ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the characteristics of 'good' Single-Session Therapy (SST) clients and argues in the same way that when clients bring the characteristics to SST. Moshe Talmon in his client guide to SST, argued that the following characteristics will help clients get the most out of therapy including SST. Thus 'good' SST clients tend to: see their problems as a challenge; confront their problems head on; take responsibility for their problems and potential solutions; focus on available solutions which they are prepared to implement immediately; appreciate their capacity for resilience, compassion and forgiveness; and have an 'if it works, don't fix it' viewpoint. What often stays with a client who has been through SST is a meaningful aphorism, metaphor story or a visual image. Clients who relate to such ways of conveying meaning often get more out of the process than those who don't because they can draw on such meaning when they need to.
