ABSTRACT

Talmon hoped that single-session therapy would be integrated with all services, with various approaches to therapy and in diverse settings. He further hoped that more attention would be paid in the provision of Single-Session Therapy (SST) to cultural nuances and that SST would capitalise on recent developments in strengths-based therapy to place more emphasis on bringing forward people's abilities. Young also said that one of his greatest fears was that the SST paradigm would be misinterpreted in that people would take the term 'single-session therapy' literally and think that the goal of a single-session service or the goal of a single-session clinician was to cure in one session. The author hope reader have found it of interest and it has stimulated their thinking about single-session therapy and how it might develop.