2007 Volume 10 Issue 2 Pages 213-224
I was assigned as a school counselor (SC) for a high school, where the staff struggled to take care of a female student with wrist-cutting behavior. I provided the crisis intervention to the school and her family. The intervention was proved to be effective. In this article, I examined techniques, principles, and measures for fostering the culture of team support, rather than SC’s trying to solve all problems by himself/herself. My practices include crisis intervention, collaboration with key persons, consultation to teaching staff members, and preventive program. In this case example, I directed my efforts to the student’s environment, including the school and family, instead of supporting the student. In this way, the support capacities of school and family were improved, and the culture of team support was fostered, which then solved the problem. In this article, I stress the importance of SC’s efforts to provide support using the technique of community psychology, in particular, to foster the culture of team support, apart from more conventional approaches, such as providing psychotherapy or counseling.
