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Therapy, whether long or short term is an evolving and collaborative process so to try and convey this process I invited three clients to join with me in writing this chapter. I have structured the chapter in sections aimed at providing the reader with an experience, despite being on a page, of the living dialogical process that is therapy. While writing this piece I have realised that in addition to the well documented non-specific factors like a warm empathic relationship, attentive listening, etc. clearly prerequisites for any successful therapeutic relationship long or short, the more specific ideas and practices associated with systemic thinking are generic to all my work whether I am meeting with clients for a few weeks or over several years. So I would claim that systemic ideas and practices lend themselves equally well to short or long term therapeutic interventions.
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Draper, R. (2020). And It Takes as Long as It Takes. In: Vetere, A., Sheehan, J. (eds) Long Term Systemic Therapy . Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44511-9_4
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