Here are the links, tools, and information from both of my presentations at the American School Counselor Association 2019 conference in Boston, Mass.
Overview:
When adapted to parent conferences, the solution-focused approach can be a powerful way for school counselors to help students and other stakeholders make positive changes and meet their goals. Learn how to reinforce your assets, move from complaints and wishes to appropriate goals, and turn adversaries into allies. After attending this session, you will be able to: 1) Strengthen the child/parent/school alliance. 2) Use solution-focused techniques to guide parent/teacher conferences. 3) Identify ways to manage real or perceived resistance. 4) Empower students to be more responsible and accountable for their own achievement.
Sun, Jun 30, 2019 – Ballroom B
Download a PDF of the PowerPoint.
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Discover lesser-known solution-focused techniques that use creative/expressionistic activities to enhance your existing knowledge of the approach. Learn about play counseling approaches to scaling, the hypothetical, and the message. Build your repertoire of practical skills through experiential role play.
After attending this session, you will be able to: 1) Review solution-focused brief counseling assumptions and usefulness with young people. 2) List the benefits of a solution-focused approach over a problem-based approach. 3) Use solution-focused brief counseling’s evidence-based play techniques. 4) Increase self-efficacy in working with general populations and uncooperative/resistant students.
Download the PDF here.
Other Resources
- Handouts from Russ Sabella
- Table of Solution Focused Brief Counseling and Parent Conference Video Demonstrations
- SF Scaling Webinar Video
- Presentation files from ASCA 2018
- GuardingKids.com. This web site supports Dr. Russell Sabella’s work on educating children, parents, educators and other stake holders about the responsible use of technology. Included in these pages you will find helpful resources, lesson plans, links, and more.
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The purpose of AutoCTG is to accomplish much of the “leg work” for you when creating a closing the achievement gap (CTG) report. After using AutoCTG, you will have a PowerPoint file that you can customize and narrate. The narrated file, briefly (2-3 minutes), tells a digital story about the impact that you and your school counseling program have had on students. Click here to download Auto Closing the Gap (AutoCTG) Report Creator.
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Dr. Russell A. Sabella is currently a Professor in the Department of Counseling in the College of Education, Florida Gulf Coast University and President of Sabella & Associates.