ABSTRACT

Based at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Rafael, California and at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, MICHAEL F. HOYT is one of the leading voices in the brief therapy movement. Since the early 1990s, he has specialized in writing and teaching about ways that therapy may be practiced more efficiently, effectively, and with concern for available time and resources. Many of his ideas have been published in Brief Therapy and Managed Care, Constructive Therapies, The Handbook of Constructive Therapies, The First Session in Brief Therapy, Some Stories Are Better Than Others, and Interviews with Brief Therapy Experts.