1st Edition
Single Session Therapies Why and How One-at-a-Time Mindsets Are Effective
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, counsellors, case workers, and behavioral healthcare specialists, as well as graduate students.
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
Biography
Flavio Cannistrà, Psy. D. is the Co-Director of the Italian Center for Single Session Therapy, the coauthor/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.
“Single Session Therapy (SST) will change your conception of psychotherapy. This book describes how SST can be applied across diverse clinical populations and across varied countries. It highlights specific ways to motivate and engage clients. No matter what number of sessions you see clients, this book is highly recommended.”
Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D., author of The Evolution of Cognitive Behavior Therapy: A Personal and Professional Journey with Don Meichenbaum and Research Director of the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention, Miami
“A compelling collection of clinical, scientific, forward-looking chapters from prominent single-session therapy (SST) leaders and contributors throughout the world, including editors Cannistrà and Hoyt. The hope and utility of the SST mindset shines through and makes this book a keeper for any clinician who wants to honor the fact that most clients prefer and choose fewer sessions to more. A timely, practical, culturally responsive resource for practitioners of all theoretical orientations.”
John J. Murphy, Ph.D., Author of Solution-Focused Therapy and Professor Emeritus, University of Central Arkansas
“I highly recommend Single Session Therapies: Why and How One-at-a-Time Mindsets Are Effective. Chapters discuss different models and techniques of SST and how they can be implemented in different settings, communities, and countries. Most of all, it pays homage to the Mental Research Institute belief that the goal of therapy is not to resolve the multitude of putative deep-seated psychological dysfunctions and pathologies that trouble people, but to help them get “unstuck” and subsequently get on with their lives!”
Terry Soohoo, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, California State University - East Bay; former Director of Training, Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA
“The commitment of the authors in this book to circulating stories of many ways that just and responsive one-at-a-time therapy services have been implemented in a wide variety of contexts around the world inspires a future in psychotherapy that makes room for questioning the usual and taken-for-granted ways of doing things.”
Karen Young, M.S.W., R.S.W., Director of the Windz Centre, Ontario, Canada; and international Narrative Therapy trainer
