Solution Focused Practice in Schools: 80 Ideas and Strategies

Solution Focused Practice is a change-focused approach to helping people of all ages make progress by emphasizing what is wanted in the future, amplifying successes, and highlighting the capacities and skills available to support progress. This book offers practical, jargon-free applications of the Solution Focused (SF) approach that can create energy and movement in even the toughest of situations. It provides ideas on how to move beyond 'dont know' responses, invite classes into constructive conversations, address key issues, build detail around potential futures, and support solution-based conversations using play, role play, video, and other creative techniques.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 138 pages
Publication date: 18 November 2019
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Solution Focused Practice is a transformative approach that empowers individuals of all ages to progress in their lives by focusing on their desired future outcomes, amplifying their successes, and highlighting their existing capacities and skills. This approach is rooted in the realities of everyday school life, making it practical, accessible, and applicable to even the most challenging situations.

In Solution Focused Practice in Schools: 80 Ideas and Strategies, the authors offer a wealth of dynamic, practical, down-to-earth, and jargon-free applications of the Solution Focused (SF) approach. This book explores the SF approach using numerous examples and sample questions that can be adapted to any situation, regardless of the available time. Whether working with individuals or considering organizational developments, this book provides valuable insights on how to:

• Move beyond "don't know" responses in individual discussions with students to create dialogues that foster difference and change.
• Invite classes into constructive conversations about building a classroom environment that brings out the best in students, whether there has been a concern or not.
• Address key issues such as confidence, motivation, resilience, and dealing with setbacks.
• Build detail around potential and effective futures in coaching, consultations, and meetings.
• Support the development of policies and procedures at an organizational level.
• Support solution-based conversations using play, role play, video, and other creative techniques.

This book is an invaluable resource for managers, teachers, SENCOs, mentors, counselors, coaches, psychologists, social workers, and all those who work in a supportive capacity in schools to promote the learning and well-being of both students and staff. By embracing the SF approach, educators can create a positive and inclusive learning environment that fosters growth, development, and success for all.

Weight: 294g
Dimension: 250 x 175 x 9 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138640221