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For counselors, administrators, and teachers at all levels, The Field Guide to Counseling Toward Solutions presents a complete school program for changing the way that these schools deal with a variety of issues. From an alternative school program that enlists the power of teacher mentors to the elementary program that involves the teacher, parent, and student in the counseling process, this book shows how to make change happen and last. The solution-focused approach shows how to help everyone involved 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. Then, the book uses individual chapters to focus on specific age groups—elementary school students, middle schoolers, and adolescents—because each developmental stage requires a certain perspective and a certain focus to collaborate and connect to solutions.
Veteran school counselor Linda Metcalf offers guidelines for the school program that encompass virtually all of the day-to-day programming that schools must provide for students. Coverage includes:
• Helping elementary students set their own goals and change their own behavior through re-writing their stories for success
• Rebuilding reputations with middle and high school students
• Helping students with substance abuse, self-harm issues, and out of control behaviors
• Working with students who are frustrated, sad, and unmotivated
• Training staff to become more competent, solution-focused, and student-centered
• Working together with teams, teachers, and parents so that the “system” creates and maintains change
• Decreasing special education referrals creatively and adhering to the new RTI (Response to Intervention) mandate
• Creating support groups for parents and students
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