ABSTRACT
Effective Single-session therapy (SST) is characterised by being both client-centred and client-driven. Effective SST is client-centred, but not in the sense that it is based on 'client-centred therapy', the approach to therapy founded by Carl Rogers and contemporarily known as 'person centred therapy'. Rather, it is centred on where the client is now and where the client wants to be. This means that other than a focused and brief risk assessment carried out before therapy begins, the therapist and the client start work the minute therapy begins. While all SST therapists share this client-centred focus, some hold that this focus is best implemented concerning the client's preferred solution and that a problem focus only interferes with such solution-focused therapy. By contrast, when the client actively seeks therapy and is keen to 'get the job done' as quickly as possible effective SST is likely to ensue if the therapist demonstrates similar keenness.
