With lengthy waiting lists, reduced resources and demands for more clearly defined performance outcomes, more and more counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists are finding themselves under pressure to provide short-term treatment for their patients. In this book the authors argue that to work briefly counsellors need not just use a diluted version of their usual longer-term therapeutic model. They suggest that to work briefly is to work differently and they present the basic principles underlying a new trans-theoretical model.

ROBERT BOR is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He is also Emeritus Professor of Psychology at London Metropolitan University as well as Visiting Professor at City University, London.

Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Introduction and Overview of Time Sensitive Therapy
Exploring 'Brief' and 'Time Sensitive Therapy'
Emancipating Therapy
Therapy as Conversation
'How Have You Managed To Cope So Well?'
Preparing For The First Therapy Session: Some Parameters To Consider
Outline of The First Therapy Session: A 'Map' For Practise
Working Positively and Briefly With a Teenager With a Serious Medical Condition: A Case Study
Getting Unstuck in Therapy: Adversity as Opportunity
Cognitive-Behavioural Interventions: Briefly Focused
Endings and Closure in Therapy
Brief Therapy in Managed Care
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