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Counseling and Therapy

Counseling and Therapy

COUNSELING FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN: PLAY-BASED INTERVENTIONS

With Eric J. Green

In this program Dr. Green provides an overview of settings, situations and materials needed to integrate play therapy into family counseling. He provides an explanation of family play therapy through definition, research support, assessment, and evidence-informed interventions. He goes on to discuss the brief parental consultation model and family assessments using a genogram, sand tray, and brief follow-up sessions with the parent(s) that include skill development through the filial therapy model. The video includes Dr. Green working with a family, and he concludes with an analysis of the family play counseling sessions.

DVD / 2015 / 27 minutes

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COUNSELING THEORY, MODELS, AND TECHNIQUES

With Patricia Robey

Dr. Robey begins by defining what counseling theory is. She discusses the four forces of counseling theory, the importance of theory, and how counselors can choose a theory to adopt. She defines and explains counseling techniques and how a chosen theory informs the application of the technique with clients. She also addresses the challenges and benefits of choosing an integrative approach to counseling. Lastly, she addresses evaluating counseling effectiveness.

DVD / 2015 / 53 minutes

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CULTIVATING CLIENT STRENGTHS IN CAREER COUNSELING

With Rebecca E. Michel

Dr. Michel shares a strengths-based approach to career counseling. She discusses how to answer the question "What are my strengths?" She addresses ways to define and understand individuals' talents and strengths, as well as career assessment options, and specific strategies and techniques for using a positive psychology approach to career counseling.

DVD / 2015 / 31 minutes

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HELPING RELATIONSHIPS: CREATING MEASURABLE OUTCOMES FOR COUNSELING

With Shannon Dermer, Terri Christiansen

This program begins with Drs. Dermer and Christiansen discussing the importance of using measurable goals to drive the process of therapy in both schools and in private practice. It is easier to achieve successful outcomes when measurable outcomes are set. Clients have small goals to achieve along the way, and achieving these goals helps motivate clients to move toward change and growth. In Part 2, Dr. Christiansen holds a mock session with a client in which she demonstrates the therapeutic process for creating and implementing measureable outcomes. In Part 3, Drs. Dermer and Christiansen wrap-up the program by discussing the demonstration and what was accomplished during the mock client session.

DVD / 2015 / 51 minutes

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INCORPORATING PLAY-BASED INTERVENTIONS IN DIRECT SERVICES IN SCHOOL COUNSELING PROGRAMS

With Eric J. Green

In this program, Dr. Green addresses the settings, situations, and materials needed for professional school counselors to integrate play-based interventions within comprehensive, developmental, transformative school counseling program plans. He provides an overview of current best practices in school counseling and the rationale of integrating play toward supporting all students' academic success. Dr. Green discusses the ASCA National Model and how play interventions facilitate socio-emotional support in a time-limited and focused manner. Some of the school-based topics he explores include using play to help kids cope with transitions, increase safety and stabilization, and build pro-social relationships. Finally, the program incorporates brief segments of Dr. Green's school counseling work with a child in various scenarios outlined in the video.

DVD / 2015 / 21 minutes

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SOCIAL & CULTURAL DIVERSITY: COUNSELING TRANSGENDER CLIENTS

With Shannon Dermer, Christienne Dyslin

This program is broken into three parts. It begins with Dr. Dermer and Dr. Dyslin (who is herself a transgender woman) discussing the basic issues and topics related to mental health practice so clinicians who do not specialize in transgender issues will begin to understand how to work with transgender clients or their families in a respectful and knowledgeable way. Dr. Dyslin discusses gender minority basics such as: the difference between sex and gender, gender identity and gender expression, transgender and cisgender, and binary and non-binary trans- identities. Part 2 is a demonstration of an affirmative clinical interview with gender minorities. In Part 3, Drs. Dermer and Dyslin review and deconstruct their mock counseling session.

