Solution Focused Brief Counseling (SFBC) in Overcoming Student Problems at School
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Solution Focused Brief Counseling (SFBC) is a counseling approach that emphasizes individual strengths, solution orientation, and positive change within a relatively short time frame. This article aims to examine the effectiveness of SFBC in addressing various student-related problems in school settings through a review of 20 empirical studies published between 2020 and 2025. A literature review method was employed using a descriptive analytical approach to examine research designs, participant characteristics, intervention procedures, and key findings. The synthesis indicates that SFBC is consistently effective in enhancing students’ positive psychological attributes, including self-regulation learning, self-efficacy, self-acceptance, psychological well-being, resilience, self-esteem, and adaptive capacity, while also reducing academic and behavioral problems such as academic procrastination, burnout, bullying, verbal aggression, and truancy. Interventions were typically implemented across 2–6 sessions utilizing core techniques such as the miracle question, scaling question, and exception question. These findings suggest that SFBC represents an efficient, practical, and evidence-informed counseling approach that is well suited to strengthening responsive school counseling services.
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