  Non-minimally coupling a scalar field to gravity introduces an additional
curvature term into the action which can change the general behavior in strong
curvature regimes, in particular close to classical singularities. While one
can conformally transform any non-minimal model to a minimally coupled one,
that transformation can itself become singular. It is thus not guaranteed that
all qualitative properties are shared by minimal and non-minimal models. This
paper addresses the classical singularity issue in isotropic models and extends
singularity removal in quantum gravity to non-minimal models.