DVD / 2015 / 52 minutes

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TYPES OF DESIGNS FOR OUTCOME RESEARCH IN COUNSELING

With Evelyn Behar

Dr. Behar takes an often-challenging topic and presents it in a compelling and easy-to-understand way. She begins by discussing the goal of an experiment. She defines various parts of an experiment, including internal validity. She addresses the differences between cross-sectional studies and longitudinal studies. She goes on to discuss the threats to internal validity in longitudinal studies - history, maturation, repeated testing, instrumentation, statistical regression, selection bias, and differential attrition.

DVD / 2015 / 52 minutes

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UNDERSTANDING COUNSELING THEORY

With Patricia Robey

Dr. Robey begins by defining what counseling theory is. She addresses the fact that counseling theories can be tested for accuracy and proven false, but they cannot be proven true. She discusses how theories are developed, the evolution of theoretical perspectives, why counseling theory is important, and how to choose a theoretical perspective to adopt in practice.

DVD / 2015 / 49 minutes

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MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING: MULTICULTURAL CARE IN PRACTICE

With Lillian Comas-Diaz, PhD

Culture influences how a client develops and expresses emotional distress and how that distress is healed through therapeutic intervention. Multicultural Care in Practice emphasizes culturally adapting psychotherapy to the needs of the clients, employing cultural competence to maximally connect with clients.

Becoming culturally competent involves a clinical commitment to gaining knowledge and awareness of the client's attitudes, which enables the clinician to intellectually, affectively, and culturally empathize with the client and demonstrate cultural sensitivity - showing awareness, interest, and commitment to recognizing the client's culture in all aspects of the therapeutic relationship.

Multicultural care practitioners recognize the importance of clinical competence. However, they also recognize the value of cultural competence, and research indicates that clients who perceive their therapist to be culturally competent have better outcomes in therapy.

In this demonstration, Dr. Lillian Comas-Diaz works with an African American woman who is making a decision about dating a partner outside of her own culture. Dr. Comas-Diaz demonstrates cultural empathy in working with the client, discussing how this decision will impact the client's relationship with her family and how to preserve that relationship while remaining true to herself.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2013 / 100 minutes

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MINDFULNESS IN COUNSELING

With Diane Gehart

Mindfulness is a rapidly expanding area of psychotherapy practice, but most approaches teach mindfulness in formal group settings. Although these groups are probably the ideal forum for learning mindfulness practice, many clients will not attend because of accessibility issues, time limitations, financial considerations, or simple disinterest in a group. In this video, Dr. Diane Gehart demonstrates how to teach basic mindfulness breath meditation in a one-on-one therapy session. When teaching mindfulness individually or with couples and families, therapists must find a way to connect with the client's needs and motivations as well as the practical issues of when and how to practice. This video offers views a practical approach to collaboratively integrating mindfulness into everyday clinical practice.

DVD / 2012 / 51 minutes

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MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING: CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY IN PRACTICE

With Pamela A. Hays, PhD

In Culturally Responsive Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Practice, Pamela A. Hays demonstrates her change-oriented approach to psychotherapy, adapting mainstream cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) to fit the client's cultural identity, context, and preferences.

Key aspects of culturally responsive CBT include acceptance of core cultural beliefs, an emphasis on culturally related strengths and supports, and validation of the client's experiences of oppression with consideration of the need for environmental change. The culturally responsive thought-change process involves reconsideration of the helpfulness of thoughts rather than their rationality or validity. Culturally congruent homework is developed in close collaboration with the client.

Using everyday, culturally relevant language to describe and explain CBT, Dr. Hays works with a young African American Christian woman to recognize the client's culture as a potent source of strength and motivation.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2012 / 100 minutes

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MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING: WORKING WITH ISSUES OF SOCIAL CLASS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

With William Ming Liu, PhD

Dr. William Ming Liu presents his worldview model of psychotherapy, which focuses on the client's personal history and the messages they have received about social class.

