15-Minute Counseling Techniques That Work

15-Minute Counseling Techniques That Work
Author: Allison Edwards
Publisher: 15-Minute Focus
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781937870690

The counselor is not the strategy. The counselor teaches strategies. As counselors, we spend our days helping kids. Kids come to us with a variety of problems, searching for answers. They want us to listen. And they need us to give them solutions for the issues they are facing. While these solutions may work temporarily, we really never help kids until we give them tools"¬‚¬"or techniques"¬‚¬"to manage thoughts and feelings on their own. Our job is not to do it for them. Our job is to teach them how to do it themselves! This is the greatest gift we can give. In 15-Minute Counseling Techniques, Allison Edwards provides tools to use in individual or group counseling sessions with children in grades K"¬‚¬"12. Children will learn how to calm their mind and body with Square Breathing, let go of negative thoughts by Changing the Channel, identify their unique gifts by creating a "What I'm Good At" Jar, and so much more. The techniques in this book will help children feel empowered to face everyday challenges and equipped to manage their stress and emotions. And, best of all, you will give them the confidence they need to handle challenges throughout their lives.

15-Minute Counseling Techniques that Work

15-Minute Counseling Techniques that Work
Author: Allison Edwards
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1953945260

The counselor is not the strategy. The counselor teaches strategies. As counselors, we spend our days helping kids. Kids come to us with a variety of problems, searching for answers. They want us to listen. And they need us to give them solutions for the issues they are facing. While these solutions may work temporarily, we really never help kids until we give them tools - or techniques - to manage thoughts and feelings on their own. Our job is not to do it for them. Our job is to teach them how to do it themselves! This is the greatest gift we can give. In 15-Minute Counseling Techniques, Allison Edwards provides tools to use in individual or group counseling sessions with children in grades K-12. Children will learn how to calm their mind and body with Square Breathing, let go of negative thoughts by Changing the Channel, identify their unique gifts by creating a "What I'm Good At" Jar, and so much more. The techniques in this book will help children feel empowered to face everyday challenges and equipped to manage their stress and emotions. And, best of all, you will give them the confidence they need to handle challenges throughout their lives.

15-Minute Focus: Behavior Interventions: Strategies for Educators, Counselors, and Parents

15-Minute Focus: Behavior Interventions: Strategies for Educators, Counselors, and Parents
Author: Amie Dean
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1953945589

In 15-Minute Focus: Behavior Interventions, Amie Dean gives educators, counselors, and parents knowledge, strategies, and resources to teach children and teens how to communicate and make decisions to get their needs met in positive ways through behavior instruction and coaching. If a child or teen is struggling to manage emotions or make good choices, it is rarely because they want to be "bad" or disrespectful. Most adults look for the "right" way or a magic formula that will transform challenging students, with no luck on finding one. Impacting behavioral change in another person is hard work, and every individual has unique needs and circumstances that should be considered. This book will help you view children's words and actions as a lack of coping skills in the moment, or a skill deficit that can be taught and improved. You'll discover: - The function of behavior - Ways to rethink responses to behavior - De-escalation techniques - Steps to create a trauma-sensitive classroom - Principles for a positive classroom - Actionable strategies, curated resources, and more! This guide will ask you to consider that there is likely a barrier keeping children from being successful, and it is our opportunity as the adults who care for them to help them through it.

15-Minute Focus: Anxiety: Worry, Stress, and Fear

15-Minute Focus: Anxiety: Worry, Stress, and Fear
Author: Leigh Bagwell
Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1953945279

In 15-Minute Focus: Anxiety, Worry, Stress, and Fear, Dr. Leigh Bagwell gives counselors and educators a step-by-step primer on how to support students who struggle with anxiety. Anxiety can cause students to feel isolated and overwhelmed, preventing them from learning and engaging in the classroom. Rather than tell our students not to worry, our job as educators should be to recognize when our students are struggling with anxiety and get them the support they need. In this book, Bagwell explains the physiological progression from a trigger to a full-blown anxiety attack, and provides a variety of prevention and intervention strategies for school counselors, educators, and administrators. What you'll get: - Understanding of anxiety and clarification of anxiety vs. misbehavior -Breakdown of various anxiety disorders and how they present - Helpful tips for parents who have anxious children - Curated list of resources, including organizations, curriculum, books, and more! When students experience anxiety, they need help navigating through it. This guide will teach school counselors, educators, and administrators how to become powerful advocates for their students so they can thrive in the classroom and in life.

