Differences in values between short-term and long-term therapists.

Time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP) is an interpersonal, timesensitive approach for patients with chronic, pervasive, dysfunctional ways of relating. This article presents TLDP theory, assumptions, goals, formulation strategies, and empirical findings, emphasizing its integrative elements. The focus on corrective, interpersonal experiences and cyclical transactional processes provides opportunities for integration from theoretical, technique, and common factors perspectives. The therapist discerns cyclical maladaptive patterns to understand the patient's inflexible, self-perpetuating, selfdefeating expectations and negative self-appraisals that lead to maladaptive interactions with others. The goal of TLDP is to help patients change these dysfunctional interpersonal patterns by fostering new experiences and new understandings that emanate from the therapeutic relationship. A case example is presented to illustrate, and a TLDP training program is described.We don't say cure. We say you had a corrective emotional experience.-Therapist (Billy Crystal) to gangster/patient (Robert DeNiro) in the movie Analyze This Although I was invited to submit an article to this issue on integratively oriented brief psychotherapies, let me be clear at the outset that the original model of time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP) was never explicitly designed to be an integrative therapy. However, there are at least five reasons why TLDP is "integration friendly" and already contains integrative elements. First, TLDP's focus on the importance of interpersonal relatedness, corrective emotional experiences, and patterned, recursive, transactional processes provides ample opportunities for therapeutic inte-

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Brief and Intermittent Approaches to Practice: The State of Practice

Dziegielewski

2008

Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention

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This article is written to provide an overview of the past and present use of two common types of time-limited therapy. Brief (also known as 'short term') and intermittent therapies are explored. Using these time-limited frameworks, a structure and procedural review for conducting evidence-based intervention strategy is presented. Several popular methodologies that use a time-limited focus are reviewed. Recommendations, practice guidelines, and strategy foruseofthesemethodsarepresented.

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Differences in values between short-term and long-term therapists.

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Behavior therapy and managed mental health care: Integrating effectiveness and economics in mental health practice

Behavior therapy and managed mental health care: Integrating effectiveness and economics in mental health practice

Time-limited dynamic psychotherapy: An integrationist perspective.

Brief and Intermittent Approaches to Practice: The State of Practice

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