ABSTRACT
Several key individuals, professions, movements, and therapeutic approaches have shaped the history and development of SBT, including Milton Erickson, Donald Clifton, positive psychology, family therapy, postmodern and feminist-influenced therapies, client-directed, outcome-informed practice, and the recovery movement. SBT challenges and expands the assumptions and practices of traditional deficit-based therapies that have dominated psychiatry, psychology, and allied disciplines.
