How long does a brief strategic therapy?
Compared to other models of psychotherapy known as long-term (average duration of a complete cycle of 1-4 years) brief strategic therapy is part of the so-called "short model" (average duration of a complete cycle of 3-6 months or 10-12 sessions ). Generally, in brief therapy first results are already visible from the early sessions. And 'practice of strategic psychotherapist constantly check the effectiveness of treatment in line with the target set with the patient.
How often have meetings?
In the first phase of treatment, the meetings are weekly or biweekly. Just got the first substantial improvement, it goes to a meeting every three weeks, to enable the person to experience in their daily lives their new-found resources and capabilities, eliminating the risk of dependence on the figure of the therapist. A solution reached, the therapy is concluded with 3 sessions of control (follow-up) at a distance of 3, 6 and 12 months for the maintenance in time of the result.
How long does a session?
The duration of a session strategic is never predetermined, but varies from time to time according to the different needs of the person in therapy, the phase of the treatment in which is located and the type of problem presented. However, on average may vary from 20 to 60 minutes maximum.
Brief strategic therapy gives lasting results?
As is clear from the follow-ups conducted at 3 months, 6 months and 1 year after the treatment, the presence of relapse is minimal. The results of the research on thousands of cases treated with brief strategic therapy in recent decades (in Italy and abroad) have shown not only high effectiveness of the intervention evaluated at the end of treatment, but also the stability of the results time.
Brief strategic therapy involves the use of drugs?
The brief strategic therapy is a psychotherapeutic intervention type and, as such, does not require the aid of drugs. If the patient came to therapy with a medication in place, it will suggest that you proceed with this by following the indications of your doctor or psychiatrist. A problem solved the therapist will contact the medical colleague to evaluate the possibility of reducing the time and dosage, the drug.
I would like to start a brief strategic therapy approach and I already know some techniques. Knowing the techniques may in some way hinder my course of treatment?
Already know some of the strategic maneuvers is not a ostavcolo for the effectiveness of the intervention. In most cases, already be aware of the kind of commitment that requires a strategic therapy or the effect they can have harmful techniques, can also facilitate or accelerate the result.
I think my family has problems that could be solved with a strategic psychotherapy, but does not want to consult a specialist. What can I do?
Very often people who have certain types of problems, such as eating disorders, relationship difficulties or particular, refuse to consult a specialist or are extremely resistant to any kind of intervention. In these cases the family, if properly addressed, can play a key role in determining and treating the disorder. In these situations, the strategic therapist is customary for a first meeting with family members, or others who are close to those who have the issue, and assess with them what you can do to intervene. The strategic therapist can then give guidance on how to engage and involve the "carrier of the disease" in therapy, or family to give concrete indications on how to behave in relation to the person and the disorder in question, thus resorting to an indirect form of therapy. Following this intervention may happen that the "identified patient" decides to enter therapy later, and in other cases the therapy proceeds only in an indirect manner.
Strategic therapy with lasting results?
Brief strategic therapy can relieve symptoms or dysfunctional behavior (which is what generates the discomfort) and to change the way in which the person perceives their personal and interpersonal reality.
The objective is therefore to produce rapid changes in the perception of the reality of the person and not just in its behavioral reactions, in order to move his point of observation from the original position, rigid and dysfunctional, with a more flexible and more choice. This will lead to a consequent change of its mode of behavior and also of his knowledge. The Brief Strategic Therapy does not represent a purely symptomatic treatment, and that is why, once you've solved the problem brought into therapy, symptoms may not emerge in its stead.
