Single Session Therapies

This volume presents the latest information from international leaders as well as emerging experts on how to make Single Session Therapy (SST) efficient and effective. Key topics involve productive mindsets and multi-theoretical clinical methods with different problems and populations (including individuals, families, adolescents, children and couples), as well as walk-in and by-appointment access, digital services, implementation and training, the structure and aesthetics of a single session, and connections to sports coaching. It is an essential book for practicing professionals, such as psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, counselors, case workers, and behavioral healthcare specialists, as well as graduate students and healthcare administrators and policymakers.

Flavio Cannistrà, Psy. D., is the Co-Director of the Italian Center for Single Session Therapy, the author/editor of Single Session Therapy: Principles and Practice and Brief Therapy Conversations and was the co-organizer of the 4th International Symposium on SST, held in Rome in November 2023. Michael F. Hoyt, Ph.D., is in independent practice in Mill Valley, CA. He is the author of Brief Therapy and Beyond and Single Session Therapy: A Clinical Introduction to Principles and Practices and is the recipient of various professional awards.

Part I: Opening 1. Flavio Cannistrà and Michael F. Hoyt -- Editors' Introduction Part II: What -- Mindset, Theories, and Epistemologies Behind SST 2. Flavio Cannistrà-The Here and Now of Single Session Therapy: Questions that Need Answering 3. Moshe Talmon - The Golden Hour: SST as a Life-Long Event. 4. Robert Rosenbaum - Single Sessions: Beyond "Is" and "Is Not" 5. Michael F. Hoyt - The SST/OAAT Mindset and Using Single Session Thinking to Teach an SST Workshop 6. Jeff Young - How Single Session Thinking Could Revolutionize Mental Health Care Delivery 7. Sam Porter, Tim Pitt, and Owen Thomas - Expert Opinions on the Application of the Single Session Mindset in Therapy and Sports Coaching Part III: Why, Where, and For Whom - Research, Applications, and Implementations 8. Monte Bobele and Arnold Slive - The SST Model Developed in Canada and Texas for Walk-In, Drop-In, Open-Access, and Virtual Services 9. Windy Dryden - Bringing a Single-Session Mindset to Counseling in an Online Health Service in the UK 10. Jessica Schleider - Scaling Single-Session Interventions to Bridge Gaps in Mental Healthcare Ecosystems 11. Katy Stephenson - Single Session Approach: How It CanBe Beneficial to Early Intervention and Youth Mental Health Services in the United Kingdom 12. Helen van Empel and Rita Zijlstra - Can Work Add More to Life with SST? Online Single Session Therapy in the Corporate World in The Netherlands 13. Giada Pietrabissa - Single Session Therapy: Exploring Research Evidence and Frontiers 14. Nancy McElheran - Walk-In Single Sessions, Then and Now: The Eastside Community Mental Health Service in Calgary, Canada 15. Martin Söderquist - Invitations, Embedded Hopes and Creative Collaboration in Sweden: To Follow the Couple-s Lead in One-at-a-Time (OAAT) Sessions 16. Sarah Lewis -- Normal Magic: Whole System Mindset in Devon, UK 17. Suzanne Fuzzard -- Exploring SST/Drop-Ins Around the World to Increase Access to Timely Mental Health Services and Improve Outcomes for Young Australians Part IV: SST Techniques and Practices 18. Giorgio Nardone - Strategic Dialogue and Hypnotherapy Without Trance 19. Federico Piccirilli - When "How" Wins Over "Why": The First 3 Fundamental Interventions of SST According to the Method of the Italian Center for Single Session Therapy 20. Pam Rycroft - Finding the Beauty in Every Encounter: The Aesthetics of a Single Session 21. Keigo Asai - Single Session Therapy in Japan: Perspectives on Past, Present, and Possible Future Methods and Tactics 22. Rubin Battino -- Multiple Issue Single Session Therapy via Eliciting Client Solutions and Using Hypnosis 23. Valeria Campinoti, Angelica Giannetti, Francesca Moccia, Beatrice Pavoni, and Vanessa Pergher -- Single Session Therapy as a Tool to Create, Bring Out and Enhance the Client's Resources 24. Scot J. Cooper -- Brief Narrative Practice in Single Session Therapy: Some Lessons from Michael White and Others 25. Svetlana Prokasheva -- Single Session Therapy Supporting Social-Emotional Learning (SST-SEL) with Children, Families and Educators in Israel 26. John K. Miller - The Relationship Check-Up: A Valentine's Day Single Session Therapy for Couples Part V: Closing 27. Flavio Cannistrà and Michael F. Hoyt - Editors' Conclusion - Themes, Lessons, and the Future