Can we be Brief? 30 Oct 2010
Posted: 20,10,2010
In her talk, Anna will discuss the assessment and selection of patients for brief therapy and the relationship between brief and long term psychotherapy and the nature of internal representations of time. Can practitioners trained in long-term approaches be brief? What are the techniques that have been developed for the specialised work of brief psychotherapy?
She will consider the ways in which brief therapy occurs in particular settings and how practitioners adapt it to these settings. Finally, she will consider the charge that brief therapy is chosen only as a financially economical option. She will illustrate her talk with a case study from her own experience of brief work in a Primary Care setting, where very diverse patient groups are treated with collaboration between GPs and psychotherapists.
In this context, a very long-term treatment relationship often exists between patient and GP, with very short consultations and a brief relationship exists between patient and therapist, with much longer consultations. What are the implications of this arrangement?
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