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| Published: September 30, 2021
Efficacy of Solution Focused Brief Therapy as a psychotherapeutic tool and sessions required in patients of Major Depressive Disorder in Indian Population
Research Scholar, PAHER University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Assistant Professor, Dept of Psychology, PAHER University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Government Meera Girls College, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.199.20210903
DOI: 10.25215/0903.199
ABSTRACT
Depression is one of the major psychiatric disorders causing worldwide morbidity. Several anti-depressants are very helpful but since patients are overcome with negative emotions, psychotherapy is commonly used as an adjunct. Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is one of these psychotherapeutic tools which has been shown to offer positive results. In this study, SFBT was studied in Indian subjects comprising of both married and single patients, and of males and females ranging between 18-60 years of age. The findings suggest that even in our population, patients of mild to moderate depression benefited significantly. It was objectively seen as the reduction of their BDI-II scores, along with their subjective improvement which was markedly positive. Moreover, very few sessions (each session of 45 minutes to one hour) were required, thus limiting the total time period and cost of therapy, suggesting, that this would be a useful and effective therapeutic modality in future.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, Mazumdar K., Jain D. & Chaudhary A. K.
Received: August 01, 2021; Revision Received: September 19, 2021; Accepted: September 30, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.199.20210903
10.25215/0903.199
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 3, July- September, 2021