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SST for people already included in a course

As already discussed above, the therapist who wants to start using the Single Session Therapy method in his professional activity will not necessarily have to change his therapeutic approach or learn a new one, just as he will not have to abandon the use of techniques. consolidated or even change their professional structure.

In this regard, we have already suggested some ways through which the therapist can experiment with the application of TSS , using it as an alternative to the free interview , as a second consultation or as an online intervention .

Reduce waiting list with Single Session Therapy

Carlo, not his real name, contacts us about a problem: he absolutely has to solve his panic attacks. He has a family, children, and the situation has become serious: he no longer drives due to anxiety and his wife does not have a driving license, so he had to take sick leave from work (which is more than 70 kilometers from his home).

44% of dropouts are satisfied. Use the SST to increase it to be happy too premise

Talmon writes “The most evident and current problem is that too often when the intervention is limited to a single meeting one is led to think – with a certain superficiality – of a” drop-out “, a” premature conclusion ” , a “therapeutic failure”, all negative definitions that suggest a failure of the intervention. The Single Session indicates how best to use the single meeting to induce substantial changes in the patient’s life: how to make the most of it, how to program it, how to change normal therapeutic attitudes to be more creative and effective, how to use one’s time in a different way, how to encourage the patient’s availability and motivation and how to associate the necessary diagnostic-evaluation moment the therapeutic process of change “(page 12).

Single session therapy for insomnia

In other articles we have reported the evidence on how Single Session Therapy can be applied to different areas of intervention and used with different therapeutic approaches (eg CBT, hypnosis, Ericksonian psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapies, strategic therapy , systemic and family therapies, EMDR, etc.).

Here, we will show how TSS can be concretely integrated with a specific therapeutic approach, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), in the specific treatment of insomnia, highlighting the results .

5 ways to implement SST in health and social settings

The framework behind Single Session Therapy makes it a flexible, dynamic and creative method , suitable for responding to many needs relating to mental health and psychosocial risks.

Many researches have shown how the typical mindset of this method allows it to be used in multiple contexts.

In this article we focus on social and health structures , specifically we try to focus on Mental Health Services and on the radical changes that the patient experiences today in relation to their needs and to the use of services. Leggi tutto

Interview with Monshe Talmon/Intervista con Moshe Talmon

In today’s interview, conducted by Flavio Cannistrà we get to know Dr. Moshe Talmon better, with a focus on the origins of SST and its founding characteristics.

8 benefits your patients can reap with SST

One of the aspects he asks us about as soon as we approach Single Session Therapy is that related to the benefits that this method of intervention is able to bring in the lives of clients.

The objective of this article, in fact, will be precisely to identify the specific benefits that the client can obtain through the Single Session Therapy, whether it is a single and single intervention, or whether it is part of an intervention. within a longer duration therapy.

How to conduct an SST: the Australian model

The main models of Single Session Therapy, starting from the works of Talmon, Hoyt and Rosenbaum, which have reported more contributions in terms of scientific literature, systematization of methodology and reports of clinical cases, and which therefore have more inspired the works of other authors and other researches, there are three.

Single-session psychodrama

One of the strengths of Single Session Therapy is that it is not an approach, it is a method.

Therefore, it can be integrated into virtually any form of intervention, both at the level of psychological counseling and psychotherapy.

A research on SST in a service for families: the Bouverie center

Starting from the reflection previously carried out on the opportunity to implement a SST service within a health or social institution (public or private), we believe it may be useful to deepen the issue, reporting the results of an interesting research conducted in 2009 in a family service in Melbourne, Australia, the Bouverie Center where Single Session Work (SSW) has been implemented.

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