Now in a fully revised and expanded second edition, this innovative, practical guide presents an effective brief therapy model for working with challenging adolescents and their families. The solution-oriented techniques and strategies so skillfully presented in the original volume are now augmented by ideas and findings from other therapeutic traditions, with a heightened focus on engagement and relationship building. Illustrated with extensive clinical material, the book demonstrates ways to draw on each family's strengths to collaboratively bring about significant behavioral change. Entirely new chapters discuss therapeutic improvisation and the creative use of self and offer powerful ideas for working with involuntary and multistressed clients, including parents who are angry, pessimistic, laissez-faire, or psychiatrically impaired. Another new chapter presents a "mini-manual" for conducting solution-oriented parenting groups. More Reviews and Recommendations

Matthew D. Selekman, LCSW, is a couple and family therapist in private practice and the codirector of Partners for Collaborative Solutions (partners4change.net), an international family therapy training and consulting firm in Evanston, Illinois. Mr. Selekman received the Walter S. Rosenberry Award from The Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado, in 1999 and 2000 for his significant contributions to the fields of psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. He is the author of numerous family therapy articles and three other professional books: Living on the Razor's Edge: Solution-Oriented Brief Family Therapy with Self-Harming Adolescents, Solution-Focused Therapy with Children: Harnessing Family Strengths for Systemic Change, and Family Therapy Approaches with Adolescent Substance Abusers. Mr. Selekman has presented workshops on his solution-oriented brief family therapy approach with challenging children and adolescents throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, and Australia.

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