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Research

Over the past ten years or so there have been many studies of the effective of the SF approach in therapeutic and other settings. These include schools, occupational rehabilitation, college students, families and marital problems and alcohol abuse. As of late 2006 a total of 44 studies had been published, with five of these being randomised controlled studies (where the SF approach was used in direct comparison to another methodology). These studies have been collated by Dr Alasdair Macdonald, EBTA Research Co-Ordinator. You can see the latest summaries on his webpage at http://www.solutionsdoc.co.uk.

Summary

The five randomised controlled trials show benefit from solution-focused brief therapy with three showing benefit over existing treatments. Eleven of twelve comparison studies show convincing benefit while one is equivocal. Effectiveness data are available from in excess of 1500 cases with a success rate exceeding 60% and using an average of 3 - 5 sessions of therapy time. Additional factors include indications of less burn-out for the therapists using the approach.

Coert Visser has started producing a reseach digest for the SFCT journal InterAction, about related research papers of interest to SF practitioners. You can read the first one (Nov 2009) at http://www.asfct.org/documents/journal/2009-11/Vol1-2-9.pdf.

Research at sfwork

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