Bøker av Linda Metcalf

Teaching Toward Solutions offers a new mindset for teachers to consider that will make classroom management and student engagement rewarding. With today's students being more challenging due to the past few years, teachers need a new focus to help them deal with a classroom dilemmas and situations that occur each day. From students with poor home lives, to emotionally unreachable, unmotivated or misbehaving students, this book will take you where other education books fall short...into a solution focused mindset. The ideas of "doing less so students do more," and "if this strategy doesn't work, do something different" is reiterated throughout the book and gives questions to ask and strategies that work. Written by an award winning and best selling author in education, this book will transform your classroom and school. Need SEL, lessons for growth mindset and grit? It's all here in day to day interactions! These important initiatives are taught best when modeled by teachers and staff. By believing in students and asking THEM to construct their own solutions with your assistance, they are much more likely to a) believe in themselves, b) be less resistant and c) try out their own strategy. Hard to believe? Just read it!

Provides students of family therapy with a unique opportunity to understand and compare the inner workings of 14 traditional and non-traditional family therapy models. The book demonstrates, through innovative ""guiding templates"", how the different therapeutic models are applied in an actual family therapy situation.

In our managed care era, group therapy, long the domain of traditional psychodynamically oriented therapists, has emerged as the best option for millions of Americans. However, the process can be frustratingly slow, and studies show that patients actually feel worse after months of group treatment than when they began. Can and should "the group" speed a person's progress? Now, in this "must have" book, marriage and family therapist Linda Metcalf persuasively argues that the collaborative nature of group therapy actually lends itself to time-limited treatment. She combines the best elements of group work and the popular solution focused brief therapy approach to create new opportunities for practitioners and patients alike.Among the topics covered in this valuable guide are:how to learn the modelhow to design a group and recruit membershow to identify exceptions to a group member's self-destructive behaviors and thoughtshow to help members focus on their successes rather than their failureshow to keep the group solution focused when therapists or members fall back into old patternsThis unique resource also includes case examples and session transcripts to follow, together with reproducible forms that can be used as they are or tailored to a therapist's needs. Solution Focused Group Therapy is an up-to-the-minute, highly accessible resource for therapists of any orientation. Managed care companies in particular will welcome this model, which deals so effectively and economically with today's biggest problems, including eating disorders, chemical dependencies, grief, depression, anxiety, and sexual abuse.

Provides a comprehensive model for effectively blending the two main postmodern brief therapy approaches: solution-focused and narrative therapies. It harnesses the power of both models to offer brief, effective help to clients that builds on their strengths and abilities to envision and craft preferred outcomes.

A proven method for helping struggling students succeed Solution-Focused RTI provides an effective approach toResponse-to-Intervention using a "solution-focused" method, whichemphasizes a student's strengths rather than his or her weaknesses.