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Family Therapy



CULTURALLY SENSITIVE GUIDELINES FOR NON-BLACK THERAPISTS WORKING WITH AFRICAN-AMERICAN COUPLES

With Helm, Katherine; Dermer, Shannon

African-American couples often experience cultural mistrust when working with non-Black counselors, as they may fear being judged, stereotyped, or simply misunderstood. This video provides specific suggestions for how non-Black clinicians can more effectively build rapport and work with African-American couples. It discusses ways in which non-Black clinicians can understand the specific contextual factors impacting African-American couple relationships, how daily microaggressions effect such couple, how to enact culturally sensitive guidelines, types of presenting issues Black couples bring to counseling, how to join with couples, and how to deal with and interpret potential resistance and possible cultural mistrust. The video reviews the importance of being honest, genuine, and empathetic, the strategic use of self-disclosure, and ways to modify current treatment approaches.


DVD / 2014 / 30 minutes

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CULTURALLY SENSITIVE TREATMENT APPROACHES WITH AFRICAN-AMERICAN COUPLES

Counseling literature often speaks of providing diverse clients with culturally sensitive treatment, but rarely breaks down what this means within individual groups. Discussion of culturally sensitive treatment interventions with African-American couples is particularly rare. This program solves this problem by exploring specific culturally sensitive interventions with African-American couples, including identifying specific contextual factors that impact couples, evaluating intimacy threats to the relationship, exploring the connection between family of origin issues and couples issues, and understanding the role of racism, discrimination, and oppression on the couple.

DVD / 2014 / 30 minutes

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RESURRECTING BLACK COUPLES

With Waller, Byron; Dermer, Shannon

Spirituality has always been an important tool for the African-American community to survive and thrive during times of personal challenge and in oppressive environments. In this video, Dr. Waller presents the importance of spirituality and explains how it is used to overcome life challenges. He also explores ways in which a professional counselor can better understand how African-American individuals and couples use spirituality and suggests ways to work spirituality into therapy.


DVD / 2014 / 30 minutes

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THREATS TO INTIMACY IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN COUPLES

With Helm, Katherine; Dermer, Shannon

African-American couples face unique challenges in fostering relationships. This video helps clinicians and those working with African-American couples identify specific threats to intimacy that may be operating in their relationships and may be outside the couple's awareness. Emphasizing the importance of recognizing and laying the groundwork to neutralize these threats, this program covers constructions of Black sexuality, gender stereotypes, SES issues, an unbalanced sex ratio, the extended family, mistrust, and several other identified threats. It also explains that any counseling professional working with African-American couples must be aware of and understand how to help the couple work with these damaging threats.


DVD / 2014 / 30 minutes

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MULTIDIMENSIONAL FAMILY THERAPY: A RESEARCH-PROVEN, INNOVATIVE TREATMENT FOR ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Explaining that multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) is a comprehensive, family-centered treatment for adolescent substance abuse and delinquency, this program features a counseling session with MDFT founder Howard Liddle and a 16-year-old boy arrested for purchasing marijuana. The session illustrates the key areas of focus of MDFT and discusses the model's three stages.

DVD / 2013 / 75 minutes

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FAMILY THERAPY: UNIVERSAL AND UNIQUE APPROACHES TO SOLVING PROBLEMS

Through a series of entertaining, brief, and instructional role plays, Dr. Gladding reviews several universals of family treatment approaches, such as types of communication patterns, rules, and feedback. He describes additional concepts including homeostasis, secondary change, and developmental aspects of a problem, then demonstrates effective use of these techniques to treat a multi-generational family. Stimulating and enlightening, this video perfect for most classes in family therapy and is a creative resource for hooking beginning graduate and advanced undergraduate students into seeing multiple aspects of how to clinically work with families to achieve therapeutic results.

