Where Is Wellness? Look Back By Russell S. Sabella, Ph.D. Consider exploring a student’s past as a foundation for their future wellness and resilience. With solution-focused brief counseling and scaling, you can help students cope, manage and succeed, drawing on techniques they’ve used in better days. Read more Learn more about Solution-Focused School Counseling: The […]
Involving All Stakeholders
Note: Excerpted from Solution-Focused School Counseling: The Missing Manual by Russ Sabella, Ph.D. Solution-focused brief counseling is a systemic approach designed to include all stakeholders. Early on, in the 1990s when I was experimenting with how SFBC worked with children in a school setting, I stumbled onto a bit of a glitch. I was getting […]
Solution-Focused Scaling
Solution-Focused Scaling Excerpted from Sabella, R. A. (2020). Solution-focused school counseling: The missing manual. Sabella & Associates, LLC. ____________________________________________ Scaling Scaling begins when we invite students to perceive their current situation along a continuum. In a nutshell, the process of scaling involves rating how students are currently doing on a scale from 1 (when things […]
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.