The Scope of Brief Therapy Within the last two decades there has been a dramatic expansion in the uses of short-term treatment (Grayson, 1979, Small, 1979). Brief therapies have been and continue to be widely used with a number of different patient popu- lations in a broad variety of service settings. They have been reported in use with children, adolescents, adults and the aged; in groups, families, and individual treatment; on college campuses,...