Fokaltherapie

In many psychodynamic short therapy methods, the patient and therapist formulate a central conflict, the so-called focus, at the beginning of therapy. In the following therapy sessions,both concentrate on dealing with this focus. In practice, therapists are faced with the question of how they could organize the concrete work with the focus in the most useful manner.The following article presents a clinical study which examines the influence of the therapist's verbalization of the focus on the success of therapy. Results showed that the therapists in the group having a more successful therapy outcome addressed the focus significantly more often and verbalized it in a more complex and interpersonal manner than the therapists in the group with a less successful therapy outcome.