DVD / 2012 / 46 minutes

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USING FAMILY SYSTEMS THEORY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY - ASSESSMENT AND ENGAGEMENT IN FAMILY THERAPY

By Monica McGoldrick

Whether you're new to family therapy or seeing a new family client, you need a clear and effective framework to navigate this often treacherous terrain. In this new video, legendary family therapist and genogram innovator Monica McGoldrick demonstrates how to engage and assess a family in the initial stage of treatment.

The systems approach to family therapy has taken root over the past half-century as a prominent and trusted assessment framework. Even as other methods have entered the field, the systems perspective-including the genogram-remains a reliable way of understanding the complex relationships and rich histories that characterize a family. While we now largely accept that family dynamics can influence individual members' healing capacities, we can still feel mystified by how to actually begin a course of family therapy. In this excellent new video resource, family systems expert Monica McGoldrick offers practical tools to help you move forward with adolescents and their families. Over five clinical sessions with the Zapata family, she demonstrates how to integrate specific techniques into treatment focused on helping family clients manage not just their presenting issues, but also the systems-oriented background concerns that underlie them.

To start, McGoldrick outlines the key principles of early-stage systems therapy and discusses the many judgment calls a family therapist must make. Covering genogram application, the need (or not) for risk assessment, separating family members during a session, and more, McGoldrick illustrates the collaborative yet directive, client-engaging nature of the approach. You'll also find helpful commentary in which McGoldrick generously discusses her frustrations in session and then shows how to clinically address them.

This video is an essential tool for clinicians who want useful strategies for systems therapy, adolescent therapy and risk assessment, or family-based alliance building.

By watching this video, you will:
  • Get an expert perspective on systems therapy and its application to adolescents and their families.
  • Learn how to engage parents in a discussion about their respective backgrounds and its collective impact.
  • Find helpful tips for working with immigrant client populations.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 241 minutes

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    USING FAMILY SYSTEMS THEORY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY - HARNESSING THE POWER OF GENOGRAMS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

    By Monica McGoldrick

    Watch master family therapist Monica McGoldrick, MSW, create a genogram on the spot in this live session with a client struggling to understand why he is distancing from his wife.

    This is a rare opportunity to watch the therapist who developed and popularized genograms demonstrate how to actually create and utilize them in a therapy session. In this video, you will see Monica McGoldrick in action as she masterfully conducts an initial interview with a new client, demonstrating the step-by-step process of gathering historical information, creating the genogram, and contextualizing the client's presenting problem within a multigenerational family systems framework.

    John is a 39-year-old African-American graphic designer who is having marital problems. Mystified and distressed by his pattern of distancing from his wife who is six months pregnant, he desperately wants to understand why he is pulling away. McGoldrick's focused interest in John's family story gently guides him in a thorough investigation of the social and historical context of his current struggles. With McGoldrick as an ally, John makes fascinating discoveries as he uncovers surprising coincidences, poignant tragedies and inspiring sources of resilience.

    Watching McGoldrick engage a client in exploring the connection between his presenting problem and his family-of-origin issues is a treat in and of itself, but a bonus feature of this video is following McGoldrick's step-by-step creation of John's genogram on the spot. It makes for a compelling and highly educational experience.

    By watching this video, you will learn how to:
  • Utilize the genogram to place clients' presenting problems in a historical and social context
  • Respond when a client resists exploring family issues
  • Explain to clients why exploring family background is relevant


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 113 minutes

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    EXPERIENTIAL FAMILY THERAPY

    By Carl Whitaker

    Learn from groundbreaking family therapist Carl Whitaker as he conducts two riveting and instructive initial interviews with a family seeking treatment for their son's ADHD. You can't help but be awed and inspired as you watch this true master in action.

    With a focus on process over progress, a co-created experiential field, and a therapeutic power exchange with the family, Carl Whitaker demonstrates a playfully ruthless brand of family therapy in this two-session video. His own past suicide attempt, "this ADD thing" the son experiences, dad's leveraging his polio for psychological gain, and mom's "conning" people into various states of unconscious compliance all get addressed here, as the renowned family therapist presents a rare live glimpse into the approach that's influenced a generation of subsequent clinicians.

