Brief Psychotherapy Books
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)
Solution Focused Thinking in Schools
This book provides simple methods and ideas for finding solutions to problems in a school context, such as classroom disruption or helping a child begin to read after years of failing to progress.... (more)
Problem to Solution: Brief Therapy with Individuals and Families
This book describes solution focused brief therapy - a method which quickly and effectively solves apparently chronic problems using the client's own aptitudes and strengths. (more)
Working with Children and Teenagers Using Solution Focused Approaches: Enabling Children to Overcome Challenges and Achieve Their Potential
Based on solution focused practice principles, this book illustrates communication skills and playful techniques for working with all children and young people, regardless of any health, learning or... (more)
Brief Intervention for School Problems: Outcome-informed Strategies
Every interaction with a young person who is struggling is an opportunity for change. This highly practical guide helps school practitioners find effective solutions to academic and behavioral... (more)
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)
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)
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)
Brief Therapy with Couples: An Integrative Approach
Therapists and counsellors in training and practice will find in this book a new, accessible and powerful approach to short-term therapy with couples. Much problem behaviour in relationships can be... (more)
Short-Term Play Therapy for Children: Third Edition
Illustrated with rich case examples, this widely used practitioner resource and text presents a range of play approaches that facilitate healing in a shorter time frame. Leading play therapists from... (more)
Boot Camp Therapy: Brief, Action-Oriented Clinical Approaches to Anxiety, Anger and Depression
In some cases long-term therapy that seeks to assess a client's history and gain insight over the course of many sessions isn't always possible. Immediate behavior change and concrete steps to fix... (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)
Brief NLP Therapy
A guide to the core concepts underpinning Neuro-Linguistic Programming. With its focus on enabling clients to find their
Brief Therapy and Eating Disorders: A Practical Guide to Solution Focused Work with Clients
Offering practitioners a guide to clinically sound treatment and drawing from her own clinical experience as founder of the Eating Disorders Recovery Centre, the author demonstrates the benefits of... (more)
Brief Therapy with Individuals and Couples
Brief Therapy Strategies with Individuals and Couples is a sourcebook that brings together in a single place all the most effective strategies and interventions - across orientations - for... (more)
Narrative Therapy: An Introduction for Counsellors: Second Edition
A challenging and thought-provoking work, intended to introduce narrative therapy techniques and practice to family therapists and counsellors working with individuals, couples, and families. A clear... (more)
Capturing the Moment: Single-Session Therapy and Walk-in Services
Can one session of therapy be enough for some people? The answer is most definitely, yes. This volume brings together the latest information on single-session therapy and walk-in services. It... (more)
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: A Handbook of Evidence-Based Practice
Therapy is frequently miscast as requiring an enormous amount of time and financial commitment, but helpful, goal-oriented therapy can produce positive results after only a few sessions.... (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)
Narrative Therapies with Children and Adolescents
This work brings together an array of contributors to demonstrate how narrative and collaborative work with young people can foster unique and imaginative solutions to even the most challenging... (more)
Some stories are better than others: Doing what works in brief therapy and managed care
Exploring a variety of post-modern, social constructionist, and solution- focused ideas in therapy, these essays try to offer ideas and reflections on doing what works to improve mental health. (more)
Brief therapy with intimidating cases: Changing the unchangeable
A guide to using Brief Therapy, even in difficult cases thought curable only with long-term therapy. Using case histories, the authors reveal how their basic principals can be applied to complex,... (more)
Brief Therapy Approaches to Treating Anxiety and Depression
Maintaining that most cases of anxiety and depression will respond to intelligently planned brief, directive therapies, Dr. Yapko has assembled this collection of 17 insightful and challenging papers... (more)
Time-Limited Art Psychotherapy: Developments in Theory and Practice
This book comes at a watershed in the provision of art psychotherapy in public services. The increase in 'payment by results', clinical throughput and evidence-based practice, as well as the changing... (more)