Counseling Toward Solutions: A Practical Solution-Focused Program for Working with Students, Teachers, and Parents
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (664 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0787966290 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Powerful strategies for counseling in the school environment" according to Ann Terrill-Torrez. Ms. Metcalf's strategies for applying solution-focused approaches with students, faculty,parents and administrators create a powerful vision for changing the fabric of school culture through utilizing the strengths and successes already present and happening every day in every school. I found this book a refreshing and thought provoking alternative to hiring expensive consultants to fix our schools. Second - order change at its best!. Liana Lowenstein said A helpful resource for school counselors. This book is an invaluable resource for school counselors seeking creative techniques to use with children. Practical and useable. Readers may also be interested in the following books:Innovative Strategies for Unlocking Difficult Children: Attention Seekers, Manipulative Students, Apathetic Students, Hostile StudentsAssessment and Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families: Practitioners Share Their Most Effective TechniquesAssessment and Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families VOLUME TWO: Practitioners Share Their Most Effective TechniquesCreative Interventions for . A clerly-written, useful book for School Counselors This book is a practical resource for School Counselors. It presents the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy approach, along with providing forms that can be reproduced to integrate into your school counseling programs. Some parts are a bit repetitive, but it's an easy read that has real applications for School Counselors. Very handy!
This approach— called Solution-Focused Brief Therapy— is often used by private counselors and therapists and is now being applied in the schools with great success.You'll find guidelines for dealing with specific problems ranging from incomplete homework to abuse and depressiontechniques to develop small group dynamicsand ways to help staff other than counselors use the approachplus over 80 reproducible student handout pages and dozens of delightful illustrations throughout.For easy use, this resource is organized into nine chapters, from "Changing Our Thinking to a Solution Focus" to "A Solution Focused School Staff," and printed in a big spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying of full-page forms and handouts.Here are just a few of the outstanding features you'll find in this practical new resource:A process for identifying exceptions to a student's negative behaviorActual case examples representing a
She is also the author of Teaching Toward Solutions (1998) and Parenting Toward Solutions (1996), published by The Center for Applied Research in Education. . Metcalf is in private practice in Arlington, where she lives with her husband and three teenage children. Dr. Linda Metcalf, Ph.D., is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a former teacher and school
This approach— called Solution-Focused Brief Therapy— is often used by private counselors and therapists and is now being applied in the schools with great success.. Step by step, Counseling Toward Solutions shows how to help individual students begin their own change process by noticing when a problem does not occur rather than focusing on the problem or what caused it