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AAMFT
Institutes for Advanced Clinical
Training
March
3 - 7, 2010
Panama
City Beach,FL
Therapeutic Moments that Count: Bringing Humor, Drama, and
Adventure to Family Therapy
Matthew D. Selekman,
MSW
No matter how precisely we follow a
treatment protocol, in the end it is our unrehearsed capacity
to inspire spontaneous moments of humor, surprise, revelation,
and emotional connection that transforms therapy from a
clinical procedure to a healing art. How can we draw on our
authenticity and natural inspiration to engage reluctant
clients, encourage a sense of playfulness and adventure in
families, and sponsor lively personal interactions that spark
moments of real change? How do we successfully repair ruptures
in our therapeutic alliances with family members who may have
felt slighted or misunderstood by us in the therapeutic
process?
In this upbeat, practice-oriented
Institute, participants will focus on the creative use of self
in family therapy as a catalyst for therapeutic change.
Practical guidelines for bringing more curiosity, humor,
absurdity, drama, art, music, storytelling, creative
expressive writing projects, film-making, and in-session
imaginative experiments that tap family members’ inventiveness
will be covered. Trouble-shooting guidelines for getting
unstuck with resistant and difficult families will be
presented. By the end of the Institute, therapists will leave
feeling inspired, more liberated, daring, and armed chockfull
of effective therapeutic tools and strategies. The Institute
will combine clinical practice evidenced-based and
research-informed didactic presentation, extensive use of
videotape examples, and playful, out-of-the-box skill-building
exercises that tap participants’ creativity.
The Institute will cover:
- alliance-building strategies to
rapidly foster a therapeutic climate ripe for change with
even the most challenging families.
- a systemic use of self framework with
guidelines for identifying and seizing opportunities that
arise in the therapeutic process with a wide range of
clinical situations.
- creative breakthrough problem-solving
methods that tap family members’ and your inventiveness to
co-construct solutions.
- using curiosity, humor, absurdity,
drama, art, music, storytelling, creative expressive writing
projects, film-making, and playful and imaginative
therapeutic experiments and rituals with families.
- effective therapeutic strategies for
constructively managing unexpected ruptures in alliances
with family members.
- trouble-shooting guidelines for
getting unstuck with resistant and difficult families.
Course Schedule
Thursday, March 4-Sunday March 7, 2010
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. each day
This course provides 20 hours of continuing education.
Matthew D. Selekman, MSW is a
family therapist in private practice and the co-director of
Partners for Collaborative Solutions, an international family
therapy training and consulting firm in Evanston, Illinois. He
is a Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor with the AAMFT.
Matthew received the Walter S. Rosenberry Award in 2006, 2000,
and 1999 from The Children’s Hospital in Denver, Colorado for
his significant contributions to the fields of psychiatry and
the behavioral sciences. He has published five professional
books: Collaborative Brief Therapy with Children;
The Adolescent and Young Adult Self-Harming Treatment Manual:
A Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Therapy Approach;
Working with Self-Harming Adolescents: A Collaborative
Strengths-Based Therapy Approach; Pathways to Change:
Brief Therapy with Difficult Adolescents; and Family
Therapy Approaches with Adolescent Substance Abusers.
Matthew has presented workshops on his collaborative
strengths-based brief family therapy approach with challenging
children, adolescents, and adults extensively throughout the
United States and the world.
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