Solution-Focused School Counselor: Shaping Professional Practice

by Davis, Thomas E.; Osborn, Cynthia J.

• ISBN13: 9781560328629
• ISBN10: 1560328622
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

(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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

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