Brief therapy: an alternative for effective psychological intervention

The present work aims to describe and structure the origins, fundamentals and procedures of the brief therapy from the therapeutic cognitive behavioural perspective. It starts with the identifi cation of the brief therapy theory fundamentals, where the main motivational theories related with the disposition towards the change and the self effi ciency from the social cognitive theory is found. The parallel one is realized between the principal characteristics of the brief therapy in contraposition to the traditional therapies. Finally, one proposes a procedural general structure of clinical strategies to using in the brief therapy with empirical support, which can be used in different problematic by specifi c variations of agreement to the treated problem or to the specifi c characteristics of the consultant. A comparison is made between the main brief therapy characteristics and the traditional therapies. Finally, a general procedural clinical strategy structure is proposed for using in brief therapy with empirical support; which can be used in different clinical problems making specifi c variations, depending on the problem being treated or according to the specifi c characteristics of the consultant.