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Although the terms short-term treatment as well as short-term group therapy are widely used, there is a good deal of ambiguity as to the meaning of these terms. As one expert on the subject states (Klein, 1985):
Typically, reported sessions vary from a single meeting to as many as 50 or more, and range in overall time up to and even beyond one year. For individual short-term treatment, the mean number of sessions appears to be about 25, while for short-term group therapy the range is similar but there is a trend toward fewer sessions with a mean of about 12 to 15 sessions, apart from marathon groups. Most short-term group treatment sessions, whether in inpatient or outpatient settings, last 1 to 1 1/2 hours on a weekly basis and utilize a variety of theoretical orientations; for example, psychoanalytic, cognitive, interpersonal, and behavioral. (p. 310)
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Garvin, C.D. (1990). Short-Term Group Therapy. In: Wells, R.A., Giannetti, V.J. (eds) Handbook of the Brief Psychotherapies. Applied Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2127-7_21
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