Counseling toward solutions : a practical solution-focused program for working with students, teachers, and parents / Linda Metcalf ; illustrations by Ryan Metcalf ; [with a foreword by William Hudson O'Hanlon]
Published
West Nyack, N.Y. : Center for Applied Research in Education, [1995]
Ch. 1. Changing Our Thinking to a Solution Focus -- Ch. 2. Creating Possibilities Through Language -- Ch. 3. Competency-Based Conversations -- Ch. 4. The "Exceptional" School Program (Thinking About Students Differently) -- Ch. 5. Combining Your Resources (Group Counseling) -- Ch. 6. Turning Impossibilities Into Possibilities: Ideas for Difficult Situations -- Ch. 7. Turning Attitudes Into Resources (Ideas for Classroom Guidance) -- Ch. 8. Behavior Transformations: Disciplining Differently -- Ch. 9. A Solution-Focused School Staff: Creating the Atmosphere
Summary
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. 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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282)
