ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some therapeutic activities in which Single-Session Therapy (SST) therapists tend not to engage. It describes the points that have been gathered from Bernard Bloom, Moshe Talmon, K. E. Paul and P. van Ommeren and Windy Dryden. The points include: don't take an elaborate history; don't let the client talk in an unfocused, general way; don't spend too much time in non-directive, listening mode; don't develop rapport independent of the task of SST; and don't assess where not relevant. They also include: don't carry out an elaborate case conceptualisation; don't rush the client; don't assume that the client knows what therapists are doing or why they are doing it; don't ask multiple questions; and don't leave the client hanging. Therapists are generally taught to give new clients an extended opportunity to talk in their own way at the beginning of therapy and to listen attentively and non-judgmentally.
