Regaining life balance

June 2009

Jobs provide many people with both a paycheck and a sense of purpose, but counselors sometimes need to help clients see that there's more to life than work

By Lynne Shallcross

One of Patty Von Steen's clients, a single mom and medical professional, contacted the private practitioner to see if Von Steen would counsel her son. The mother had grown concerned about his behavior and their increasingly strained relationship.

Von Steen, a member of the American Counseling Association, quickly concluded the deteriorating situation was less about the son and more about an overworked mother. "In counseling, it was determined that the parent's work was consuming so much of her life that her son was often left to fend for himself and, with advancing age, increasingly resented any attempt she made to parent him," says Von Steen, who maintains a private practice in Greensboro, N.C., and is an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. (Read More...)

Beyond an elementary approach

It may not be as easy A,B, C and 1,2,3, but proponents of solution-focused counseling agree that the approach can be extremely effective when used in school environments

By Jim Paterson

School counselors and school counseling educators typically agree on three things when it comes to solution-focused counseling. (Read More...)

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