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Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy


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

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    ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION WITH SUICIDAL CLIENTS VOLUME 1

    By John Sommers-Flanagan

    The suicidal client is perhaps the single greatest clinical and ethical challenge for even the most seasoned mental health professional. In this, John Sommers-Flanagan artfully teaches through live clinical demonstration how to effectively and collaboratively assess and intervene when sitting face-to-face with suicidal clients. In this video he works with a divorced mother suffering from depression, and a 22-year-old college student and veteran of the Iraq war who is struggling with family issues and alcohol use.

    In Volume 1, you'll see Dr. Sommers-Flanagan demonstrate his collaborative and research-based approach in multiple sessions with each of the following clients:

    Michelle, a recently divorced mother of a young daughter, who seeks relief from the punishing symptoms of depression, inertia and self-doubt.

    Cory, a previously proud and optimistic 22-year-old college student and citizen of the Lakota-Sioux nation, who upon returning from the Iraq war finds his family and his tribe in disarray. Significant alcohol use and access to guns compounds his suicide risk.

    Through compassionate and targeted interviewing, Sommers-Flanagan will teach you how to recognize and address the eight dimensions of suicidality. In the process, your clients will begin to gain clarity around their suicidality and you will develop a clearer clinical picture that will help you to lay the groundwork for intervention. Descriptive and informative pre and post-demonstration discussions between Sommers-Flanagan and Victor Yalom will teach you how to seamlessly integrate the research-based and clinically-proven "seven fundamental clinical tasks" into your own assessment and early intervention planning. By the conclusion of this training video you will be far better-equipped to attend to the clinical challenges of the suicidal client.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 214 minutes

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    ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION WITH SUICIDAL CLIENTS VOLUME 2

    By John Sommers-Flanagan

    In this, John Sommers-Flanagan masterfully teaches us through live clinical demonstration how to effectively and collaboratively assess and intervene with suicidal clients at different phases of life. First he works with a 15-year-old experiencing stress from her parents' marital conflict, then a middle aged woman who recently lost her husband to illness, and finally an intensely suicidal 40-year-old.

    In Volume 2, you'll see Dr. Sommers-Flanagan conduct initial sessions with:

    Kennedy, a 15-year-old high school student and youngest of three who is experiencing the unbearable stress of her parents' marital conflict and associated tension within the home.

    Jeannie, a middle-aged woman who is approaching retirement while also grieving the recent death of her second husband to illness.

    Kay, a deeply distressed and intensely suicidal 40-year-old who struggles with tormenting memories, thoughts, and feelings related to her deceased schizophrenic mother.

    Sommers-Flanagan will teach you how to assess and intervene collaboratively with your suicidal clients by tapping into both their internal coping skills and external resources. Working from a deeply empathetic therapeutic foundation, he offers highly concrete strategies for use during both assessment and early treatment. You will learn how to implement the "Mood Rating Scale with a Suicide Floor" to determine changes in your client's emotional status as they relate to self-harm. As he models use of the "Suicide Rating Form," you will develop strategies for accurately assessing your client's risk for suicide. Finally, you will acquire skills for building a safety plan with your suicidal clients that includes creation of a safe environment, recognizing warning signs, identifying peer and community resources, and choosing an alternative environment.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 137 minutes

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    ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION WITH SUICIDAL CLIENTS VOLUME 3

    By John Sommers-Flanagan

    In this, John Sommers-Flanagan and colleagues teach you to effectively assess and intervene with suicidal clients of varying beliefs, cultures and worldviews. He works with a suicidal gay male, and supplemental expert interviews discuss suicide in Asian-American and other cultures and coping strategies for families that have lost a loved one to suicide.

    In this 3rd and final volume, Sommers-Flanagan addresses the issue of acute suicidality as he works with a 35-year-old white gay male who is socially isolated, hopeless, and with access to lethal means. You will develop a deeper clinical appreciation for issues such as balancing an client's autonomy with the duty to protect, the intergenerational transmission of trauma, incorporating hospitalization into treatment planning, and appropriate referral of suicidal clients.

    Supplemental expert interviews cover the issues of suicide in Asian-American cultures, the challenge of effectively assessing suicidal minority youth, and coping strategies for family members who have lost loved ones to suicide.

    By urging you to replace your pencils and laptops with deep human connection, Sommers-Flanagan leads to appreciate the role of shame and saving face when working with suicidal Asian-American clients and their families. He teaches how to ask concrete and specific questions about suicide, and you will acquire skills for establishing meaningful therapeutic contact with minority youth in a variety of settings. By understanding the impact of bullying, social alienation and stigma on gender development, you will be able to more effectively assess suicidal LGBT clients. And finally, you will learn to clinically negotiate the delicate balance between the will to live and the urge to die with clients who have lost a loved one to suicide.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 124 minutes

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    BREAKING THE CODE OF ROMANTIC LOVE

    By Sue Johnson

    Over the last 30 years, Dr. Sue Johnson and her colleagues have "cracked the code" of romantic love through the development of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). By watching this video, couples will to learn to improve their relationships and therapists will find useful ideas and training techniques.