Dr. Liu interviews the client, a young female from an immigrant family, at length about her earlier experiences with class and how they influenced her social perspective throughout her life. As the discussion unfolds, therapist and client work together to establish understanding of the roles that the client has played to fit in socially.

Dr. Liu uses questioning to allow the client the opportunity to articulate her experience through a new language of her perception of social class, helping her to feel understood. As she starts to reveal herself through her experiences, the client lets go of older coping styles that obscure her emotions and identity as a member of an immigrant family.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2012 / 100 minutes

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SOLUTION-FOCUSED COUNSELING

With Jeffrey Guterman

In this video, Dr. Jeffrey Guterman, associate professor of counseling at Barry University in Miami Shores describes a unique model that he developed called solution-focused counseling. Following a brief description of the model, excerpts of a solution-focused counseling case are provided.

DVD / 2012 / 50 minutes

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COUNSELING AND PRIVILEGE: SOCIAL CLASS PRIVILEGE

How do mental health professionals work toward multicultural competence? One place to start is to begin the process of self-awareness, particularly in the area of socially privileged identities. In this ground-breaking series, Lew Schlosser interviews psychologists with expertise in six key areas of privilege: White, Heterosexual, Christian, Ability, Male and Social Class. In addition to learning how to personally connect with one's own socially privileged identities, students and professionals of all ethnicities and races will learn how privilege manifests itself in everyday life, how it affects the therapeutic process, and how we can take steps to dismantle privilege. Thought-provoking and insightful, this video is sure to spark discussion and even debate in class. This video brings the power of often missed multicultural issues to the center of our practice.

DVD / 2011 / 46 minutes

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COUNSELING GAY AND LESBIAN PEOPLE OF COLOR: MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: PART 1

With Dr. Kevin Nadal

Dr. Nadal counsels an Asian, Filipina-American lesbian woman who moved the U.S. when she was a teenager. Issues of acculturation, coming-out, and identity are explored.

DVD / 2011 / 29 minutes

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COUNSELING GAY AND LESBIAN PEOPLE OF COLOR: MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: PART 2

With Dr. Kevin Nadal

Dr. Nadal counsels a Latino gay male who shares his anxieties about his family, lack of support system, and desire for a long-term relationship. He encourages the client to talk about repressed feelings regarding his identity development, as well as the cultural influences of the client's coming out processes.

DVD / 2011 / 33 minutes

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FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING: DIALOG AND DEMONSTRATIONS

With Kevin Nadal

Oftentimes, it is hard for therapists to look past an offender's crime. However, as forensic mental health counselors, it is important to remember to see clients as human beings, understand how their environment influences their development, and empower them to reach their full potential. Dr. Kevin Nadal conducts a counseling session with Rich, a sexual offender just released from jail and mandated to counseling. Dr. Nadal employs humanistic theory, focusing on developing rapport, showing empathy and unconditional positive regard, and empowering Rich by using strength-based techniques. In the second scenario, Dr. Nadal counsels Cammie, a survivor of rape, who is in her first session with Dr. Nadal. Dr. Nadal employs humanistic client centered techniques. He is aware of the legal issues Cammie may face and while he can't provide any legal advice, he offers a safe space for Cammie to discuss her feelings and help make optimal decisions.

DVD / 2011 / 57 minutes

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NARRATIVE SKILLS, PRACTICE EXERCISES FOR DEVELOPING COUNSELING SKILLS, PART 1: DEVELOPING CURIOSITY

With Dr. John Winslade and Dr. Lorraine Hedtke

Developing Curiosity: In three engaging vignettes, the authors start each conversation with a simple word 'breakfast', 'favorite pet' and 'something you were pleased about'. Viewers will be fascinated with how these seemingly simple acts of curiosity build a generative conversation that connects with a person's cherished identity story. All give way to a rich conversation about identity stories and about preferred ways of living.

