Motivational Interviewing for School Counselors

I’m not a school counselor, but I’m considering becoming one. I’m ambivalent about my career path. ;) I currently work in higher education, and after reading this thoroughly enjoyable and well written book, plan on using MI with the college students I serve. I love how the author used scenarios with examples of dialogue throughout the book. I’ll probably read it again.

I am a school counselor in a suburb of Los Angeles. As any school counselor knows, the academic, college/career planning , and especially social/emotional needs of students has skyrocketed in the past few years. I was a skeptic, but the MI method has changed the way I work with students and made me a much better school counselor. The book is written in a practical, understandable, and conversational way so that I felt I could actually implement the things I learned well. It will take more and more practice, but I am already seeing the results.

It was clear from the research we read in Graduate School that Motivational Interviewing is a powerful tool. But the articles were technical and dry and did not hit the nail on the head in terms of applying MI techniques. This book changes all that. The author is a School Counselor and it shows from page one. Every example comes from his lived experience on the job - and I can tell because I am a School Counselor! The author's sense of humor and light touch adds to the readability of the book.

Accesible, readable and straight to the point with some good humor too. Very helpful useful material with plenty of real case examples. Book came a bit bent and ruffled up though.

I’m a school counselor in Spain. I have Spanish and American Citizenship. I lived in USA almost 20 years. I read the book of the creators of MI, Miller and Rollnick, 2013. The name for school counselors in Spain is “orientadores escolares”. I work with teenagers and I totally agree with Reagan North: MI is the way to counsel teenagers in school. I’m glad that mr. Reagan has written a book specially for school counselors that show examples of dialogues that we have everyday with students, in Spain, in USA and everywhere. The MI counseling match perfectly the teenager’s developmental stage. It encourages autonomy, which teenagers crave. Reagan’s book is shorter that Miller and Rollnick and focused in school counseling. I would love to see the book translated to Spanish . This knowledge is worth to be shared.

Great book for new and seasoned counselors.

I love this book and refer to it often. I would love this in audio format, especially read by the author. I would purchase again.

I'm a licensed clinical social worker, and I have been a school adjustment counselor for over 15 years. Over time, certain skills become honed, but you also start to stagnate in other areas. I was finding that I was doing very well getting kids to open up and talk to me about their lives, but I was feeling like we were not progressing quickly toward making positive changes. This book has really helped me tap into students' own desires to set goals for themselves and to actually make changes! By utilizing the strategies in this book, I have helped high school kids do the following: figure out how to move on after a breakup, work on resolving the constant arguing between a student and her parent, work through complicated feelings following a parent's death, figure out how to start budgeting so they can move out after graduation, change sleeping habits so a student stops missing the first two hours of school every day, and more. I definitely recommend this book!

Very glad with my purchase