[Audio Only] BT08 Workshop 04 – Pathways to Solutions with Self-Harming Adolescents: A Collaborative Strengths-Based Therapy Approach – Matthew Selekman, MSW, LCSW

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• Archive: Topic Areas:WorkshopCategory:Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2008Faculty:Matthew Selekman, MSWDuration:2:34:38Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :Dec 11, 2008 Description Description: Adolescent self-harming behavior is on the rise and is one of the most challenging presenting problems school professionals, healthcare providers, and therapists will face in their clinical practice settings.

• In this "hands-on" practice-oriented workshop, participants will learn several distress management tools and strategies to strengthen the adolescent's self-soothing and coping capacities and family connectionbuilding rituals and therapeutic experiments to foster closer and stronger parent-adolescent relationships.

• Parent management skills for constructively responding to their adolescents' inevitable self-harming slips will be presented.

• Educational Objectives: To describe the use of mindfulness meditation, visualization and multi-sensory distress management strategies in self=soothing and coping abilities.

• To describe the use of family connection-building rituals to strengthen parent-adolescent relationships.