The Therapist's Use of Self

This book encourages and trains students and practicing marriage and family therapists to bring themselves into the therapy room, offering guidelines and strategies for being more present and personal with their clients.

Matthew D. Selekman, MSW, LCSW, is a couple and family therapist in private practice and the director of Partners for Collaborative Solutions, an international family therapy training and consulting firm in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He is an approved supervisor and clinical fellow with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

1. Masters of the Use of Self: Couple and Family Therapy Pioneers that Perfected the Craft of Being the Catalysts for Change-Part I 2. Masters of the Use of Self: Couple and Family Therapy Pioneers that Perfected the Craft of Being the Catalysts for Change-Part II 3. Practice Evidence-Based Wisdom: A Resource for Informing Our Therapeutic Decision-Making 4. The Therapist's Use of Self Toolkit 5. Therapeutic Brick Walls: Trouble-Shooting Guidelines for Getting Unstuck 6. Improvisational Theater on the Screen: The Therapist's Use of Self in a Virtual Tele-Health Therapy Context 7. Resources for enhancing Your Inventiveness and Expanding Your Therapeutic Range and Style 8. The Therapist's Use of Self Developmental Framework: From Beginning Couple and Family Therapist to mastery and Beyond 9. The Therapist's Use of Self and Beyond: Major Themes and Implications for the Future