ABSTRACT
Before I discuss in detail the process of SSI-CBT, I will first present an overview of this process. Let me be clear at the outset that this process comes from my own practice of SSI-CBT and it may be that other therapists may conceptualize this process somewhat differently. Some may, for example, see it as one point of contact after the appointment has been made. I think, though, that for it to be properly classified as single-session therapy that there should only be one face-to-face contact. Remember, my definition of single-session therapy which I outlined in Chapter 1 . I said there that SST (and by extrapolation SSI-CBT) involves:
‘One main face-to-face meeting between a therapist and a client with no previous or subsequent main sessions within one year, up to two non-face-to-face brief meetings prior to the main session to arrange and get the most out of the main session and one follow-up session.’
