Arnold Slive

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Our Lady of the Lake University

It has long been taken for granted that the “gold standard” of psychotherapeutic treatment involves regularly scheduled sessions of talk therapy with a licensed or registered psychotherapist (Hoyt MF, Young J, Rycroft P, Aust N Z J Fam Ther 41:218–230, 2020). The assumption that this is what treatment-as-usual looks like has shaped how psychotherap...

Introduction to special section of Journal of Systemic Therapies that addresses worries and concerns about single-session therpay.

This article describes walk-in single session counselling, a form of service delivery that enables clients to receive one session of counselling without the usual hurdles of intake and wait times. We distinguish between walk-in counselling and single session therapy by appointment. We describe a mindset for therapists that supports walk-in work. We...

Reviews the book, Brief psychotherapies: Principles and practices by Michael F. Hoyt (2009). Despite the evident desire of many clients to address their issues in as time-efficient manner as possible (even one session), most therapists are trained to deliver psychotherapy via longer-term models of practice. Although more graduate programs than in t...

… most therapy is de facto brief, by default or design, meaning a few sessions, weeks to months. As Budman and Gurman (1988) and others (Bloom, 1992; Garfield, 1986; Koss & Butcher, 1986; Messer & Warren, 1995) have noted, numerous studies have reported the average length of treatment to be three to eight sessions. The modal or most common length o...

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This article provides a description of a unique walk-in family therapy service designed to overcome barriers to clinical delivery, as well as a survey of client experiences with the therapy. This therapy modality is aimed at providing an immediately accessible, affordable, nonstigmatizing, single-session-focused resource. The service operates from...

The article describes a no-fee, single-session, walk-in counselling service in which client families gain immediate access to systemically trained therapists. This service seems to fit our “fast food” culture; it creates an opportunity for professionals to be accessible to high need families at moments in time that the families choose. This immedia...

Bulimia is a problem that is sometimes identified as reaching epidemic proportions in North America. In this article, “substance abuse” is suggested as a useful metaphor for the treatment of some cases of bulimia. The authors describe a treatment approach, based on strategic principles, which follows from this metaphor. Thus an overt emphasis is pl...

There has been increasing discussion in the literature about the possibility and value of integrating different approaches in family therapy. This paper illustrates the complexities of attempting to integrate models by describing two cases in which the therapists drew from the theory and techniques of the major strategic and systemic models. Each c...

Over the past fifteen years, there have been recommendations in the field of psychotherapy and specifically in the field of family therapy to develop an ecological approach to the delivery of mental health services. Auerswald (1968) and Hoffman and Long (1969) graphically anecdoted the problems encountered by families “being helped” by several diff...

The effects of association value and label relevance on Ss' recognition accuracy and criterion for reporting a shape as “seen before” were examined. Results indicated that association value affected both recognition performance and Ss' criterion for reporting a shape as “seen before.” Label relevance improved recognition performance but did not aff...

Tested 120 undergraduates in a single-stimulus recognition paradigm. Random shapes varying in association value were paired with relevant or irrelevant verbal labels during learning. Both association value and label relevance affected recognition performance. Examination of verbal processes occurring during recognition indicated that although both...