How to Think and Intervene Like a Single-Session Therapist [Paperback]

Therapists new to Single Session Therapy (SST) will often struggle to bring the SST mindset to the work and will in turn struggle to help their clients get the most out of the time that they choose to spend together.

Part I: SST Orientation Thinking  1. One Session or More  Be Open to Both Possibilities  2. Help at the Point of Need  3. It Is Possible to Conduct a Session in SST Without Prior Knowledge of the Person  4. View the Session as a Whole, Complete in Itself  5. Potentially Anyone Can Be Helped in a Single Session  6. Focus on the Person, Not the Disorder  7. The Client-Therapist Relationship Can Be Established Rapidly  8. SST is Client-Led  9. The Power of Now  10. Less is More  11. Take Nothing for Granted  Part II: SST Pre-Session Thinking  12. Informing Potential Clients About SST  13. Responding to Potential Clients Questions About SST  14. Eliciting Informed Consent From Clients  15. Helping Clients to Prepare for the Session  16. Preparing Oneself for the Session  Part III: SST In-Session Thinking  17.  Beginning the Session  18. Helping the Client to Nominate a Goal  19. Discovering What Help the Client is Seeking from the Therapist  20. Creating a Focus and Maintaining it  21. Understanding the Problem  22. Searching for a Solution  23. Embedding the Solution  24. Encouraging the Client to Rehearse the Solution  25. Helping the Client to Develop and Implement an Action Plan  26. Ending the Session Afterword: After the Session Appendices

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