Description
This book helps new and experienced school counselors engage with students using a solution-focused approach that stresses cooperation and highlights positive attributes to facilitate goal achievement. Thinking and Acting Like a Solution-Focused School Counselor provides the background and expertise needed to establish collaborative student relationships identify student skills and abilities and reframe problems into attainable goals. Emphasizing practice and feedback the author includes actual session transcripts to help new and less-experienced counselors apply concepts directly to their own practice. Benefits of this book include:
A reflective meaning-making model as a basis for effective school counseling.
An introduction to the fundamental principles of solution-focused counseling.
Clinical illustrations of solution identification and implementation strategies.
In-depth case studies and guided practice exercises.
Like the companion books on behavioral cognitive and eclectic school counseling this concise guide offers the knowledge and skills necessary to help troubled students in need of encouragement and hope.
FeaturesEdited – Richard D. Parsons.
Author Affiliation – West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
Binding – Hardcover.
Pages – 160.
Publication Date – 06-Jul-09.
Primary Subject Code – School Counseling – CH0.
Copyright Year – 2009.
Item Weight – 17 oz.
About the AuthorRichard D. Parsons PhD is a full professor in the Department of Counselor Education at West Chester University. Parsons has over thirty-two years of university teaching in counselor preparation programs. Prior to his university teaching he spent nine years as a school counselor in an inner-city high school. Parsons has been the recipient of many awards and honors including the Pennsylvania Counselor
