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This book is about how to maintain an aliveness to the possibilities in therapy and practice and how to challenge ideas of orthodoxy in theory and methodologies that can become stale or followed like religions. The central metaphor is the performance of practice emphasized in the spoken word and expressed in all its non-verbal complexity. How we, as practitioners, use every aspect of our being to communicate with the other in practice, how we shape and mould our words through gesture and other non-verbal actions in response to the gestures and words of others in a continually recursive process. Therapy is an enactment, a performance that is created between all the participants. more
In this revised and expanded paperback edition of Living on the Razor’s Edge: Solution-Oriented Brief Family Therapy with Self-Harming Adolescents, readers will find a new and highly practical preface that offers parents valuable guidelines for preventing and constructively managing their adolescents’ self-harming behavior and for strengthening their relationships with them. The innovative Stress-Busters’ Leadership Group, an eight-session skill-building group for self-harming adolescents also is presented in this book. Says Bill O’Hanlon: “This book is not only on the razor’s edge of innovative, effective therapy—it is a cut above.”
Pathways to Change: Brief Therapy with Difficult Adolescents
Second Edition Matthew D. Selekman
In this revised and expanded second edition, readers will find a wide range of innovative therapeutic tools and strategies for creating possibilities with challenging adolescents and their families. Another unique feature of this book, is a mini-manual for running the Solution-Oriented Parenting Group. Says Harlene Anderson: "The second edition of Pathways to Change takes Selekman's integrative and strength-based therapy model for adolescents and their families to a new level. Offering numerous practical guidelines and clinical vignettes---and daring to be unconventional and sensible at the same time---Selekman invites readers to rethink the way they conceptualize adolescents and their problems, and provides new therapeutic tools for their repertoire. Practitioners at any level of experience will unquestionably benefit from Selekman's experience, confidence, compassion, optimism, and down-to-earth manner. The richness of Pathways is immeasurable; you must read it yourself!"
The child’s voice is often lost in family therapy sessions.
This book presents an innovative family therapy approach that
honors the child’s voice, while simultaneously maintaining
a systemic focus for where to target interventions. The book is
packed with many creative and playful therapeutic strategies and
techniques. Says John Burnham: “It is the playfulness that
comes through in this book and, in a time when theory often seems
to dominate, adds a refreshing dose of the practical, in which
Wilson takes traditional and contemporary theories and plays fully
with them in the context of how he works with children and, perhaps
more importantly, how children work with him. I invite you to
read, experiment, learn from, and enjoy this excellent contribution
to the systemic literature.”
An integrative Solution-Focused Brief Therapy approach is presented
for working with children experiencing a wide range of behavioral
difficulties. Says Don Efron: “Charming, inventive, and
joyful. These are unusual words in the family therapy business,
but they are appropriate for this well-written and enjoyable book.
If you wish to know what an ‘advanced’ Solution-Focused
model looks like, read this book!”
Todd and Selekman present eleven different family therapy
approaches for treating adolescent substance abusers. Important
family therapy research findings are also discussed in this book.
Says Don Efron: “Family Therapy Approaches with Adolescent
Substance Abusers is a valuable addition to the field."
