Handbook of the Brief Psychotherapies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. The Brief Psychotherapies

      • Richard A. Wells, Phillip A. Phelps

      Pages 3-26

   3. The Therapeutic Interaction Research Perspectives

      • Stephen Soldz

      Pages 27-53

   4. An Integrative Model for Short-Term Treatment

      • William J. Reid

      Pages 55-77

   5. Brief Treatment and Mental Health Policy

      • Vincent Giannetti

      Pages 79-90

3. Technical Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-92

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   2. Innovations in Family Therapy Strategies for Overcoming Resistance to Treatment

      • Jose Szapocznik, Angel Perez-Vidal, Olga Hervis, Andrew L. Brickman, William M. Kurtines

      Pages 93-114

   3. On Time in Brief Therapy

      • Michael F. Hoyt

      Pages 115-143

   4. Tasks in Brief Therapy

      • Rona L. Levy, John L. Shelton

      Pages 145-163

   5. The Challenge of Single-Session Therapies

      • Robert Rosenbaum, Michael F. Hoyt, Moshe Talmon

      Pages 165-189

4. Individual Approaches in Brief Psychotherapy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-192

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   2. Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

      • Jason Worchel

      Pages 193-216

   3. Cognitive Therapy

      • Marlene M. Moretti, Lisa A. Feldman, Brian F. Shaw

      Pages 217-237

   4. An Introduction to Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

      • Adam K. Lehman, Peter Salovey

      Pages 239-259

   5. Interpersonal Psychotherapy of Depression (IPT)

      • Cleon Cornes

      Pages 261-276

   6. Crisis Intervention as Brief Psychotherapy

      • Charles Patrick Ewing

      Pages 277-294

5. Family and Marital Brief Therapies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-296

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   2. Family Crisis Therapy

      • Frank S. Pittman III, Kalman Flomenhaft, Carol D. DeYoung

      Pages 297-324

   3. Brief Behavioral Marital Therapy

      • Mark A. Whisman, Neil S. Jacobson

      Pages 325-349

The last two decades have seen unprecedented increases in health care costs and, at the same time, encouraging progress in psychotherapy research. On the one hand, accountability, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency have now become commonplace terms for providers of mental health services whereas, on the other hand, an increasingly voluminous literature has emerged supporting the effectiveness of a number of types of psychotherapies. There now exists the possibility for the design and delivery of mental health services that-drawing upon this literature-more closely approximate empirically established data concerning the appropriateness and effectiveness of psychotherapy. The Handbook of the Brief Psychotherapies is intended to capture one major thrust of this movement: the development of a group of empirically grounded, time-limited therapies all sharing a common interest in the clinical utilization of a structured focus and an emphasis on time and action. For many years, professional self-interest, competing theoretical para­ digms, and the vagaries of practice, wisdom, and clinical myth have influenced the practice of psychotherapy. A critical questioning of the resulting, predomi­ nantly nondirective, open-ended, and global therapies has led to a growing emphasis on action-oriented, problem-focused, time-limited therapies. Yet, ironically, this interest in the brief psychotherapies has not so much involved a radical departure from traditional therapeutic modalities as it has emphasized a new pragmatism about how time, action, and structure operate in life as well as in therapy.

• Depression
• Psychotherapie
• Training
• intervention
• psychodrama

• School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

  Richard A. Wells

• School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA

  Vincent J. Giannetti

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