Boot Camp Therapy: Brief, Action-Oriented Clinical Approaches to Anxiety, Anger, & Depression

Incorporating brief therapy with an innovative boot camp approach to help clients overcome three of the most prevalent issues in therapy.

In some cases long-term therapy that seeks to assess a client s history and gain insight over the course of many sessions isn t always possible. Immediate behavior change and concrete steps to fix the problem at hand are sometimes more practical and desirable.

Grounded in a results-oriented brief therapy model, this user-friendly guide presents the author s boot camp approach focusing on a client s immediate behavior, helping them to do things differently, take action, concentrate on process, and use targeted goals and homework to jump-start and motivate them into taking risks and breaking patterns. Following this approach, Taibbi walks readers through session-by-session treatment maps for achieving solutions to three of the most common issues in therapy. 6 charts