DVD / 2011 / 82 minutes

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NARRATIVE SKILLS, PRACTICE EXERCISES FOR DEVELOPING COUNSELING SKILLS, PART 2: DECISION-MAKING AND EXTERNALIZING

With Dr. John Winslade and Dr. Lorraine Hedtke

Externalizing and Decision-Making: Externalizing, an essential component to Narrative Therapy, is founded on the belief that, 'the person is not the problem; the problem is the problem.' In the externalizing conversation, Donna struggles with tardiness. In the decision-making conversation, Lorena wants to make a decision about whether to choose her girlfriend over her loving yet disapproving mother and family.

DVD / 2011 / 67 minutes

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IYOUTH: POP CULTURE, KIDS, AND COUNSELING

With Julie Tilsen, David Nylund

In this engaging and provocative discussion, Julie Tilsen and Dave Nylund discuss the clinical use of cultural studies and methodologies as a way to engage youth in productive, meaningful, and meaning-making conversations about the influence of popular culture in their lives. Taking a both/and approach, they discuss ways to engage youth around the problematic and productive potential of pop culture images and texts. Julie and Dave, in an application of cultural studies methodologies, meet with a group of youth to explore their relationships with pop culture. Together, they discuss ways in which the youth critically engage with the messages they are exposed to, make decisions about what they consume, and construct their identities through pop culture texts.

DVD / 2010 / 49 minutes

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COUNSELING THE STUDENT-ATHLETE

With Adam Zagelbaum Ph.D.

Recent developments in the world of athletics and academics are impacting the perceptions and demands being placed on student-athletes to succeed both on and off the field. This video shows how the school counselor can be particularly helpful in providing resources and support to student athletes and their families as they prepare for and navigate through this demanding maze of expectations and important decisions. Scenarios depict a male and female student-athlete at different points in their student-athletic academic, career, and personal/social development, and involve work with teachers, coaches, parents, and school counselors. Following the scenarios, a discussion with a parent, teaching professionals, coach/athletic director, and school counseling professionals and trainees depicts the reasons why student athletes may or may not seek counseling services, ideas for how these services can best be provided to student athletes and their families, and other contemporary topics that counseling professionals can best address when encountering student athletes who are in need.

DVD / 2009 / 112 minutes

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PSYCHOTHERAPY IN SIX SESSIONS: CAREER COUNSELING OVER TIME

With Mark L. Savickas, PhD

In Career Counseling Over Time, Mark L. Savickas demonstrates this narrative approach to vocational counseling. This approach, which is based on career construction theory, focuses on how a client creates the meaning of his or her life. Using a series of simple questions designed to get clients to tell stories about themselves, the therapist highlights themes in these stories that illuminate what each client values as meaningful. In the final session, the therapist and client work together to apply these values and personality traits in a search for a fulfilling career paths.

In these two three-session sets, Dr. Savickas works with two men in their 20s. The first client, although nearly finished with a degree in computer science, has many other interests and is unsure about what his life path should be. The second client, a former Marine working as a carpenter, would like to find a type of work more compatible with his skills.

Each set of three sessions shows a full course of career counseling, from assessment through exploration and resolution, making this DVD an essential introduction to this approach.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2009 / 300 minutes

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SPECIFIC TREATMENTS FOR SPECIFIC POPULATIONS: CULTURE-CENTERED COUNSELING

With Paul B. Pedersen, PhD

In Culture-Centered Counseling, Dr. Paul B. Pedersen shows how recognizing the centrality of culture can augment therapy and result in effective treatment of all clients. This approach involves recognizing cultural assumptions and acquiring knowledge and skills to get beyond them, something that may be done no matter what treatment model a therapist might use.

