Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I: Building a Foundation for Successful Therapies
Chapter 2. Essential Ingredients for Successful Psychotherapy: Effect of Common Factors
Chapter 3. Mentalizing as a Common Factor in Psychotherapy
Chapter 4. Integrating Culture and Psychotherapy Through the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview
Chapter 5: Combining Brief Psychotherapy and Medications
Part II: Seven Key Brief Psychotherapies
Chapter 6. Motivational Interviewing
Chapter 7. Cognitive Therapy
Chapter 8. Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Chapter 9. Application and Techniques of Dialectic Behavior Therapy
Chapter 10. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building Strengths, Achieving Goals
Chapter 11. Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Chapter 12. Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy: An Integrative Perspective
Part III: Special Topics
Chapter 13. Telepsychiatry
Chapter 14. Internet-Based Brief Therapies
Chapter 15. Evaluating Competence in Brief Psychotherapy
Part IV: Putting It All Together
Chapter 16. Doing Therapy, Briefly: Overview and Synthesis

About the Author

Mantosh J. Dewan, M.D., Interim Dean, College of Medicine, and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York

Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D., Teaching Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York

Roger P. Greenberg, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York