Concrete, behaviorally specific and stated in terms of small steps
What is a SFBT goal?
100
Not on the past, or why, or causes, but rather on the present and what does work.
What is the focus of SFBT?
100
Respect, unconditional positive regard and empathetic understanding
What core conditions do helping professionals communicate?
100
Used to gauge the severity of a concern and monitor progress
What is scaling?
100
promising results
What have school-based research inquiries shown?
200
Helping professional explains the process.
What is the opening of a first session?
200
Small steps lead to larger change.
What is direction of success?
200
Identifying primary concerns through offering support for coming to counseling
How does the professional helper gain understanding in SFBT?
200
Changing the meaning of a situation by changing negative labels to positive attributes
What is reframing?
200
Addressing negative feelings, behavior problems and productivity
In what areas have beginning research studies indicated positive findings for SFBT in schools?
300
Change into positive terms.
What should professional helper do when child states goal in negative terms?
300
Stated in positive terms and within student's control, independent of others.
What is a SFBT goal?
300
Elicit, amplify, reinforce, start again.
In subsequent sessions what is EARS?
300
Professional gives similiar examples of solved concerns without minimizing student's experience
What is normalizing?
300
Newsome's findings indicated improvement of social skills, homework completion and classroom behaviors.
What are some research findings that relate SFBT to small group counseling?
400
Answer magnifies and exposes glimpsies of solution that has occured.
What is the miracle or magic question?
400
Don't fix it.
What follows "If it works" in the first central philosophy of SFBT ?
400
Reflecting discouragement or frustration without being disappointed and "owning" the need for better suggestions
What would a helping professional do when progress is not apparent?
400
Students describe who will see difference and what they will see, perhaps by pretending what a fly on the wall might see or what a hidden video might record.
What is visualizing goals?
400
Positive results with classroom behavior problems have been documented using this model.
What results has the consultation model with teachers' SFBT training demonstrated?
500
Contains compliments/cheerleading, a "bridge" and the task (homework assignment).
What is child's message at session's end?
500
Activating skills and/or strengths that already exist.
What is a key tool to success in SFBT?
500
Students have the resources to make things better for themselves!
What is the pervasive theme in SFBT?
500
Statements such as: "Really, that's impressive!" "Wow, that showed real courage." You're only 10; that sounded like the thinking of a 14-year-old!"
What is feedback, cheerleading or giving compliments?
500
When miracle question might seem insulting or disrespectful