The Homework Identification Plan: A Solution-Focused Activity to Promote Student-Athletes' Time Management Skills

This article describes the first author's experiences utilizing the Homework Identification Plan (HIP). This plan is founded upon solution-focused theory and utilizes kinesthetic and visual learning methods. HIP provides a brief, inexpensive, and engaging game plan designed by the first author to promote high school student-athletes' time management skills and to increase the hours student-athletes invest in their homework. PERSPECTIVES is a special feature included in this issue of the Journal of Creativity in Mental Health that provides mental health professionals with an opportunity to discuss their positions on a variety of creativity-related topics. In this column, a high school student and two counselor educators share their perspective on a solution-focused game plan to promote high school student-athletes' time management skills. Gerald Bryson Juhnke, a high school student, athlete, and Winners' Circle member, developed this creative process. His father, Gerald A. Juhnke, and a colleague, Kathryn Henderson, adapted this innovative game for use in clinical practice.