School-Based Family Counseling: A New Paradigm

Abstract

This article has to do with the mental and physical health of students and advocates a new model that is more effective than what we have at present in taking care of the students. This model is called School-Based Family Counseling (SBFC).The meaning of SBFC is explained and the author examines the related literatures from Alfred Adler’s point of view to school counseling, school psychology and social services to buttress his claim. Three quarters of the literature reviewed showed that incorporating Family Counseling and School Counseling will go a long way to alleviate student’s personal problems, teacher-student problems, parent-student problems, student-peer problems, teacher-parent-student problems and even parent-grandparent-student problems. This does not mean that there are not many obstacles on the 
way to accomplish this goal, for example man-power training, costs, acceptance in the schools and parents presence on site (School).