Systematic Counseling: The T‐F‐A Model for Counselor Intervention

Abstract

Counselors in educational settings are usually not free to select the kinds of clients and problems with which they may work most effectively. Therefore, counselors must select counseling strategies that maximize the probability of helping all clients achieve personal goals. These strategies may focus primarily on changing how clients think, feel, or act (T‐F‐A). Combinations of thinking, feeling, and acting strategies are illustrated along with relationships to different counseling theories. Effective counselors need to systematically use varying combinations of T‐F‐A strategies that will be of maximum value in helping individual clients to change their behavior.