Single-session therapy

Since the publication of the pioneering book by Moshe Talmon (1990), research into Single-Ses-sion Therapy (SST) has spread worldwide, both observing and replicating Talmon and collea¬gues’ findings and broadening their scope. On the one hand, SST is an excellent response to a simple fact: nowadays most people are willing to attend only a few therapy sessions and then stop going. On the other, SST has progressively become a method for improving the utility of every session.
Today especially, given the rapid changes to health and welfare which we are ex¬periencing, we must ask ourselves how we can make the therapeutic process more efficient as well as more appropriate for people’s needs and wants. It’s an issue worth thinking about in depth, and one which Drs. Cannistrà and Picci¬rilli discuss in this book. They believe that now more than ever, therapists need to rethink their role: delivering a service in the form they want, without asking themselves how people mean to use it, is no longer good enough. The book provides a summary of SST history, data, and applications as well as presenting an exemplary series of successful single sessions conducted by different therapists. It not only constitutes the latest and most comprehensive Italian guide to single-session therapy but is also a useful tool for applying it in clinical practice.