Solution-Focused Brief Counseling—how could this improve your practice? What might you need to modify for your setting?

This is my go to modality. I use goal setting with my students. I need to work on getting them to identify their strengths rather than pointing them out. I will use the miracle question to ask them to generate a scenario where the problem is solved. Having more one on one time with students will allow me to practice more intentionality.

I like to use SFBC when student come to me for issues. Goal setting a great aspect to utilize with students. I struggle with using a miracle question and I need to improve my ability to use that with students.

This would help with the students using solutions and I would modify the feelings scales.

I have always enjoy helping my students find a solution to concerns that they bring to me. I do feel that I can become more focused on helping my students find their long solution, rather than a quick solution to their concerns. I can improve my practice by helping students find other ways to contact me for students who may not be willing or want to talk.

Goal-setting is a great way to encourage students to find solutions instead of focusing on problems and it can be used in so many facets: academics, personal, emotional, etc.

I could improve my practice by informally assessing a session by asking the student a scaling question from 1 to 10. For example, a student who comes into my office expressing feelings of anxiety will have to tell me where their level of anxiety was before the session (1 being no anxiety and 10 being severe anxiety) and their level of anxiety after the session. I can change the setting by posting a scale in my office for such questions so the students can view it or mark the number with a post-it or marker.