The program demonstrates how inclusive cultural empathy with a divergent contextual focus differs from conventional convergent and individualistic interpretations of empathy. In this session, Dr. Pedersen works with a young Latina woman named Maria who is trying to become more assertive in her interpersonal relationships. Dr. Pedersen helps Maria begin to find a way to be assertive without sacrificing the traditions she wants to preserve from her heritage.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2007 / 100 minutes

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SPECIFIC TREATMENTS FOR SPECIFIC POPULATIONS: CAREER COUNSELING

With Mark L. Savickas, PhD

In Career Counseling, Dr. Mark Savickas demonstrates his narrative counseling method for helping clients to fit work into their lives, rather than fit themselves to jobs. This approach looks at a client's life as a "novel being written," and it emphasizes recurring themes that reveal how the client uses work to advance his or her life projects.

In this session, Dr. Savickas works with a woman who is graduating with a degree in school counseling. It becomes apparent during the session that this career does not fit her personality. Dr. Savickas uses a series of intriguing questions to help her understand why this career does not work for her and what type of work would make her happy. The client is visibly changed during this compelling session.

This fascinating DVD features a voiceover option through which viewers can choose to hear Dr. Savickas's comments on the therapy session as it plays out.

DVD / 2006 / 100 minutes

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SPIRITUALITY: CHRISTIAN COUNSELING

With Mark R. McMinn, PhD

In Christian Counseling, Dr. Mark R. McMinn provides an example of his relational cognitive therapy from a Christian perspective. This form of therapy is based on scientific evidence for the effectiveness of cognitive therapy with an underlying Christian metaphysic.

In this session, Dr. McMinn works with an African American woman who is married and has three children, all of whom are under the age of 10. She works full-time, attends graduate school, and is very active in her church. She feels burned out trying to do everything for everybody and finds herself without much social support. Mark uses scripture as well as meditation and prayer to help her to understand the pressure that she is putting on herself, and to find ways to relieve this pressure.

DVD / 2006 / 100 minutes

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NARRATIVE SCHOOL COUNSELING POWERFUL & BRIEF - PART 1

The principles of Narrative School Counseling are demonstrated in this actual session that Gerald conducts with 14 year-old Lyneigh and her mother. After being home schooled in 8th grade. Lyneigh has decided to skip high school and attend Community College where she is achieving A grades. Her concern has to do with her social adjustment with schoolmates who are many years her senior. John Winslade participates as a reflector with Gerald and finally, Lyneigh and her mom respond to the reflections. This interview is a good demonstration of Narrative Counseling.

DVD / 48 minutes

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ANGER MANAGEMENT IN COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

By Raymond Chip Tafrate, Howard Kassinove

Watch anger experts Howard Kassinove and Chip Tafrate demystify the challenging work of anger management in this indispensable video! Whatever your professional setting, you'll breathe easier with this practical, empirically validated showcase of exercises, live sessions, and tools to strengthen your practice.

Angry clients present complexities that challenge new and seasoned clinicians alike. Between the need to establish a strong working alliance with mandated clients, increase motivation in the face of therapeutic ambivalence, gain agreement on anger triggers, and navigate the mental terrain of clients who minimize their own role in their anger, therapists require approaches tailored to a condition much less understood than formal clinical disorders (such as anxiety or depression). In this video, two anger experts - Drs. Howard Kassinove and Chip Tafrate - offer a series of live case examples grounded in their research-based anger episode model, designed to support both clients and clinicians in understanding the variations of the anger experience.

Kassinove and Tafrate treat no less than seven different clients in this comprehensive video, with each vignette tied to a particular technique. Key concepts such as assessment, verbal reinforcement, interviewing, identifying triggers, relaxation techniques, and forgiveness are demonstrated, with introductory commentary and instructive captioning.

You'll find valuable takeaways in each section - and prepare to be moved by an interview between Tafrate and Walt, a man who found healing through the long process of forgiving - even to the point of befriending - his son's murderer. Less radical yet no less important are Kassinove's before-and-after sessions with Ian (the latter a one year follow-up), a young adult seeking help after a difficult breakup. The two clinicians balance inner change work with interventions to support letting go, making for a refreshing, contemporary take on anger control.

