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Work-Family Balance: Counseling Strategies to Optimize Health

Barry University Miami Dade Community College

Len Sperry

Florida Atlantic University

This article both describes and demonstrates a brief counseling strategy for optimizing the overall health of three clients. Using the concept of positive spillover between the family domain and the work domain, a detailed health assessment, health status profiling, and a health resource enhancement strategy provided the vehicle to increase the client's work-family balance. The collaborative counseling strategy to optimize the clients' overall health seemed to increase the clients' desire to effect and maintain change in their lives. Additionally, the health status of key family members was positively and indirectly affected by this approach.

Key Words: work-family balance • positive spillover • resource enhancement • health-focused interventions • collaborative counseling strategy • health status profiling

The Family Journal, Vol. 11, No. 4, 404-408 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1066480703255798


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