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In Brief Therapy With Adolescents, John Littrell, EdD, demonstrates his approach to working with teenage clients. This approach seeks to shorten the length of therapy by looking at the client's patterns of behavior and helping to change the patterns that do not fit the client's goals.
In this session, Dr. Littrell works with a 17-year-old boy who is having problems with grades and getting into trouble in school. Dr. Littrell helps the client increase his sense of agency and see that he has more choices than he is currently aware of, which helps the client develop a concrete set of goals for change.
Brief counseling has nine defining characteristics (Littrell & Zinck, 2004). These are not mutually exclusive from characteristics of other counseling approaches, but taken together they give brief counseling its uniqueness.
The nine characteristics are:
- relationship-based
- humor-eliciting
- time-limited
- solution-focused
- action-based
- socially interactive
- detail-oriented
- developmentally attentive
- culturally responsive
Read more about the approach
is a professor and program head of counseling and career development at Colorado State University. He received his doctorate in counseling from Indiana University in 1975. Littrell was a Fulbright professor in Malaysia during the 1985–86 academic year.
Over the last 30+ years, Littrell has specialized in ways to speed up the process of change. He has published more than 40-refereed articles and book chapters, as well as producing five brief counseling videotapes. His two books are Brief Counseling in Action (1998) and Portrait and Model of a School Counselor (2005; co-authored by Jean S. Peterson). The latter is based on an ethnographic analysis of a school counselor who facilitated changing the culture of a school.
Dr. Littrell has been a featured presenter on the topic of brief counseling at 25 American Counseling Association professional development workshops. He is currently writing a counseling practicum and internship textbook to help students integrate theories, strategies, and skills.
In his spare time, Littrell writes short story mysteries based on famous counselors and therapists who solve murders that occur in their practice. Dr. Littrell's delightful sense of humor and tenacity in seeking clients' solutions make this DVD informative, practical, and memorable.
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- Littrell, J. M., Malia, J. A., & Vanderwood, M. (1995). Single-session brief counseling in a high school. Journal of Counseling & Development, 73 (4), 451–458.
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- Zinck, K., & Littrell, J. M. (2002). A peaceful solution. In L. B. Golden (Ed.), Case studies in child and adolescent counseling (3rd ed., pp. 108–117). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill Prentice Hall.
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