Adv Sem-Brief Psychotherapy

Catalog description

This course covers a broad base of information about the rationale, theory, practice, and research of brief therapy. Because the practice of brief therapy has been derived from pragmatic, humanitarian, and research-based rationales, this literature is reviewed before discussing theory and technique. The course then surveys multicultural, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, solution focused, and integrative ideas about brief therapy. During the course, transtheoretical (e.g., common factors of brief therapy) and contextual issues that cut across the approaches are identified and discussed. Finally, the course focuses on developing students’ personal approaches to brief therapy.