Implementing Single-Session Psychotherapy

This book provides the theoretical underpinnings, research, support, and techniques, to implement open-access/single-session therapy. Open-access services have moved beyond walk-in or drop-in services and expanded to on-demand teletherapy, virtual, or same-day scheduling. This book explains how best to implement single-session therapy in all such services, highlighting how this kind of therapy can reduce barriers to care. It includes chapters on training single-session therapists, global applications, and major obstacles. A team of expert contributors provide clinical examples and applications from around the world. This book is essential for clinicians and professionals offering or thinking about offering single-session therapy in open-access services.

Monte Bobele, PhD, is a psychologist, family therapist, and professor emeritus at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author and co-editor of numerous publications including When One Hour Is All You Have: Effective Therapy for Walk-In Clients, Single-Session Therapy by Walk-in or Appointment, and Creative Therapy in Challenging Situations. Arnold Slive, PhD, is a psychologist and family therapist in independent practice in Austin, Texas. He is the author and co-editor of numerous publications including When One Hour Is All You Have: Effective Therapy for Walk-In Clients and Single-Session Therapy by Walk-in or Appointment.

1 Welcome to Open-Access/Single-Session Therapies by Arnold Slive and Monte Bobele 2 The Journey From Walk-In To Open-Access/Single-Session Therapies by Arnold Slive and Monte Bobele 3 Single-Session Therapy in Three Acts by Monte Bobele and Arnold Slive 4 Single-Session Therapy with Complex Cases by Monte Bobele and Arnold Slive 5 Implementing Open-Access Therapy in the Province of New Brunswick by Katie Burke and Bernard Goguen 6 The Eastside Community Mental Health Service: The Evolution of a Walk-In Single-Session Service to an Open-Access Mental Health Hub by Janet Stewart, Nancy McElheran, and Dan Neuls 7 Walk-In Together: Online Therapy For Families, When and Where They Want It by Lynda Moore, Aaron Knuckey, Nick Barrington, Kelly Tsorlinis, Elizabeth George, Karen Story, Eliza Hartley, Jennifer McIntosh, and Jeff Young 8 Applying Walk-In/Single-Session Therapy In Indigenous Mexican Communities by Saúl Cruz Valdivieso and Montana M. Holmes 9 A Visit To Our Home: A Brief Journey Through the History of the Community Care Center At Casa Tonalá by Marina González 10 Single-session Therapy for Survivors of Acid Attack Violence in Cambodia by John K. Miller, Jason J. Platt, and Sokhon Marn 11 Everyone Matters. The One Session Center In Italy by Vanessa Pergher and Flavio Cannistrà 12 Miracle On Ice And Snow - How Walk-In Therapy Caught on in Finland? by Tuomas Perkiö and Mikko Mäkelä 13 Walk-In Single Session Therapy at a University Counselling Clinic and Clinicians' Experience by Cheryl-Anne Cait, Alesya Courtnage, Cheri Lilitz, and Sean Ruby 14 Looking Forward by Arnold Slive and Monte Bobele