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Counseling Strategies That Work! Evidence-Based Interventions for School Counselors

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ISBN-10: 0205445586

ISBN-13: 9780205445585

Edition: 2007

Authors: Richard D. Parsons

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An anthology of intervention strategies that are rooted in scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness when applied to the day-to-day "problems" confronting today's school counselor. Every chapter provides a blending of theory, practice and guided, personalized application. The content is broken down succinctly, beginning with a brief introduction to the nature of the problems being addressed before delving into a detailed presentation with case illustration of the application of an intervention strategy. It is an excellent source for counseling techniques courses or as a reading assigned as part of their field placement experiences, as well as a useful reference text for all those…    
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List price: $113.32
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 6/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.20" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Richard D. Parsons , PhD, is a full professor in the Department of Counselor Education, at West Chester University. He has over 37 years of university teaching in counselor preparation programs. He has been the recipient of many awards and honors, including the Pennsylvania Counselor of Year award, and has authored or co-authored over 80 professional articles, book chapters, and books. His most recent books include Counseling Theory: Guiding Reflective Practice in 2014, Becoming a Skilled Counselor in 2013 (both with SAGE), and a series of four training texts for school counselors grouped under the title, Transforming Theory into Practice (Corwin Press). Additional recent works include…    

Preface
Acknowledgments
Assisting Students Navigate Academic Demands
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Interventions for Student Distractibility, Inattentiveness, and Time on Task
Sample Interventions
A Multimethod Intervention for Social-Skills Deficits in Children with AD/HD and Their Parents
The Effects of Self-Monitoring of Academic Performance
School-based Multicomponent Program for Treating AD/HD
Detailed Intervention
Group Counseling Intervention for Children with AD/HD
From the Field
Disruptive Behavior: Tantrums, Out-of-Seat, and Clowning
Sample Interventions
Contingency Contracting: Reducing Classroom Tantrums
Modifying Task Difficulty
Group Contingency to Manage Disruptive Behavior
Detailed Intervention
Reality Therapy and Solution-Focused Counseling for Student Off-Task Behavior
From the Field
Dishonesty: Cheating and Stealing
Sample Interventions
Classroom Control as a Means of Reducing Cheating
Encouraging Schoolwide Honesty
Stimulus Control-Reinforcement and Response Cost as a Means of Reducing Stealing
Extinction as a Means of Controlling Stealing
Detailed Intervention
Family Contracting and Self-Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior
From the Field
Low Self-efficacy and Motivational Issues
Sample Interventions
Goal Setting for Academic Improvement
Poor Performance: Skill or Motivation?
Goal Setting and Self-Assessment
Detailed Intervention
The "Go For It" Club
From the Field
Task Completion and Homework Issues
Sample Interventions
Use of Learning Stations to Increase Self-Control for Homework Completion
Reinforcements and Real-Life Homework
Personalizing Homework
Detailed Intervention
The Use of Goal Setting and Contingency Contracting
From the Field
Assisting Students with Interpersonal Relationships
Social Withdrawal, Shyness, and Social Anxiety
Sample Interventions
Social-Effectiveness Therapy
Peer Pairing
Cognitive Restructuring Strategy: A Case Study
Detailed Intervention
Social-Skills Training for Shy Adolescents
From the Field
Violence: Aggression and Bullying
Sample Interventions
Group CBT for Aggressive Boys
Changing Attribution of Hostile Intent
Bullying: A School-based Intervention
Detailed Intervention
Think First!
From the Field
Noncompliance, Defiance, and Oppositional Behavior
Sample Interventions
Reducing Oppositional and Aggressive Behavior: Social-Cognitive Group Intervention
Facing Defiance-Avoiding the Power Struggle
Student Self-Analysis on Monitoring of Behavior
Detailed Intervention
Time-In/Time-Out
From the Field
Conduct Problems and Antisocial Behavior
Sample Interventions
First Grade Prevention Program
Performance-based Intervention-Child Training
Decreasing Expression of Anger with CBT
Detailed Intervention
Fast Track
From the Field
Sexual Behavior
Sample Interventions
Behavioral Management of Public Masturbation
Draw the Line/Respect the Line: Middle School Prevention Programming
Culturally Sensitive Pregnancy-Reduction Program
Detailed Intervention
Reducing Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors
From the Field
Prejudice and "Isms" in the School
Sample Interventions
Modifying Racial Attitudes
Antihomophobia: A Teaching Module
Attitudes Toward the Handicapped
Detailed Intervention
Developmental Guidance Project Embracing Difference
From the Field
Helping Students with Emotional Difficulties
Anxiety: Separation, Social, and Test
Sample Interventions
Friends Program
Social Anxiety: CBT and Social-Skills Training
Separation Anxiety: A Case Study using CBT
Detailed Intervention
Stop, Drop, and Roll to Reduce Test Anxiety
From the Field
Stress
Sample Interventions
Stress-A Skills-Oriented Program
Increasing Coping Skills with a School-based Program in Optimistic Thinking
Muscle Relaxation and Cognitive Coping Strategies
Detailed Intervention
A School-based Management Program
From the Field
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Sample Interventions
Response Prevention with an Adolescent
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment and Medication Alone or in Combination
Group Behavioral Treatment
Detailed Intervention
The Use of Exposure and CBT
From the Field
Improving and Maintaining Self-Esteem
Sample Interventions
Psychosocial Prevention Program
Psycho-educational Approach
Guided Imagery
Detailed Intervention
Adlerian Adventure-based Counseling
From the Field
Depression
Sample Interventions
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program for Schoolchildren
Preventing Depression
An Ecological Approach
Detailed Intervention
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Relaxation, and Self-Monitoring
From the Field
Suicidal Ideation and Behavior
Sample Interventions
Reducing Suicide Potential-A School-based Prevention Program
Counselor Interview as Prevention Intervention
Cognitive-Behavioral Structured Intervention-SNAP
Detailed Intervention
Suicide Prevention Program-SOS
From the Field
Trauma, Loss, and the Grieving Process
Sample Interventions
School-based Group Treatment Protocol
School-based Intervention for Children Suffering Loss from Divorce
Use of Puppets to Treat Traumatic Grief
Detailed Intervention
Childhood Traumatic Grief
From the Field
Eating Disorders
Sample Interventions
Student Bodies-Internet Prevention Program
Primary Prevention Program for Middle School
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa
Detailed Intervention
Eating Disorder Prevention Program-A Controlled Study
From the Field
Substance Use and Abuse
Sample Interventions
Multidimensional Family Therapy
Preventing Binge Drinking
Group-based Substance Abuse Treatment Program for Adolescents
Detailed Intervention
Project PRIDE: A Counselor-Administered Drug and Alcohol Prevention Program
From the Field
Index