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Doing brief psychotherapy

Author: Michael Franz Basch
Publisher: New York, NY : BasicBooks, ©1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Open-ended therapy is no longer an option for most patients, and therapists must learn to achieve therapeutic goals in much shorter periods. This practical and highly readable book spells out an effective treatment approach designed to work successfully with most patients in fewer than twenty sessions. For his technique, Basch relies on his "developmental model" for psychotherapy, which emphasizes the central role
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Genre/Form: Case Reports
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Basch, Michael Franz.
Doing brief psychotherapy.
New York, NY : BasicBooks, c1995
(OCoLC)604454993
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Franz Basch
ISBN: 0465095488 9780465095483
OCLC Number: 32512546
Description: xxvii, 187 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Ch. 1. Setting a Goal and Focusing the Treatment: Denise Taft --
Ch. 2. Restoring Competence: Ralph Jerome --
Ch. 3. The Patient as an Agent for Change: Bea Willingham --
Ch. 4. Correcting a Developmental Deficit: Warren Dale, Jr. --
Ch. 5. Shame and the Restoration of Self-Esteem : Jacob Cain --
Ch. 6. Validating a Change: Franklin Furlong --
Ch. 7. When More Time Is Needed to Achieve Character Change: Michelle Longwood --
Ch. 8. Clarification and Guidance: Grant Rausen and William Semic --
Ch. 9. Restoring the Status Quo: Nadine Nelson and Gerald Shellman --
Ch. 10. Problem Solving: Roger Povalente.
Responsibility: Michael Franz Basch.
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Abstract:

Open-ended therapy is no longer an option for most patients, and therapists must learn to achieve therapeutic goals in much shorter periods. This practical and highly readable book spells out an effective treatment approach designed to work successfully with most patients in fewer than twenty sessions. For his technique, Basch relies on his "developmental model" for psychotherapy, which emphasizes the central role of affect and affective development in treatment. This model builds on the advances made by dynamic psychotherapy, without involving the patient in a lengthy uncovering and reconstruction of childhood trauma. Instead, Basch describes how the therapist can reframe each patient's dynamics and then use the strengths revealed to offset the patient's difficulties. This approach allows each patient to confront life's problems not as a hapless victim of circumstance, past or present, but as a proactive agent for change.

To illustrate his new approach, Basch includes several absorbing case examples throughout the book. His straightforward explanation of the principles that govern effective intervention allow the method to be readily adapted by both the beginner and the experienced clinician. Destined to be as much of a mainstay as Bosch's previous books, Doing Brief Psychotherapy successfully meets the new challenges of the climate in which psychotherapy is practiced today.

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