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Insoo Kim Berg
Korean American psychotherapist (1934–2007)
Insoo Kim Berg (25 July 1934 – 10 January 2007) was a Korean-born American psychotherapist and social worker who was a pioneer of solution focused brief therapy.
Biography
Berg was born and raised in Seoul, Korea.[1] She was a pharmacy major at Ewha Womans University in Seoul.[1][2] In 1957, she travelled to the United States after her marriage to Charles Berg, to continue her studies. With her background in pharmacy, she worked as a tech, then worked in an animal lab, and worked with a guy who did stomach cancer research.[3] She continued her studies in pharmacy and science because that is what her parents wanted, but then realized she could pick whatever she wanted, so went into social work.[3] She began her studies at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1960, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in social work.[4][1] She subsequently began her social work practice in Milwaukee. Berg and her first husband, Charles, divorced in 1
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Born in South Korea in 1925, Insoo Kim Berg studied at the Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul, majoring in Pharmacy studies.
In 1957, she emigrated to the United States where she studied her Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Science at the University of Wisconsin. Following graduation, Insoo shifted her focus to psychotherapy and social work and studied at the Family Institute of Chicago, the Menninger Foundation and the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto under supervision by John Weakland. At the MRI, in 1977, she began her association with Steve de Shazer whom she later married.
On completion of training in brief, systemic psychotherapy Insoo Kim Berg worked for the Milwaukee Family Services where she focused on substance abuse and dependency, homeless shelters, foster homes, coaching organizations, shelters for victims of domestic violence, and in family services programs.
In 1978, Insoo Kim Berg cofounded with Steve de Shazer the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee...
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The Solution-Focused Brief Therapy model is considered a second-generation model of marriage and family therapy, and is part of the postmodern movement (deShazer & Dolan, 2007). Founders Insoo Kim Berg and Steve deShazer co-constructed this model and were greatly influenced by the work of The Mental Research Institute Team, Milton Erickson, and Buddhist philosophy (Bateson, Jackson, Haley, & Weakland, 1956; Erickson, & Keeney, 2006; Fisch, Weakland, & Segal, 1982; Gyatso, 2011; Haley, 1967; Haley, 1973; Jackson, 1957; Jackson, 1965a; Jackson & Weakland, 1961; Watzlawick, Beavin, & Jackson, 1967; O’Hanlon, 1987; Watzlawick, Weakland, & Fisch, 1974).
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy has several foundational tenets (de Shazer & Dolan, 2007).
- First, if it is working, do not fix it. There is no need to alter a useful pattern of behavior, and it may be helpful to apply this to another area of difficulty.
- Second, if something is working for you, do more of what works. This allows for the client to build on already established and constructed s
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