Changing Self-Destructive Habits

Matthew D. Selekman, MSW, is a family therapist and a licensed addictions counselor in private practice, and the co-director of Partners for Collaborative Solutions, an international family therapy training and consulting firm in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He is an approved supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and also 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 psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. Mark Beyebach, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, and a licensed family therapist and family therapy supervisor in Spain. For the past 18 years, he has served as the director of the Master’s Degree Program in Systemic Therapy in the Department of Psychology at the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain. He also serves as a clinical research consultant and trainer for Partners for Collaborative Solutions in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He is currently a board member for the European Brief Therapy Association, and has been on the executive board of the Spanish Federation of Family Therapy Associations.

1. Self-Destructive Habits: A Collaborative Strengths-Based Brief Family Therapy Approach 2. Key Elements for Co-Creating a Therapeutic Climate Ripe for Change 3. Major Therapeutic Experiments and Rituals 4. Self-Harming Habits 5. Eating-Distressed Habits 6. Substance-Abusing Habits 7. Problematic Gambling Habits 8. Internet and Cyber-Sex Dependency Habits 9. Working with Reluctant and Complicated Multi-Habit Dependent Clients and Couple and Family Systems 10. Couple and Family Relapse Prevention Tools and Strategies 11. Self-Destructive Habits: Future Directions with Treatment, Training, and Research