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For counselors and teachers at all levels, 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. Step by step, the book shows how to help individual students begin their own change process by noticing when a problem does not occur (i.e. when things go better than normal), 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 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 provides ways to help non-counseling staff use the solution-focused approach. The book offers more than 80 reproducible worksheets and student handouts. Coverage includes:
• A process for identifying exceptions to a student's negative behavior
• Actual case examples representing a wide range of behavior problems in school settings
• Sample dialogues showing what to say and questions to ask
• Guidelines for using the power of language to describe problems in a normal context to make them more solvable
• Specific strategies for parent conferences and student-teacher problem resolution
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