Matthew D. Selekman

Collaborative Brief Therapy with Children (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this engaging guide, Matthew Selekman presents cutting-edge strategies for helping children and their families overcome a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. Vivid case material illustrates how to engage clients rapidly and implement interventions that elicit their strengths. Integrating concepts and tools from a variety of therapeutic traditions, Selekman describes creative applications of interviewing, family art and play, postmodern and narrative techniques, and positive psychology. He highlights ways to promote spontaneity, fun, and new possibilitiesespecially with clients who feel stuck in longstanding difficulties and entrenched patterns of interaction. The book updates and refines the approach originally presented in Selekman's acclaimed Solution-Focused Therapy with Children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Altersempfehlung: ab 4 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781606235690
• Artikelnr.: 48028770

Autorenporträt

Matthew D. Selekman, MSW, LCSW, is a family therapist and addictions counselor in private practice and Director of Partners for Collaborative Solutions, an international family therapy training and consulting firm in Skokie, Illinois. He is an Approved Supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Mr. Selekman served as the invited Henry Maier Practitioner-in-Residence at the School of Social Work of the University of Washington and is a three-time recipient of the Walter S. Rosenberry Award from Children's Hospital Colorado for his significant contributions to the fields of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. The author of numerous professional articles and seven books, including Working with High-Risk Adolescents and Collaborative Brief Therapy with Children, Mr. Selekman consults worldwide to schools and treatment programs serving adolescents and their families. Since 1985, he has given workshops extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Southeast Asia, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. His website is www.partners4change.net.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Expanding the Possibilities: A Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief
Therapy Approach with Children 2. The Collaborative Strengths-Based Family
Assessment Session3. Interviewing for Change: Co-Creating Compelling Future
Realities with Children and Their Families4. Finding Fit: Guidelines for
Therapeutic Experiment Design, Selection, and Implementation5. Curious
George Meets Dr. Seuss: Family Play and Art Experiments6. Bringing Out the
Best in Children: A Solution-Oriented Parenting Approach7. Guidelines for
Optimizing Therapeutic Cooperation in Second and Subsequent Sessions8.
Co-Constructing Change: Hosting Collaborative Conversations with Allies
from Larger Systems9. Building Strong Bridges from School to Home:
Establishing SuccessfulCollaborative Partnerships with Families and School
Professionals10. Establishing Successful Family-Oriented Primary Care
Partnerships with Pediatricians11. From Therapeutic Black Holes to
Possibilities: Resolving Complex Child Treatment Dilemmas12. Collaborative
Strengths-Based Therapy and Beyond: Major Themes and Implications for the
Future