“It's My Drug”: Solution-Oriented Brief Family Therapy with Self-Harming Adolescents

The Reflective Model of Triadic Supervision: Defining an Emerging Modality

“…Kleist (1999) reviewed available research to date on the use of reflecting teams and process and concluded that "the reflecting process can be a powerful means of creating a strong therapeutic alliance that facilitates the development of multiple perspectives in such a way that allows clients a different means to hear such perspectives" (p. 274). Recent research on the reflecting process supports this conclusion (e.g., Selekman & King, 2001). This understanding of reflecting teams and the reflective process formed the conceptual foundation for our model of triadic supervision.…”

Repetitive Nonsuicidal Self‐Injury as Experiential Avoidance Among a Community Sample of Adolescents

“…It is difficult to find a clear, universally applied working definition of RNSSI. Stigma and stereotypes regarding the pathology associated with RNSSI also contribute to a dearth of research and varied findings on the topic (Favazza, ; Selekman, ; Strong, ). Thus, it is crucial to clarify the authors’ definition of RNSSI first, which herein is defined as direct, broadly socially unacceptable, repetitive behavior that causes mild to moderate physical injury and lacks suicidal intent.…”

“…Frequency of self-harm behavior has also been found to be positively correlated with a borderline personality disorder (BPD) diagnosis (Andover, Pepper, Ryabchenko, Orrico, & Gibb, 2005;Sansone, Gaither, Songer, & Allen, 2005) and with greater severity of BPD symptoms (Chapman, Specht, & Cellucci, 2005). Unfortunately, this relationship promotes the diagnostic myth that all adolescents who self-injure have BPD (Selekman, 2002;Ghaziuddin, Tsai, Naylor, & Ghaziuddin, 1992), when in actuality, RNSSI has been associated with a wide variety of psychiatric diagnoses and symptoms, including depression, psychosis, and anxiety disorders (Favazza, 1996;Sansone et al, 2005).…”

From research to practice: Bridging the gaps for psychologists working in indigenous communities affected by gangs.

“…We were able to find one paper that referenced an Ontario based MST program, and a book review of Selekman's (2002) work integrating solution-focused, narrative, postmodern, strategic, cognitive and expressive therapy approaches with Native American healing methods and rituals in an MST framework. Clearly, Canadian and Indigenous communities are underserved in the MST literature, yet NCPC presents MST as a model program for young offenders (National Crime Prevention Centre [NCPC], 2008[NCPC], , 2012.…”