Solution-Focused Counseling In Schools

This book offers a refreshingly positive and practical approach to resolving a diverse range of problems from preschool through high school. Drawing on the most recent research and on his extensive experience as a school practitioner and trainer, Murphy presents a step-by-step guide to solution-focused counseling in today's schools. This strength-based approach is illustrated through real-world examples and dialogues from actual counseling sessions. User-friendly forms, questionnaires, and handouts are provided for immediate application with students, teachers, and parents.

Readers will learn to facilitate solutions by defining changeable problems and realistic goals developing cooperative, change-focused relationships building on exceptions changing the doing and viewing of the problem evaluating and sustaining progress troubleshooting when things do not go as planned and ending counseling on a positive note.