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Single-session therapy and professional development: when SST can make the profession of psychologist more effective

Time is free but it is priceless. You can’t own it but you can use it.

You can’t keep it but you can spend it.

Once you lose it you can never get it back.

(Harvey MacKay)

This somewhat unpredictable and difficult year is coming to an end and as often happens at the end of an adventure we find ourselves taking stock of what happened, the projects completed and those to be started .

Since 2017 , the year in which the Italian Center for Single Session Therapy was established , an intense path has been launched in which many research, training and dissemination activities have been carried out , all activities linked by a common thread or that of the professional development of the psychologist.

Single-session therapy and psychotherapy

“ Everything will be fine in the end. And if it doesn’t go well, it means it’s not the end!”

We want to start this article , letting ourselves be guided by these words attributed to John Lennon , which encourage us to look to the future with the hope of a final yet to be built!

With today’s article , in fact, we will address the issue of recognizing SST as a form of psychotherapy , a point on which clarity has been made over time , but which at the same time is once again being debated.

An example of how some issues can come back to the fore is well described in a 2019 article published in the Journal of Systemic Therapies entitled Recognizing Single-Session Therapy as psychotherapy , in which the authors Karen Young and Joseph Jebreen reported on a controversy that arose in Ontario , following the establishment of a new Regulatory College for psychotherapists, which had begun to not recognize the hours of Single-Session Therapy carried out by some professionals who wished to become psychotherapists as therapy.

Post-emergency Covid-19 and single-session therapy: the impact of the pandemic on mental health in Italy

After a few months of respite we find ourselves once again tackling the issue of the Covid-19 emergency and its impact on the psycho-physical health of the people who are more or less directly affected by it.

Furthermore, the particular period we are experiencing sees us engaged in a forced coexistence with an element beyond human control , capable of making even the simplest gestures of daily life complicated.

SST can be effective in the intervention with children and adolescents

With today’s article we try to answer a question that we are often asked in our training courses especially when dealing with the subject of the category of people to which it can be applied.

How can we respond?

The answer can only come from the studies and research carried out on SST in the different application fields and with the different categories of customers. In this regard, today we report the data of a study carried out by Perkins et al . (2006; 2008) on the application of SST with children and adolescents in mental health services .

Another all Italian achievement. The Italian Center for Single Session Therapy has published its first research in Single Session Therapy in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family

Only a few weeks have passed since the publication of the article Examining the Incidence and Clients’ Experiences of Single Session Therapy in Italy: A Feasibility Study in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, a new achievement by the Italian Center for Single Session Therapy .

Research on SST has been conducted all over the world, but up to now not in Italy, therefore this study represents the first international contribution of our country to Single Session Therapy .

Online single session therapy can be a viable alternative for offering services

Can Online Single Session Therapy be a viable alternative for providing services during the pandemic?

Single Session Therapy (SST): what is it?

Do you know that one session with the psychologist can be enough?

It may seem like a risky, audacious and out of line statement, but it is the conclusion reached by the numerous studies conducted: a single session may be enough.
How? With Single Session Therapy.

Brief Therapy Solution Focus at single session for couple problems

With today’s article we will discover how to apply Single Session Therapy in the intervention with the couple . In this case we will focus on the integration of the SST method with another therapy model equally oriented towards maximizing the results of the intervention, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (TBCS) (de Shazer et al ., 1986; Nunnally et al. , 1985).

How to conduct an SST with the family the guidelines of the Bouverie Centre

A frequent question when it comes to Single Session Therapy is whether this method can be applied to all areas of intervention, one of these is that which concerns work with families .

Although family work is recognized as important and precious, still today in many cases it is considered as a complex intervention which requires specific preparation , a long time and many resources to be carried out . These beliefs often turn into real obstacles for both professionals and people who ask for help, refusing to offer or ask for services suited to the needs of families.

In today ‘s article we will refer to a study that will show us how to treat non-traumatic fear of flying through the Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) approach (Shapiro, 2000) in a Single Session (Newgent et al. , 2016).

What is the purpose of the study?

The purpose of the study is to show how EMDR treatment can adapt to the client’s needs and also be applied through a Single Session. In this case the treatment of the non-traumatic fear of flying is carried out directly in flight .

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