    You'll be shocked and delighted throughout this video-it's truly a classic example of groundbreaking therapy from a one-of-a-kind clinician. While every therapist must ultimately develop their own style congruent with their personality, watching a vibrant master like Whitaker can inspire you to find your own voice-and not have it be squelched as you try to adhere to a specific orientation or manualized treatment.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Discover the theoretical underpinnings of Whitaker's pioneering approach.
  • Understand the major characteristics of the therapeutic system with regard to families.
  • Identify the four essential steps of the family therapy process.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 130 minutes

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    FAMILY THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS: BOWENIAN FAMILY THERAPY

    By Philip Guerin

    Watch Dr. Guerin masterfully conducting a live family therapy session, followed by an illuminating discussion about his innovative and sophisticated approach to Bowenian Family Therapy.

    As noted above, Pam clearly has some sort of developmental disability, although it is unclear what the nature of her deficit is. But it is quite striking to notice how Guerin finds a way to engage her as a full adult member of the family, not talking down to her in any way, and in doing so provides effective modeling for the parents. Note that this is the same family as in the video Structural Family Therapy featuring Harry Aponte, so it is interesting to contrast the styles of these two master therapists.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Learn the theoretical components of Bowenian Family Therapy.
  • Identify specific techniques and interventions characteristic of Bowenian Family Therapy.
  • Observe how a clinician employing a Bowenian Therapy approach conducts an initial family therapy session.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 117 minutes

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    FAMILY THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS: EMPOWERMENT FAMILY THERAPY

    By Frank Pittman

    Do you want to be more effective at empowering your clients to make the changes in their lives that will get them what they really want? Dr. Frank Pittman is one of the most passionate therapists around when it comes to helping people take responsibility for their lives, as you'll see in this live couples therapy session.

    If there's one thing Pittman can't stand, it's a therapeutic approach that enhances a client's sense of being a victim. Empowerment Therapy is a character-building experience in which therapists tell clients that they are responsible for what they do -- no matter how they feel, no matter what's happened to them. If you're reaching your limit with clients who aren't making the changes they claim to want to make, spend a little time with Frank Pittman in this video: his no-nonsense approach to change may be just the inspiration you and your clients need.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Learn how to develop a therapeutic relationship with clients that empowers them to make the changes they want in their lives.
  • Develop an understanding of how to negotiate a family's resistance to change.
  • Discover how to help parents make responsible decisions that are in their family's long-term best interest.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 114 minutes

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    FAMILY THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS: INTEGRATIVE FAMILY THERAPY

    By Kenneth V. Hardy

    Watch Integrative Family Therapy in action as Kenneth V. Hardy masterfully applies his holistic approach in an actual family therapy session with a single African-American mother and her teenage daughter.

    By watching this video you will:
  • Develop an understanding of the key tenets of Integrative Family Therapy, including: embracing a "both/and" philosophy; looking for the "pearls of functionality;" and the significance of the broader social context.
  • Gain insight into Kenneth Hardy's therapeutic style and how he brings together various theories of family therapy.
  • Learn how to apply an Integrative approach to your own therapeutic work with families.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 117 minutes

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    FAMILY THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS: NARRATIVE FAMILY THERAPY

    By Stephen Madigan

    Ollie is a 12 year-old African-American boy who has been court-ordered to therapy after hitting his classmate with his belt. Watch Stephen Madigan, expert Narrative therapist, as he compassionately engages Ollie and his mother in a fascinating inquiry into their experience of racism, discovering there's much more to this incident than meets the eye.

