Strengths-Based School Counseling: Promoting Student Development and Achievement

by John P. Galassi

Book Overview

Despite calls for a more preventive and developmental mode of functioning, school counseling has tended to be driven by a reactive and sometimes crisis orientation. Like social workers and school, counseling, and clinical psychologists, school counselors typically function to alleviate deficits, often in a small percentage of the students they serve. Although this orientation has served school counselors well in many instances, it is not empowering,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805862498
• ISBN13: 9780805862492
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.9"