Brief Psychotherapy with Children: Process of Therapy
ALAN J. ROSENTHAL M.D.1, and
SAUL V. LEVINE M.D.2
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, Calif. 94305
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Staff Psychiatrist, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Brief psychotherapy with children has not achieved the same acceptance as this treatment modality with adults. The authors conducted a project, reported previously, in which they compared treatment outcome following brief (eight-visit maximum) psychotherapy with that of longer-term treatment; a one-year follow-up had shown similar results following both forms of treatment. In this paper the therapeutic techniques are analyzed and the content of brief psychotherapy with children is detailed.
