Scott Sells, PhD, MSW, LCSW, LMFT

Owner

The Family Trauma Institute

spsells@familytrauma.com

Scott P. Sells, PhD, MSW, LCSW, LMFT, is former tenured Professor of Social Work, Savannah State University, Savannah, GA and Associate Professor at UNLV in Las Vegas, NV. Dr. Sells is the author of three best-selling books, Treating the Tough Adolescent: A Family-Based, Step-by-Step Guide (1998), Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 7 Steps to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love (2001), and Treating the Traumatized Child: A Step-by-Step Family Systems Approach (Springer, 2017). He has over 20 publications and extensive experience as a keynote speaker. Dr. Sells is currently the founder and model developer of an evidence based model known as the FST | Family Systems Trauma Model that is being used by both juvenile justice and child welfare in over 14 states and in Europe