    Whether you are a couple looking to improve your relationship or a therapist training other therapists to work with couples, Dr. Johnson's message and techniques will provide valuable tools for change. And her message is very clear and direct: everything we need to know about relationships, we learned in childhood. Drawing upon research into the sciences of attachment and bonding and in very clear language, she provides concrete strategies to help strengthen relationships by enhancing safety, security and connection.

    Instead of focusing on fleeting issues that drive problems in relationships, she shows how the principles of EFT can help couples to more effectively express, process and reciprocate emotions. Feeling heard and hearing each other is the key to relationship survival. Dr. Johnson teaches us to build on these simple yet powerful ideas to increase relationship satisfaction and the effectiveness of couples therapy.

    For Dr. Johnson, the enemy of love is not conflict, but distance and emotional disconnection. She imparts useful strategies and techniques for safely lessening distance, increasing partner responsiveness and strengthening intimacy. Real-life examples from her work help us to replace old notions about relationship traps. In their place, couples and clinicians will learn about the specific stages and methods for building or rebuilding healthy and rewarding ties.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 73 minutes

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    CULTURALLY SENSITIVE COUNSELING WITH LATINOS

    By Patricia Arredondo

    In our diverse society, therapists are increasingly likely to work with Latino clients but may lack a core understanding of their day-to-day experiences, worldview, and unique clinical needs. Through poignant discussion and live clinical demonstration, master clinician, consultant, and researcher Patricia Arredondo will fill the gaps in our knowledge and skills so that we may maximize our effectiveness with this population.

    Patricia Arredondo is concerned that clinicians unfamiliar with the Latino experience will undermine potential alliances, miss valuable intervention opportunities, and limit therapeutic outcomes through biases and false assumptions. By watching her in a live clinical demonstration, you will learn to to put aside traditional Western individual-oriented beliefs that drive your assessment, diagnostic, and treatment practices. In their place, you will gain meaningful psychotherapeutic insights and skills that will help you to tap into the collectivism that shapes the Latino worldview.

    Through incisive clinical observations and culturally targeted interventions, Arredondo will help you to adapt your own therapeutic models and techniques so that you will optimize clinical outcome with Latino clients. Introducing us to the Latino perspective rooted in "marianismo," "machismo," and "caballerismo," she will both broaden your clinical understanding of this population and sharpen your clinical tools. As a result, you will ask better interviewing questions, de-pathologize your assessments, and enhance your case-conceptualization and treatment planning skills.

    Formative experiences molded Arredondo's personal and professional identity as an international expert in multicultural competency. She will model and teach you how to better appreciate and connect with your Latino clients and show you how to "be humble about what we do not know." In so doing, she will help you to deepen your empathy with Latino clients around their unique values, religious beliefs, family dynamics, and prescribed gender roles.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 77 minutes

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    DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY WITH SUICIDAL CLIENTS VOL. 1

    By Marsha Linehan

    When a suicidal client is sitting across from you, how do you assess risk, negotiate no-harm agreements, and manage borderline reactivity while keeping your seat? In these riveting live demonstrations with DBT originator Marsha Linehan, learn essential strategies for working with distressed clients.

    Volume 1 of the set offers an in-depth look at common DBT assessment challenges. Linehan conducts two early-stage sessions with "client" Stacy (a student of hers who offers up one of her cases for role-play), in which she deftly confronts her "100 percent avoidance behavior" while also brokering agreements around her suicidality.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Understand common challenges DBT therapists face with suicidal clients.
  • Discover core DBT interventions for assessing risk, managing reactivity, and negotiating agreements.
  • Learn to use psychoeducation and directiveness in order to stay focused on key clinical tasks.
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    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 86 minutes

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    DIALECTICAL BEHAVIOR THERAPY WITH SUICIDAL CLIENTS VOL. 2

    By Marsha Linehan

    When a suicidal client is sitting across from you, how do you assess risk, negotiate no-harm agreements, and manage borderline reactivity while keeping your seat? In these riveting live demonstrations with DBT originator Marsha Linehan, learn essential strategies for working with distressed clients.

