Thus, giving the patient a 'bird's eye view' of his/her life gives him/her a chance to reconsider past actions committed and change these to improve his/her relations with a partner or family member. As in family brief therapies, reconstructing a family's life according to each member's interpretation and reflection helps the therapist identify the family member who adopts a constructive or destructive view of the 'reconstructed family life.' Through SFBT, the therapist is able to create a therapeutic process that would be time-efficient and beneficial to patients.
Bitter and Nicoll (2004) elucidated effectively the effectiveness of brief therapy treatment for couples and families (64):
brief therapists seek to establish in their clients a renewed faith in self as well as optimism and hope for their immediate and long-term futures. It is caring, however, that guarantees the client support and a safe return in a future session, now matter how the real world enactment has gone.
From this passage, one realizes that brief therapy, while primarily patient-centered, is by principle also dependent on the existence of care and faith between patient and therapist. Without these humane qualities in SFBT, any form of therapy, be it long-term or short-term, would cease to be effective and important for people who need these therapies the most. Care and faith is especially important to families, Bitter and Nicoll found out, is actually the "sense of strength" from which SFBT synergy between patients and client are drawn from. SFBT, acting as a "magnifying-glass" of life within a short period of time, is personal growth interpreted as a "development of self-understanding...opening windows, enabling transformative experience, setting something...
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