COMM-SST - Solution Focused Single Session Therapy
Course Description
Walk-in and single session therapy and counselling are increasingly used as effective ways to provide useful, meaningful, “just-in-time” and “one-at-a-time” services to a wide range of clients in a variety of settings. Research confirms that single sessions are effective for children, adolescents, and adults, produce high rates of client satisfaction, and can have long-lasting results.
This experiential course will provide participants with a comprehensive foundation in the elements and skills of brief therapy that define and inform the Solution-Focused approach to single session therapy and counselling. This includes defining and developing the single session mindset, how Solution-Focused Therapy is one of the best fits for Single Session Therapy (SST), the research supporting SST, the assumptions and practitioner stance of SST, step-by-step guidelines and techniques for applying the elements of solution-focused therapy to SST, and micro-questions for conducting effective single session therapy.
PLEASE NOTE: The SFBTC Program is undergoing a programmatic review over academic year 2023-2024, and courses have been scheduled up until August 2024 at which point the Program and courses will pause. More information will be shared as we near the end of the Program Review period.
Course Outline
Single Session Therapy (SST) and counselling operates from the assumptions that each session is a whole, potentially complete entity in itself; that the power is ultimately in the client; that all you really have is now; and that helping people make small changes can lead to significant and lasting changes after one session. This workshop offers opportunities to learn and apply these powerful and empowering assumptions and their accompanying techniques to your work with a variety of clients in a range of settings. Interactive presentations, video-recorded examples of single sessions, and experiential exercises will be used to create an engaging, enjoyable, useful, and challenging learning experience.
PLEASE NOTE: The SFBTC Program is undergoing a programmatic review over academic year 2023-2024, and courses have been scheduled up until August 2024 at which point the Program and courses will pause. More information will be shared as we near the end of the Program Review period.
Learner Outcomes
This course intends to provide you with the opportunity to:
- Understand and recognize the foundational elements of brief therapy that support solution-focused single session therapy & counselling
- Recognize and apply the single session mindset in brief sessions with clients
- Recognize and apply the assumptions, stance, and techniques of the solution-focused approach to single session therapy & counselling
- Understand and apply the single session framework, techniques, and skills to client interviews using step-by-step guidelines
- Understand the research supporting the effectiveness and benefits of Single Session Therapy & Counselling
Notes
This course may count as an elective credit for those enrolled in the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy & Counselling Certificate Program.Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy & Counselling : Elective Courses
Dina is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist, a registered psychotherapist and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. She works at a children’s mental health clinic in Hamilton, Ontario. Dina provides training throughout Canada and internationally on solution-focused therapy and single session therapy and is an adamant researcher into practice-based evidence. Dina is involved in ongoing research on updating the classical ‘team behind the mirror’ and co-developer of the ‘Therapist Checklist’. She is co-editor of the Canadian SFBT Newsletter and one of the co-founders of the Canadian SFBT Centre.