Single Session Therapies

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.

“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

• Part I: Opening1. Flavio Cannistrà and Michael F. Hoyt -- Editors’ Introduction Part II: What -- Mindset, Theories, and Epistemologies Behind SST2. Flavio Cannistrà—The Here and Now of Single Session Therapy: Questions that Need Answering3. 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 Workshop6. Jeff Young – How Single Session Thinking Could Revolutionize Mental Health Care Delivery7. Sam Porter, Tim Pitt, and Owen Thomas – Expert Opinions on the Application of the Single Session Mindset in Therapy and Sports CoachingPart III: Why, Where, and For Whom – Research, Applications, and Implementations8. Monte Bobele and Arnold Slive – The SST Model Developed in Canada and Texas for Walk-In, Drop-In, Open-Access, and Virtual Services9. Windy Dryden – Bringing a Single-Session Mindset to Counseling in an Online Health Service in the UK10. Jessica Schleider – Scaling Single-Session Interventions to Bridge Gaps in Mental Healthcare Ecosystems11. Katy Stephenson – Single Session Approach: How It CanBe Beneficial to Early Intervention and Youth Mental Health Services in the United Kingdom12. Helen van Empel and Rita Zijlstra – Can Work Add More to Life with SST? Online Single Session Therapy in the Corporate World in The Netherlands13. 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, Canada15. Martin Söderquist – Invitations, Embedded Hopes and Creative Collaboration in Sweden: To Follow the Couple´s Lead in One-at-a-Time (OAAT) Sessions16. Sarah Lewis -- Normal Magic: Whole System Mindset in Devon, UK17. Suzanne Fuzzard -- Exploring SST/Drop-Ins Around the World to Increase Access to Timely Mental Health Services and Improve Outcomes for Young AustraliansPart IV: SST Techniques and Practices18. Giorgio Nardone – Strategic Dialogue and Hypnotherapy Without Trance19. 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 Therapy20. Pam Rycroft – Finding the Beauty in Every Encounter: The Aesthetics of a Single Session21. Keigo Asai – Single Session Therapy in Japan: Perspectives on Past, Present, and Possible Future Methods and Tactics22. Rubin Battino -- Multiple Issue Single Session Therapy via Eliciting Client Solutions and Using Hypnosis23. 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 Resources24. 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 Israel26. John K. Miller – The Relationship Check-Up: A Valentine’s Day Single Session Therapy for CouplesPart V: Closing27. Flavio Cannistrà and Michael F. Hoyt – Editors’ Conclusion – Themes, Lessons, and the Future