Matthew D. Selekman, MSW, has a family therapy training practice in Evanston, Illinois. An Approved Supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, he has presented workshops on Solution-Focused Therapy with children and adolescents extensively throughout North America and Europe. He is the author of "Pathways to Change: Brief Therapy Solutions with Difficult Adolescents" and the coeditor of" Family Therapy Approaches with Adolescent Substance Abusers," and serves on the editorial board of the "Journal of Systemic Therapies,"