    Madigan shares a refreshing approach to therapy that genuinely honors the individual's experience. A great tool for learning the theory and techniques of Narrative Therapy, this video is also an exceptional example of how to truly listen to your clients. At the end of this family therapy session, the mother says to Madigan, "I didn't know we would get to tell the story but it is a true story." This session reminds us how healing it can be for people to have a space to tell their stories to a concerned and interested listener, and Madigan teaches us how to create that space.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Learn how to conduct a therapeutic interview using Narrative Therapy techniques such as deconstruction, re-authoring, and identifying communities of concern.
  • Understand the significance of privileging the client's understanding of the problem and how to do this in an effective way.
  • Develop skills for engaging clients in conversations about how socio-political issues such as racism play a role in the problems they are currently facing.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 112 minutes

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    FAMILY THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS: STRUCTURAL FAMILY THERAPY

    By Harry Aponte

    Watch Harry J. Aponte, a highly regarded therapist who worked closely with Salvador Minuchin, demonstrate his unique approach to Structural Therapy in this compelling family therapy session.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Learn the theoretical components of Structural Family Therapy.
  • Identify specific techniques and interventions characteristic of Structural Family Therapy.
  • Observe how a clinician employing a Structural Therapy


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 114 minutes

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    INTIMATE HISTORY OF FAMILY THERAPY, AN

    By Hoffman, Lynn

    In an intimate conversation with Harlene Anderson, Lynn Hoffman discusses the evolution of the postmodern edge of family therapy. Hoffman has been the historian of many of the theories developed in family therapy and her relationships with the pioneers of these ideas. Particular attention is focused on the early eighties where she describes the differences in the views of the epistemologists (who were contruct-ivists and engineers) and the practitioners of family therapy. She also discusses the dilemma of finding the clinical work of social constructionism disappointing to audiences, questioning if they have preconceived ideas about what it is to be in conversation. This is an informative interview for those who don't yet understand social constructionist ideas.


    DVD / 56 minutes

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    SALVADOR MINUCHIN ON FAMILY THERAPY

    By Salvador Minuchin

    In this fascinating interview with his beloved friend and mentee of over thirty years, Jay Lappin, Salvador Minuchin discusses a wide range of themes, from his early influences to his thoughts on how to best teach new therapists. With candor and humility, he discusses personal and provocative topics such as:

  • the impact of being a Jew in an anti-Semitic country and how he developed a sense of being the "Other;"
  • why psychodynamic therapy isn't enough;
  • pivotal moments and mistakes;
  • the essential elements of therapeutic change;
  • how therapists are too nice and why they need to challenge their clients more;
  • the importance of "daring when you're doubting;" and
  • why he thinks Attachment Theory doesn't make any sense.

  • This is a great interview to watch with colleagues or to show in a class because it is sure to spark lively debate and to get viewers really thinking about their own beliefs about therapy.

    By watching this video you will:
  • Learn the theory, goals, and techniques of Structural Family Therapy.
  • Understand the history of family therapy and how Minuchin developed his approach to working with diverse populations.
  • Identify effective strategies for joining with clients and challenging them to find alternative ways of relating with each other.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 81 minutes

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    USING FAMILY SYSTEMS THEORY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY - COUPLES THERAPY: A FAMILY SYSTEMS APPROACH

    By Monica McGoldrick

    Learn from seasoned family therapist Monica McGoldrick how bringing family-of-origin issues into couples therapy can help you pinpoint the root of the problem, make more targeted interventions, and ultimately "unstick" a couple struggling with insecurity and distrust.

    Monica McGoldrick understands the complexities and clinical pitfalls of wading into the depths of complex relationships. Having worked extensively with couples and families, she knows how clinicians become mired in presenting problems and interminable conflicts. Contemporary therapists tend to over-focus on the present. In contrast, McGoldrick widens the clinical gaze so the past is brought into sharp relief in the couple's present relationship. McGoldrick reminds us that who we are flows from race, culture, family of origin narratives, gender and life-cycle issues-and only by considering these critical factors can we be most effective with our clients.

