This book offers practical suggestions for school counselors to begin integrating family counseling methods into their practice, while providing a rationale and the research support for working with families from a school base. It also provides specific techniques for using solution-focused tools, conducting family therapy with children, working with parents and teachers, and working with individuals from a family perspective. Discussions are included on family dynamics and achievement, fostering academic success, working with families who refuse to come to counseling at school, and which school-based interventions are supported empirically. Chapters include: (1) Overview of Family Systems Counseling in a School Setting (Lynn D. Miller); (2) Working with Families: A Rationale for School Counseling Programs (William G. Nicoll); (3) Creating Solution-Focused Families: Tools for School Counselors (Bobbie Birdsall); (4) Compendium of Practices for Including Children in Family Sessions (Alan Carr); (5) Including Parents and Teachers (Deanna Hawes); (6) Working with Individual Children from a Family Systems Perspective (Lynn D. Miller); (7) Research: What Works in Schools (Susan C. Whiston and Carla M. Teed). Each chapter contains a list of references. (GCP)