This user-friendly book equips school practitioners with practical skills and strategies for conducting student-driven interviews—conversations that invite students of all ages to take charge of school-behaviour problems and build solutions based on their own strengths and resources. In contrast to traditional interviewing models that approach behaviour problems by focusing on what is wrong and missing in students’ lives, student-driven interviews help students discover and apply what is right and working in their lives—successes, strengths, values, and other natural resources.
Key Features
- Customizable conversations tailored to individual students.
- Field-tested ideas and techniques applicable to real-world school problems.
- Positive, student-driven approach illustrated through real-life dialogues.
- Invaluable roadmap for increasing student involvement.
- Focus on goal development through evaluation of services.
Additional Information
Readers will learn how to customize conversations one student at a time using techniques that have been tested for application to real problems of real students in the real world of schools. The author’s irrepressible faith in students’ ability to change is evident throughout the book. School-based professionals of all backgrounds will find this book invaluable for involving students in every aspect of their care.
