Brief therapy is a unique and effective approach to mental health service delivery. Brief Psychotherapy: Time-Limited and Effective Treatments offers readers insight into the assumptions and operating principles that are at the core of all brief therapies. The book reviews contemporary and time-limited models of psychotherapy and also provides clinical illustrations of each theory.

Part I provides readers with an overview of brief therapy. The chapters describe brief therapy's unique perspective and focus for mental health service, the social and cultural forces that...