Single Session Therapy - A Practical Guide

What will this workshop cover? 

This workshop provides a practical introduction to Single Session Therapy (SST).

This approach is based on the idea that a single session of psychotherapy, if properly planned, implemented and supported, can be effective for a wide range of clients.

We will look at a range of approaches and offer a simple, practical approach which can be used by qualified therapists and counsellors as a foundation for delivery of SST.

Topics (indicative)
What is SST?
What are the advantages and disadvantages?
How do you deliver it?
What evidence is there that it is effective?
What are the pitfalls to avoid?
What practical steps should I take to get started?
How can I develop my practice in this area?

Workshop Objectives
Be able to deliver SST to wide range of clients
Be able to review and improve one's own practice in SST
Be able to adapt SST for specific groups
Be able to use SST safely

What previous participants on this course have said

"This was a great workshop, the facilitator was very knowledgeable about SST, I feel much more confident considering the structure of SST and will certainly apply this to private practice"

 CPD

A Certificate of Attendance will be issued confirming 2 Hours CPD

Who is facilitating the event?

Professor Patrick McGhee, FRSA, is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.