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Short-Term, Linear Approaches To Psychotherapy: What We Now Know

Pepperdine University, davidnelkins{at}hotmail.com

This article critiques short-term, linear approaches to psychotherapy and raises fundamental questions about the claims for their effectiveness. The article delineates the inherent weaknesses of short-term, linear approaches; summarizes a recent meta-analysis that challenges their effectiveness; and summarizes research showing they are less effective than longer-term, traditional psychotherapy. The author suggests that psychologists who are drawn to short-term, linear approaches embed these in a broader, more complex theoretical framework such as that which humanistic-existential psychology provides.

Key Words: psychotherapy • effectiveness • short-term • time-limited

This version was published on July 1, 2008

Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 48, No. 3, 413-431 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0022167806297031


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