    Volume 2 offers an in-depth look at other common clinical challenges. Here, Linehan conducts a follow-up session with Stacy in which she deals with an empathic rupture while also negotiating around cutting behavior. In each video, you'll observe how Linehan thoroughly assesses risk and ignores the trap of client obfuscation, yet also supports Stacy's autonomy and challenges her to envision more adaptive coping skills.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Understand common challenges DBT therapists face with suicidal clients.
  • Discover core DBT interventions for assessing risk, managing reactivity, and negotiating agreements.
  • Learn to use psychoeducation and directiveness in order to stay focused on key clinical tasks.
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    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 88 minutes

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    DSM-5 AND PSYCHODIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEWING, THE - VOLUME 1: PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS AND INTERVIEWING

    By Jason Buckles & Victor Yalom

    The DSM 5 and Psychodiagnostic Interviewing, Jason Buckles and Victor Yalom take a nuanced and critical look at psychiatric diagnosis and the DSM-5, and then demonstrate in a step-by-step manner the components and skills necessary to do a diagnostic interview.

    Whether you love the DSM or hate it, as a clinician you need to understand how to use it and how to avoid misusing it. The best clinicians seamlessly combine diagnostic interviewing and excellent rapport-building during the initial session, and in this video you'll learn how to do just that.

    Begins with Jason Buckles and Victor Yalom digging deep into some of the most fundamental questions in the field of mental health: What is a mental disorder? What is a diagnosis? What are the benefits as well as the drawbacks of conceptualizing human problems as disorders? Is it appropriate to use the medical model to treat mental illness? What are some of the dangers of diagnosing culturally normative behaviors as disorders? The many valuable uses of our diagnostic system-from having a common language among professionals, to securing insurance coverage, to scientific research-are seamlessly woven into their dynamic discussion as well.

    In the second half of the video, you'll get clear step-by-step instructions, illustrated with short clinical demonstrations, of the various components of doing a diagnostic interview: How do you introduce the interview to the client and get their consent? How can you ask the necessary questions to both hone in on a particular diagnosis and rule out others? How do you push a client for more specific information while also being mindful of attending to the alliance, especially in the first session? And finally, how do you bring it all together, weighing the information you've obtained to decide what their diagnosis is, or isn't, while keeping in mind that not all clients seeking help meet the criteria for a diagnosis?

    This is the only series of its kind to take a complex and critical approach to the DSM, and Buckles and Yalom manage a delicate balance-neither cheerleading for the DSM nor taking a slash-and-burn approach. You are certain to have a better understanding of the DSM-5 and psychodiagnostic interviewing after watching it.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 118 minutes

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    DSM-5 AND PSYCHODIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEWING, THE - VOLUME 2: DIAGNOSING PTSD, ADJUSTMENT, GENERALIZED ANXIETY AND PANIC DISORDERS

    By Jason Buckles & Victor Yalom

    Learn how to obtain essential diagnostic information on some of the most common disorders therapists encounter- Adjustment, Panic, Generalized Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders-while establishing and maintaining therapeutic rapport.

    Even if few professionals love it, accurate diagnosis is a vital skill. Provides the opportunity to watch diagnostic interviews with clients struggling with adjustment, panic, generalized anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorders-four of the more common diagnoses encountered in clinical practice. You'll see two clinicians with contrasting styles conducting professional diagnostic interviews while navigating the intricacies of developing a therapeutic alliance.

    Insightful commentaries by Jason Buckles and Victor Yalom are woven through the video, which includes vignettes with clients and voiceover explanations of interventions as they are happening. Mental health professionals with a wide variety of training backgrounds, and in settings ranging from emergency rooms to independent practice, will benefit from the comprehensive presentation of symptoms and clinical skills provided in this video. Without sacrificing empathy, warmth, or humor, the Buckles and his colleague Pauline Lucero guide the interviews to confidently arrive at an accurate diagnosis.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 141 minutes

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    DSM-5 AND PSYCHODIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEWING, THE - VOLUME 3: DIAGNOSING DEPRESSIVE, BIPOLAR, AND ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS

    By Jason Buckles & Victor Yalom

    Covers diagnoses that can sometimes overlap and be hard to distinguish from one another: Depressive and persistent depressive disorders, bipolar and substance use disorders.

    Depression is widespread in Western cultures but with so many varieties of depression and differences among how people experience it, how do we diagnose it and rule out the myriad other disorders that sometimes masquerade as depression? What constitutes mania? What's the difference between Bipolar I and II? When is depression "persistent" and when does it became serious enough to warrant a major depressive diagnosis? Can they coexist? How do you know if substance use is causing depression and how do you skillfully ply information from clients about their substance use when they would rather you don't?

