Abstract
Most psychotherapy with college students is brief psychotherapy. This paper considers a number of basic issues in this sort of work. Given the proper referral context, we see a wide range of students and must make decisions about what sort of therapy to offer. There are advantages to a procedure in which there is no distinction between "intake," "assessment," or the early stages of "therapy." Excluding certain situations in which it is not appropriate to offer therapy, we are left with a group of students who are typically suffering from a combination of interanl developmental pain and adaptive stress corresponding to their position in the college life cycle. These students often benefit from a brief therapy which is also a focal, broadly-defined analytic therapy. This paper considers various approaches to focal, analytic psychotherapy and presents a fifteen-session case example.
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