ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses five issues concerning the ending of the single session: helping the client to plan to implement the solution, doing lapse response and relapse prevention work, summarising, agreeing on plans for future help and for follow-up and tying up any loose ends. When the client has finished practising the solution, and it has gone well, the therapist and client have a natural opportunity to discuss the client’s plan to implement their solution when they need to in their everyday life. At some point during the ending phase of Single-Session Therapy, it is useful for the client or the therapist to summarise the session and what the client is going to take away with them. The therapist and client should agree on whether a follow-up session should be held, and if so, what the arrangements for that follow-up session should be.
