Golden Triad Films, Inc. is pleased to announce the distribution of this excellent teaching tape. It is designed to facilitate discussion by mental health professionals and students by presenting two case illustrations of interventions that reflect the exciting brief therapy design offered by Moshe Talmon, Ph.D. in his most popular new book, Single Session Therapy.

VT 140 Single Session Therapy: (Approximately 23 minutes.)     (Order)

Surveys indicate that between 30 and 50 percent of those who consult a psychotherapist never return for a second session. Some have assumed this to be evidence of dissatisfaction or resistance to treatment. More recent studies now suggest that a large portion of these "drop outs" report a year later the reason for not continuing was that they were helped in the one session.

Dr. Talmon and his associates at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Robert Rosenbaum, and Michael Hoyt, have been working to perfect techniques that are "Maximizing the Effect of the First (And Often Only) Therapeutic Encounter." They collaborated with director-writer Laura Short in the production of this videotape. The tape illustrates methods from Dr. Talmon's book.

Brief, short term, and strategic therapies have been attracting increasing attention over the past decade. As health care costs continue to escalate, employers are insisting that providers prove the value and quality of services rendered while keeping costs down. Single session therapies offer one viable response to these currents in treating each therapeutic session as a potential opportunity to provide all the help a client needs at that time and in that session. Drs. Talmon, Rosenbaum, and Hoyt have made significant contributions here, and their personal presentations and writings are praised for their clarity and applicability.

"Talmon’s persuasive demonstration that the preponderance of psychiatric outpatients benefit markedly from a single therapeutic session should encourage… psychotherapists to spend less time on patients who do not need long-term psychotherapy, thereby freeing more time for patients who do."

Jerome Frank, M.D., Ph.D.

"We once assumed that long-term therapy was the base from which all therapy was to be judged. Now it appears that therapy of a single interview could become the standard for estimating how long and how successful therapy should be."

Jay Haley

"This superior studio quality video tape encourages discussion and further exploration of Talmon’s approach to brief therapy."

Ramon Corrales, Ph.D.