Seizing Moments and Being Useful

<p><strong>Seizing Moments and Being Useful</strong></p><p></p><p>In this book Windy Dryden charts his development as a single-session therapist by presenting his key articles and chapters on single-session therapy (SST). Beginning with an up-to-date overview of SST he then presents and comments on his very early work doing REBT-based single sessions that were not informed by the single-session therapy mindset and presents for comparative purposes a session that was informed by this mindset. Developing this theme he presents a comprehensive outline of the SST mindset and includes an updated chapter exploring the relationship between SST and REBT.</p><p></p><p>Also included in this book are chapters on the core skills needed to practise SST and Windy Dryden's experiences of practising SST in 'meet-up groups' and in an 'online health service'. Then he considers the variety of names given to SST as well topics of keen interest to therapists: how to work with clients without 'opening up a can of worms' and how to deal with risk and harm in SST.</p><p></p><p>This book will be of particular interest to those curious about SST who wish to learn from one single-session therapist's journey..   </p>