<p><i>"What a gift to education! By practicing the ideas in this book, school counselors everywhere can help create new descriptions and stories that will transform the academic lives and behaviors of their students."</i><br/>¿Linda Metcalf, Author<br/><i>Counseling Toward Solutions </i>and <i>Solution¿Focused School Counseling</i></p><p><b><i>Promote students'' respect for themselves and others through narrative interventions!</i></b></p><p>Narrative counseling is based on the premise that stories, rather than hard-nosed realities, shape our lives. By changing the stories that negatively label and define students, we help them open up new avenues and opportunities. </p><p>In this second edition of their best-selling book, John Winslade and Gerald Monk present even more case studies, guidance, and examples of counseling practice to help students narrate stories that "redescribe" who they are and can be. Mindful that today''s busy counselors need effective and brief techniques, the au