Living on the Razor's Edge:
Solution-Oriented Brief Family Therapy with Self-Harming Adolescents

Matthew D. Selekman

Overview – Excerpt – Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Foreword by Bill O’ Hanlon
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, has a private practice and provides family therapy training and consultation in Evanston, IL. He is a member of the training faculty for the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change in Evanston, IL.

ISBN: 0-393-70335-5
January, 2002
Hardcover, 320 pages