Everybody has problems. The most productive people have the determination and ability to resolve their problems. Dr. Robert Carkhuff s model addresses the challenge of problem-solving and is based on The Art of Problem-Solving, first published over a decade ago and used by thousands of people. Productive Problem-Solving is an important book for groups and individuals especially parents, teachers, counselors and administrators who recognize the importance of problem-solving in productivity and growth. In eight chapters, Dr. Carkhuff introduces and discusses the six skills involved in productive problem-solving: Understand the problem by processing information about it. Analyze the problem by breaking the problem down into its component dimensions. Expand alternative courses to solve the problem. Define values to study the impact of the alternative courses. Evaluate courses of action based upon the most positive impact on our values. Improve courses of action. According to Dr. Carkhuff, the most important skill is defining your values. This step enables you to ask and answer the basic question in problem-solving: What do you want to get out of this situation and what are you willing to do to get those benefits? Problem-solving is a lifelong process. With this book, you have problem-solving procedures you can use throughout your life to resolve conflicts, make choices and develop directions you may not have otherwise developed.
Sharon Scott LLC is a licensed professional counselor and marriage and family therapist whose internationally recognized work has been making a difference in peoples' lives for thirty years. An accomplished training consultant, award-winning author, and global lecturer as well, she specializes in:
training programs and keynote addresses for schools, conferences, social service agencies, hospitals, law enforcement, volunteer, and religious organizations and
private counseling with two convenient office locations for individuals, families, couples, school-age children and teens. (*Note that this web site is basically about her training/consulting work so please go to the 'counseling' page for more information on her private practice*)
Among Sharon's many professional achievements is her PEER PRESSURE REVERSAL program--one of the most highly respected refusal skills programs for children and teens in the nation--which she has personally brought to over one million people across the U.S. and in Australia, Africa, Switzerland, Spain, Canada, Malaysia, Turkey, and Micronesia. Her nine widely acclaimed books include an elementary-series that she 'co-authored' with Nicholas, her savvy Cocker Spaniel! Her guide for teens, "How to Say No and Keep Your Friends, 2nd Edition," became a bestseller.
Prior to opening her company, LifeSkills for Positive Living, in 1980, Sharon served as director of the Dallas, Texas Police Department's First Offender Program which became a national model for delinquency prevention. She was also a social worker for Dallas County Department of Human Services counseling thousands of troubled families.
Sharon Scott has been honored with numerous awards including the prestigious 2001 "Molly Gerold Human Rights Award" given by the 6,000 member Texas Counseling Association and is the only three-time recipient of their "Professional Writing Award." A frequent TV and radio talk-show guest, she has appeared on CNN and Good Morning Australia and has been quoted by hundreds of media sources including 20/20, Good Housekeeping Magazine, Seventeen, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Teen Magazine, the British Broadcasting Co., Working Mothers Magazine, Scholastic Choices, The Dallas Morning News, The London Times, and Redbook.
She is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and a past president of Northern Metro Counseling Association.
