Solution-Focused School Counselor: Shaping

(Accelerated Development) Ohio University, Athens, OH. Outlines practical and time-sensitive strategies for school counselors and educational therapists to use with students, teachers, and administrators. Charts and graphs. Softcover.

Cynthia J. Osborn is Assistant Professor at Kent State University.

Prologue

xi

Introduction to Brief and Solution-Focused School Counseling

1

(17)

No Quick Fix for Me, Thank You: Dispelling Drive Through Myths

2

(2)

The Time in Brief

2

(1)

Beyond Time

3

(1)

Active Ingredients of Brief Counseling

4

(3)

An Historical Brief

7

(1)

Help Me with This, Please: What Is Solution-Focused Counseling Anyway?

8

(9)

A Baker's Dozen: Principles of Solution-Focused Counseling

9

(8)

Summary

17

(1)

Brief and Solution-Focused Counseling

18

(15)

New Kid on the Block?

18

(1)

What the Research Says

19

(10)

Brief and Solution-Focused School Counseling Research

20

(2)

General Psychotherapy Outcomes

22

(6)

Implications for the School Setting

28

(1)

The Solution-Focused School Counseling Model

29

(2)

Giving School Counselors What They Want

29

(1)

Giving Students What They Want

30

(1)

Summary

31

(2)

From Problems to Solutions: Changing the Mindset

33

(15)

There is Another Way to Look at ``Problems''

33

(10)

Maintaining Problems

34

(1)

From Problems to Solutions

35

(1)

Thinking Positively

36

(3)

Being Student Focused

39

(1)

Utilizing the Student's Expertise

40

(1)

Changing How We Think

41

(2)

The Paradigm Shift: Traditional vs. Solution-Focused Approaches to School Counseling

43

(4)

Summary

47

(1)

Application to Individual Students and Groups

48

(29)

Specific Solution-Focused Strategies

48

(24)

Genuine Inquisitiveness

48

(2)

Speaking the Language

50

(1)

Utilization of Strengths and Resources

51

(3)

Commendations

54

(1)

Counting on Change

55

(4)

Highlighting Exceptions

59

(1)

The Miracle Question

60

(4)

The Great ``Instead''

64

(1)

Specific, Concrete, and Measurable Goals

64

(2)

Further Goal Formulations

66

(1)

Tipping the Domino

67

(1)

Scaling Questions

68

(2)

Two More Types of Questions

70

(2)

Summary of Strategies

72

(1)

Solution-Focused Applications in Group Settings

73

(4)

It's All in the Name

73

(1)

Common Language

74

(1)

Co-Conspirators

75

(1)

Clearly Speaking

76

(1)

Summary of Solution-Focused Groups

76

(1)

Working with Children of Challenge and Their Parents

77

(14)

Working with Difficult Students

77

(4)

Difficulty Defined

78

(1)

Lose the Label

78

(2)

Deflating Difficulty

80

(1)

Parents as Partners in Building Solutions

81

(3)

Diversity and the School Counselor

82

(2)

Solution-Focused Parent Conferences

84

(2)

Guidelines for Planning a Parent-Teacher Conference

85

(1)

Solution-Focused Parenting Groups

86

(3)

Summary

89

(2)

The Solution-Focused School

91

(11)

Don't Look at Me!

91

(1)

Focus on Principals

92

(2)

Imagine What Your School Will Be When

94

(1)

Teaching the Teachers

95

(5)

Teaching the Teachers ``Solution Talk''

95

(2)

Think Exceptions

97

(2)

A Vision of the Possible

99

(1)

Summary

100

(2)

References

102

(7)

Index

109

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