Using Solution Focused Practice in Schools ― 50 Ideas and Strategies for Teachers

The Solution Focused Approach has long been recognised as having a great deal to offer the field of education and schools in particular. Solution Focused Practice in Schools presents the SF Approach in simple, easy to apply methods that hard-pressed school personnel can adapt to their everyday work whether the focus is on learning, behaviour, social and emotional development or peer support. There will be clear pointers to work outside the classroom as well, at management and whole school levels. It will be an indispensable aid for teachers, teaching assistants, managers, educational psychologists, learning mentors, counsellors, and coaches,– essentially, everyone involved in day to day work in schools whether the focus is on the early years, primary or secondary ages.

Harvey Ratner is co-director of BRIEF, a Solution Focused training, counselling and coaching agency and editor of Solutions Focused News. He is a former social worker and is a registered systemic psychotherapist. He has published several books on SF including three titles for Routledge.

Yasmin Ajmal is a trained educational psychologist who has worked extensively in schools and has written several books including Solutions in Schools: Creative Applications of Solution Focused Thinking.