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BRIEF HISTORY OF BRIEF THERAPY

BRIEF HISTORY OF BRIEF THERAPY. How It all started. HISTORIC MARKS. Milton Erickson, the first “real” therapist? 1958: Don Jakson is the founder of the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, California 1966: Richard Fisch initiates the Brief Therapy Project at the MRI

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BRIEF HISTORY OF BRIEF THERAPY

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  1. BRIEF HISTORY OF BRIEF THERAPY How It all started....

  2. HISTORIC MARKS • Milton Erickson, the first “real” therapist? • 1958: Don Jakson is the founder of the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto, California • 1966: Richard Fisch initiates the Brief Therapy Project at the MRI • 1974: MRI publishes “Brief Therapy: Focused Problem Resolution”. • They departed from theory elaboration and focused on the short – termed agents of change to focused problems.

  3. OTHER IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS • Avoidance of elaborated personality or psychopathology theories • It focuses more on the maintaining process of the “disorder” than in its origins • The quickest and cheapest intervention is sought.

  4. THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION “Brief Therapy is best understood as a Theory of Intervention, than as a Theory of Personality”.

  5. SYMPTOM FOCUS • Facilitate change in current action or thought patterns. • Great cooperation is obtained • Small assisted changes lead to greater self – induced changes, in a virtuous cycle.

  6. CONCLUSIONS • Brief therapy lends easily to research, thus it is refined quick and constantly. • A specific plan is designed for each person, thus there are few contraindications but the ones that belong to the individual therapist. • Respect, comprehension and client's validation are considered more important that “astute” techniques or interpretations.

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