Implementing Single Session Therapy

In recent decades, discussion about clinical practice has been dominated by a focus on evidence-based treatments, whilst the translation of evidence-based treatments into practice has been neglected or avoided. The single session therapy (SST) field reflects this general trend. As a result, the community has not benefited from available service improvements simply because they have not found their way into core practice or been translated across state-wide services. This article draws on a range of implementation projects managed by The Bouverie Centre, in particular a successful state-wide SST implementation project conducted in collaboration with Victorian community health counselling services, to raise implementation dilemmas and suggest practical ideas about the translation of SST ideas into mainstream clinical practice. It is hoped this discussion will be of interest to those wanting to translate any new idea into practice.

[1]  I. O'Neill,et al.  Reflections and Learning From an Agency-Wide Implementation of Single Session Work in Family Therapy , 2012 .

[2]  J. Grimshaw,et al.  Is evidence‐based implementation of evidence‐based care possible? , 2004, The Medical journal of Australia.

[3]  P Rycroft,et al.  Single session therapy: capturing the moment , 1997 .

[4]  N. Denzin,et al.  The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research , 2007 .

[5]  B. Bloom.  Focused Single-Session Psychotherapy: A Review of the Clinical and Research Literature , 2001 .

[6]  David A. Chambers,et al.  Implementation Research in Mental Health Services: an Emerging Science with Conceptual, Methodological, and Training challenges , 2008, Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research.

[7]  Amy N. Cohen,et al.  The family forum: directions for the implementation of family psychoeducation for severe mental illness. , 2008, Psychiatric services.

[8]  A Kitson,et al.  Enabling the implementation of evidence based practice: a conceptual framework. , 1998, Quality in health care : QHC.

[9]  F. Alexander,et al.  Psychoanalytic therapy : principles and application , 1980 .

[10]  Pat Boyhan.  Clients' Perceptions of Single Session Consultations as an Option to Waiting for Family Therapy , 1996 .

[11]  H. Bradbury,et al.  Handbook of action research : participative inquiry and practice , 2001 .

[12]  G. Robert,et al.  Diffusion of innovations in service organizations: systematic review and recommendations. , 2004, The Milbank quarterly.

[13]  E. Rogers.  Diffusion of Innovations , 1962 .

[14]  R. Velleman,et al.  Family interventions for drug and alcohol misuse: is there a best practice? , 2006, Current opinion in psychiatry.

[15]  P. Cohen,et al.  The clinician's illusion. , 1984, Archives of general psychiatry.

[16]  L. Dixon,et al.  Family psychoeducation and schizophrenia: a review of the literature. , 2003, Journal of marital and family therapy.

[17]  Karen A. Blase,et al.  Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the , 2005 .

[18]  John K. Miller,et al.  Breaking down the barriers to clinical service delivery: walk-in family therapy. , 2004, Journal of marital and family therapy.

[19]  E. Balas,et al.  Evidence-based quality measurement. , 1999, The Journal of ambulatory care management.