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New Releases - Psychology & Psychotherapy
Are all people capable of murder? What drives people to violence? Can TV affect our actions and even influence us to acts of violence? This interview-led documentary style program examines aggressive media, aggressive behaviour and the banality of evil with the support of original film footage of research and actual crimes. An excellent resource for studies in applied psychology, this program features research psychologists providing explanations and reasoning behind aggression.
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DVD / 2013 / 22 minutes
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This program includes both historical and current research methods and models of attachment behaviour. We examine Bowlby, a British psychologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, notable for his pioneering work in attachment theory. An excellent resource for studies in both academic and applied psychology, this program explores Bowlby's '44 juvenile thieves' study and the effects of separation, patterns of attachment, behaviourism, nurturance as well as security, and insecure-resistant and insecure avoidant children.
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DVD / 2013 / 26 minutes
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With Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, PhD, ABPP
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective and appropriate approach for late-life depression because it is problem focused, examining and treating present-day problems that negatively impact the client's quality of life. Established empirical studies support the use of standard CBT with older clients, and subsequent research has reinforced CBT's effectiveness when tailored to fit the needs of this prominent population.
In this video, Dr. Dolores Gallagher-Thompson works with an older woman with depression, demonstrating the technical assets of CBT while skillfully building an effective therapeutic relationship with the client.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2013 / Approx. 100 minutes
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The way we make assessments about many people every day is by looking at their face. Faces tell us basic information such as gender, approximate age and possible ethnicity. But we also learn to read faces to gather clues about what sort of person someone is or how they might be feeling. But how do we do this and why do some people suffer prosopagnosia - or the inability to recognize faces? This film explores the fascinating topic of face recognition, including recognizing faces, reading faces and the Bruce-Young model, and blindness to faces. This program is an excellent resource for students of Psychology.
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DVD / 2013 / 24 minutes
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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 / Approx. 100 minutes
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With Scott Browning, PhD
Stepfamilies and first families have markedly different dynamics and developmental cycles, and clinicians too often approach stepfamily work with insufficient understanding of these differences.
Scott Browning's stepfamily therapy model differs from standard practice in its emphasis on stabilizing each family subsystem before moving on to more integrative work with the whole stepfamily. This model holds that stepfamilies are especially aided by comprehending the systemic dynamics that influence them, and that this understanding mitigates frustration with differences in personality style and leads to recognizing the importance of every family member's role. Specific interventions used by the therapist normalize the experiences of family members, which helps to shift perceptions and clarify intentions.
In this demonstration, Dr. Browning helps a stepfamily to normalize their experience, increase empathy among stepfamily members, identify mistaken beliefs and misperceptions that cause tension, and uncover techniques to avert issues that create impasses.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2013 / Approx. 100 minutes
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Sleep - it's something we do every day, but why do we sleep and why are psychologists so interested in sleep? What happens if we don't sleep? Sleep has been the subject of extensive research over many years, and while our knowledge and understanding about sleep, and the role it plays in keeping us healthily alive, has advanced considerably over the past few decades, there is still much we don't know. This film examines sleep and why human beings do it, the four stages of sleep, and the causes and impact of not sleeping.
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DVD / 2013 / 25 minutes
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With Diana Fosha, PhD
Accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP) is both a theory of transformational process and a model of psychotherapy with three fundamental elements
attachment
emotion processing
transformation
Emphasizing the regulation and processing of relatedness and emotion, AEDP integrates psychodynamic and relational elements within an affect-centered experiential framework. This approach is effective with male clients because it avoids pathologizing problems, and instead affirms strengths and reflects positive qualities to offset commonly negative expectations of treatment.
In this phase-oriented treatment, Dr. Diana Fosha first focuses on building the relationship and establishing safety, simultaneously working with anxiety and attending to interferences with core emotion. She then helps the client to gain visceral access to experience, using moment-to-moment tracking of fluctuations in affect. Next, Dr. Fosha affirms and processes the experience of transformation by drawing attention to its positive and healing effects. Finally, the client is able to construct a coherent, cohesive narrative, with newfound personal truth and strengthened sense of self.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2013 / Approx. 100 minutes
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With Clara E. Hill, PhD
In this DVD, Clara E. Hill demonstrates her three-stage model for working with dreams, where she works with the client to explore the dream in detail, find insights by expanding on initial interpretations of the dream, and consolidate those insights and take action to address issues in her waking life.
The first stage, exploration, is informed by client-centered theory and involves enlarging key images of the dream to enhance their vividness and help the client experience them again with emotion and depth. In the second stage, insight, client and therapist take what they've learned from the exploration process and conceptualize what the dream means to the client's present life. The third stage of action allows the client to apply her understanding of the dream and determine what waking changes should be made based on newfound knowledge from the dream.
In this session, Dr. Hill and the client discuss at length a dream that the client has had recurrently since she was 18 years old. Recurring dreams often represent recurring themes in people's lives, and the client considers the powerful notion that if she can gain insight into her dream, she could perhaps change her life.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2013 / Approx. 100 minutes
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This DVD describes how psychological first aid evolved, and explains for whom it's designed, who can deliver it, and when and where it should be used. The presenters outline the basic goals of psychological first aid, including establishing a human connection, providing safety and comfort, and meeting immediate needs. They go on to describe the guidelines for its use, such as modeling healthy responses, maintaining confidentiality, observing without intruding, and staying in one's role.
DVD / 2011 / 45 minutes
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Working as a first responder plunges one into a tumultuous world. This program delves into the many challenges mental health first responders face in trying to meet survivors' needs while not becoming over-stressed themselves. Topics include behaviors to avoid, working with children and elders, culture and language issues, and secondary trauma. The crucial importance of attending both to self-care and to the needs of other team members is emphasized.
