This book offers teachers a positive alternative for students with challenging behavioural issues and poor results. The techniques and strategies included are practical and clearly presented. Ideal for newly qualified and student teachers as well as experienced teachers looking for an effective solution based approach.
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Linda Metcalf PhD, is a former teacher, school counsellor and the coordinator for Safe and Drug Free Schools for Mansfield ISD, in Texas, USA. She consults with schools throughout the USA, Canada, Australia and the UK.
Teaching Toward Solutions offers a refreshing, hopeful and original approach to student behaviour.
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Toward Finding and Mobilizing Community Assets This guide to asset-based community development is a summary of the lessons learned by studying successful community-building initiatives in hundreds of neighbourhoods across the United States. The book outlines in simple terms how communities can rediscover and map their local assets, then combine and mobilise these strengths to build stronger, more self-reliant communities. More info
Children of Parents with Mental Illness 2 looks at the insights and experiences of children and adults who have lived or grown up with parents with a mental illness. The experiences highlight the need to think of all family members when a parent has a mental illness and identifies the needs of children to belong and have someone to talk to about their experiences. Complimenting these personal accounts are clinical chapters written by Australian practitioners with a rich and diverse range of experiences. More info
This handbook on the power of positive questions has implications for every aspect of business, but the importance of Appreciative Inquiry also goes beyond business to include family life and relationships. All organisations move in the direction of their research, and all research involved asking questions. The sooner the right questions are asked, the sooner the right answers are obtained. With the help of this book, organisations will find the opportunities, strengths, innovations and vision to forge a positive future. More info
