ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to answer some of the key questions about Strengths-Based School Counseling (SBSC) in an effort to put the importance and utility of this framework into perspective for school counselors. The school counselor has important contributions to make to that academic mission. SBSC identifies the empirically identified strengths that school counselors need to promote as well as the types of environments that have been shown to promote those strengths. The National Model represents a major step forward in the development and transformation of the school counseling profession. The history of school counseling and education is replete with examples of professionals being asked to assume more and more duties and responsibilities, often with fewer and fewer resources. The SBSC principles dovetail nicely with and even strengthen the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs School Counseling Program Standards.