This information-packed video demystifies not just anger treatment, but the anger experience itself. Give yourself the opportunity to learn from these two experts by adding this resource to your library today.

By watching this video, you will:

Understand the clinical variations of the anger experience, including its emotional, cognitive, and somatic elements.

Learn strategies to assess and increase motivation with ambivalent clients.

Identify a range of techniques to help clients reduce or manage their anger.

DVD (With Instructor's Manual, English subtitles) / 169 minutes

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BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL CAREER IN COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

By Sherry Smith, PhD & Susan Smith, LPC

Amid an ever-changing field, what are the most important things a beginning therapist should know? In this video, six seasoned clinicians discuss career paths, benefits and pitfalls of the work, successful business practices, and ways to prevent burnout.

More than ever before, new therapists are faced with a rapidly changing field that offers a dizzying array of theoretical approaches, licensure options, and business models. Amid these mystifying career prospects, what are the most important things a beginning therapist should know? In this video, a panel of six seasoned clinicians discuss their career paths, benefits and pitfalls of the work, successful business practices, and ways to prevent burnout.

Over the hour-long video, this diverse group (including MSWs, LPCs, a former HR worker with an MBA, a former musician, and a woman with a more intuitive approach to the work) speak to six different topics: traveling along the career pathway, the ebbs and flows of private practice, getting a job, concerns about the field, managing burnout, and a word to the wise. Firmly opinionated, they discuss everything from the joy of watching clients "become powerful" and the incredible variety of skills one can employ (i.e., blending private practice with university teaching and speaking) to the pressures of maintaining health insurance and "keeping the lights on" in private practice, as well as the manipulative clients that may enter your office.

You'll gain valuable information about a range of issues, a primer on the need to leverage your social networks to find choice jobs, and tips for making your practice burnout-resistant. With plenty of useful food for thought, this is a great resource for those just starting out or those supporting new therapists' growth.

By watching this video, you will:

Understand several possible educational, clinical, and blended career paths available to counselors and psychotherapists.

Discover business strategies and the importance of leveraging your social networks to find jobs.

Learn ways to practice adequate self-care and prevent burnout.

DVD (With Instructor's Manual, English subtitles) / 42 minutes

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CAREER COUNSELING IN ACTION: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

By Spencer G.Niles, EdD and Norman Amundson, PhD

Learn to utilize your counseling and therapy skills to help clients gain clarity and direction in their careers by watching several experienced career counselors work with actual clients.

While career counseling is a distinct approach to working with client issues, its overlap with traditional psychotherapy is undeniable; after all, many clients enter therapy seeking career guidance, and many career counselors find themselves supporting clients through deeper issues. If you've been curious about the specific tools used in vocational guidance, this is the video for you. Featuring interviews with career counselors and clients, segments of actual sessions with people experiencing a range of vocational issues, and an overview of the skills and techniques used, this engaging resource offers perspective and interventions that both types of practitioners can begin using immediately.

Here, you'll watch several career counselors conduct fruitful sessions with five real clients: Bud, a charismatic high school graduate seeking a people-oriented first career; Melanie, a spirited mid-career woman contemplating next steps after an unexpected layoff; Angela, a talented young dancer who wants to become a choreographer but is unclear on the best path; Jeff, a sought-after college student evaluating which route to take; and Val, a middle-aged woman with occasional depression who's choosing entrepreneurship after a challenging career setback.

Like psychotherapists, career counselors must work with client resistance, misperceptions, and self-defeating behaviors, and you'll see how each is managed within the context of this approach. You'll also get a feel for a range of field-specific exercises, such as written self-assessments, the career wheel, brainstorming, and developing metaphors. Finally, you'll understand how these structured activities are integrated with interventions from psychotherapy, including empathy and reframes, identifying client strengths, and role playing. By the video's end, each client reports feeling more hopeful, more confident, and more in control of their future - along with having a concrete action plan.

