CCHS Counseling
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Personal/Social
This page is designed to provide you with information that will assist you in being successful in your personal and social life.
7 Habits Bulletin Board
The bulletin board pictured was based on the book, 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, by Sean Covey. 
A copy is available in the library, and the book comes highly recommended by the counselors and Mrs. Davis, the school librarian.
The seven habits are:
Parent, Child, Adult
We all have these three "people" - parent, child and adult - active inside of us. Who's in charge of your thinking, emotions and behavior? Often the "parent" inside of us nurturers or criticizes, while the "child" feels strongly one way or another, and the "adult" inside of us thinks. Though different parts of us are active at different times and in different situations, learning how to recognize who is in charge of our behavior and what to do about it can be an important part of personal counseling.
Irrational Beliefs
Types of Faulty Thinking | Do you ever do this? |
| All or nothing thinking | Think of things in absolute terms, like "always", "every" or "never?" |
| Overgeneralization | Take isolated cases and using them to make wide generalizations? |
| Mental filter | Focus exclusively on certain, usually negative or upsetting, aspects of something while ignoring the rest? |
| Discounting the positives | Minimize the good things in your life? |
| Jumping to conclusions | Assume the worst with no evidence to support it? |
| Magnification or minimization | Understate or exaggerate the way people or situations truly are? |
| Emotional reasoning | Make decisions based on your feelings rather than on the truth? |
| "Should" statements | Impose unnessary or unreasonable rules on yourself and/or others? |
| Labeling | Define yourself or others by your mistakes? |
| Personalization | Make things about you that really have nothing to do with you? |
Well, of course you do! We all do this sometimes. In counseling your counselor might help you identify some of your faulty thinking and learn new ways of seeing things.
Solution-Focused Problem Solving
Focusing on solutions minimizes the need to explore past experiences, other than to explore what has worked well in the past. Once we identify what has worked well in the past, we are free to use those positive experiences and strengths to improve our current and future circumstances.
Solution-Focused counseling might explore:
- What a miracle would look like
- Using a scale of 1-10 to assess circumstances
- Times when the problem doesn't/didn't exist?
- Past coping skills
- Things that are not problems