Flavio Cannistrà, Psy. D., is the Co-Director of the Italian Center for Single Session Therapy, the author/editor of Single Session Therapy: Principles and Practice and Brief Therapy Conversations and was the co-organizer of the 4th International Symposium on SST, held in Rome in November 2023.

Michael F. Hoyt, Ph.D., is in independent practice in Mill Valley, CA. He is the author of Brief Therapy and Beyond and Single Session Therapy: A Clinical Introduction to Principles and Practices and is the recipient of various professional awards.

Part I: Opening

1. Flavio Cannistrà and Michael F. Hoyt -- Editors' Introduction

Part II: What -- Mindset, Theories, and Epistemologies Behind SST

2. Flavio Cannistrà-The Here and Now of Single Session Therapy: Questions that Need Answering

3. Moshe Talmon - The Golden Hour: SST as a Life-Long Event.

4. Robert Rosenbaum - Single Sessions: Beyond "Is" and "Is Not"

5. Michael F. Hoyt - The SST/OAAT Mindset and Using Single Session Thinking to Teach an SST Workshop

6. Jeff Young - How Single Session Thinking Could Revolutionize Mental Health Care Delivery

7. Sam Porter, Tim Pitt, and Owen Thomas - Expert Opinions on the Application of the Single Session Mindset in Therapy and Sports Coaching

Part III: Why, Where, and For Whom - Research, Applications, and Implementations

8. Monte Bobele and Arnold Slive - The SST Model Developed in Canada and Texas for Walk-In, Drop-In, Open-Access, and Virtual Services

9. Windy Dryden - Bringing a Single-Session Mindset to Counseling in an Online Health Service in the UK

10. Jessica Schleider - Scaling Single-Session Interventions to Bridge Gaps in Mental Healthcare Ecosystems

11. Katy Stephenson - Single Session Approach: How It CanBe Beneficial to Early Intervention and Youth Mental Health Services in the United Kingdom

12. Helen van Empel and Rita Zijlstra - Can Work Add More to Life with SST? Online Single Session Therapy in the Corporate World in The Netherlands

13. Giada Pietrabissa - Single Session Therapy: Exploring Research Evidence and Frontiers

14. Nancy McElheran - Walk-In Single Sessions, Then and Now: The Eastside Community Mental Health Service in Calgary, Canada

15. Martin Söderquist - Invitations, Embedded Hopes and Creative Collaboration in Sweden: To Follow the Couples Lead in One-at-a-Time (OAAT) Sessions

16. Sarah Lewis -- Normal Magic: Whole System Mindset in Devon, UK

17. Suzanne Fuzzard -- Exploring SST/Drop-Ins Around the World to Increase Access to Timely Mental Health Services and Improve Outcomes for Young Australians

Part IV: SST Techniques and Practices

18. Giorgio Nardone - Strategic Dialogue and Hypnotherapy Without Trance

19. Federico Piccirilli - When "How" Wins Over "Why": The First 3 Fundamental Interventions of SST According to the Method of the Italian Center for Single Session Therapy

20. Pam Rycroft - Finding the Beauty in Every Encounter: The Aesthetics of a Single Session

21. Keigo Asai - Single Session Therapy in Japan: Perspectives on Past, Present, and Possible Future Methods and Tactics

22. Rubin Battino -- Multiple Issue Single Session Therapy via Eliciting Client Solutions and Using Hypnosis

23. Valeria Campinoti, Angelica Giannetti, Francesca Moccia, Beatrice Pavoni, and Vanessa Pergher -- Single Session Therapy as a Tool to Create, Bring Out and Enhance the Client's Resources

24. Scot J. Cooper -- Brief Narrative Practice in Single Session Therapy: Some Lessons from Michael White and Others

25. Svetlana Prokasheva -- Single Session Therapy Supporting Social-Emotional Learning (SST-SEL) with Children, Families and Educators in Israel

26. John K. Miller - The Relationship Check-Up: A Valentine's Day Single Session Therapy for Couples

Part V: Closing

27. Flavio Cannistrà and Michael F. Hoyt - Editors' Conclusion - Themes, Lessons, and the Future