Counseling Students With Incarcerated Parents

2016 ◽  
pp. 118-133
Author(s):  
Emily S. Fisher ◽  
Kelly S. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Counseling Students ◽  
Risky Behaviors ◽  
Financial Strain ◽  
Incarcerated Parents ◽  
Parental Substance Abuse ◽  
Developmental Regression ◽  
Death Of A Parent ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Solution Focused ◽  
Exposure To Trauma

This chapter reviews strategies for working with students who have incarcerated parents. The chapter reviews the risks associated with having an incarcerated parent, including familial and financial strain, disruptions with attachment, changes in caregivers, and the culmination of preexisting risks such as poverty, exposure to trauma, and parental substance abuse. Young people with an incarcerated parent often feel isolated from or different from peers and often have reactions similar to those that may occur after the death of a parent, including sadness, anger, developmental regression, and engagement in risky behaviors. Counseling strategies discussed in this chapter include supporting students as they learn their rights and privileges, addressing misconceptions and fears related to parental incarceration, building coping skills, and preparing for visitations and the re-entry of an incarcerated parent. Specific approaches covered include solution-focused brief therapy and group counseling.

Counseling Students Who Are Gifted

2016 ◽  
pp. 103-117
Author(s):  
Emily S. Fisher ◽  
Kelly S. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Career Counseling ◽  
Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Counseling Students ◽  
Vulnerable Population ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Emotional Needs ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Solution Focused

This chapter reviews strategies for working with students who are gifted. It stresses that gifted students can be a vulnerable population because, without proper academic, social, and emotional support, they may not reach high levels of achievement and recognize their potential in school and beyond. Also, because gifted students’ social and emotional needs are often unrecognized and unmet, it is important for counselors to familiarize themselves with the characteristics associated with giftedness. The chapter describes the types of challenges that may be faced by gifted students, including perfectionism, underachievement, motivation, and multipotentiality. It also suggests counseling strategies to address these concerns such as cognitive-behavioral therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, career counseling, and group counseling.

Counseling Students Who Are Pregnant or Parenting

2016 ◽  
pp. 87-102
Author(s):  
Emily S. Fisher ◽  
Kelly S. Kennedy ◽  
Haylea Drysdale
Keyword(s):  
Dropout Prevention ◽  
Counseling Students ◽  
Support Networks ◽  
Vocational Counseling ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Teen Parent ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Parenting Students ◽  
Solution Focused

This chapter reviews strategies for working with students who are pregnant or parenting. The chapter reviews the risks for becoming a teen parent, as well as the risks and pressures faced by pregnant and parenting students, including teen fathers. It covers issues such as choice counseling, building social support networks, and dropout prevention. The legal and ethical considerations specific to this population are discussed, and strategies such as solution-focused brief therapy, psychoeducation, group counseling, and vocational counseling are presented. Finally, the chapter suggests broad strategies that counselors can implement in efforts to provide effective, holistic pregnancy prevention and education programs in schools.

Counseling Students Living in Foster Care

2016 ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Emily S. Fisher ◽  
Kelly S. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Counseling Students ◽  
Behavior Intervention ◽  
Academic Difficulties ◽  
Foster Care System ◽  
System P ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Solution Focused ◽  
Social Support Systems

This chapter presents information and strategies for counselors who work with students who are living in foster care. Students in foster care have experienced a series of significant negative life events that put them at great risk for mental health and academic difficulties that can persist into adulthood. Counselors working with students in foster care can help by using strategies that promote empowerment and self-determination and that focus on building students’ strengths and social support systems. The chapter discusses specific counseling strategies such as solution-focused brief therapy, trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy, and Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Trauma in Schools. It also presents suggestions for planning for the time when students make the transition from adolescence to adulthood and thus leave the foster care system.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Clients Managing Trauma

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Brief Therapy ◽  
Treatment Approach ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Clinical Expertise ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Strength Based ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Unique Approach ◽  
Solution Focused

This book is a comprehensive overview of how solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) can be used as a treatment approach for working with clients managing various forms of trauma. This book includes an overview of SFBT with its basic tenets and a description of the current research supporting SFBT as an evidence-based practice. This is followed by a comparison of how SFBT clinicians may approach trauma cases differently than clinicians from other therapeutic approaches. The bulk of the book includes various chapters contributed by skilled SFBT clinicians, with differing clinical expertise, illustrating SFBT as it is applied to different traumatic experiences/clinical cases. This book is the first solution-focused book to comprehensively discuss how traumatized clients can be helped to develop a unique preferred future and move toward healing and health. The distinguishing feature of this book lies not only in its unique approach to trauma but also in the outstanding contributors from various specialties in the field of trauma and SFBT: These contributors will share their knowledge and describe their strength-based, resiliency focus of applying SFBT in different traumatic circumstances.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy With Substance-Using Individuals

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 452-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johnny S. Kim ◽  
Jody Brook ◽  
Becci A. Akin
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Brief Therapy ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Addiction Severity Index ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Solution Focused

Objective: This study examined the effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) intervention on substance abuse and trauma-related problems. Methods: A randomized controlled trial design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of SFBT in primary substance use treatment services for child welfare involved parents in outpatient treatment for substance use disorders. Mixed linear models were used to test within- and between-group changes using intent-to-treat analysis ( N = 64). Hedges’s g effect sizes were also calculated to examine magnitude of treatment effects. Results: Both groups decreased on the Addiction Severity Index-Self-Report and the Trauma Symptom Checklist-40. The between group effect sizes were not statistically significant on either measures, thus SFBT produced similar results as the research supported treatments the control group received. Conclusion: Results support the use of SFBT in treating substance use and trauma and provide an alternative approach that is more strengths based and less problem focused.

“I Don’t Know What to Say”: Teachers’ Perspectives on Supporting Bereaved Students After the Death of a Parent

2021 ◽  
pp. 003022282199362
Author(s):  
Inbar Levkovich ◽  
Zohar Elyoseph
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Counseling Students ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
School Officials ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
Death Of A Parent ◽  
The Family ◽  
Need For Support ◽  
Teachers Perspectives

This qualitative study examined teachers’ experiences dealing with bereaved students following the death of a parent. The researchers conducted in-depth, semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with 25 teachers in Israeli schools who had counseled one of their students after the death of a parent. The interviews were recorded and transcribed and underwent content analysis. Analysis of the findings revealed that the teachers felt helpless, confused, overloaded emotionally and anxious when counseling students who had lost a parent. In addition, the teachers discussed the complex nature of their relationship with the remaining parent, ranging from a desire to support the family through avoidance for fear of hurting the parent to fears of being overwhelmed by the child’s problems. Many teachers mentioned their need for support from school officials.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy: Establishing Goals and Assessing Competence

1994 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Iveson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Brief Therapy ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Suicide Risk Assessment ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Solution Focused

A new approach to counselling, solution focused brief therapy, is based on assumptions of client well-being which are very close to those underlying the work of occupational therapists. Two cases, one of memory loss and one of suicide risk assessment, are used to illustrate the principles of brief therapy translated into everyday practice.

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