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Brief Therapy
This name refers not only to the duration of the therapy, but it represents comprehensively a way of
orientation in therapeutic practice. Problem formation and maintenance is seen as parts of vicious-circle
process, in which maladaptive “solutions“ behaviours maintain the problem. Alteration of these
behaviours /or beliefs/ should interrupt the cycle and initiate the resolution of the problem.
Milan Systemic Therapy (Boscolo et al, 1987)
Basic assumption of Milan Systemic Therapy is that mind is social. The symptomatic behaviour is
conceived as a part of the transactional patterns of the system. Significance of any particular behaviour or
event may be derived from its social context. The therapists consider that the way to eliminate the symptom
which is present in the family is to change the rules and beliefs. Change is achieved in clarifying the
ambiguity in relationships.
Narrative Therapy (Freedman, Combs, 1996)
The followers of the narrative approach consider that experience rooted in the life events is elaborated in the
form of a story, which gives to these events a meani