Single-Session Therapy Informed by Client Factors and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: Distinctive Features

In the third edition of this book, Windy Dryden outlines a way of practising single-session therapy that is primarily informed by client factors, followed by ideas stemming from CBT. Windy Dryden calls this way of working ‘Single-Session Therapy: Informed by Client Factors and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy’ (SST: ICF & CBT).

In this thoroughly updated new edition, more emphasis is placed on the single-session therapy mindset as a way of approaching the first session, which may also be the client’s last. In keeping with the structure of books in the ‘CBT: Distinctive Features’ series, the book comprises 30 key points and is divided into two parts – Theory and Practice, which concisely cover the core features of SST: ICF & CBT.

This book offers essential guidance for students and practitioners who wish to provide help at the point of need and integrate client factors and CBT in doing so.

Windy Dryden, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is an international authority on Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and Single-Session Therapy and is in part-time clinical and consultative practice. He has worked in psychotherapy for more than 50 years and is the author and editor of over 300 books.