ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how the change techniques embedded in Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) can be translated into an alternative high school program by carefully adhering to a set of solution focused principles that can be used by everyone in the alternative high school. Alternative education programs encompass public alternatives, charter schools, and other alternative educational programs that fall outside the normal K-12 instruction. SFBT interventions are also structured enough that they can be built into other counseling interventions and daily academic processes within the classroom, such as identifying student strengths and setting daily and postgraduation goals. It is an appropriate intervention for schools because it can be used in Tier 1 interventions by teachers in the classroom as well as in Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions by counselors and social workers, and other mental health professionals.
