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

by Selekman, Matthew D.

• ISBN13: 9780393703351
• ISBN10: 0393703355
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

Matthew Selekman breaks new ground by providing therapists with an innovative and flexible client-informed model for working with self-harming adolescents. This model integrates the best elements of Solution-Focused, Narrative, Postmodern, Strategic, Cognitive, and Expressive Therapy with Native American healing methods and rituals. The book is packed with case examples and interview transcripts of culturally diverse clients.

Author Biography

Matthew Selekman has a family therapy training and consultation practice in Evanston, Illinois. He is a member of the training faculty of the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change in Chicago, Illinois. He has presented workshops on solution-oriented brief family therapy with challenging children and adolescents extensively throughout North America, Europe, and South America

Table of Contents

Foreward	vii
Bill O'Hanlon
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(26)
The Multisystemic Family Assessment Framework: A Kaleidoscopic Method of Inquiry	27	(39)
Improvisational Systemic Interviewing: Crafting and Selecting Meaningful Questions	66	(26)
Cognitive-Skills and Mood-Management Training: Changing Self-Defeating Thoughts and Promoting Self-Soothing	92	(20)
Changing the Family Dance: Solution-Oriented Therapeutic Experiments and Strategies	112	(23)
Untangling Family-Helping-System Knots: Facilitating Transformative Dialogues	135	(17)
Going at it Alone: One-Person Family Therapy	152	(13)
Riding the Waves of Change: Goal-Maintenance and Solution-Enhancement Strategies	165	(18)
The Stress-Busters' Leadership Group	183	(15)
Coda	198	(5)
References	203	(12)
Index	215