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In todays world of managed carecharacterized by limited mental health resources, emphasis on accountability, concerns of third-party payers, and consumer needthe demand for mental health professionals to use briefer therapeutic approaches is on the rise. Yet despite clinical advances and outcome data that demonstrate the effectiveness of short-term therapy (620 sessions per year per patient), many therapists do brief work solely because they feel pressured by economic or administrative constraints. The second edition of this Concise Guide is intended to help educate both beginning and experienced clinicians in the strategies and techniques of time-attentive models and to foster more positive and optimistic attitudes toward using brief therapy. The seven therapeutic models, presented in Chapters 28, highlight the importance of the interpersonal perspective as opposed to Freuds drive-oriented perspective. The first part of each chapter dealing with a therapeutic model lists the various presenting problems the authors deem most suitable for treatment by that particular approach, and each chapter ends with an illustrative clinical case. Updated chapters discuss supportive, time-limited, and interpersonal therapies; time-limited dynamic psychotherapy; short-term dynamic therapy for patients with posttraumatic stress disorder; and brief dynamic therapy for patients who abuse substances. An entirely new chapter covers time-limited group therapy. The final chapter details the reciprocal relationship between pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. Meant to complement the more detailed information found in lengthier psychiatric texts, this pocket guide is a practical and convenient reference for students, residents, and clinicians working in a variety of treatment settings, such as inpatient psychiatry units, outpatient clinics, consultation-liaison services, and private offices.

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