Counseling Toward Solutions: A Practical Solution-Focused Program for Working with Students, Teachers, and Parents

By Linda Metcalf

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876282672
• ISBN13: 9780876282670
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.9" x 11.1"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 12

Customer Reviews

It Works

Linda Metcalf's book is filled with approaches that work. Her years of experience in working with solution focused therapy has provided her with skill in using these tools with many populations. I have used her techniques in overcoming resistance and 'they work'. If you are looking for counseling strategies that work in terms of moving past resistance, this is the book for you. The material is especially useful for adolescents, yet has applications for other populations as well. Besides providing interventions that work, her approach also instills a sense of 'hope' which is critical in working with teens. Jeffrey D. Murrah ([...])

A helpful resource for school counselors

This book is an invaluable resource for school counselors seeking creative techniques to use with children. Readers may also be interested in the following books: Assessment and Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families: Practitioners Share Their Most Effective Techniques Creative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth School-Based Play Therapy

Happy Customer!

Fast shipping...excellent condition! If you are a counselor or educator this book is wonderful. I love it!

Powerful strategies for counseling in the school environment

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!

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!