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With child and adolescent mental health problems on the rise, this timely book offers school practitioners a practical blueprint and 40 effective techniques for supporting meaningful change as quickly as possible. Brief counseling expert John J. Murphy provides evidence-based, culturally responsive tools for helping PreK-12 students resolve frequently encountered psychological and behavioral challenges. The book presents streamlined strategies that can be applied by practitioners of any theoretical orientation to build alliances, set goals, leverage resources, change problem patterns, and empower progress. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes vivid case examples and dialogues, sample scripts, reflection questions, learning activities, and reproducible/downloadable forms for use with students, parents, and teachers.

This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

Brief Counseling in Schools

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      Publisher Guilford Publications
      Published 13 May 2026
      ISBN-13 9781462562329
      978-1462562329

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      Book Synopsis

      With child and adolescent mental health problems on the rise, this timely book offers school practitioners a practical blueprint and 40 effective techniques for supporting meaningful change as quickly as possible. Brief counseling expert John J. Murphy provides evidence-based, culturally responsive tools for helping PreK-12 students resolve frequently encountered psychological and behavioral challenges. The book presents streamlined strategies that can be applied by practitioners of any theoretical orientation to build alliances, set goals, leverage resources, change problem patterns, and empower progress. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes vivid case examples and dialogues, sample scripts, reflection questions, learning activities, and reproducible/downloadable forms for use with students, parents, and teachers.

      This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

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