[Audio Only] BT08 Workshop 32 – Imagination, Play, and Possibilities: Collaborative Strengths-Based Family Therapy with Challenging Children – Matthew Selekman, MSW

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• Archive: Topic Areas:WorkshopCategory:Brief Therapy Conference | Brief Therapy Conference 2008Faculty:Matthew Selekman, MSWDuration:1:30:04Format:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :Dec 12, 2008 Description Description: In this "hands-on" practice-oriented workshop, participants will learn effective engagement strategies with children, empirically-based parent management skills, and several family play and art therapy strategies that tap the inventiveness of the child and his/her family members to generate new ideas and co-construct solutions.

• Educational Objectives: To describe three empirically-based parent management skills used to empower parents to resolve their children's behavioral difficulties.

• To describe two family play and art experiments to alter family-maintaining problem patterns to generate solutions.

• *Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality* Faculty Matthew Selekman, MSW Related seminars and products: 10 Family therapist in private practice and the co-director of Partners for Collaborative Solutions, an international family therapy training and consulting practice in Evanston, Illinois.

• Selekman received the Walter S. Rosenberry Award in 2006, 2000 and 1999 from The Children’s Hospital in Denver, Colorado, for having made significant contributions to the fields of psychology and behavioral sciences.