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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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