Working with Self-Harming Adolescents: A Collaborative, Strengths-Based Therapy Approach

Mental health professionals and affiliated professionals in\nschools are seeing more and more adolescents who cut and burn\nthemselves, abuse alcohol and drugs, have eating disorders, or who\nengage in excessive risk taking. Yet the literature on this\nbehavior remains scant. Matthew Selekman provides readers with a\ncomprehensive, highly practical approach to working with this\nchallenging group of clients. Working with Self-Harming\nAdolescents offers readers effective guidelines for how\nparents can prevent and constructively manage self-harming\nepisodes, discusses the major aggravating factors that contribute\nto the development and maintenance of this problem among youth, and\noffers an integrative and flexible solution-oriented approach for\ntreatment. Another important feature of this book is the\ninnovative, skill-based Stress-Busters \“ Leadership Group, which\ncan be run in schools or any treatment setting.

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