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Strength-based school counsellors' experiences of counselling in New Zealand.
- Source :
- British Journal of Guidance & Counselling; Oct2022, Vol. 50 Issue 5, p710-731, 22p, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This article presents New Zealand school counsellors' narratives of counselling adolescents from a strength-based perspective. Strength-based counselling encompasses several counselling modalities including positive psychology, narrative and solution-focused brief counselling and promotes adolescents' strengths to enhance wellbeing. Using semi-structured interviews, eight secondary school counsellors with a strength-based practice focus were interviewed. Narrative analysis drawing on a categorical-content mode of reading across participants' narrative data showed that the school context plays a significant role in shaping counsellors' practice. Metanarratives of both strength and deficit, and metanarratives of the school context were identified as having an impact on counsellors' strength-based practices. Dominant deficit metanarratives were juxtaposed with metanarratives of strength. Implications of how counsellors negotiate counselling in a school context are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03069885
- Volume :
- 50
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Guidance & Counselling
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 160565306
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03069885.2021.1981231