Alternative-focused thinking is conventionally recognized as the right way to make career decisions, which uses weighted mean to assess the better one. However, alternatives are relevant only because they are means to achieve values. With value-focused thinking (VFT), the authors advance decision-making values should be the primary focus of decision making rather than alternatives. VFT describes and illustrates concepts and procedures for creating better alternatives for career decision-making problems. This article articulates and uses one’s fundamental values to guide and integrate his/her career decision making activities. As a result, career decision-making study has new angle of views and explores many implicated techniques to understand a decision-making setting.

This article focused on the effect of group counseling in classes building and students’ positive explanation style in Chinese colleges. The authors adopted group counseling activity into Psychological teaching and estimated its effect with Sociometry and Attributional Style Questionnaire. The result showed that group counseling was better at classes building than traditional Psychological healthy teaching, and especially take advantage of the later approach at positive explanation style obtain. As a result, the program proved the group counseling’s advantage, defined validity of group counseling activity and finally found some effective Group counseling activity schemes which would bring benefit to mental health teaching.