Mindset, or the therapist’s series of beliefs which influence the actions and decisions taken in the course of their work, is considered fundamental in its impact on the effectiveness and length of a course of therapy. This article gives a definition of “mindset” and analyses its implications for psychotherapy in general and Single Session Therapy (SST) in particular. This is followed by an analysis of the literature surrounding SST, leading to the description of fourteen principles which make up the typical mindset of a single session therapist. The application of the principles is illustrated by a clinical case study.

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This study examines the effect of the diagnosis of depression (depression label) on verbal communication. We set a situation in which the subject listened to another person's problem for seven minutes, who they met for the first time. The subjects were 20 women (M=21.4, SD=1.7), and the independent variables were the presence (labeled group) or absence of a "depression label" (unlabeled group), which conveyed if the person was a depression patient. The dependent variable was the subjects' verbal index (Sando, 2016). The data were analyzed using a 2×5 chi-square test. No significant difference was found in Sando's (2016) classification (χ² (4) = 4.134, n.s.). Therefore, we classify and reanalyze the utterances including those in the "Other" category, as defined by Sando (2016). Results showed that the "labeled group" was less used to "Compliment" than the "unlabeled group" (χ² (3) = 12.887, p<.05). These findings indicate the risk that depressed person with depression label are rejected more by others than depressed person without depression label in non-continuous relationship, such as first meeting. We further discuss the effects of the depression label and related issues.

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Ijiri is one of the collective games using communication among peers, and is an act that annoys the target without any intention to hurt the actor's side. Because Ijiri is an in-group play, it has norms that constrain the target to respond compliantly, and the risk that the acdtor will continue to attack the target unintentionally. The purpose of this study was to develop a tool to measure ijiri risk and to examine its reliability and validity. Ijiri risk was measured from the following two parts: part A) invasiveness to the target, and Part B) cognitions related to action supression of the target. A web-based questionnaire survey was administered to 913 participants (327 males, 583 females, and 3 others; mean age = 29.25 years). As a result of exploratory factor analysis, two factors were extracted for Part A and four factors for Part B. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the goodness-of-fit indices for the Part A and Part B factor structure models were adequate. The results of the reliability analysis showed that the alpha coefficients for each factor were sufficient, confirming their reliability. The following two hypotheses were examined for criterion-related validity: 1)The higher the Part A Invasiveness scale, the higher the scores for the stress cognitive scores and the stress response scores, 2)The higher the score on Part B Action suppression scale, the higher compliant reactive behavior scores. The results of the correlation analysis supported the two hypotheses and demonstrated the validity of this scale.

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