In today’s interview, conducted by Vanessa Pergher, we get to know Dr. Windy Dryden better, with a focus on the terms used to define this approach and what the future of SST might look like.
Single session therapy for couples: the Swedish experience
Is Single Session Therapy Effective with Couples?
With this question, we got in touch with Martin Söderquist, a Swedish psychologist who has been a member and director of the Couple Counseling Team in Malmö, Sweden for years, which offers Single Session Therapy services for couples.
In particular, their declination is very interesting, and has been called One Session at a Time, “One session at a time”.
Single session therapy: 6 principles to keep in mind
In recent years, much of the information, research and innovations regarding Single Session Therapy have come directly from the application field of walk-in centers.
It is no coincidence that today’s article focuses on the 6 fundamental principles of clinical practice adopted within the Community Counseling Center in San Antonio (Texas), masterfully summarized by Slive and Bobele (2011). The authors managed to condense a wide range of levels and concepts: both of theoretical / epistemological and technical / operational origin.
Brief overview of the main research in single session therapy
From the discovery of Single Session Therapy in the 1980s – with the first studies of M. Talmon, MF Hoyt and R. Rosenbaum at the Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California (Talmon, 1990) – to date, research on Session Therapy Single have expanded, going through different stages.
Intervista a Michael Hoyt / Interview with Michael Hoyt
INGLESE
Today we are going to meet Michael Hoyt, one of the founding fathers of Single Session Therapy, together with Moshe Talmon and Robert Rosenbaum.
In this interview, conducted by Vanessa Pergher, Michael Hoyt tells us in depth his point of view on Single Session Therapy, outlining some of its main principles.
Moreover, in a very optimistic way, he lists some future perspectives of this kind of therapy.
Intervista a Jeff Young / Interview with Jeff Young
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In quest’intervista, condotta da Vanessa Pergher, conosciamo meglio Jeff Young, professore di Terapia Familiare e Pratica Sistemica e Direttore del Bouverie Centre di Melbourne. Young è uno psicologo clinico e terapeuta familiare.
Single session therapy for families: the Bouverie Center
Can Single Session Therapy be used with families?
Yes, and that’s what Bouverie Center has been doing for twenty-five years.
When I went to Melbourne, Australia ten months ago, I did it to learn about TSS from what, in my opinion, is the Center that has been able to integrate it best, both in terms of structure and technical and application development.
Eastside Family Center: where SST meets people’s needs
How can Single Session Therapy be integrated into healthcare facilities that deal with psychological well-being and mental health? What advantages and / or news can TSS bring?
There are many examples that we could cite to answer the questions presented here.
The single session for pathological gambling
Can a single session be enough to significantly improve the problems of pathological gambling? And can it be just as effective as longer treatments?
Asked Tony Toneatto, of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto (Canada), who conducted research approved by the Research Ethics Board of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, and which was then published in 2016 in Addictive behaviors, with the title Single session interventions for problem gambling may be as effective as longer treatments: Results of a randomized control trial.
Here is a summary of the study and its results.
Interview with Jessica Schleider / Intervista con Jessica Schleider
In today’s interview, conducted by Vanessa Pergher, we get to know Dr. Jessica Schleider, learning how she approached Single Session Therapy, what use she makes of it and her ideas about the future prospects and developments of SST.