The overall aim of the present study is to describe and explore the characteristics and content of school social worker’s (SSWs) individual counselling with children as these are imprinted in session protocols collected at Swedish elementary schools. Specific focus is placed on the character of the children’s concerns, the content of the SSW’s helping strategies, and challenges related to the alliance between the SSW and the children as experienced by the SSW. The study was based on data from a survey protocol of 20 SSW’s daily practice regarding their experiences in counselling children and adolescents. The data consisted of 193 protocols from the same number of unique individual sessions. Data were analysed through quantitative descriptive statistics. The data also contained a large proportion of open-ended textual answers, which were analysed through a qualitative summative content analysis. The counselling strategies were primarily divided into three parts, namely coaching, processing, and assessing. The most common practice elements used included elements of empowerment, alliance and relationship, and hope and trust. In counselling children, SSWs identified a broad range of problems in children’s overall lives. Many children suffered from their home situations, which also impinged upon the SSWs, who were affected by the children’s life narrative. Our results can help inform SSW policy and practices as SSWs assist vulnerable children through individual counselling that corresponds to their help-seeking behaviour and by offering a space for alliances and relationships.

本研究的总体目标是描述和探索学校社会工作者（SSW）对儿童进行个人咨询的特点和内容，因为这些都印在瑞典小学收集的会议协议中。具体重点是儿童关心的问题的性质、SSW 帮助策略的内容以及SSW 所经历的与SSW 和儿童之间的联盟相关的挑战。该研究基于 20 位 SSW 日常实践的调查数据，涉及他们咨询儿童和青少年的经验。该数据由来自相同数量的唯一单独会话的 193 个协议组成。通过定量描述性统计分析数据。该数据还包含很大一部分开放式文本答案，这些答案是通过定性总结性内容分析进行分析的。咨询策略主要分为三个部分，即辅导、处理和评估。最常见的实践元素包括赋权、联盟和关系、希望和信任等元素。在为儿童提供咨询时，社会工作者发现了儿童整体生活中存在的一系列广泛问题。许多孩子因家庭状况而遭受痛苦，这也影响了社会工作者，他们受到孩子们生活叙述的影响。我们的研究结果可以帮助为 SSW 的政策和实践提供信息，因为 SSW 通过与弱势儿童的寻求帮助行为相对应的个人咨询以及提供联盟和关系的空间来帮助弱势儿童。