• Solution Focused Brief Counseling: A Practical Approach

• Group Counseling Skills for Counselors

• Helping Teen Parents Cope

• Counseling the Angry Child

• Creating a Caring School Community

• Helping Students Cope With Loss

Group Counseling Skills for Counselors
Group counseling is considered a primary role of the school counselor by the American School Counselor Association and it has taken an even more important role in light of the expanding responsibilities of the school counselor. One-on-one counseling is appropriate in many situations; however, the support students can receive in a group is often more powerful that one-on-one counseling. This program will explore the types of groups, the six steps involved in getting a group started, gaining support from administrators and teachers, group logistics and, group process. Participants will receive lists of suggested resources, handouts of sample forms including group sign-up forms, attendance forms and, parent permission forms.

Group Counseling Skills for Counselors II
With experience in organizing a counseling group in a school, many counselors want to expand their skills in leading groups. They need more ideas for group activities and group topics. This program is a workshop that focuses on developing the skills needed for leading effective groups. Participants will be actively involved in many group activities. Participants will also receive ideas for topics, and handouts of sample lesson plans for use with selected groups.

Counseling the Angry Child
In increasing numbers, teachers, counselors, administrators, and parents are seeking solutions for students with problematic behavior relating to anger. Research has shown that a large percentage of the discipline problems experienced in the classroom, school cafeterias, on the playgrounds and in the halls stems from the actions of an angry child or adolescent. This presentation will help counselors identify the common causes of anger in children, understand healthy and unhealthy responses to anger, and will provide a variety of anger management techniques to use when counseling children and adolescents experiencing anger.

Solution Focused Brief Counseling: A Practical Approach
With caseloads often exceeding 500 students, counselors can devote little time to providing students with long-term counseling. Solution-focused counseling offers counselors a unique method of problem solving that promotes change in a shortened period of time. It is a counseling method that meets the challenges facing counselors relating to time, large caseload, and accountability. Counselors learn to encourage students, parents, and teachers to discover and apply their own strengths to problems. In this presentation, counselors will learn the basic concepts and techniques of solution-focused brief counseling. They will observe an actual counseling session using the solution-focused approach and, will have the opportunity to practice these techniques using real problems.