Training and Brief Psychotherapies

Abstract

The authors report their experience on a workshop centered on brief psychotherapy (the STAPP model defined by Sifneos) in a postgraduate training in psychotherapy. STAPP, its extensed frame of reference and its relatively ‘easy’ access to study of essential paradigms, seems to constitute a priviledged tool in training psychiatrists to-be to the fundamental psychodynamics processes involved in psychotherapy. Provided the transferential and countertransferential issues are adequately met with (in individual and group supervision), it is lived very positively by trainees as such and has, moreover, a positive carry-over in so-called supportive therapies.

Short-term psychotherapy and graduate training in psychology.

“…Although the value of crisis intervention and emergency psychotherapy instruction has received attention, the same cannot be said for training in STP. Several authors (Hougardy & Luminet, 1980; Weissman, Rounsaville, & Chevron, 1982) have argued for STP training as a method for acquiring other skills such as proficiency in outcome research and understanding processes in long-term dynamic therapy; however, articles that address teaching STP as a form of psychotherapy are limited (Fern, 1975; Goldberg, Wool, Tull, & Boor, 1984; Goodheart, 1982; Heiberg, 1981; Levene, Breger, & Patterson, 1972; Strupp & Binder, 1984; Wittkower & Lewis, 1970).…”