Part I: Six Key Brief Psychotherapies -- Cognitive therapy : introduction to theory and practice -- Brief behavior therapy -- Solution-focused brief therapy : doing what works -- Brief interpersonal psychotherapy -- Time-limited dynamic psychotherapy : formulation and intervention -- Brief couple therapy -- -- Part II: Special Topics -- Essential ingredients for successful psychotherapy : effect of common factors -- Brief psychotherapy in a multicultural context -- Combining brief psychotherapy and medications -- Evaluating competence in brief psychotherapy -- -- Part III: Overview and Synthesis -- Doing therapy, briefly.