In keeping with other brief therapy models – including MRI (developed by the clinicians at the Mental Research Institute, e.g., Watzlawick et al. 1974), Strategic Therapy (Haley 1987), Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) (e.g., de Shazer 1985), and the Milan Associates (e.g., Boscolo et al. 1987) – Brief Relational Couple Therapy (BRCT) is a systemic approach significantly influenced by Gregory Bateson’s revolutionary systemic ideas (Bateson 2000) and Milton Erickson’s innovative hypnotherapy and psychotherapy methods (Erickson 1980; Flemons 2002; Flemons and Green 2007, 2018; Haley 1986).
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As brief therapists, BRCT clinicians are committed to working as efficiently as possible (Fisch et al. 1982). Aware that both therapist- and client-expectancy contribute significantly to therapeutic outcome (Kirsch 1999), they are careful not to assume that long-standing and/or particularly distressing problems necessarily require longer durations of treatment (O’Hanlon and Wilk 1987)....
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Flemons, D., Green, S.K. (2019). Brief Relational Couple Therapy. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_885
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