Research code: 157148747230227679010162702592
Behrouznia H, Madani Y, Salehi K, Shahmoradi S. (2024). Investigating the Effectiveness and Satisfaction of Clients from Single Session Therapy: A Scoping Review Study.
Rooyesh.
13(5), 77-90.
URL:
http://frooyesh.ir/article-1-5401-en.html
1- PhD student, Counseling Department, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2- Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. , yaser.madani@ut.ac.ir
3- Associate professor, Department of Curriculum Development and Instruction Methods، faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
4- Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract: (983 Views)
Single-session therapy (SST) is the briefest type of short-term therapy and a different perspective on therapy, which has been more than thirty years since its initial research and implementation at the international level. The purpose of this study was to examine the evidence about the effectiveness and satisfaction of clients from SST, which was conducted using a Scoping Review method. For this purpose, the search was conducted through international scientific databases PubMed, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, and PsycINFO. The keywords used in the search included "Single Session Therapy", "Single Session Counseling", "Single Session Psychotherapy", "One Session Therapy", "One-off Consultation", "Single Session Intervention", and "Walk-in Therapy". In the first stage of the search, 585 article titles were found. The inclusion criteria were studies where the client and the therapist intended to conduct the counseling session only in a single session. At the same time, researchers who had carried out specific methods to treat disorders and research related to medical illnesses were excluded from the search process. After checking the titles, and abstracts and excluding irrelevant, repetitive, or unavailable articles, only articles that determined the effectiveness and satisfaction of clients with the SST method were selected and further evaluated using the RISMA-ScR protocol. As a result, 21 studies were selected for more detailed review. Since single-session therapy is a relatively new topic, no restrictions on the year of publication or the target community were considered for the search of articles, and these findings include all the studies conducted from this database up to August 2023. The results showed that SST is effective for a wide range of issues and problems, and the majority of clients participating in this one session had a positive and satisfactory experience and considered the one session sufficient to improve their issues. The results of this study can be useful for therapists who are not familiar with the Single Session Therapy method and are not aware of its effectiveness, as well as for clients who refrain from therapy due to the length of the process and can increase their interest in counseling.
Type of Article:
systematic review |
Subject:
counseling Received: 2024/05/15 | Accepted: 2024/06/21 | ePublished: 2024/07/31