Single-session therapy (SST) is an intentional endeavour where the therapist and client meet with the purpose of helping the client deal with a pressing issue in that session while understanding that more help is available if needed. Research shows that when SST is offered promptly over 70% of clients are satisfied with the session and over 50% do not require further help at that point.
Drawing on Windy Dryden’s book The Single-Session Counselling Primer: Principles and Practice, this online workshop describes the mindset that is needed to practise SST and the practice that tends to flow from this mindset. Windy will thus make the point that SST is NOT an approach to counselling and therapy in the way that person-centred therapy or CBT is, but is a way of delivering therapy services. As such, it can be practised by therapists from a variety of different orientations. Windy will demonstrate the way he works in SST with a volunteer from the audience who has a pressing concern that they are prepared to discuss with me in front of an online audience. He will give plenty of time to participants to share their doubts, reservations and objections to this way of working. He will also discuss how SST best sits alongside other ways of delivering therapy services and how it might best be integrated into an agency.
Single-session therapy (SST) is an intentional endeavour where the therapist and client meet with the purpose of helping the client deal with a pressing issue in that session while understanding that more help is available if needed. Research shows that when SST is offered promptly over 70% of clients are satisfied with the session and over 50% do not require further help at that point.
Drawing on Windy Dryden’s book The Single-Session Counselling Primer: Principles and Practice, this online workshop describes the mindset that is needed to practise SST and the practice that tends to flow from this mindset. Windy will thus make the point that SST is NOT an approach to counselling and therapy in the way that person-centred therapy or CBT is, but is a way of delivering therapy services. As such, it can be practised by therapists from a variety of different orientations. Windy will demonstrate the way he works in SST with a volunteer from the audience who has a pressing concern that they are prepared to discuss with me in front of an online audience. He will give plenty of time to participants to share their doubts, reservations and objections to this way of working. He will also discuss how SST best sits alongside other ways of delivering therapy services and how it might best be integrated into an agency.
Recorded on 28th October 2021
Learning Objectives
At the end of the workshop, you should:
Be able to articulate the principles that inform the SST mindset and the practice that flows from this way of thinking
Be able to respond to common misconceptions of SST
Have an understanding of the issues that need to be thought through concerning integrating SST into an agency’s overall delivery of therapy services
Understand how it can incorporate concepts from other approaches to therapy
Agenda
Introduction to Single Session Therapy
Dealing with a pressing issue in that session
International endeavour and influence
What does the research tell us?
Principles and Practices of Single Session Therapy
The mindset required
Comparisons to person-centred therapy and CBT
A new way of delivery therapy sessions
Therapeutic orientation and backgrounds
It’s adaptability and flexibility
All therapists of all orientations can use SST
About the Speaker
Windy Dryden is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths University of London and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He has authored or edited 235 books. His current interests are in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and in single-session and very brief interventions within a therapy and coaching context. He has written over ten books on SST including The Single-Session Counselling Primer; Principles and Practice (PCCS, 2020). His book, ‘Very Brief Therapeutic Conversations’ (Routledge, 2018) is focused on work he has done conducting live demonstrations of therapy/coaching in front of an audience that last 30 minutes or less. He has done more than 400 such demonstrations all over the world.
His goal is to disseminate SST with the hope that it might help provide help at the point of need within the NHS, a form of IAPT where the ‘I’ stands for ‘Immediate’.
CPD/CE
CPD & CE credits available: 4
How do I receive these credits?
The participant must pass the multiple-choice test with a minimum score of 80%. There is a maximum of three attempts to achieve this.
The post-test is included in the price of the training.
Does my regulatory body accept the credits?
The CPD & CE credits awarded can be used towards your declaration to any governing regulatory body in your state or country, provided the content is relevant to your discipline.
Our trainings are accredited by:
– The CPD Group, London
– Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
– Australian Counselling Association
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