Narrative counseling in schools
Subtitle: powerful & brief
By: John Winslade, Gerald Monk.
Contributors: Monk, Gerald, 1954-
Series: Practical skills for counselors
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
Subjects: Educational counseling.; Narrative therapy.; Interpersonal relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is narrative counseling all about? We live through stories. A narrative counseling scenario; title: Doing narrative counseling : a step-by-step guide. Starting assumptions. Attitudes to bring into the room. Specific narrative methods; title: Reworking reputations. The discourse of schooling. School descriptions.  The power of the teacher. Deficit discourse. Resistance; title: Conversations with kids who are "in trouble". Stealing trouble. Trouble in the classroom. Combating abusive behavior. Truancy trouble. Enrolling a new student. Counseling and discipline; title: Working in a narrative way with groups, classes, and even communities : beyond an exclusive focus on the individual. Seeking out a wider audience to the new story. Building communities of concern. Group work programs. Working with a whole class. Classroom lessons built on "interviewing the problem". Starting conversations with a school. Narrative climate in the school.