Basic Counseling Techniques

Basic Counseling Techniques
Author: Wayne Perry
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2008-01-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1463464312

Wayne Perry has been a therapist for more than thirty years, but he still hears the same thing from beginning counselors and therapists: Yes, I know what the theory says, but what do I do with this particular client? Drawing on his decades of experience training marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, and pastoral counselors, he answers that question in the updated edition of his landmark book: Basic Counseling Techniques. He provides practical suggestions for setting up the therapy room, using audiovisual recording equipment, and conducting those first critical interviews. You'll learn how to: apply nine different sets of clinical tools; select the appropriate tool for the appropriate clinical situation; and improve how you carry out the clinical thinking process. Each chapter concludes with a "Living into the Lesson" section that allows you to participate in experiential exercises to master what you've learned. While designed for counselors and therapists in the beginning of their careers, even veterans in the field will find value in this updated edition.

Brief Counseling That Works

Brief Counseling That Works
Author: Gerald B. Sklare
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781412904582

By combining step-by-step instructions with vivid case examples, the author provides the necessary tools to easily and quickly implement this powerful counseling method.

The School Counselor's Mental Health Sourcebook

The School Counselor's Mental Health Sourcebook
Author: Rick Auger
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2010-12-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452223505

This unique handbook provides information on common mental health disorders and intervention strategies that busy school counselors need to help students succeed.

Why Smart Kids Worry

Why Smart Kids Worry
Author: Allison Edwards
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-09-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1402284276

Why does my child seem to worry so much? Being the parent of a smart child is great—until your son or daughter starts asking whether global warming is real, if you are going to die, and what will happen if they don't get into college. Kids who are advanced intellectually often let their imaginations ruin wild and experience fears beyond their years. So what can you do to help? In Why Smart Kids Worry, Allison Edwards guides you through the mental and emotional process of where your child's fears come from and why they are so hard to move past. Edwards focuses on how to parent a child who is both smart and anxious and brings her years of experience as a therapist to give you the answers to questions such as: •How do smart kids think differently? •Should I let my child watch the nightly news on TV? •How do I answer questions about terrorists, hurricanes, and other scary subjects? Edwards's fifteen specially designed tools for helping smart kids manage their fears will help you and your child work together to help him or her to become more relaxed and worry-free.

Counseling Techniques

Counseling Techniques
Author: Rosemary A. Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134614489

The third edition of Counseling Techniques follows in its predecessors’ steps, presenting the art and science of counseling in a clear and common-sense manner that makes it accessible for counseling students and seasoned practitioners alike. New to this edition are chapters on play therapy and a host of other updates that illustrate ways to use different techniques in different situations. Counseling Techniques stresses the need to recognize and treat the client within the context of culture, ethnicity, interpersonal resources, and systemic support, and it shows students how to meet these needs using more than five hundred treatment techniques, each of which is accompanied by step-by-step procedures and evaluation methods.

Counseling Insights

Counseling Insights
Author: Vicki Enns
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2018-08-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1988617057

As helpers, caregivers, and counsellors, there are times when we need support to be able to help the people we are working with. Hearing from others in similar roles is a key way of finding inspiration and guidance. This book offers practical strategies for supporting people of all ages who have a variety of issues, whether psychological (anxiety, trauma, depression), based on life circumstances (loss and grief, oppressive societal attitudes), or due to harmful ways of coping with these or other life stressors (self-injury, substance use, suicidality). Each chapter begins with an examination of a different psychological issue or situation. Case examples of both youth and adults are included for each topic to illustrate both the impact of the issue and the helping process. Authors share insights they have gained from research, counselling experiences, and the unique wisdom of the people they have encountered. This book is written not only for clinical counsellors, but also for the multitude of frontline helpers who work to support those seeking help and guidance. It is a resource for anyone who identifies as a care provider, including those in the social service, health, education, spiritual care, and social work roles.