ABSTRACT
When a person faces an adversity, and they respond in the first instance problematically, one way of helping them in Single-Session Therapy is to encourage them to see that their initial response is not the problem. Rather, what constitutes the problem, and potential solution, is their subsequent response to this another response. This chapter illustrates this by first considering how to work with a client who has a problem with failure and comes to therapy when she fails her driving test. Her initial problematic response was the cognition, "I'm a failure". The problem is how they respond to that initial response. It outlines few problematic responses and constructive responses to the cognition, "I'm a failure". In working with the client, the therapist would take their subsequent problematic response to the urge, outline the other two options and encourage the person to choose the option that they think will provide the best solution to their problem.
