Single Session Therapies

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