Brief Counseling That Works - 9781483332338

This book offers school counselors an effective and efficient approach to helping students through the use of Solution-Focused Brief Counseling (SFBC). With caseloads often exceeding 500 students per counselor, you can’t afford to spend hours and hours on traditional approaches to student problems. Here, the author presents a focused, step-by-step approach to counseling in schools that leads to rapid, observable change in students. The skills of conducting solution-talk discussions with students can help to reduce arguments, improve relationships, and teach young people to assume responsibility and make better decisions in a supportive environment. This new approach, as the name implies, focuses on solutions rather than problems. Students learn how to set goals, rediscover their resources, and repeat past successes. Brief Counseling That Works helps you prepare students for solution-based counseling and help them focus on their goals.

This concise resource contains many tools and resources including:

• Reproducible materials for use with Solution-Focused Guided Imagery
• Short case studies and session transcripts to illustrate what SFBC looks like in practice
• Guidelines for using solution-focused methods with referred discipline cases
• Practice exercises to help readers apply the techniques
• Sample forms to use in SFBC

An essential tool for school counselors and a helpful resource for teachers and school administrators who also counsel or advise elementary and secondary students. This resource can also be used by psychologists, counselors, and social workers who work with youth both in and out of the school setting.