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A practice-oriented guidebook for working with self-harming adolescents. 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.
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Practicing therapist Selekman presents a therapeutic approach to working with youths that self-mutilate to escape emotional pain. He suggests that the most important tasks of the therapist is to disrupt invalidating family interactions and to provide a safe environment in which adolescents can externalize anger or negative feelings about family relationships or other social contexts. Guidelines for selecting questions are presented and a range of therapeutic techniques is discussed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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