ABSTRACT

Many Single-Session Therapy (SST) therapists see their major role as helping clients solve their problems by reconnecting them with their pre-existing strengths and encouraging them to apply these to problematic situations. Such therapists hold that they don't have the time to help their clients develop skills that are not already in their repertoire. Other SST therapists do think that they have time to do this. However, there are situations where a person's problem is neither due to failure to apply pre-existing skills nor to the absence of important skills. It is due either to lack of information which, if they had, would lead them to solve their problem or misinformation which, if corrected, would again lead to problem resolution. In such circumstance, the SST therapist can help the person by providing them with the missing information or by correcting the misinformation.