Brief family therapy is a long-established psychotherapy approach that has an indispensable place in the family therapy genre. In the 1960s, under the influence of communication theory, hypnotic therapy by Milton Erickson, system theory and cybernetics, and constructivism, brief family therapy established and developed a unique set of psychotherapy theories and methods, and made an important impact on the psychotherapeutic field and many other areas of the society. This article gives a brief introduction on this psychotherapy method from different angles like the theoretical basis, treatment approaches, current characteristics and effects of treatment, and development after introducing into China, in hopes of helping people better understand this family therapy genre and encouraging wider practice and research of it in China.
ZHANG Tianran
,
CHEN Jue
. Introduction to Methods of the Brief Family Therapy[J]. Psychological Communications, 2020
, 3(3)
: 201
-206
.
DOI: 10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.219045
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