Which individual is a proponent of Solution Focused Therapy?

• A. Berg
• B. De Shazer
• C. Beck
• D. Lazarus

Answer: (B)

Solution-focused therapy centers on helping clients move toward concrete goals by asking future-oriented questions, exploring exceptions to the problem, and leveraging existing strengths and resources to create small, practical steps. The individual most closely associated with founding and popularizing this approach is Steve de Shazer, who developed Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in the 1980s (with Insoo Kim Berg as a key collaborator). This method emphasizes the client’s ability to formulate solutions and the therapist’s role in guiding, rather than analyzing, problems. Beck is known for cognitive therapy, which focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts; Lazarus is linked to other brief and multimodal approaches, not Solution-Focused Therapy. Berg is a co-developer, but in many exam contexts de Shazer is the primary name tied to the therapy’s origin.