DVD / 2011 / 45 minutes
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By Joshua Taylor
Cyber-bullying affects young people of all demographics and walks of life. This video teaches counselors how to reach out to these young people and connect with them to begin the healing process. Inspiring stories from young victims of cyber-bullying along with practical strategies for connecting effectively with these clients will help prepare counselors to become effective and sensitive supervisors and mentors.
The DVD emphasizes the importance of partnering with young people to confront the issue, and draws from cutting edge ideas and practices in family therapy, community and organizational development, and post-modern thinking while applying them in a concrete, accessible, and immediately applicable fashion.
DVD / 40 minutes
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Information on the brain is presented in a simple, understandable language that provides a foundation for those who wish to include an understanding of the brain and mind into their counseling and clinical practice. Topics presented include neurobiological processes of stress and anxiety and their effect on behaviour; the social brain; mirror neurons and interpersonal neurobiology; behaviours such as ADHD, Alexithymia, Compulsive Disorders and Learning Difficulties.
DVD / 90 minutes
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By Donald Meichenbaum
In this lively interview, Meichenbaum discusses early intervention strategies for children and adolescents who are prone to bullying and violent behaviors, the neurological consequences of abuse and neglect, and the components of stress inoculation used to break the cycle of violence.
In this engaging interview with CBT and agression expert Dr. Donald Meichenbaum discusses violence and aggression, from origin to treatment. Drawing upon his unique expertise, he articulates both how violent individuals are created and the thoughts that drive violent behavior. Meichenbaum advocates for stress "Stress-Inoculation Training," which he describes as the "best evidence-based intervention in working with angry and aggressive individuals."
By watching this video you will:
Describe key components of Meichenbaum's theory of early childhood development and its relationship to violence and aggression
Identify the predictors for violence and the interventions used in schools to decrease violent behavior
Explain the key elements of effective treatment for violence
DVD (With English Subtitles) / 33 minutes
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By Reid Wilson
In this live session with a real patient, anxiety disorder expert Reid Wilson applies a provocative cognitive behavioral approach to one of the most vexing problems therapists encounter: panic disorder.
If you're struggling using traditional approaches with clients who have panic or other anxiety disorders, let Wilson guide you in a radically different, counterintuitive and extremely effective approach.
By watching this video, you will:
Learn the core concepts of Wilson's approach to treating panic disorder
Understand how to conduct a highly focused assessment
Identify tools for helping clients tolerate discomfort and panic symptoms
DVD (With Instructor's Manual, English Subtitles) / 68 minutes
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By Marsha Linehan
Watch Marsha Linehan, founder of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), in action in this session with a middle-aged man with a significant personality disorder struggling with suicidal depression and anger after being left by his girlfriend.
Perhaps no therapist of the last several decades has so influenced current practice as Marsha Linehan. Though she does a great deal of teaching and training, opportunities to see her practicing with a client in a full-length session are few and far between. Therapists, DBT practitioners, and newcomers alike will relish this rare opportunity.
In this initial session, Linehan works with a fascinating and difficult client. He makes it clear that he is actively suicidal, has little faith in therapy, and is not necessarily committed to treatment. He bobs and weaves as Linehan works with him, concealing some of the most damaging aspects of his own past behaviors and painting himself as an angry and wounded victim. With her upfront and frank style, Linehan defines the client's goals, makes clear to him which behaviors must change immediately, and gets him to agree to postpone suicidality in favor of further investigating her treatment. Throughout the session, Linehan gives voiced-over explanations of why she made certain choices and what compelled her towards different interventions. Prepare to be fascinated, both by the client and by Linehan!
By watching this video, you will learn:
How to conduct an initial behavioral assessment using DBT
How to implement elements of DBT style and strategy with your own clients
How a DBT therapist assesses for suicidality and obtains commitment to therapy
DVD / 108 minutes
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By Peter Fonagy
In this lively and engaging interview, Peter Fonagy, PhD, offers both a theoretical foundation for understanding violent behaviors as well as practical tools for clinicians working with violent offenders.
In this video, Peter Fonagy, PhD, eloquently articulates effective methods of intervening with violent behavior. He begins with child development, emphasizing that early attachment often inhibits violent tendencies. Providing viewers with a series of effective examples, Fonagy discusses the importance of mentalization or self-reflective functioning as a method for intervening with violence. He also addresses social factors affecting violence, risk factors and thoughts that drive violent behavior, and counseling violent offenders in a variety of settings, including in prisons, group therapy and individual therapy.
By watching this video you will:
Describe Fonagy's psychosocial approach to understanding and treating violent offenders
Understand the importance of facilitating mentalization with violent offenders and learn tools to utilize it with clients
Identify the specific skills necessary to work safely with violent individuals
DVD (With English Subtitles) / 65 minutes
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By Christian Conte
In this lively and instructive video, watch anger management expert, Christian Conte, PhD, present his comprehensive and practical theory for treating-and healing-even the most violent offenders.
Conte's easygoing style and use of stories and metaphors create a memorable experience, so you will easily recall the tools when they next arise in session. You will never again have to resort to outdated techniques: instead, you can pair your compassion and understanding with the modern, tested methods of a master trainer. Whether shown to clients in an anger management group or loaned to clients to watch as homework, this video will be a valuable resource in every therapist or counselor's library.
By watching this video, you will:
Learn the key components of Conte's anger management model
Identify the different types of rage people experience, as well as their psychological origin
Understand the tools for de-escalating anger and making healthier choices in moments of conflict
DVD (With Instructor's Manual, English Subtitles) / 75 minutes
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