Narrative Counseling in Schools

Powerful & Brief
Second Edition
John M. Winslade - California State University, San Bernardino, USA
Gerald D. Monk - San Diego State University, USA
Narrative Counseling in Schools
December 2006 | 208 pages | Corwin
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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

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

Conclusion

Reading List

Reading List

References

References

Index

Index

Description

"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

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

Conclusion

Reading List

Reading List

References

References

Index

Index

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Narrative Counseling in Schools

Powerful & Brief


December 2006 | 208 pages | Corwin

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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.


Table Of 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

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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. Not only will schools be practicing what they have been preaching in the way of promoting respect from their students, they will receive that respect back in return."
Linda Metcalf, Author, Counseling Toward Solutions

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