Simon H. Budman, PhD, a leader in the development of new models for behavioral health care, is the president and founder of Innovative Training Systems (ITS) in Newton, Massachusetts. ITS provides training, consulting and new product development services to managed care companies, group practices, hospitals, community mental health centers and HMOs around the country. A faculty member of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Budman is past Director of Mental Health Training and Mental Health Research at the Harvard Community Health Plan. He is coauthor (with Alan S. Gurman) of the widely acclaimed Theory and Practice of Brief Therapy.
"Brought together here are accounts of most types of brief
treatments, ranging from a truncated psychoanalysis through
streamlined forms of behavior, group, family, and marital therapies
to a radically experimental single-session treatment. Many chapters
are written with the clinician in mind who might want to employ the
form of therapy described: they offer a point-by-point
how-to-do-it....Anyone who wants to know about where psychotherapy
is tending, under pressure from an inflationary economy, would do
well to get this book." --Daniel Goleman in Psychology Today
"Well written...contains much valuable material for assimilation."
--"International Journal of Group Psychotherapy"
"This book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on
short-term therapy: it can be highly recommended." --"American
Journal of Psychiatry"
"In seventeen original articles by various experts, the inherent
strengths, appropriateness, efficacy, and good fit of various forms
of brief therapy to patients' needs and circumstances are
expounded, quite apart from the time is money' pressures.
Individual, couple, family, and group therapy are covered."
--"Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic"
"This is a very good volume for the therapist who is attempting to
determine if brief therapies are appropriate for them or are
looking to explore further therapeutic alternatives. It is an
excellent basic text and, especially for the theoretical background
of brief therapy, is to be highly recommended."
--"American Archives of Rehabilitation Therapy"
"The major emphasis is theoretical, but most contributions are
enriched by illustrative case material. These presentations are
detailed enough to provide the traditionally trained therapist with
immediately useful new techniques and approaches to
psychotherapy....The reader [will be] well introduced to these
fiscally practical, clinically powerful' methods of brief therapy."
--"The Journal of Urban Psychiatry"
"Social workers with a psychodynamic orientation, especially those
who have had difficulty accepting short-term therapy, and
practitioners interested in short-term therapy with groups will
find this book instructive." --"Social Work"
"A book of considerable substance and excellent scholarship....I
have nohesitation recommending this book as a high priority for all
psychiatrists." --"Contemporary Psychiatry"
"Budman has edited a remarkably comprehensive and well-organized
overview that is now the best single compilation of articles on
brief treatment." --"Hospital and Community Psychiatry"
"Provide[s] a current, comprehensive overview of the brief
therapies....It is of value to those who practice brief therapy as
part of their armamentarium and to those who have an interest in
the wide range of therapeutic modalities that are available."
--"The Psychoanalytic Quarterly"
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