March 11, 2010
Top : Counselors
Links:
- 10 Ways Coaching and Counseling are Similar (Sometimes you are coach rather than a counselor)
- A Day in the Life of a Counselor (an example day for a higher education school counselor)
- A Definition (What is a Bio-Genetic-Social-Behavioral-Ecologist?)
- A Different Type of Alcohol Assessment (additional questions to help an alochol assessment)
- A Metaphor (Corn) (using a Metaphor to put something in perspective)
- A Plate Of Food (a metaphor for counseling)
- All That Jazz (a Counseling Metaphor)
- Balancing Eight Nails On The Head Of One Nail (a counseling metaphor)
- Balloon + Hot Air = A Tool For Learning to Manage Anger (anger management advice)
- Bandaids (a counseling technique using bandaids for emotional pain)
- Big versus Small (a counseling exercise)
- Brunch (Brunch... A Buffet Metaphor)
- Bubbles (exercise to help find the reason for a behavior)
- Building Your Relationship One Block At A Time (working together vs. working alone)
- Changing: The Easy Way Versus The Hard Way (how to facilitate behavioral changes and rapid growth as quickly as possible)
- Coming Home To Your Real Self (a guided imagery exercise)
- Counselor As Native American Guide (using the comparison of a counselor to a guide)
- Counselors as Coaches in Inner Fitness (another way to look at a counselor's role)
- Counselors As Warm-Blooded Chameleons (how to identify with those you serve)
- Cremation-Transformation-Metamorphosis (helping let go)
- Crossing the Line (powerful technique)
- Don't Get Burned (help a client realize that they really know what they sometimes don't think they know)
- Earthquake (another counseling metaphor)
- Family / Motto: A Client Exercise (how to become more aware of thematic directions in your life)
- Follow The Yellow Brick Road: The Use of Metaphor In Counseling (another powerful metaphor)
- Fortune Cookies (an effective counseling technique)
- Get Me an Obituary (technique used to put client's problem in perspective)
- Hands - A Counseling Thought (understanding your own behaviors and values)
- Have a "C" Day (setting realistic expectations for a happier life)
- I Bet You Will (dealing with loss of love)
- I See Change (An exercise about change)
- I Went to a Garden Party (another counseling metaphor)
- Inner Mentor Exercise (11 steps to helping a client focus)
- Language (alternative ways to use language effectively in counseling)
- Melted Snowman (Another metaphor)
- Mirror Mirror (Thoughts for the Counselor (Vol IV))
- Missing Person (Take a few minutes to file and write a missing person's report...)
- My Rocking Chair, My Desk (Doing something unique or absurd to make a client remember)
- No Harm Intended
- No Soap Operas (Using the technique of avoiding life drama)
- Nobody's Child (An exercise on parent/child relationships)
- Normalizing Our Client's Behavior (putting behavior into perspective)
- Note Taking (taking notes can help counseling sessions sink in)
- Out Of The Shadows...Exposing The Trickster (counseling thoughts)
- Paying Attention (a counseling exercise on attention)
- Paying Attention and Showing Up (a counseling relfection)
- Peace of Mind vs. Chaos (a counseling approach)
- Peace Pipe (a Counseling Metaphor)
- Pebble in the Shoe (How to handle a reoccuring problem)
- Pendulum Technique (used to help clients become aware of subliminal intuitive responses to various questions)
- Picking Fruit (sometimes a useful counseling method)
- Pieces of the Puzzle (Another counseling metaphor)
- Play-Fulness (benefits of spending more time being playful)
- Playing Catch (technique used to faciliate conversation in a counseling session)
- Santa As An Adult Child of An Alcoholic, Smoking Cessation Technique (a unique smoking cessation technique)
- Sardines (a counseling metaphor helping put things into perspective)
- Saving for the Future (a counseling technique for clients who forget about their dreams)
- Screws (using screws as an effective counseling technique)
- Smoking Cessation Using Guided Imagery and Role Playing (tips to quit smoking)
- Sober Sex is Safer Sex (using a blood alcohol level to stop more than just drunk driving)
- String Along a Client (use when client's attending behaviors lacking)
- The Bottom Line (getting clients to be honest with themselves)
- The Ego States, In It's Parts (a look at the ego states)
- The Elegant Solution (technique on finding the right answer)
- The Issue Is The Issue, But The Issue Is Not The Issue (finding and working with meta issues)
- The Person You Love (advice to use when visiting a physician)
- The Zen Of Counseling (there are certain aspects of modern day counseling that relate to Zen Buddhists’ philosophy)
- Therapeutic Uses Of Humor - Counseling Approach (spend some time thinking about the ways humor can influence and transform both your professional and personal life)
- Three New Counseling Techniques that Work (3 new techniques that might work for you)
- Watch Your Language (A Counseling Exercise on using a diciontary)
- What's in the Package? (a visual metaphor)
- Your Most Important Hour (technique stressing the importance of a counseling session)
- Your Paid for Your Tickets, So Why Not Use Them? (Technique to influence students to attend class)