collaborative meetings that enlist the strengths of the adolescent's social network and key helping professionals from larger systems. User-friendly features include checklists, sample questions to aid in relationship building and goal setting, and reproducible forms that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. Blending family therapy science with therapeutic artistry, the book significantly refines and updates the approach originally presented in Selekman's Pathways to Change. Subject Areas/Key Words: adolescents, at-risk, brief, Collaborative Strengths-Based Family Therapy, counseling, creative, CSBFT, defiant, delinquents, difficult, families, family, flexible, high-risk, improvisational, interventions, juvenile delinquency, oppositional, parents, Pathways to Change, psychotherapy, risky behaviors, self-harming, self-injury, social networks, solution-focused, solution-oriented, substance abuse, suicidal, teenagers, violence, youth Audience: Clinical child/adolescent psychologists, family therapists, counselors, social workers, and psychiatrists"-- |