Future Oriented Psychotherapy focuses on the future rather than on the past or present. It is designed for: 1) helping patients choose and clarify realistic personal goals and 2) inducing them to develop and rehearse plans of action that will achieve their chosen goals. Future Oriented Psychotherapy is a short-term cognitive therapy that can be a useful adjunct to past and present oriented therapies, since it helps patients to crystallize what to do next and how to go about it. (10 pp.)