How we see the world: Politics through a Brief Therapy Lense.
People often say everything is connected, when referring to interwoven events, people and movements. It’s because we cannot avoid looking at the world through a lens, through a particular window. We have chosen the Problem-Solving Brief Therapy lens because we find it useful and we wanted to share a perspective that even applies to everyday […]
The untold story of the MRI and the Brief Therapy Center (BTC). Then and now
Welcome to our Blog. We are delighted that you are stopping by and we hope that you will be back often. Because we preach an interactional model, we hope to create a space that will spark a lot of discussion so that everyone can continue to expand horizons and grow. Ultimately in a safe context, […]
What is Problem-Solving Brief Therapy? A functional model of change
We thought we would begin to dive into a description of what our model stands for and how it is different from other models of brief and family therapy. Most other models of therapy can be called ‘normative models’: the model provides a structure for human behavior and a deviation from such a structure […]
How therapists see the client determines the reality they will construct
This morning I was talking with my colleague Sara, whom I supervise. She is in Spain. The case presentation went something along the lines of: I am working with a young adult who is 20, we’ll call him Martin. He is the oldest of four kids whose parents are immigrants. When he was 10, […]
Problem-solving Brief Therapy: a model applied to schools in the 21st Century
The Problem Solving Brief Therapy (BTC) is applied to all systems of human interactions. The definition of a system in Pragmatics of Human Communication by Watzlawick, Beavin-Bavelas, and Jackson is: “A set of objects together with relationships between the objects and between their attributes, in which objects are the components or parts of the system, attributes are the properties of the objects, […]
Help! How do we help our son to help himself?
Difficulties are part of life and it would be idealistic to think that there are people who don’t have them. These difficulties become problems for people who ask us for help when said difficulties are maintained over time through bad management and the application of apparent common sense which, with the best of intentions, does […]
A Systems View on Who is Getting the COVID Vaccine: my opinion on equity
One of the axioms of communication in ‘Pragmatics of Human Communication’ is that you cannot no communicate. In that vein, I am almost forced to write this blog. The Brief Therapy Center™ functions in Palo Alto, United States as well as Mexico City – mx.brieftherapycenter.org- and Paraguay -pybrieftherapycenter.org. We are currently all teaching a Diplomado, […]