By watching this video, you will:

Understand the core skills career counseling that also apply to psychotherapy.

Learn how career counseling utilizes structured activities to support a client's search.

Discover essential interventions for developing and broadening a client's sense of possibility.

DVD (With Instructor's Manual, English subtitles) / 121 minutes

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COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY THEORIES IN CONTEXT AND PRACTICE

By John Sommers-Flanagan, Rita Sommers-Flanagan

Finally, some examples of the major psychotherapy theories all in one video! John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan present eleven of the best-known approaches to counseling and psychotherapy side-by-side, with real therapy sessions and extensive commentary covering theory, strategy, and effective techniques.

Students and instructors alike have been hard-pressed to find a single, easily digestible resource covering the major theoretical orientations of counseling and psychotherapy - until now. Join John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan as they showcase the key principles of eleven orientations and, along with four other engaging therapists, demonstrate their techniques with a diverse range of real clients.

Michael is renegotiating his relationships and formerly active lifestyle after a diagnosis of Crohn's disease; Peggy is warily considering new directions at an age when retirement plans are more common; Tesla, a dyslexic high school senior, seeks guidance on managing her college anxieties. You'll see three different clinicians lead them though person-centered, existential, and solution-focused therapy, respectively, in exchanges that highlight the orientation's theory and real-time application, leading each client to deeper insight and connection.

Pragmatic with careful attention to each session's details, the Sommers-Flanagans take you through a host of additional theories (including reality therapy, Gestalt, psychoanalytic/psychodynamic, and CBT) while illustrating techniques such as confrontation, the empty chair, presence, reflective listening, problem-solving, psychoeducation, and many more. If you want a video that explains it all in one place, Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories is a must-have in your library.

By watching this video, you will:

Increase your theoretical knowledge of eleven counseling and psychotherapy approaches.

Understand the therapeutic stance and strategies involved in each approach.

Identify the primary clinical interventions of each approach and discover ways to adapt them to your own practice.

DVD (With English subtitles, Instructor's Manual) / 265 minutes

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GROUP COUNSELING WITH CHILDREN: A MULTICULTURAL APPROACH

By Sam Steen, PhD, & Sheri Bauman, PhD

Watch this diverse group of children engage in activities and discussions that increase their awareness of their own cultures and their appreciation for differences.

By watching this video, you will:

Learn how to create a therapeutic environment to increase children's awareness and appreciation of multiculturalism.

Increase your skills in leading and co-leading groups.

Understand how to facilitate developmentally appropriate activities and discussions that foster reflection.

2 DVDs (With Instructor's Manual) / 286 minutes

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INTEGRATING MINDFULNESS INTO COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

By Ronald D. Siegel

What is "mindfulness" and how can we actually use it with our clients? Understand the principles of mindfulness-oriented psychotherapy and its application for a range of clinical issues in this new video with mindfulness expert Dr. Ronald D. Siegel.

As a mindfulness-oriented clinician, Ronald Siegel encourages us to help clients "befriend" their inner experiences rather than fight them - and even their resistance can be similarly identified and approached with acceptance. Siegel defines mindfulness as "the awareness of one's unfolding moment-to-moment experience with acceptance"; this attitude also characterizes the mindful approach to psychotherapy, which Siegel illustrates repeatedly throughout this informative video.

Over the course of four live demonstrations, post-session debriefs, and plenty of commentary, you'll get a sense of the guiding principles of the approach, including practices you can start using with your clients right away. You'll see how the somatic elements of mindfulness support treatment for issues ranging from anxiety to chronic pain to childhood trauma, and you'll watch Siegel debrief with Victor Yalom after every session.

Addressing the various types of mindfulness practices available and their respective uses, formal meditation vs. mindfulness, and how mindfulness can inform both our personal lives and our relationship to our clients, Siegel offers much to chew on in this definitive video. Be sure to add this one to your library today.

By watching this video, you will:

Understand what mindfulness is, and how the therapeutic approach differs from formal meditation.

