LISD Guidance and Counseling
Counseling Technique Review for Campus Counselors
Please reach out to your Student Assistance Counselor if you have any additional questions.
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Key points of therapy:
A – Activating Event: Something happens in your environment.
B – Beliefs: What you believe about the event or or the situation.
C – Consequence: The emotional response to your belief.
Uses for your office
Sentence Stems
Materials: Sentence Stems, using either laminated flash card or labels on playing cards to make it a game.
Use Examples of sentence stems.
1. When I am with my friends at school, I feel…
2. The worst time I’ve had with a friend is…..
3. At home I feel…
4. My parents are…..
Elementary: Progressive Relaxation for Younger Children
Goal: Stimulate discussion to get more information about student.
Materials: Sentence Stems, using either laminated flash card or labels on playing cards to make it a game. Use Examples of sentence stems.
1. When I am with my friends at school, I feel…
2. The worst time I’ve had with a friend is…..
3. At home I feel…
4. My parents are…..
Secondary: Away with Anxiety Worksheet
Materials: A Magnifying Glass, Away with Anxiety Table, Pen or pencil Procedure: Explain that often anxiety gets worse because we magnify the problem. Note using the magnifying lense vs. normal view. Discuss the concept of catastrophizing. Teach to dispute catastrophizing events by using the following strategies:
Challenge Logically-is this logical, does it make sense?
Challenge Empirically- Evidence that the worst will happen. Does it usually? If the worse happens, how would I handle it?
Retrieved from:Vernon, Ann. (2009) What Works When with Children and Adolescents: A Handbook of Individual Counseling Techniques. Champaign, IL : Research Press