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.
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.
How to Think and Intervene Like a Single-Session Therapist provides the trainee with an opportunity to discover how experienced therapists think, and how their thoughts influence their interventions within the single-session context. Presenting SST in a way that both interests conventional therapists and shows the potential of this way of delivering therapy services, Windy Dryden details the multiple levels of thinking and intervening that go into single-session practice. He covers the orientation thinking experienced SST therapists have about the work when they are not doing it, the pre-session thinking they engage in while actively preparing to do the work, and the in-session thinking they engage in while doing the work. The book outlines the theory behind SST and the ways those ideas form its practice, using clinical vignettes and case scenarios to demonstrate how single-session therapists can make the best use of the limited time with their clients. The book additionally presents an ongoing dialogue between an SST therapist and a conventional therapist to highlight the thinking of the former and how the criticisms of SST by the latter can be responded to.
This highly practical guide will be essential reading for any therapist who is new to or has recently been introduced to the practice of SST.
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
Windy Dryden is in clinical and consultative practice and is an international authority on Single-Session Therapy. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has worked in psychotherapy for more than 45 years and is the author or editor of over 275 books.
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