Brief Psychotherapy Books
Focused Problem Resolution: Selected Papers of the MRI Brief Therapy Center
The Mental Research Institute (MRI) has a distinguished history and can lay claim as the birthplace of numerous contributions to Communication/Interactional theory and innovations in the application... (more)
Collaborative Brief Therapy with Children
In this engaging guide, Matthew Selekman presents cutting-edge strategies for helping children and their families overcome a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. Vivid case material... (more)
Brief Therapy Inside Out: A Case of Domestic Abuse
Working with a client trapped in an all-too-familiar cycle of victimization and self-blame, Leigh McCullough, a nationally recognized expert in brief psychodynamic therapy, illustrates her powerful... (more)
Hope in Action: Solution-Focused Conversations About Suicide
Few tasks are more important - and daunting - than to help someone who is suicidal to go beyond the darkness of hopelessness to the light of hope. This book is a unique resource providing fresh... (more)
A Guide to Tranceland: A Practical Handbook of Ericksonian and Solution-Oriented Hypnosis
This book offers techniques and language tips for permissive hypnosis, induction and trance. It helps therapists help their clients tap into and release their inner knowledge. (more)
Coaching Plain and Simple: Solution-Focused Brief Coaching Essentials
This is a highly practical and condensed introduction to solution-focused coaching. The book offers a simple and clear structure for coaching sessions that is easy to learn. Content is illuminated... (more)
Brief Psychotherapy: Principles and Practice
Michael Hoyt continues his exploration of how psychotherapists can help their clients to efficiently and effectively 're-story' more salutary ('preferred' or 'therapeutic') realities. Brief therapy... (more)
The Role of Brief Therapy in Attachment Disorders
The Role of Brief Therapy in Attachment Disorders provides a comprehensive summary of the range of approaches that exist within the brief therapy world, including Cognitive Analytic Therapy,... (more)
Brief Person-Centred Therapies
Brief Person-Centred Therapies explores the increasing demand for brief therapy - particularly in the public sector - and how the person-centred approach fits in to this changing world of counselling... (more)
Brief Psychological Interventions in Practice
As the extent of mental illness in the population becomes clear, so the provision of care becomes one of the major tasks facing healthcare teams. As a result, a growing army of people is being... (more)
Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Clinical Applications
This is a unique, comprehensive guide that assists clinicians, regardless of experience level, in learning and applying the concepts of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) to particular situations... (more)
Solution-focused Groupwork: Second Edition
Examines the therapeutic factors that characterize solution- focused groupwork and contribute to its effectiveness. This work also includes: creative exercises for use in practice; guidance on... (more)
Quickies: The Handbook of Brief Sex Therapy
Effective techniques for fashioning pleasurable and satisfying sex lives. Here, Shelley K. Green and Douglas Flemons gather a wonderful array of approaches to sex therapy, each presented by a... (more)
The Strategic Dialogue: Rendering the Diagnostic Interview a Real Therapeutic Intervention
The Strategic Dialogue is a fine strategy by which one can achieve maximum results with minimum effort. It was developed through a natural evolutionary process from previous treatments for particular... (more)
Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives
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Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives
This edited volume introduces students to the history and theory of narrative therapy. Authors Catrina Brown and Tod Augusta-Scott situate this approach to theory and practice within the context of... (more)
Change 101: A Practical Guide to Creating Change in Life or Therapy
Drawing on thirty years of clinical experience, Bill O'Hanlon - one of psychotherapy's most innovative practitioners and teachers examines this simple yet often elusive aspect of successful therapy:... (more)
Maps of Narrative Practice
Narrative therapy is one of the most commonly practised forms of therapy. In the first major book from this leader in the field, each chapter provides an overview of a main area of narrative therapy... (more)
Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions
A solution-focused approach to coaching, from a leader in the field. Successful coaching is about finding solutions and optimizing a client's life. Insoo Kim Berg, one of the founders of... (more)
Brief Strategic Solution-oriented Therapy of Phobic and Obsessive Disorders
This text deals with psychological disorders based on irrational fears - those apparently unmotivated, paralyzing, panic-filled, gut-wrenching fears whose multiplicity and diversity are barely... (more)
Very Brief Psychotherapy
As the fields of psychiatry and clinical psychology are increasingly driven by the economics of the HMO or Mental Health Center, practitioners in any setting, whether it be private practice or... (more)
A Handbook of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Short-term psychotherapy has become more and more popular in recent years and there is an increasing need for therapists to be able to offer help without entering into many years of therapy. This... (more)
Handbook of Brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can be applied to the treatment of a wide range of problems in many different settings. In this unique handbook, Frank Bond and Windy Dryden, have brought together a... (more)
Narrative Inquiry and Psychotherapy
An introduction to the purposes, possibilities and processes of narrative research methods in therapy practices. Merging social science and arts-based research methods, this book is ideal for therapy... (more)
Key Competencies in Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy: Clinical Practice Beyond the Manual
This unique book identifies the core competencies shared by expert therapists and helps clinicians - specifically those providing brief dynamic/interpersonal therapy - to develop and apply these... (more)
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique
Traditionally, psychoanalytic treatment has been a lengthy endeavour, requiring a long-term commitment from patient and analyst, as well as vast financial resources. More recently, short-term... (more)
A Study of Brief Psychotherapy
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social... (more)
Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Analysis of the Key Principles
In this book, Dr. Penny Rawson succeeds in showing short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy to be an authentic and accepted method of therapy. She roots the concept in tradition and also introduces the... (more)
Time-limited psychotherapy in practice
This title uses vivid clinical descriptions of time-limited psychotherapy treatments and up-to-date research findings; describes what the treatments entail; discusses their outcome; and deals with... (more)