Includes bibliographical references.

The Brief Psychotherapies.- The Therapeutic Interaction Research Perspectives.- An Integrative Model for Short-Term Treatment.- Brief Treatment and Mental Health Policy.- Technical Issues.- Innovations in Family Therapy Strategies for Overcoming Resistance to Treatment.- On Time in Brief Therapy.- Tasks in Brief Therapy.- The Challenge of Single-Session Therapies.- Individual Approaches in Brief Psychotherapy.- Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.- Cognitive Therapy.- An Introduction to Cognitive-Behavior Therapy.- Interpersonal Psychotherapy of Depression (IPT).- Crisis Intervention as Brief Psychotherapy.- Family and Marital Brief Therapies.- Family Crisis Therapy.- Brief Behavioral Marital Therapy.- Strategic Psychotherapy.- A Systems Therapy.- Short-Term Marital Therapy.- Brief Psychotherapy for the Sexual Dysfunctions.- One Person Family Therapy.- Brief Group Approaches.- Short-Term Group Therapy.- Social Skill Training in Short-Term Groups.- Short-Term Therapy Groups for Schizophrenics.- Brief Crisis Therapy Groups.- Psychodrama in Short-Term Psychotherapy.