A Single Session Intervention to help you feel more in control
We can offer you help in the form of a self-help “Single Session Intervention” (SSI).
Single session interventions are based on what we know from psychology. They are designed to be used once rather than assuming that a user will return to use them again. They aim to make the most of a short amount of time.
Our Single Session Interventions are self-help. That means that the user does not talk to anyone. Instead, the user works through information from science, and activities and questions to think about how this applies to their lives and how they can use it to help themselves.
About the Unlock Wellbeing SSI
Our Single Session Interventions were developed based on established mental health treatments that can teach us ways to change our thinking (like cognitive therapies), our behaviour (like behavioural therapies), and be kinder to ourselves (like compassion focused therapies).
These Single Session Interventions are usually completed online, so you can do them from anywhere, with any device that connects to the internet, without having to ask others to refer you or give you permission, and you don’t need to talk to a therapist to have a go at it.
How well do they work?
When these Single Session Interventions have been tested in the USA, they have been found to help young people to:
- Feel more hopeful
- Feel more in control
- Feel less sad and improve mood
Single Session Interventions can be accessed wherever and whenever you want and take less than 30 minutes to complete. You don’t have to talk to anyone or come back to use them again to complete them.
Who will benefit?
We think these could be really helpful in offering support to young people who are struggling with their mental health, but:
- Have found it difficult to access mental health services
- Are currently on long waiting lists for mental health treatments
- Struggle to attend appointments because they are in the middle of school time
- Are nervous about using services because of what other people might say or think
- Do not have time to go to therapy sessions every week
- Struggle to keep up with all of the tasks set in therapy
- Don’t know much about mental health services or how to get help if they are struggling