Following the publication of the Handbook of the Brief Psychotherapies (Wells & Giannetti, 1990), the editors began to conceptualize the idea of a collection of case studies encompassing a number of the commonly en- countered clinical problems that have been treated with such ap- proaches. The Casebook of the Brief Psychotherapies is the result. The Case- book details clinical interventions with client populations as diverse as substance abusers,...