Counseling II: Problem-Solving and Support (w)

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Overview

Details

In this four-hour training, counselors learn how they can further support students’ learning, retention, and achievement of goals, through the application of problem-solving techniques. As counselors learn new techniques through practice in experiential problem-solving, they will increase their capacity to help students who come to them with a range of issues and abilities. In addition, as counselors become more aware of the problem-solving strategies they themselves already employ, they will also improve their ability to teach and model for students the skills and attitudes of successful problem-solvers, thus empowering students to use these methods at their workplaces, with their families, and in other aspects of their lives. Participants will work on problem-solving in small and large groups by using authentic scenarios enacted by participants, with assistance from the group in analyzing the dynamics and modeling different problem-solving strategies. The problem-solving methods in this training may be applied to all sorts of problems experienced by students in ABE programs. In addition to the focus on students’ problems, this training also focuses on problem-solving for counselors’ challenges in their jobs and how to develop supports and solutions for these challenges.

When

January 16, 2009 from 10:00 am to 02:30 pm

Where

• Holyoke Community College
• 303 Homestead Avenue
• Kittredge Center - Room 302
• Holyoke, MA 01040

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Topics

ABE, ESOL, Counseling

Multi-session attendance required

no

Contact info

Dori McCormack
dmccormack@hcc.mass.edu
(413) 552-2393

Indicators of Program Quality

IPQ3 - Student support services

Learning objectives

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

• approach problems and problem-solving from a variety of perspectives;
• understand how attitudes and emotions may have positive or negative effects on the problem-solving process;
• develop a deeper awareness of their strengths and skills as problem-solvers while identifying areas for futher develpment;
• apply and model problem-solving techniques with students so that students can apply them on their own; and
• identify the most effective problem-solving approaches and technqiues for the most common problems faced by the students and staff in our progams (including, for example, preventive problem-solving; prioritizing and sequencing; perspectives and assumptions; and entry points).
  

Presenters

Laura Kranis

Presenters Bio

Laura Kranis, ABE Counselor at SCALE in Somerville, has worked in Adult Literacy since 1999. She has also worked as a psychotherapist, writing coach, learning styles consultant, life coach, crisis interventionist, family therapy team member, university instructor, and hospice intern. Her studies have included literature, psychology, linguistics, arts therapies, psychoanalytic theories, and existential philosophy. Thank goodness she's also a comedy writer, or she wouldn't be any fun at all

Host RSC

West Massachusetts Region

PDPs

no