Single Session Therapy: A Clinical Introduction to Principles and Practices

Single Session Therapy: A Clinical Introduction to Principles and Practices explores the best ways to use a Single Session Therapy (SST) mindset to better achieve therapeutic goals.

This text presents comprehensive ideas and methods on how to make a single session of therapy efficient and effective with individuals, couples, and families, including those of various cultural backgrounds. It emphasizes productive mindsets and includes the following topics: concepts and methods, multi-theoretical approaches, training, various clinical problems and multicultural populations, the latest research findings, access, and implementation. Numerous clinical examples from different expert SST practitioners are presented and discussed throughout.

This book is an essential reference for professionals involved in brief therapy practice, research, and teaching.

Michael F. Hoyt, Ph.D., is a psychologist based in Mill Valley, California. He was one of the originators (with Moshe Talmon and Robert Rosenbaum) of the Single Session Therapy approach and is the author/coeditor of numerous publications on brief therapy, including Brief Therapy and Beyond (Routledge: 2017). He has been named a Distinguished Continuing Education Speaker by both the APA and the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, a Contributor of Note by the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, and was awarded the prestigious APF Cummings Psyche Prize for lifetime contributions to the role of psychologists in organized healthcare.