Art and Science of Brief Psychotherapies

Mantosh J. Dewan, M.D., Interim Dean, College of Medicine, and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New YorkBrett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D., Teaching Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New YorkRoger P. Greenberg, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York

• Chapter 1. IntroductionPart I: Building a foundation for successful therapiesChapter 2. Essential ingredients for successful psychotherapyChapter 3. Mentalizing as a common factorChapter 4. Brief therapy from a multicultural perspectivePart II: Eight key brief psychotherapiesChapter 5. Motivational Interviewing as a brief therapyChapter 6. Cognitive therapyChapter 7. Behavior therapy: Exposure therapy for anxiety disordersChapter 8. Dialectic behavior therapyChapter 9. Solution focused brief therapyChapter 10. Interpersonal psychotherapyChapter 11. Time-limited dynamic psychotherapyChapter 12. Brief couple therapyPart III: Special topicsChapter 13. TelepsychiatryChapter 14. Internet-based brief therapiesChapter 15. Combining Brief therapy and medicationsChapter 16. Evaluating competence in brief psychotherapyPart IV: Overview and synthesisChapter 17. Doing therapy, briefly: Overview and synthesis