Pathways to Change
Brief Therapy with Difficult Adolescents
2nd Edition
Published on 18. July 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-1-59385-979-4 (ISBN)
Description
This innovative, practical guide presents an effective brief therapy model for working with challenging adolescents and their families. It demonstrates powerful ways to help families gain new perspectives on longstanding problems and co-construct realistic, well-formulated goals, even when past treatment experiences have left them feeling demoralized. Solution-oriented techniques and strategies are augmented by ideas and findings from other therapeutic traditions, with a focus on engagement and relationship building. Illustrated with extensive clinical material, the book shows how to draw on each family's strengths to collaboratively bring about significant behavioral change.
Reviews / Votes
"The original Pathways to Change seemed very difficult to improve, but this new edition is indeed even better! Without losing sight of his brief family therapy roots, Matthew Selekman charts new territories by describing in detail how to use an amazing variety of therapeutic techniques in a truly integrative, context-sensitive, research-based practice. Psychotherapy students will be able to see how techniques and concepts of the major family therapy and psychotherapeutic approaches can be blended together in an elegant, effective, and creative way. Seasoned clinicians will find plenty of useful tools and inspiration to be creative and push their own limits in therapeutic work with adolescents and their families." - Mark Beyebach, Systemic Therapy Master's Program, Pontificia University of Salamanca, Spain"This second edition 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... The richness of Pathways is immeasurable: you must read it for yourself!" - Harlene Anderson, PhD, Houston Galveston Institute and Taos Institute, USA
"It is quite apparent that Selekman wrote this new edition with today's troubled adolescents - and those of us attempting to work effectively with them - in mind... This edition is full of innovative, creative, and thoughtful strategies for effectively engaging and treating adolescents who are angry, aggressive, or disaffected." - Kenneth V. Hardy, Department of Marriage and Family Therapy, Syracuse University, and the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships, New York City, USA "The original Pathways to Change seemed very difficult to improve, but this new edition is indeed even better! Without losing sight of his brief family therapy roots, Matthew Selekman charts new territories by describing in detail how to use an amazing variety of therapeutic techniques in a truly integrative, context-sensitive, research-based practice. Psychotherapy students will be able to see how techniques and concepts of the major family therapy and psychotherapeutic approaches can be blended together in an elegant, effective, and creative way. Seasoned clinicians will find plenty of useful tools and inspiration to be creative and push their own limits in therapeutic work with adolescents and their families." - Mark Beyebach, Systemic Therapy Master's Program, Pontificia University of Salamanca, Spain
"This second edition 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... The richness of Pathways is immeasurable: you must read it for yourself!" - Harlene Anderson, PhD, Houston Galveston Institute and Taos Institute, USA
"It is quite apparent that Selekman wrote this new edition with today's troubled adolescents - and those of us attempting to work effectively with them - in mind... This edition is full of innovative, creative, and thoughtful strategies for effectively engaging and treating adolescents who are angry, aggressive, or disaffected." - Kenneth V. Hardy, Department of Marriage and Family Therapy, Syracuse University, and the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships, New York City, USA
More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
426 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59385-979-4 (9781593859794)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
07/2005
2nd Edition
Guilford Publications
€64.56
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Person
Matthew D. Selekman, MSW, Codirector, Partners for Collaborative Solutions, Evanston, IL, USA
Content
An Evolving Solution-oriented Therapy Approach with Difficult Adolescents. Guiding Assumptions with an Eye on Solutions. The Improvisational Therapist: Staying Alive and Creating Possibilities Outside the Comfort Zone with Challenging Families. The First Family Interview: Co-creating a Context for Change. Guidelines for Fostering Cooperative Relationships with Difficult Parents. Effective Engagement Strategies with Difficult Adolescents. The No-Problem Problem Mandated Family. Co-creating a Climate Ripe for Transformative Dialogues with Helping Allies from Larger Systems. The Second and Subsequent Sessions: Guidelines for Consolidating Gains and Matching Therapeutic Experiments with Family Members' Learning Styles and Cooperative Response Patterns. The Solution-oriented Parenting Group: Empowering Parents to Be the Agents of Change. Solution-oriented Brief Family Therapy and Beyond.