Special Section: Walk-In Single Session Therapy

Slive, Arnold

doi:10.1521/jsyt.2008.27.4.1

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“…The need for the study was evoked by the dramatic increase in the number of such clinics launched by family counseling and children's mental health agencies in Ontario during the last decade (Bhanot-Mulhatra, Livingstone, & Stalker, 2010). Lengthy wait lists and agencies' commitments to making services more accessible to their communities have been the catalysts for the development of walk-in counseling services (Slive, 2008;Young, Dick, Herring, & Lee, 2008). These clinics usually employ single-session therapy (SST), an iconoclastic approach positing that most clients can benefit from a single session with a professional counselor, and that for many, the single session is sufficient to reduce client distress to manageable levels (Slive, McElheran, & Lawson, 2008).…”

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Single-Session Therapy in a Walk-in Counseling Clinic: A Pilot Study

Stalker¹,

Horton²,

Cait³

2012

Journal of Systemic Therapies

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Single-session therapy (SST) delivered in walk-in counseling clinics is dramatically increasing in Ontario; however, studies of the clinical effectiveness of SST are few, and those that exist are limited by weak research designs. The pilot study reported here had two objectives: 1) to learn more about the clinical effectiveness of SST as delivered in a walk-in counseling clinic and 2) to better understand how the quality of research on this model of service delivery can be improved. We measured psychological distress, stage of change as posited by the Transtheoretical Model of Change (TTM), recent use of health and social services, and recent ability to work and undertake normal activities in a sample of clients attending the KW Counselling Services walk-in counseling clinic in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Follow-up data, although limited by a low response rate, suggest that clients show a decrease in distress, improvement in general functioning, and decreased use of health services one month and four months after the walk-in visit. However, clients' use of other social service organizations tended to increase following the walk-in visit. The majority of clients were in the Contemplation stage of change; having a high score on either the Contemplation or Maintenance stages was significantly related

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Single-Session Therapy in a Walk-in Counseling Clinic: A Pilot Study

Stalker¹,

Horton²,

Cait³

2012

Journal of Systemic Therapies

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“…The service is provided on a first come, first-served basis. This model is based on the principle of solution-focused brief therapy; the therapist focuses on attempting to solve the current problem rather than talking about past causes (Slive et al, 2008). There is no single theoretical frame of SSWIC; however, many organizations offering a planned single session therapy (SST) have generated a number of guiding assumptions and beliefs.…”

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Cost-effectiveness analysis of single-session walk-in counselling

Lamsal

Stalker

Cait

et al. 2017

Journal of Mental Health

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“…One article reported on the mental health needs of street youth without describing a particular walk-in service (Worthington & MacLaurin, 2009). One article served as an introduction to the special section "Walk-In Single Session Therapy" in the Journal of Systemic Therapies (Slive, 2008). The present review included that article and all of the articles in the special section.…”

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“…Its purpose was to review the most recent research on walk-in mental health services for children and families, not on the general topic of single-session therapy. The previous reviews used more limited search strategies, did not extend past 2008, and did not include articles in the 2008 special section of this journal (Slive, 2008). As evidence of the exhaustiveness of the systematic review methods we used, all of the articles relating to walk-in clinics published in 2000 and later that had been included in the previous two reviews were located by our search strategy and included in our review.…”

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