41 Solution Focused Brief Counseling

I OVERVIEW, DESCRIPTION, AND RATIONALE A General Description of Approach Solution Focused Brief Counseling [SFBC] was developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg. After spending many years studying problem behavior and trying to change it, they switched to...

40 Calm Action

CALM ACTION What follows is a technique that includes four [04] procedures that teach the skills leading to the ability to take Calm Action. This technique is helpful for people who are impulsive and have distorted thoughts about self and others, which usually leads...

39 Schema Focused Counseling

INTRODUCTION Cognitive psychologists are well aware that human beings ‘chunk’ information in order to be able to draw on a network of ideas to a particular context or domain. Generally , the largest ‘chunks’ are called schema and the most powerful schema include the...

38 Dialectical Behavior Counseling

INTRODUCTION While children and adolescents are not often diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, the circumstance that lead to such disorders are often apparent. The format of this counseling endeavor is well thought out and has merit particularly for...

37 Metaphor Counseling through Clean Language

INTRODUCTION Metaphor Counseling, developed by Morris Berg, is a way of working with blocked feelings, traumatic memories and of accessing inner healing and helping resources. There are two main ways of using metaphor in counseling: one is to tell the client stories,...