A simple process to implement an SST in your institution

As you may have already guessed from the title, this article is mainly aimed at all those psychologists and psychotherapists who carry out their profession within health or social institutions (public or private), who have the desire to contribute to the improvement of their structure, both in terms of quality and effectiveness of the service, operating through innovative and effective methods of intervention, both in terms of service efficiency, reducing waiting lists and responding in a short time to as many people as possible.

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Stand out from the crowd with SST a proposal for people’s needs

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How is it possible to stand out from the crowd of professionals present in our area? How can I create an offer that differs from the others?

These questions today represent a real challenge for all psychologists, both because the statistical data are not encouraging, and because the tools of marketing, and therefore of (personal) promotion, are almost never properly mastered.

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From disaster to recovery: single session therapy for pain

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So far we have mainly dealt with how to integrate Single Session Therapy into professional practice. In this article, however, we will deepen through a study carried out on the catastrophication of pain: which problems can be treated effectively through a single therapy session, also giving people the opportunity to receive treatment quickly and with reduced costs.

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Single session therapy for couples: the Swedish experience

Is Single Session Therapy Effective with Couples?

With this question, we got in touch with Martin Söderquist, a Swedish psychologist who has been a member and director of the Couple Counseling Team in Malmö, Sweden for years, which offers Single Session Therapy services for couples.

In particular, their declination is very interesting, and has been called One Session at a Time, “One session at a time”.

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Single session therapy: 6 principles to keep in mind

In recent years, much of the information, research and innovations regarding Single Session Therapy have come directly from the application field of walk-in centers.

It is no coincidence that today’s article focuses on the 6 fundamental principles of clinical practice adopted within the Community Counseling Center in San Antonio (Texas), masterfully summarized by Slive and Bobele (2011). The authors managed to condense a wide range of levels and concepts: both of theoretical / epistemological and technical / operational origin.

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Intervista a Michael Hoyt / Interview with Michael Hoyt

 

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Today we are going to meet Michael Hoyt, one of the founding fathers of Single Session Therapy, together with Moshe Talmon and Robert Rosenbaum.

In this interview, conducted by Vanessa Pergher, Michael Hoyt tells us in depth his point of view on Single Session Therapy, outlining some of its main principles.

Moreover, in a very optimistic way, he lists some future perspectives of this kind of therapy.

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