Briefer and Deeper: A Comparative Analysis of Depth-Oriented Psychother

Briefer and Deeper A Comparative Analysis of Depth-Oriented Psychotherapy IntroductionThe use of psychotherapy in decidedly time-limited contexts is the hallmark of modern trends toward maximizing effectiveness and minimizing costs in the realm of health and mental health intervention. Although clients have historically utilised therapy for instruct intervals (an average of 8 sessions), the use of models designed for this purpose is comparatively new. There is an ever-widening breadth of approaches - both act uponerly long-term designs modified to pray fewer sessions and those born with the goal of brevity. Despite the diversity in skeleton psychotherapy (BPT) approaches, severally therapy tends to be based on similar cardinal assumptions and general themes. For example, it is widely believed that a skillful therapist can yarn-dye useful changes in the lives of clients - changes that continue to build long after the treatment ends (Messer & Warren, 1995). These therapies a lso include root metaphors or ideas of where human difficulty arises, a set of curative factors, and an image of what it means to be mentally wholesome (Borden, 1999). Finally, in an effort to address client issues briefly, the articulation of a clinical focus is seen as essential and can range from present solar day relational problems to underlying struggles with drives and anxiety - depending on the theoretical orientation. In comparison, Bruce Ecker and decoration Hulleys Depth-Oriented Brief Psychotherapy (DOBT) model presents a slight variation to what has buzz off the customary brief approach. DOBT is composed of techniques organized around the idiosyncratic, unconsciously held meanings of each client. Thus, there is no set formula or core predicament to be address... ...ard theoretical pluralism in clinical practice. Most importantly, however, is DOBTs reassuring techniques which allows its clients a new, more coherent knowledge of themselves which leads to a deep an d exquisite form of healing. References Borden, W. (1999). Pluralism, pragmatism, and the therapeutic movement in brief dynamic treatment. W. Borden (Ed.) The therapeutic endeavor in brief dynamic treatment Theory, research, practice, commentary. Haworth Press, New York.Ecker, B. & Hulley, L. (1996). Depth-oriented brief therapy How to be brief when you were trained to be deep and vice-versa. Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco.Ecker, B. & Hulley, L. (1999). Depth-oriented brief therapy. Online. Available www.dobt.comMesser, S. & Warren, C. (1995). Models of brief psychodynamic therapy A comparative approach. The Guildford Press, New York.