As awareness of gender diversity increases, the number of children and adolescents presenting to gender variance services in Australia and overseas increases (Chen et al., 2016; Wren et al., 2016), with a consequent increase in waiting times to access the necessary assessment for medical transition paths (hormonal and / or surgical therapy).

Innovative approaches are needed to reduce waiting times, enable timely clinical support and provide education to patients and their families. 

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In this article we present a service created in Australia by the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation that deals with the intervention of people with gambling addiction problems .

The goal is to find out how the Single Session Therapy method is applied in the context of counseling services for people with gambling problems and in particular for their families, offered by the foundation in collaboration with the Bouverie Center.

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As already written in other articles all over the world, walk-in services are becoming more and more popular .

The logic that characterizes walk-in services, as anticipated in a previous article, can be summarized in 3 points:

• receive a visit without an appointment , simply by entering the Center, clinical study or web page;
• receive the service usually in a short time (not waiting hours);
• cheapness , and in some cases free of charge, of the services

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