Doing Therapy Briefly

Robert Bor, Sheila Gill, Riva Miller

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9780230000551
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

With lengthy waiting lists, reduced resources and demands for more clearly defined performance outcomes, more and more counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists are finding themselves under pressure to provide short-term treatment for their patients. In this book the authors argue that to work briefly counsellors need not just use a diluted version of their usual longer-term therapeutic model. They suggest that to work briefly is to work differently and they present the basic principles underlying a new trans-theoretical model.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• About the Authors
• Note about Clinical Cases in this Book
• 1 Introduction and Overview of Time-sensitive Therapy
• 2 Exploring ‘Brief ’ and ‘Time-sensitive’ Therapy
• 3 Emancipating Therapy
• 4 Therapy as Conversation
• 5 Assessment for Brief Therapy
• 6 How have you Managed to Cope so Well?
• 7 Preparing for the First Therapy Session: What to Consider
• 8 Outline of the First Therapy Session: a ‘Map’ for Practice 104
• 9 Working Positively and Briefly with a Teenager with a Serious Medical Condition: a Case Study
• 10 Getting Unstuck in Therapy: Adversity as Opportunity
• 11 Endings and Closure in Therapy
• 12 Evidence-based and Time-limited Therapy
• References
• Index