    In this six-session clinical exploration of John and Barbara's 12-year marriage, McGoldrick explores their current relationship challenges in the context of dramatic and palpable family-of-origin relations. John, soon to arrive at age 50, distances himself from his family, a poignant re-enactment of his father's behavior years before. Barbara, still reeling from her father's departure from the family when she was the same age as her daughter is currently, is insecure and untrusting.

    Through her finely attuned empathy, McGoldrick masterfully weaves intergenerational threads through this couple's gripping family narrative…a clinical page-turner. You can't help but learn and be inspired by seeing her in action.


    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 147 minutes

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    VIRGINIA SATIR, THE - A FAMILY AT THE POINT OF GROWTH

    By Virginia Satir

    Hone your clinical skills by watching one of family therapy's most esteemed personalities in action. In this video, Virginia Satir consults with a family in the aftermath of a teenage brother's assault of his sister.

    Upon meeting with this family of six, just at the end of son Sean's yearlong court-ordered therapy after assaulting his younger sister, Satir builds a quick, easy rapport, then works to understand how each family member learns best-while normalizing each of their different styles-with the goal of assessing how they can support one another in their future growth. She then guides Linda and Jack in a dyad exercise in communicating their support of each other, using physical touch to ground them in times of stress, and supports Linda in understanding how her views of Jack can be clouded by her projected feelings toward her father. Nurturing, directive, experiential, and engaged, Satir exhibits a charismatic style that's simultaneously unique and accessible.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Gain an understanding of Satir's unique approach to family therapy.
  • Discover ways to create a safe environment for honest communication.
  • Learn how to assess a family's current and future needs.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 64 minutes

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    VIRGINIA SATIR, THE - A STEP ALONG THE WAY: A FAMILY WITH A DRUG PROBLEM

    By Virginia Satir

    Watch one of family therapy's most highly regarded pioneers in action! In this video, Virginia Satir firmly but lovingly confronts a large family about their son's longstanding substance abuse.

    First, you'll watch Satir in a brief lecture introducing her "universal family map"-her didactic method of understanding the various relational configurations within families. Next, Satir conducts a moving session with a family struggling with the repercussions of 29-year-old son Michael's longstanding drug addiction. You'll observe Satir's natural skill at building authentic rapport with the five members, and you'll get to witness the various creative, experiential methods she employs to shed light on their complex family dynamics. Even through the intensity and resistance that arises during the interview, particularly as mom struggles with her feelings about letting go and moving on, Satir maintains a grounded environment that supports honest cross-communication, staying one step ahead of the family in order to address their most pressing relational issues. Nurturing, directive, and engaged, Satir exhibits a charismatic style that's simultaneously unique and accessible.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Learn the principles of Satir's approach to therapy with blended families.
  • Understand how a systems therapist can conduct guided sessions with parts of the family unit as well as the whole.
  • Identify creative interventions to support cross-communication and connection.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 63 minutes

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    VIRGINIA SATIR, THE - BLENDED FAMILY WITH A TROUBLED BOY

    By Virginia Satir

    Watch one of family therapy's most esteemed pioneers in action! In this engaging video, Virginia Satir helps a blended family of four untangle longstanding parenting and communication issues.

    Upon Satir's meeting with this family of four, 16-year-old Tim has fallen into chronic truancy and a sullen attitude. After building an empathic alliance with the whole family, getting the details of the various family dynamics, Satir explores of Jerry and Elaine's relationship-as opposed to pathologizing Tim, the family's "identified patient"-and the family gains a new awareness of the parenting issues influencing Tim's withdrawal. As she gradually uncovers Elaine's need for relief as a key to restoring everyone's connection, you'll get a visceral feeling for the style of work Satir is known for. Nurturing, directive, experiential, and engaged, Satir exhibits a charismatic style that's simultaneously unique and accessible.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Learn the principles of Satir's approach to therapy with blended families.
  • Understand how a systems therapist can conduct guided sessions with parts of the family unit as well as the whole.
  • Identify creative interventions to support cross-communication and connection.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 70 minutes

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