Brief Therapy

family of therapy (Self Improvement) techniques

Rather than the formal analysis of historical causes of distress, the primary approach of brief therapy is to help the client to view the present from a wider context and to utilize more functional understandings (not necessarily at a conscious level). By becoming aware of these new understandings, successful clients will de facto undergo spontaneous and Generative change. (sounds related to General Semantics learnings) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_therapy

related to NLP? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_therapy#Founding_proponents_of_brief_therapy

one variety: Solution Focused Brief Therapy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_focused_brief_therapy

cf REBT