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A great deal of the psychotherapy conducted with children is of relatively brief duration. Children are often available only for brief therapy because of limited financial resources, level of family motivation, or institutional mandate. As early as the 1970s, Parad (1970–1971) noticed the apparent contradiction between the brevity of much child therapy and the simultaneous emphasis on the study of long-term treatment approaches. Numerous studies conducted since then have strongly supported the notion that the modal number of treatment sessions is rather small across a range of treatment settings, diagnoses, age, presenting complaints, and whether the treatment was planned as time-limited or unlimited (Dulcan & Piercy, 1985; Garfield, 1978; Koss, 1979; Langsley, 1975; Phillips, 1985).
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Seth Warren, C., Messer, S.B. (1999). Brief Psychodynamic Therapy with Anxious Children. In: Russ, S.W., Ollendick, T.H. (eds) Handbook of Psychotherapies with Children and Families. Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4755-6_12
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