Product Description

"This book will aid adults who seek to be more effective in their interactions with youth, but even more important, it offers a framework to help school personnel reconnect to the values and purposes that brought them into education and keep their interactions with children consistently grounded in their best intentions."
William Madsen, Training Coordinator
Family Institute of Cambridge

"What you are about to read represents an ingenious application of narrative ideas to work in schools. While many people use these ideas, this book develops them in novel and interesting ways. This is some of the most creative and exciting work I have seen in this field."
Jeffrey Zimmerman, Director
Bay Area Family Therapy Training Associates

Reduce discipline problems, improve relationships, and help students achieve their goals!

With caseloads often exceeding 500 students, counselors cannot afford to spend countless hours on traditional approaches to individual problems. Solution-Focused Brief Counseling (SFBC) offers counselors an effective approach that leads to rapid, observable change in students.

Brief Counseling That Works, Second Edition, combines step-by-step instructions with vivid case examples to provide a comprehensive and practical overview of the fundamental principles of SFBC. Author Gerald B. Sklare has extensively revised this second edition to include new adaptations of solution-focused methods, more opportunities to practice the SFBC model, and an expanded discussion of ways school administrators can use SFBC.

This concise guidebook contains many valuable tools, including:

• Reproducible materials for use with Solution-Focused Guided Imagery
• Short case studies and session transcripts to illustrate what SFBC looks like in practice
• Guidelines for using solution-focused methods with referred discipline cases
• Practice exercises to help readers apply the techniques
• Sample forms to use in SFBC

This essential resource for counselors will also be helpful to teachers and school administrators who advise elementary and secondary students, as well as psychologists and social workers who work with youth both in and out of the school setting.

(20050429)

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #181407 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 184 pages

Review
I am big fan of Brief Counseling That Works as a useful text and could rave about aspects of it. In brief, Sklare presents a practical, culturally relevant way for school counselors to work with large caseloads. -- Patrick Akos, Assistant Professor "Brief Counseling That Works is one of the best books in the field of education that I have ever read. I am recommending it to anyone who works with kids." -- Mary Ann Sweet, School Counselor Brief Counseling That Works is easy to pick up as a practitioner, understand, and implement. It is written in layman's terms and with lots of examples that clarify any questions the reader might have. -- Pauline Schara, Principal (Retired ) This text is engaging and offers the reader immediate and useful tools for bringing out the best in kids and helping them change. -- Samuel Gladding, Professor and Chair, Department of Counseling In this new edition, Sklare follows his own advice by focusing on adding more of what is valuable and helpful. This book is filled with clear examples, practical tips, and wisdom that comes from years of experience. -- Russell Sabella, Associate Professor "This book aids adults who seek to be more effective in their interactions with youth. More importantly, it offers a framework to help school personnel reconnect to the values and purposes that brought them into education and keep their interactions with children consistently grounded in the best intentions." -- William Madsen, Training Coordinator "What you are about to read represents an ingenious application of narrative ideas to work in schools. While many people use these ideas, this book develops them in novel and interesting ways. This is some of the most creative and exciting work I have seen in this field." -- Jeffrey Zimmerman, Director "It is a highly readable book and its greatest strength is that it provides practical examples of how the techniques work, using real-life case studies." -- Nurturing Potential, Issue 18 20050429 " ... a wonderful guidebook with a comprehensive look at Solution-Focused Brief Counseling (SFBC) that is practical for use in and out of the school setting. This short but concise book also offers many useful tools like reproducible materials and sample forms, (with) vivid case studies that help to illustrate the point of each step in SFBC, and exercises to practice the steps. All in all I would highly recommend this book to school counselors, administrators and anyone else who would benefit from the brief counseling methodology." -- Education Review, May 2005 20050502 "...here are an impressive range of interventions which, skillfully employed, will challenge young people to think differently about their perceptions...(with) practical examples of how the techniques work, using real life case studies." -- Nurturing Potential, Issue 18 20050701

Review
I am big fan of Brief Counseling That Works as a useful text and could rave about aspects of it. In brief, Sklare presents a practical, culturally relevant way for school counselors to work with large caseloads. (Patrick Akos, Assistant Professor 20050502)

"Brief Counseling That Works is one of the best books in the field of education that I have ever read. I am recommending it to anyone who works with kids." (Mary Ann Sweet, School Counselor 20050701)

Brief Counseling That Works is easy to pick up as a practitioner, understand, and implement. It is written in layman’s terms and with lots of examples that clarify any questions the reader might have. (Pauline Schara, Principal (Retired ) )

This text is engaging and offers the reader immediate and useful tools for bringing out the best in kids and helping them change. (Samuel Gladding, Professor and Chair, Department of Counseling )

In this new edition, Sklare follows his own advice by focusing on adding more of what is valuable and helpful. This book is filled with clear examples, practical tips, and wisdom that comes from years of experience. (Russell Sabella, Associate Professor )

“This book aids adults who seek to be more effective in their interactions with youth. More importantly, it offers a framework to help school personnel reconnect to the values and purposes that brought them into education and keep their interactions with children consistently grounded in the best intentions.” (William Madsen, Training Coordinator )

“What you are about to read represents an ingenious application of narrative ideas to work in schools. While many people use these ideas, this book develops them in novel and interesting ways. This is some of the most creative and exciting work I have seen in this field.” (Jeffrey Zimmerman, Director )

"It is a highly readable book and its greatest strength is that it provides practical examples of how the techniques work, using real-life case studies."

(Nurturing Potential, Issue 18 )

" . . . a wonderful guidebook with a comprehensive look at Solution-Focused Brief Counseling (SFBC) that is practical for use in and out of the school setting. This short but concise book also offers many useful tools like reproducible materials and sample forms, (with) vivid case studies that help to illustrate the point of each step in SFBC, and exercises to practice the steps. All in all I would highly recommend this book to school counselors, administrators and anyone else who would benefit from the brief counseling methodology."

(Education Review, May 2005 )

"...here are an impressive range of interventions which, skillfully employed, will challenge young people to think differently about their perceptions...(with) practical examples of how the techniques work, using real life case studies." (Nurturing Potential, Issue 18 )

About the Author
Gerald B. Sklare, EdD, LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor), NCC (Nationally Certified Counselor), is a profes-sor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Both his master’s degree and doctorate are in counselor education from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He has served as a teacher and counselor in elementary, junior high, and high schools; he has conducted workshops around the United States on SFBC; and he has practiced in school settings and in private practice using this approach.

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Customer Reviews

Great
Recieved item on time, right when we were told it would arrive. Book in very good condition.

School geek
I am a Master's in School Counseling student. This is the recommended theory for school counselors. I will use this as a reference in school and once I begin working in the field.