Introduction
Therapies are done and methodologically assessed by the clinicians in order to provide solutions on the individuals who needs advise, support, and attention. The professional solutions of every clinician might depend on the case set before them. Moreover, the solutions that they give might affect the behavior or mental capacity of the patients.
What is Brief Therapy?
The provided solutions in brief therapy is based on the professional therapeutic interventions, mentoring programs and community based activities that entirely aiming and addressing the complexities associated with behavioral disorders, attachment issues and associated mental health issues in children, young people and their family's. The challenges that might be seen in the present situation of the therapy are based on the focus of an individual. Take for example, the parents and their relationship on their children. Parenting is not an easy task and even if with the help of the therapy, it will never be easy, however, the therapy will explain and give the overview regarding the child’s behavior in the parent-child relationship. There are aspects that might include the attention (Attention Deficit Disorder), opposing views (Oppositional Defiant Disorder), conducts and values (Conduct Disorder), and many others that will be associated in the attachment of parent to the child.
The Brief Therapy solutions also provide the professional supervision, training, and agency consultation in family work. Within the works of psychotherapy or counseling, there are suggestive positive outcomes (Bergin & Garfield, 1994; Miller, Hubble, & Duncan, 1995). Because of this significant evidence in the work, there are related developments that continuously influencing the thinking of people and the ways on how they think. The solution is based on the Strength Based Practice which views the world as the foundation of solution and the essentials to have a good solution can be assessed through the practice (Saleebey, 1992). This means that if an individual have a question regarding the democracy, then he must engage himself in a democratic world. His participation in the real world adds the capacity of the individual to make decisions and do certain actions. Other than that, the Brief Therapy is comprised with different models in counseling and strategies.
Effects on Mental Illness
In the investigation on the various views on the mental illness and psychotherapy, there is a conclusion that the greatest misconceptions regarding the mental illness and the least confidence in psychotherapy in different cultures. Accordingly, males expressed higher levels of negativity about psychotherapy and the mentally ill than female participants. The ethnicity and gender are also influential in the views of mental illness and openness to seeking mental health services. The attitude of the individual on the therapy can also create an impact in the continuous arising mental health problems. The psychological disorder recorded in a year recognized the population of the young adults. The age range of the young adults manifests the greatest risk in showing the psychiatric disorder which includes schizophrenia, bipolar and major depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, as well as substance abuse. This naturally results to the mental illness and investigation of appropriate therapy methods (Mori, Keo, & Panova, 2007).
In the development of the Brief Therapy as a model of counseling, criticisms became the greatest influential factor. Because of the inspiration to gain the effectiveness in the natural setting in counseling, there is a significant effect of positive relationship between the number of sessions and improvement intervention on the mental health. However, if an individual has the chronic and characteristics of depression or other in-depth mental health cases, the dosages of medicines can be also taken as a consideration on the effectiveness of the brief therapy. In the recent years, some counseling centers have opted for brief therapy models, which are surrounded by controversies, giving assumptions that the brief therapies are ineffective. Therefore, many professionals proposed the longer-term models, while the others argue that long-term therapy is unethical (Draper, et al., 2000).
Conclusion
It is true that the brief therapy have its advantages and disadvantages, and to avoid the conflict on what would be the appropriate solution that should be used, the clinicians or professionals should consider the methods on they perceived will give the most of the benefits. The viability of the Brief Therapy based on the attitude and behavior of the individual, as well as on the way on how they will accept the different issues of their mental health.
References:
Bergin, A., & Garfield, S., (Eds.) (1994) Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behaviour Change, John Wiley and Sons, NY.
Draper, M., Jennings, J., Baron, A., Erdur, O., & Shankar, L., (2000) Dose–Effect Relationships in Brief Therapy Based on a Nationwide College Counseling Center Sample, Research Reports of The Research Consortium of Counseling & Psychological Services in Higher Education, 1(1) [Online] Available at: http://www.cmhc.utexas.edu/pdf/DoseResp.pdf [Accessed 29 July 2010].
Miller, S., Hubble, B., & Duncan, M., (1995) No More Bells and Whistles, Family Therapy Networker, March/ April, pp53-63
Mori, L., Keo, Z.S., & Panova, A., (2007) Perceptions of Mental Illness and Psychotherapy in a Sample of Asian, Hispanic, and White American College Students, Journal of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Mental Health [Online] Available at: http://www.scientificjournals.org/journals2007/articles/1228.pdf [Accessed 29 July 2010].
Saleebey, D., (Ed.) (1992) The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice. NY: Longman, p8.
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