Matthew D. Selekman, MSW is a family therapist and addictions counselor in private practice and the Director of Partners for Collaborative Solutions (www.partners4change.net), an international family therapy training and consulting firm in Evanston, Illinois, USA. Matthew specializes in the treatment of self-injury, eating disorders, substance abuse, school disruptive behaviors, oppositional defiant disorder, and anger management difficulties of children, adolescents, and adults. He is an Approved Supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Matthew received the Walter S. Rosenberry Award in 2006, 2000, and in 1999 from The Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado for having made significant contributions to the fields of psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. Matthew is the author of numerous family therapy articles and seven professional books: (with Mark Beyebach) Changing Self-Destructive Habits: Pathways to Solutions with Couples and Families, Collaborative Brief Therapy with Children, (with Giorgio Nardone) Gorging, Vomiting, and Self-Injuring: A Short-Term Therapy Approach; 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 (Second Edition), and with (Thomas Todd) Family Therapy Approaches with Adolescent Substance Abusers. He has presented workshops on his collaborative strengths-based brief family therapy approach with challenging children, adolescents, and adults and their families extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand. http://www.partners4change.net