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Full-Day
Workshops • Half-Day
Workshops • Evening Workshops
“Promoting Resilience and Building Strengths in Students”
Resilience is the term used to describe a set of
qualities that foster a process of successful adaptation and transformation
despite risk. An innate capacity for resilience helps children and
youth develop social competence, problem-solving skills, a critical
consciousness, autonomy, and a sense of purpose. In spite of the
most adverse circumstances, some students manage to survive and
even thrive, academically and socially, into adulthood. A complex
array of individual, family, and community factors has been identified
that best explains resilience and lays the foundation for programs
and interventions targeted at fostering the development and maintenance
of resilience in students.
What are the factors and strategies that support resilience in
school-aged children and youth? Research indicates that students
who have resiliency and the ability to focuses on what is going
right, strength based counseling, are better able to deal with adversities
in life. Come learn about specific activities and strategies to
help foster resilience and strengths in students through the lens
of Positive Psychology, Resiliency, and Strength-Based Counseling.
This workshop provides an overview of the basic tenets of positive
psychology and examines how the research on resilience and strength-based
counseling influences school counseling practice. The workshop provides
you practical activities that foster resilience; activities that
you can take home and successfully implement with your students
to promote resilience. The demonstrations of the activities will
provide you the confidence to incorporate the activities in your
school program.
Dr. Tamara Davis is a full-time professor at Marymount University.
Before joining Marymount in 1999, Dr. Tammy Davis was an elementary
and high school counselor for nine years in Manassas, Virginia.
She teaches courses in both the School Counseling and Community
Counseling programs. Her research interests include: resilience
in children and adolescence, strengths-based counseling, school
counselor preparation and training, theories of counseling, perfectionism
in students, and suicide in young children.
Her professional positions have included being past president of
both the Virginia Association for Counselor Education and Supervision
and the Virginia School Counselor Association. Dr. Davis has presented
over 70 workshops locally, regionally, and nationally on a number
of topics in school counseling, including developing resilience
and positive thinking in students.
Her publications include books and articles in school counseling
as well as book chapters on counseling suicidal children and group
counseling in schools. She recently co-authored the second edition
of The School Counselor's Book of Lists. She was named the 2007
Counselor Educator of the Year by the American School Counselor
Association and was elected as the ASCA Counselor Educator Vice
President (2010-2013).
“Solution Focused Counseling in the Schools: Practical Strategies
for Helping Students Find Solutions”
How many times has a teacher rushed into your
office saying, "I just can't get any work out of Ted?
He is so easily distracted and bothers the kids around him. He bursts
out with answers to questions without thinking. The teacher makes
a referral asking you to fix him!" You take the referral and
think, "Now what do I do?"
The school counselor meets many different needs and fills many
roles. They teach classroom guidance, facilitate small-groups,
conduct individual counseling, and consult with teachers and parents,
and participate in 504s, IEPs and many other committees. School
counselors spend a considerable amount of time addressing problems.
The expectations of stakeholders can overwhelm many school counselors
and they have little time left to commit to counseling students.
School counselors are ready for an approach to working with students,
their families, and school staff that takes less of a time commitment
and is more effective at the same time. Solution Focused Counseling
makes sense in the schools. During this full-day preconference workshop,
participants will be introduced to a "school friendly"
model of counseling that enables students to move toward positive
change. Solution Focused counseling provides an efficient alternative
for professionals working in a time-conscious environment. This
workshop helps participants understand characteristics of the solution-focused
school counselor; understand why solution-focused school counseling
works and how it differs from other approaches. It provides strategies
to maximize efficiency in your program delivery. You learn to implement
a clear solution-focused counseling model to support student success.
Paul E. Barnes, Ph.D., NCSC, LMHP is an associate professor and
Chairperson of the Counselor Education Program at the University
of Nebraska-Omaha and is a recipient of the College of Education's
Outstanding Teaching Award. A past-president of the Nebraska School
Counselor Association, he has taught solution-focused techniques
to counselors, teachers, graduate students and mentors across the
United States and has practiced solution-focused techniques with
adolescents for more than 15 years. He is a former high school teacher,
middle and high school counselor and a supervisor of school counselor
candidates.
A recent participant in Paul's workshop stated, "All of
my counselors came to me to thank me for providing such an outstanding
presenter. This very seldom occurs when staff development is
offered. They also shared that they were going to view their job
as counselors from a new perspective. Basically, I can summarize
by saying that he was a HIT. Thank you for working with me to locate
such an outstanding presenter."
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Make
your plans to attend the 2013 WSCA Annual Conference
to be held February 19-21, 2013 at the Monona
Terrace Convention Center, Madison WI
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Dr. Tamara Davis, EdD., EdS., Professor; Marymount University Manassas,
Virginia
Paul Barnes, Ph.D., NCSC, LMHP, Associate Professor / Chairperson
- Counselor 
