Brief Strategic Psychotherapy

  Brief strategic psychotherapy is a model implemented by the Italian psychologist Giorgio Nardone. It aims to respond to the needs of the patient/client/consultant in an extremely short time. To do this, the therapist gives up exploring the client’s past and devotes attention to the present. In brief strategic psychotherapy, therapists use specific techniques to create rapid changes in thinking and behavior. They use the following strategies: The paradox. It’s used to challenge the logic of the problem and change the way the patient perceives it. For example, the therapist urges them to try to do the opposite of what…