title: Solution-focused brief therapy in primary care.
abstract: Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) offers mental health nurses a robust framework on which to build appropriate and effective nursing care. This article describes efforts to apply ideas derived from this type of therapy in a new nurse practitioner post offering a mental health service to patients based in GP practices. The approach described develops Brimblecombe's (1995) idea of combining a brief therapy approach with nursing care plans in a way ideally suited to time-limited mental health nursing in primary care.
authors.affiliation: South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust, Torquay, Devon.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wales
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011340:Problem Solving; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief / Q000379:methods*