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"What a gift to education! By practicing the ideas in this book, school counselors everywhere can help create new descriptions and stories that will transform the academic lives and behaviors of their students."
—Linda Metcalf, Author
Counseling Toward Solutions and Solution-Focused School Counseling
Promote students' respect for themselves and others through narrative interventions!
Narrative counseling is based on the premise that stories, rather than hard-nosed realities, shape our lives. By changing the stories that negatively label and define students, we help them open up new avenues and opportunities.
In this second edition of their best-selling book, John Winslade and Gerald Monk present even more case studies, guidance, and examples of counseling practice to help students narrate stories that "redescribe" who they are and can be. Mindful that today's busy counselors need effective and brief techniques, the authors make plain the steps with which counselors can externalize problems and draw out student self-knowledge to inform new ways of identifying and behaving. Updated throughout, this new edition offers:
An exploration of ethically sound accountability practices
Potential obstacles and suggestions for overcoming them
Guidance to help students set goals
Applications of narrative ideas to restorative justice
An expanded section on group work, specifically focusing on anger management and grief counseling
Grounded in a deep respect for students, this book's principles and practices will enable students to choose for themselves the new reputations by which they'll be known.
Contents
Preface
About the Authors
1. What Is Narrative Counseling All About?
We Live Through Stories
A Narrative Counseling Scenario
2. Doing Narrative Counseling: A Step-by-Step Guide
A Learning Guide
Obstacles to Narrative Practice
Counselor as Collaborator
Starting Assumptions
Attitudes to Bring Into the Room
Specific Narrative Methods
3. Reworking Reputations
The Discourse of Schooling
School Descriptions
The Power of the Teacher
Deficit Discourse
Resistance
4. Conversations With Kids Who Are "In Trouble"
Trouble With Stealing
Trouble in the Classroom
Trouble With ADHD: A SMART Approach
Trouble With Abusive Behavior
Trouble With Truancy
Trouble Enrolling a New Student
Restorative Practices
Counseling and Discipline
5. Working in a Narrative Way With Groups, Classes, and Communities: Beyond an Exclusive Focus on the Individiual
Accountability Practices
Working With the Larger School Community
Building Communities of Concern
Group Work Programs
Working With a Whole Class
Classroom Guidance Lessons
Starting Conversations With a School
Conclusion
Reading List
References
Index
