Once therapist and client are focused on investigating solutions rather than problems, therapy inevitably becomes brief--sometimes only on session.
Engaging cases, often with surprising twists, illustrate this practice-based theory of brief therapy with a wide range of complaints. Some of these, such as drug addiction or severe marital record, previously have been thought to be too "difficult" for brief therapy. however, as de Shazer shoes time and again, once therapist and client together discover "what works," obstacles in the pathway to solutions disappear.
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Once therapist and client are focused on investigating solutions rather than problems, therapy inevitably becomes brief--sometimes only on session....
