Matthew D. Selekman

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 possibilities—especially 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.

Collaborative Brief Therapy with Children

Giorgio Nardone

Abbuffarsi e vomitare, tagliarsi con una lametta o ustionarsi con una sigaretta, abusare di alcol e droghe: spesso dietro questi comportamenti, solo apparentemente autodistruttivi, si cela la trappola della compulsione, che da espediente sedativo e valvola di sfogo della sofferenza psichica si trasforma in piacere irrefrenabile. È da qui che è possibile dimostrare come bulimia e autolesionismo, oggi sempre più diffusi fra giovani e adolescenti, non siano categorie diagnostiche distinte, bensì due facce della stessa medaglia, e che come tali vadano trattate. Gli autori sostengono la possibilità di un intervento rapido e strategico, di un modello terapeutico costruito su misura per il paziente e in grado di ribaltare la logica perversa del disturbo. Secondo l'approccio tecnologico discusso in queste pagine, sono le soluzioni più efficaci, elaborate sul campo, a definire e descrivere la patologia: in altre parole, la conoscenza deriva dal cambiamento concreto nella vita del paziente, e non da un quadro teorico o statistico che si presuppone infallibile e immutabile. Accanto all'esposizione di diversi casi clinici, viene presentato un vastissimo e fantasioso repertorio di stratagemmi terapeutici messi a punto da Matthew Selekman e Giorgio Nardone, accomunati da un percorso ventennale di ricerca e intervento che rispetta la singolarità sociale e familiare del paziente, facendo leva sui suoi talenti e sulle sue risorse, in una sintesi mai definitiva di rigore e creatività.

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This innovative book focuses on helping high-risk adolescents and their families rapidly resolve long-standing difficulties. Matthew D. Selekman spells out a range of solution-focused strategies and other techniques, illustrating their implementation with vivid case examples. His approach augments individual and family sessions with collaborative meetings that enlist the strengths of the adolescent's social network and key helping professionals from larger systems. User-friendly features include checklists, sample questions to aid in relationship building and goal setting, and reproducible forms that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. Blending family therapy science with therapeutic artistry, the book significantly refines and updates the approach originally presented in Selekman's Pathways to Change.

A Collaborative Strengths-Based Approach

Working with High-Risk Adolescents

This innovative book focuses on helping high-risk adolescents and their families rapidly resolve long-standing difficulties. Matthew D. Selekman spells out a range of solution-focused strategies and other techniques, illustrating their implementation with vivid case examples. His approach augments individual and family sessions with collaborative meetings that enlist the strengths of the adolescent's social network and key helping professionals from larger systems. User-friendly features include checklists, sample questions to aid in relationship building and goal setting, and reproducible forms that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. Blending family therapy science with therapeutic artistry, the book significantly refines and updates the approach originally presented in Selekman's Pathways to Change.ÿ ÿ

An Individualized Family Therapy Approach

A detailed treatment protocol for working with self-harming adolescents and young adults.

A Collaborative Strengths-based Brief Therapy Approach

The Adolescent and Young Adult Self-harming Treatment Manual

Employing a multifaceted, flexible approach based on solution-focused therapy, the author offers clear and sensible ideas for working with the difficult and disturbing problem of adolescent self-harm.

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