Narrative Counseling in Schools: Powerful & Brief

by John Winslade, Gerald Monk

Help students shed negative labels and develop healthy behaviors! This updated edition will assist students in narrating stories that "redescribe" who they are and who they can be.

Genres: Psychology, Counselling, Education

208 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1998

Reviews

[Cliff]

read this as a clinician not for just reading

very much a practical, well-written resource on narrative counseling as it would apply to schools - i found the vignettes to be engaging and good explanations of the concepts, the clear session-to-session guides to be good frameworks, and the overall concept of the narrative approach to be inspiring and kind of beautiful in a "emo school social worker who loves to read OBVIOUSLY loves a therapeutic approach that champions intervening in the stories we tell ourselves and encouraging us to tell different stories" kind of way

i've felt the need more and more for something like this at where i work where the air is just thick with internalized narratives about selves and others in a way where kids behave like the robots on Westworld on their little loops because it's what they think is expected of them and what they expect for themselves... ! will be integrating into my work asap and exploring the approach more

[s_evan · Rating 2 out of 5]

+ very descriptive and uses cases that are helpful

- only talks about ONE way of doing narrative counseling in schools
- assumes that just because one is a school counselor/therapist she can't do long-term work with a client and must refer out for that sort of work, which in my case isn't true, so this wasn't as helpful for the type of "powerful" and only sometimes "brief" work I did.

[Aylssa Cowell · Rating 4 out of 5]

I originally gave this book 3 stars years ago but on reflection I think i use more ideas from this in my counselling practice than any other book I've read...