Counseling toward solutions
Subtitle: a practical solution-focused program for working with students, teachers, and parents
By: Linda Metcalf ; foreword by Bill O'Hanlon.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780787998066
Subjects: Educational counseling -- United States.; Educational counseling -- United States -- Case studies.; Solution-focused therapy -- United States.; Solution-focused therapy -- United States -- Case studies.
Description: "Step by step, this book shows how to help individual students begin their own change process by noticing when a problem does not occur - that is, when things go better than normal - rather than focusing on the problem or what caused it. This approach, called Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, has been 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 she provides ways to help non-counseling staff use the solution-focused approach."--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225) and index.