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All Brief Therapy is Not Created Equal
Published in Meidan Turel, Michael Siglag, Alexander Grinshpoon, Clinical Psychology in the Mental Health Inpatient Setting, 2019
Manish Parswani, Malcolm W. Stewart
Brief therapy is an attractive concept for many reasons. It suggests a relatively quick improvement, reduced cost and inconvenience for clients, cost-effectiveness, and increased access to therapy for more people. While more effective for some difficulties than for others, brief therapy offers hope for healthcare systems that increasingly understand that addressing the psychological and social issues of people with mental or physical health difficulties is an important and often untapped strategy for improving outcomes and reducing the spiraling costs of healthcare (Blount et al., 2007).
Brief intervention
Published in David B Cooper, Care in Mental Health—Substance Use, 2019
Karl V Robins, David A Hingley
People with added stress or the beginnings of a mental illness sometimes try to escape their problems and symptoms by using substances. Often this makes the initial ‘problem’ worse. Traditional helping approaches concentrate on the ‘problem’ and emphasise the need to understand it and to recognise where it comes from in order to begin to do something about it. This assumes that problems and symptoms are at the centre of the person’s life and, thus, are the focus for interventions. An alternative approach is solution focused brief therapy (SFBT).
What is psychotherapy?
Published in Patricia Hughes, Daniel Riordan, Dynamic Psychotherapy Explained, 2017
Patricia Hughes, Daniel Riordan
Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) helps a person to clarify current problems and find the best way of dealing with them (Weissman et al., 2000). It is a brief therapy, usually lasting for no more than 15 sessions. IPT has been effectively used to treat depression and bulimia nervosa.
Solution-focused brief therapy for adolescent and young adult cancer patients in China: a pilot randomized controlled trial
Published in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 2022
Anao Zhang, Qingying Ji, Kan Zhang, Qing Cao, Yuting Chen, Jingzhi Chen, Adam DuVall
Second, even for AYAs who have the time and energy to receive evidence-based interventions, many of them choose not to due to the stigma surrounding mental health services.17 Psychological services are often located in a separate unit or building in the hospital and visiting the department of psychological service is stigmatizing for many Chinese AYAs with cancer.18 Indeed, studies have documented high level of refusal (≥ 60%) to psychological services among Chinese AYA patients with cancer out of concerns over stigmatization.3,19 Finally, many evidence-based psychosocial treatments are structured and diagnostically oriented, which has resulted in high level of drop out among AYAs with cancer in China.20 Given the above mentioned treatment barriers among Chinese AYA cancer patients, it would be ideal to deliver a brief, destigmatizing, and strength-based (i.e., nondiagnostic) psychosocial intervention for psychological distress among Chinese AYA cancer patients. One such intervention is solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT).
Spiritual Predictors of Improved Resilience in People Recovering from Alcohol Use Disorder: An Exploratory Study
Published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2022
Claire Hiernaux, Isabelle Varescon
Spirituality/religion (S/R) seems to be a resilience factor (Masten & Obradovic, 2006) because it proposes a belief system upon which individuals can rely on, to search for meaning in potentially traumatic experiences and reconstruct their world view (Janoff-Bulman, 2004), thus restoring a sense of internal coherence and control over one’s life (Pourtois et al., 2012). In the present study, spirituality explained 32.2% of the total variance of resilience, after adjusting for sociodemographic, addiction, and treatment variables. A first group of spiritual predictors of resilience was: believing that there is a purpose in one’s life (SWBS20) that is associated with a sense of well-being about one’s future (SWBS14). Surprisingly, the search for meaning was not the best spiritual predictor of resilience: the item that evaluates meaning of life (SWBS18) lost its significance when added to other spiritual elements. It was more important for individuals to identify a purpose for their life. These results can be related to the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) (Zhang, Franklin, Currin-mcculloch, Park, & Kim, 2018) or Positive Psychology Interventions (PPI) such as setting personal goals (Bolier et al., 2013; Green, Oades, & Grant, 2006; Sheldon, Kasser, Smith, & Share, 2002).
Dissemination of the Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) to University Counseling Center Clinicians to Reduce Suicide Risk Among College Students
Published in Archives of Suicide Research, 2020
Kate L. Stewart, Ellen V. Darling, Shirley Yen, Barbara Stanley, Gregory K. Brown, Lauren M. Weinstock
University counseling centers (UCCs) are often the primary, and only, contact with mental health services for suicidal students, making them an ideal setting for preventive efforts (Joffe, 2008). Recent data on UCCs suggest an emerging culture of brief therapy and limited sessions, with a median number of 1 session per student (Center for Collegiate Mental Health, 2016). While effective preventive interventions such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT; Linehan et al., 2006), Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention (Brown et al., 2005) or Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS; Jobes, 2012) exist, they require multiple sessions and extended training, limiting the feasibility of these interventions in many UCC settings with a brief therapy or acute care model. Indeed, there has been limited testing of these treatments in UCCs. In other counseling centers, treatment of suicidal clients beyond assessment and referral is simply beyond their scope of practice (Polychronis, 2017). Recognizing these limitations, a brief, easy-to-administer and empirically validated intervention to mitigate short-term suicide risk is indicated to expand and improve suicide prevention efforts on college campuses.