Brief therapy (MRI) is a short-term, problem-focused psychotherapy developed at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto. It treats problems as maintained by people’s own attempted solutions and seeks to interrupt those patterns, often through reframing, rather than pursuing insight into their origins.
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Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
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Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.