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Strengths-Based School Counseling Promoting Student Development and Achievement

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ISBN-10: 0805862498

ISBN-13: 9780805862492

Edition: 2007

Authors: Patrick Akos, John P. Galassi

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Despite calls for a more preventive and developmental mode of functioning, school counseling has tended to be driven by a reactive and sometimes crisis orientation. Like social workers and school, counseling, and clinical psychologists, school counselors typically function to alleviate deficits, often in a small percentage of the students they serve. Although this orientation has served school counselors well in many instances, it is not empowering, it does not serve all students, and it does not replace those deficits with the type of positive characteristics and abilities that schools are attempting to develop.nbsp; nbsp; This is the first book to provide a comprehensive look at the…    
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List price: $71.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.144

Preface
The Strengths-Based School Counseling Framework
Outline
Overview
Relationship of Strengths-Based School Counseling to Current School Counseling Models
Conceptual Foundations of Strengths-Based School Counseling
Summary
Key Points
Implementing the Strengths-Based School Counselor's Role
Outline
The Traditional Role of the School Counselor
The Contemporary Role of the School Counselor
The Strengths-Based School Counselor's Role
Direct Services and the Strengths-Based School Counselor
Indirect Services or System-Level Functions and the Strengths-Based School Counselor
Summary
Key Points
Promoting Academic Development: Basic Principles
Outline
The Traditional Role of the School Counselor in Academic Development
The Contemporary Role of the School Counselor in Academic Development
The Strengths-Based School Counselor's Role in Academic Development
Academic Strengths to Promote
Academic Enablers
Strengths-Enhancing Academic Environments
Summary
Key Points
Promoting Academic Development: Interventions
Outline
Traditional School Counseling Interventions for Academic Development
Contemporary School Counseling Interventions for Academic Development
Strengths-Based School Counseling Interventions for Academic Development
High-Stakes Testing
Homework Completion
School Transitions
Comprehensive School Reform
Other Interventions to Build Academic Strengths and Strengths-Enhancing Environments
Summary
Key Points
Promoting Personal and Social Development
Outline
The Traditional Role of the School Counselor in Personal and Social Development
The Contemporary Role of the School Counselor in Personal and Social Development
The Strengths-Based School Counselor's Role in Personal and Social Development
Personal and Social Strengths to Promote
Strengths-Based Interventions to Promote Personal and Social Development
Strengths-Enhancing Environments for Positive Personal and Social Development
Interventions to Promote Strengths-Enhancing Environments for Personal and Social Development in Elementary and Middle Schools
Interventions to Promote Strengths-Enhancing Environments for Personal and Social Development in High Schools
Interventions to Promote Strengths-Enhancing Environments for Personal and Social Development over the K-12 Continuum
Summary
Key Points
Promoting Career Development
Outline
The Traditional Role of the School Counselor in Career Development
The Contemporary Role of the School Counselor in Career Development
The Strengths-Based School Counselor's Role in Career Development
Career Strengths to Promote
Interventions to Promote Strength for Career Development
Strengths-Enhancing Career Environments
Summary
Key Points
Strengths-Based School Counseling in Perspective
Outline
Twelve Key Questions about the Strengths-Based School Counseling Framework
What's development and why is it a central theme of this framework?
Why is SBSC different from or better than the developmental approaches that we already have?
If I spend my time on all of the types of advocacy that counselors are supposed to be involved in, how will I have time for anything else?
Is SBSC another theory that I am going to have to learn?
We just implemented ASCA's National Model, how can we turn around now and implement Strengths-Based School Counseling instead?
How does Strengths-Based School Counseling fit with educational reform?
In order to do evidence-based practice, won't I have to stop doing something else?
How is adopting this framework going to help me deal with my students and all of their discipline problems and crises?
So if I am a strengths-based school counselor, do I just forget about reducing disruptive behaviors, attitudes, and emotions in my clients?
Is SBSC compatible with the CACREP standards, and do we have to modify our entire curriculum in order to prepare strengths-based counselors?
Is the strengths-based framework applicable by other professionals and by counselors in other settings?
Does SBSC offer a practical framework to school counselors, or is it passing fad?
School Counselor Preparation
Outline
Historical Influences in School Counselor Education
Contemporary School Counselor Preparation Influences
Preparing the Strengths-Based School Counselor
Integration of Strengths-Based School Counseling in the CACREP Curriculum
Summary
Key Points
References
Author Index
Subject Index