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Feeling Overwhelmed by High Caseloads and Complex Student Needs?

Join Dr Linda Metcalf's 6-month Certification Program to learn the techniques that have empowered school counselors to reduce student visits, manage high caseloads with ease, and reignite their passion for making a difference.

Liberate Yourself by Using the SOLUTION FOCUSED APPROACH FOR SCHOOL COUNSELING

STOP EVERYONE FROM BEING DEPENDENT ON YOU TO FIX EVERYTHING

Create your preferred future, with more time available, fewer repeat referrals, increased academic success and greater staff morale

Turn Everyone's Requests Back to Them and Be Praised as a 'Miracle Worker'

HELP SCHOOL CLIENTS BUILD THEIR OWN SOLUTIONS

Solution Focused Schools Unlimited is the original and most comprehensive resource for educators to learn the solution focused approach and its usefulness in schools, K-12. Created by Linda Metcalf, M.Ed., Ph.D., best-selling author of Counseling Towards Solutions.

Join the rapidly growing solution focused school community, so you can discover this simple and effective approach... and win back your valuable time!

school counselor meeting with a student, using the solution-ocused approach
school counselor meeting with a student, using the solution-ocused approach

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Introduction to Solution Focused School Counseling

Solution Focused Resources for You to Discover...

HOW THE SOLUTION FOCUSED APPROACH WORKS

In problem-focused approaches, too much time is spent on identifying what is not working, instead of looking in a variety of contexts for times when things are working.

Using the solution-focused approach, empowerment takes place in the very first meeting and keeps everyone focused on the direction of choice.

For example, a twelve year old with repetitive behavior problems would be asked: "can you tell me about times when you don't let the behavior take you over...what is different then? What do you do, where are you, what are you thinking about, what are your parents or teachers doing?"

ABOUT LINDA

Dr Linda Metcalf expert on the solution-focused approach

Linda Metcalf PhD is a former middle school teacher, all-level school counselor, licensed professional counselor supervisor, and licensed marriage and family therapist supervisor in the State of Texas. She is a Professor at Texas Wesleyan University and Chair of the Graduate Counseling Programs.

BOOKS OF THE MONTH

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REVISED AND UPDATED. This book provides a solution-focused approach to working alongside students, parents, and teachers that decreases misbehaviors, encourages mental health and growth mindset in students, and provides social emotional learning opportunities.

Complete with specific dialogues for students of all ages, and case studies, this text provides school counselors with a road map to looking beyond problems and seeking solutions with students, creating grit and resilience.

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Solution-Focused RTI provides an effective approach to Response-to-Intervention using a "solution-focused" method, which emphasizes a student's strengths rather than his or her weaknesses. This important book guides educators to identify exceptions to students' learning problems and design personalized interventions that can help those students succeed.

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LINDA'S BOOKS

The Field Guide to Counseling Toward Solution

Solution-Focused RTI

Teaching Toward Solutions

How to Say It to Get Into the College of Your

Choice

Solution Focused Group Therapy

The Miracle Question

Solution Focused Narrative Therapy

Parenting Toward Solutions

Marriage and F1amily Therapy- A Practice Oriented Approach

The Solution Focused School Climate