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Single‐Session Brief Counseling in a High School
Author(s) -
Littrell John M.,
Malia Julia A.,
Wood Mike
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1995.tb01779.x
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , task (project management) , feeling , psychology , applied psychology , medical education , clinical psychology , computer science , medicine , social psychology , engineering , systems engineering , world wide web
Counseling designed to be time‐limited is a valuable tool for counselors in school settings. Three approaches to brief counseling were investigated in this naturalistic study: problem‐focused with task, problem‐focused without task, and solution‐focused with task. Quantitative and qualitative measures were used to explore aspects of single‐session brief counseling. High school students made significant changes from the second‐week follow‐up to the sixth‐week follow‐up in alleviating their concerns and increasing the percentage of goal achieved. Students dramatically decreased the intensity of undesired feelings from before the counseling session through the second follow‐up. Solution‐focused counseling was as effective as the other two approaches, while taking less time.