Full Description
Single Session Therapy: A Clinical Introduction to Principles and Practices explores the best ways to use a Single Session Therapy (SST) mindset to better achieve therapeutic goals.
This text presents comprehensive ideas and methods on how to make a single session of therapy efficient and effective with individuals, couples, and families, including those of various cultural backgrounds. It emphasizes productive mindsets and includes the following topics: concepts and methods, multi-theoretical approaches, training, various clinical problems and multicultural populations, the latest research findings, access, and implementation. Numerous clinical examples from different expert SST practitioners are presented and discussed throughout.
This book is an essential reference for professionals involved in brief therapy practice, research, and teaching.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: What is SST?
Chapter 2. The SST Mindset
Chapter 3. The Practice of SST
Chapter 4. SST Examples from the Literature: Methods and Models
Chapter 5. SST Examples from My Practice
Chapter 6. SST in Cross-Cultural Contexts
Chapter 7. What Can We Learn from Our Internalized Clients?
Chapter 8. Summary, Additional Considerations, and Next Steps
Appendix A. Some SST Research Findings
Appendix B. Single Session Therapy: Checklists/Exercises
