Working with Self-Harming Adolescents

A Collaborative, Strengths-Based Therapy Approach

Matthew D. Selekman

Overview – Excerpt – Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Foreword by Bill O’ Hanlon
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Multisystemic Family Assessment Framework:
A Kaleidoscopic Method of Inquiry

2. Improvisational Systemic Interviewing: Crafting and Selecting Meaningful Questions

3. Cognitive Skills and Mood-Management Training: Changing Self-Defeating Thoughts and Promoting Self-Soothing

4. Changing the Family Dance: Solution-Oriented Therapeutic Experiments and Strategies

5. Untangling Family-Helping-System Knots: Facilitating Transformative Dialogues

6. Going at it Alone: One-Person Family Therapy

7. Riding the Waves of Change: Goal-Maintenance and Solution- Enhancement Strategies

8. The Stress-Busters’ Leadership Group

9. Coda

References
Index

About the Author –

Matthew D. Selekman, MSW, LCSW, is a family therapist in private practice and the co-director of Partners for Collaborative Solutions, an international family therapy training and consulting practice. He is the author of Pathways to Change: Brief Therapy with Difficult Adolescents (Second Edition), Solution-Focused Therapy with Children: Harnessing Family Strengths for Systemic Change, and Family Therapy Approaches with Adolescent Substance Abusers.

ISBN: 0-393-70499-8