Discover tools and practices to use with clients exhibiting a range of clinical issues.

Learn ways to integrate mindfulness into other therapeutic orientations, either with experiential practices or an overarching stance.

DVD (With English subtitles, Instructor's Manual) / 191 minutes

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LEADING COUNSELING GROUPS WITH ADULTS: A DEMONSTRATION OF THE ART OF ENGAGEMENT

By Ed Jacobs, PhD & Christine Schimmel, EdD

How do group therapists deepen engagement while keeping things moving? In this video, watch two experienced co-leaders demonstrate core techniques for successful group therapy with adults.

Successful group therapy requires clinicians to contend with simultaneous moving parts. At its best, a therapy group presents ample opportunities for members' self-reflection, meaningful interaction, insight, and growth - and group leaders must be skilled in creating the conditions for this. Given the plethora of approaches to this type of work, therapists can benefit from solid primers. This video offers just that, a comprehensive overview of the core skills and techniques of leading therapy groups with adults.

Here, Drs. Ed Jacobs and Christine Schimmel demonstrate a wide range of group therapy essentials with a gathering of eight women. For the purposes of producing a training video, these sessions all took place in one day, creating a condensed but nonetheless realistic microcosm of the experience of ongoing group therapy. Divorce, addiction, anxiety, and parenting are addressed and explored collaboratively, as the women support each other through reflection, crosstalk, and role-play activities.

Skills and techniques covered include asking good, deepening questions; using rounds to engage members; drawing out; holding, deepening and shifting focus; teaching concepts and ideas; use of props and chairs; and much more. With plenty of useful tips shown in a real group, this is an invaluable resource for any clinician who conducts group therapy.

By watching this video, you will:

Understand the arc of a successful therapy group, including its distinct phases.

Learn techniques to establish group rapport, deepen the therapy, and keep members engaged.

Identify the necessary skills for facilitating crosstalk, focusing on members' needs, and linking common issues.

DVD (With Instructor's Manual, English subtitles) / 177 minutes

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MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCE IN COUNSELING & PSYCHOTHERAPY

By Derald Wing Sue

In this provocative interview with multicultural expert Derald Wing Sue, learn about the history of multicultural counseling, the unmet needs of diverse clients, and ways to counter the culture-bound values that may be impacting your work.

It's not enough to bring an empathic stance to multicultural clients, argues Dr. Derald Wing Sue in this brand-new video interview. The seasoned researcher, clinician, and author of Counseling the Culturally Diverse - the groundbreaking text that, more than three decades after its release, remains the most frequently cited and widely used resource on cross-cultural counseling - maintains that when it comes to working with minority clients, taking a frank, unbiased look at our own place within our culture is crucial for attracting clients of a differing culture to your office, establishing a trusting working alliance, and meeting their ongoing therapeutic needs.

Sue breaks down several of his well-known concepts here, illustrating ideas such as white privilege and its invisibility in traditional clinical theory; the three levels of identification that white therapists tend to miss with minority clients, leading them to feel dismissed and potentially pathologized; and the cumulative microaggresions that plague members of cultural minorities on a daily basis. He also describes why talking about race can be challenging in the consulting room.

In addition to these frameworks, you'll watch Sue discuss ways to counter this cultural conditioning during clinical training, including his first-of-its-kind program that weaves cross-cultural immersion into multiple aspects of the educational process.

Whether you're looking to deepen your cultural competence, wanting to learn more about the origin of multicultural counseling theories, or are searching for practical applications for your work with clients, you'll find plenty to chew on in this riveting interview with a pioneer in our field.

By watching this video, you will:

Deepen your understanding of white privilege, microagressions, and other important cross-cultural counseling concepts.

Consider how your own cultural background may be impacting your approach to clinical work.

Learn tools for developing multicultural competence with diverse client populations.

DVD (With Instructor's Manual, English subtitles) / 84 minutes

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