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Counseling Strategies that Work! Evidence-based Interventions for School Counselors

Counseling Strategies that Worktargets the unique, day-to-day problems encountered by today's school counselor and provides a new perspective on treatment selection. This text is an anthology of intervention strategies that are rooted in scientific evidence supporting their effectiveness when applied to the day-to-day "problems" confronting today's school counselor.

It is an excellent source for counseling techniques courses or as a reading assigned as part of their field placement experiences, as well as a useful reference text for all those currently employed as school counselors. Every chapter provides a blending of theory, practice and guided, personalized application.

The content is broken down succinctly, beginning with a brief introduction to the nature of the problems being addressed before delving into a detailed presentation with case illustration of the application of an intervention strategy.

Each chapter includes:

• A brief introduction to the nature of the problems being addressed.
• Precis of sample research supporting a specific intervention technique.
• Detailed presentation with case illustration of the application of the intervention strategy.
• A listing of clinical recommendations for direct application.
• A list of web based and literature based resources of additional material.

From the Back Cover

Counseling Strategies that Work! targets the unique, day-to-day problems encountered by today’s school counselor and provides a new perspective on treatment selection.

This text is a collection of intervention strategies rooted in scientific evidence that supports their effectiveness when applied to the day-to-day “problems” confronting today’s school counselor. It is an excellent resource for counseling techniques courses or field placement experiences, as well as a useful reference for those currently employed as school counselors. Every chapter provides a blend of theory, practice, and guided, personalized application. The content is presented succinctly, beginning with a brief introduction to the nature of the problems being addressed before delving into a detailed discussion accompanied by a case illustrating how to apply the intervention strategy.

Product Description

This book and CD program will help teachers, counselors, administrators, and other school employees communicate with students who have Spanish as their first language and speak little or no English. The book, expanded and updated in this new edition, starts by introducing the fundamentals of Spanish conversational speech and word order. It then familiarizes the reader with often-used phrases that relate to everyday school situations. Separate chapters emphasize Spanish words and phrases that are most useful for dealing with preschool and elementary-grades students, and then for middle school and high school students. Remaining chapters deal with words and phrases pertaining to guidance counseling, health issues, career guidance, college assistance, and extracurricular activities. A set of three compact discs replaces the older tape cassettes that came with the book’s first edition. The CDs offer practice in Spanish dialogue and present bilingual dramatizations of typical encounters between students and educators. For teachers who have no Spanish but need to pick up Spanish communication skills in a hurry, here is an ideal way to start.

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SPANISH FOR EDUCATORS * Second Edition

with 3 Audio Compact Discs

If you’re a teacher, a counselor, or an administrator and you regularly communicate with students and parents whose first language is Spanish . .

And if you currently have little or no skill in conversational Spanish . . .

Open this book and discover how easy it is to learn.

Spanish for Educators will familiarize you with often-used phrases that relate to everyday school situations. You’ll find Spanish words and phrases pertaining to guidance counseling, health issues, career guidance, college assistance, and extracurricular activities. Separate chapters emphasize the most useful Spanish words and phrases for dealing with preschool and elementary-grades students. Following chapters focus on conversational Spanish for educators on middle school and high school levels. Here’s a quick, informal, and practical way to get started in the conversational Spanish you need as an educator.

Enclosed audio CDs give you practice in Spanish pronunciation plus bilingual dramatizations of typical conversations in an educational setting