support will be the most enduring legacy when BFTC closes its doors on December 15, 2007.
Insoo and Steve
Tributes to De Shazer and Berg
Tributes to Insoo and Steve have been prepared by their dear friend and colleague, Yvonne Dolan.

