ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the therapists’ beliefs that Single-Session Therapy (SST) challenges. There is too much reliance on the former as opposed to the latter when listening to clients report on what they received from SST. G. E. Simon, Z. E. Imel, E. J. Ludman & B. J. Steinfeld’s research showed that clients benefitting from SST report a strong working alliance with their therapists while clients not benefitting from SST report a weak alliance with their therapists. The problem with the way therapists are trained is that such training most often centres on therapy that lasts much longer than the research indicates that many clients want. Clinically significant change occurs when someone moves outside the range of the dysfunctional population or within the range of the functional population. Many SST therapists note that people with complex problems often seek simple solutions to these complex problems and are satisfied when they find such solutions within an SST framework.
