Synopses & Reviews
Counseling Toward SolutionsSecond Edition
When it was first published in 1995, Linda Metcalf's book Counseling Toward Solutions became an instant bestseller. Written for counselors and teachers at all levels, this revised and updated second edition presents a positive program for changing individual behavior that empowers students of all ages to deal with their own problems and gain self-esteem in the process.
Step by step, the book shows how to help individual students begin their own change process by noticing when a problem does not occurthat is, when things go better than normalrather than focusing on the problem or what caused it. This approach, called Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, has been used by private counselors and therapists and is now being applied in K-12 schools with great success.
In this book veteran school counselor Linda Metcalf offers guidelines for dealing with specific problems ranging from incomplete homework to child abuse and depression. She offers techniques that are equally useful in one-on-one counseling and small group settings, and she provides ways to help non-counseling staff use the solution-focused approach. Metcalf covers a wealth of topics, including:
Helping students set their own goals,change their own behavior, and rebuildtheir reputations
Identifying "exceptions" to a student'snegative behavior
Working with students who are frustrated, sad, or unmotivated
Specific strategies for parent conferences and student-teacher problem resolution
Sample dialogues showing what to say and questions to ask
In addition, the book offers more than 80 reproducible worksheets and student handouts.
Synopsis
When it was first published in 1995, Linda Metcalf’s book
Counseling Toward Solutions became an instant bestseller. Written for counselors and teachers at all levels, this revised and updated second edition of
Counseling Toward Solutions presents a positive program for changing individual behavior that empowers students of all ages to deal with their own problems, gaining self-esteem in the process.
Synopsis
When it was first published in 1995, Linda Metcalf’s book
Counseling Toward Solutionsbecame an instant bestseller. Written for counselors and teachers at all levels, this revised and updated second edition of
Counseling Toward Solutionspresents a positive program for changing individual behavior that empowers students of all ages to deal with their own problems, gaining self-esteem in the process.
Synopsis
For counselors and teachers at all levels, this book presents a positive program for changing individual behavior. Step by step, this empowering book shows professionals how to address the problems faced by today's students.
About the Author
Linda Metcalf, Ph.D., is a certified school counselor, licensed professional counselor, and licensed marriage and family therapist in the State of Texas. She is an associate professor and director of school counseling at Texas Wesleyan University. Metcalf is the author of numerous books, including Parenting Toward Solutions.
Table of Contents
About This Book.
About the Author.
Acknowledgments.
Foreword by Bill O’Hanlon.
1 Learning to Think with a Solution Focus.
2 Creating Possibilities Through Language.
3 Competency-Based Conversations.
4 Reviving Piaget: Helping Teachers to Become Solution Focused.
5 The Miracle Question: Goal Setting for Success.
6 Constructing New Stories with Elementary Students.
7 Relationships, Reputations, and Scheduling: Creating Success with Secondary Students.
8 Working with Families to Change the Lives of Students.
9 Disciplining Differently: Behavior Transformations.
10 Helping Students Deal with Dangerous Habits and Diffi cult Situations.
Bibliography and References.
Index.