CARING, CURING, AND BRIEF THERAPY - A MODEL FOR NURSE-PSYCHOTHERAPY

Traditional models of psychotherapy have failed to meet the demands fo r accessible, cost-effective, and accountable mental health services. This traditional approach to mental health based on the received view of science is deconstructed in terms of its cure-orientation and contr asted with the care-orientation of nursing that is more consistent wit h postmodern ideas of science. Methods of brief, intermittent or possi bility-oriented therapy are suggested as ways to actualize a care-orie ntation to mental health nursing that is more consistent with nursing' s values and is more accessible to the needs of the consumer. Copyrigh t (C) 1994 by W.B. Saunders Company