Brief Psychotherapies: Principles & Practice - Softcover

Michael F. Hoyt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934442291 ISBN 13: 9781934442296

Publisher: Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, 2009

Synopsis

Brief therapy can be defined succinctly as Time-sensitive treatment to relieve psychological distress and/or promote growth or as The development of a collaborative alliance and an emphasis on patient/client strengths in the service of an efficient attainment of co-created goals. Nowadays insurance companies, HMOs, counseling centers and consumers all desire and often require brief treatment for psychological problems. Specific skills and orientation are needed to meet the challenge of providing high-quality professional services in today's economic and healthcare environment. Internationally renowned brief therapy expert Dr. Michael Hoyt draws from a variety of approaches brief psychodynamic, brief redecision, brief Ericksonian, strategic and solution-focused to provide a wide range of practical how-to skills based on fuller recognition of the powers of language and imagination plus the principles of caring, collaboration, and respect for clients' competencies.

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About the Author

Michael F. Hoyt, Ph.D. (Yale '76) is a senior staff psychologist at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Rafael, California. An expert clinician and internationally respected teacher and lecturer, Dr. Hoyt is the author of Brief Therapy and Managed Care, Some Stories Are Better than Others, Interviews with Brief Therapy Experts, and The Present is a Gift; as well as the editor of several volumes. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and has been honored as a Continuing Education Distinguished Speaker by both the American Psychological Association and the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, as a Contributor of Note by the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, and was the 2007 recipient of the prestigious APF Cummings Psyche Prize for lifetime contributions to the role of psychologists in organized healthcare.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zeig, Tucker & Theisen
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934442291
• ISBN 13: 9781934442296
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 275