ABSTRACT
Initially, the pre-session contact was designed to serve a number of purposes: After an initial and tentative decision has been made by both participants that Single-Session Therapy (SST) may be useful to the person, the pre-session contact provides a quick more extended response to the person before the face-to-face session can take place. At the beginning of the pre-session contact, the therapist strives to ascertain whether or not SST is appropriate for the person. The pre-session contact was not designed to be therapeutic in itself. However, as the author discovered when he first began to practise SST and incorporated a pre-session telephone contact into that practice, it proved to be sufficient for a number of people in the same way that a first session proves sufficient for many people who seek therapeutic help.
