title: Caring, curing, and brief therapy: a model for nurse-psychotherapy.
abstract: Traditional models of psychotherapy have failed to meet the demands for 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 contrasted with the care-orientation of nursing that is more consistent with postmodern ideas of science. Methods of brief, intermittent or possibility-oriented therapy are suggested as ways to actualize a care-orientation to mental health nursing that is more consistent with nursing's values and is more accessible to the needs of the consumer.
authors.affiliation: University of Colorado Health Science Center, School of Nursing, Denver 80262.
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Montgomery
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Webster
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000193:education