    Watch as Jason Buckles gently structures his questions and interactions to cover the necessary bases while listening carefully, joining, pacing, and allowing inconsistencies to simply be part of the interactions. Before, during, and after each vignette, commentary and explanations by both Buckles and Victor Yalom enhance the viewers learning experience, as well as voiceovers that describe diagnostic information, and explain skills and interventions as they are happening in live sessions with clients. Mental health professionals will benefit from the comprehensive presentation of symptoms and clinical skills provided in this video. Without sacrificing empathy, warmth, or humor, see how to gather targeted information to confidently arriving at an accurate diagnosis.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 182 minutes

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    DSM-5 AND PSYCHODIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEWING, THE - VOLUME 4: DIAGNOSING ANOREXIA, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER

    By Jason Buckles & Victor Yalom

    Schizophrenia, Anorexia, and Borderline Personality Disorder-difficult to treat, challenging for most clinicians and absolutely essential to diagnose accurately. Learn the specialized skills required to gather information and establish rapport with clients struggling with these disorders.

    Certain diagnoses require specialized skill to both diagnose and treat, and anorexia, schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder all fit that description. With both anorexia and schizophrenia, medical information and contact with the treating physician is often necessary, while with borderline personality, symptoms may initially be masked and not emerge until months into therapy-making it all the more important to be skilled at obtaining the necessary clinical information in the initial interview. In this final installment of the series, watch skilled interviewers working with a young man who has schizophrenia, an aspiring ballerina struggling with anorexia, and a woman with all the features we associate with borderline personality disorder. You'll see the therapists struggle with these clients-as lack of insight and psychotic thinking can often be present with these disorders-and still find a way to gather information for a working diagnosis.

    Jason Buckles and Victor Yalom offer insightful commentary before, during and after each vignette so that you get a feel for how to work with clients who may be resistant to opening up, unable to self-reflect or even hostile to the therapist. As most clinicians encounter challenging and sometimes mystifying clients and symptoms, the tools covered in this volume are essential!

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 145 minutes

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    EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY STEP BY STEP VOLUME 1 - CORE CONCEPTS AND INTERVENTIONS IN EFT

    By Rebecca Jorgensen

    Do you feel overwhelmed in your work with couples? In this groundbreaking volume with leading EFT trainer Rebecca Jorgensen, you'll learn an empirically validated approach that will greatly enhance your success in working with couples.

    Volume 1 offers a theoretical primer on EFT, along with an in-depth look at the key clinical tasks of Stage 1 of the method. Jorgensen (interviewed by Victor Yalom) begins with an overview of Bowlby's attachment theory, particularly as it pertains to relationships between partners. EFT is reknown for its emphasis on affect-based interventions, and here you'll learn how to view couples' needs through an attachment lens.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Understand the theoretical foundations, phased stages, and key tasks of EFT.
  • Learn core EFT interventions for accessing clients' primary emotions.
  • Discover ways to reframe couples' experiences in order to improve their communication.
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    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 178 minutes

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    EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY STEP BY STEP VOLUME 2 - EFT STAGE 1: REACHING DE-ESCALATION

    By Rebecca Jorgensen

    How do you help couples get beyond blame to get them to a place of safe emotional engagement? In this volume with EFT expert Rebecca Jorgensen, learn the steps and interventions of Stage 1 leading towards complete de-escalation.

    Volume 2 offers an in-depth look at the key clinical tasks of Stage 1 of the method. Jorgensen (as interviewed by Victor Yalom) begins with an overview of this stage's goals and four steps. You'll learn how to view couples' needs and interactions through an attachment lens, how to help each partner access and understand their emotional motivations, and how to help them reframe and recalibrate their communications. Successfully done, these tasks set the stage for the method's subsequent phases.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Understand the objectives and four steps of EFT's Stage 1.
  • Learn core EFT interventions for identifying a couple's negative cycle and accessing primary emotions.
  • Discover ways to reframe couples' experiences in order to improve their communication.
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    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 149 minutes

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    EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY STEP BY STEP VOLUME 3 - EFT STAGES 2 - 3: DEEPENING ENGAGEMENT & CONSOLIDATION

    By Rebecca Jorgensen

    Once a couple has reduced their reactivity, how do you help them take it to the next level and achieve the safety and intimacy they desire? In this volume expert Rebecca Jorgensen, learn key techniques for promoting new levels of engagement, acceptance, and consolidation.

    Volume 3 offers an in-depth look at the key clinical tasks of Stages 2 and 3 of the method. Jorgensen (as interviewed by Victor Yalom) begins with an overview of the stages' goals and three steps (5 through 7). You'll review how to frame couples' needs and interactions through an attachment lens, how to help each partner access and understand their primary emotions, and then, through a series of didactics plus live case vignettes, learn how to help partners reengage, soften, and consolidate their experience. After doing the foundational work of deescalation (which, says Jorgensen, is an ongoing process), couples can leverage the gains of Stages 2 and 3 to reach new levels of interconnectedness as well as self-awareness.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Understand the objectives and steps of EFT's Stages 2 and 3.
  • Learn core EFT interventions for supporting pursuer softening and withdrawer reengagement.
  • Discover ways to help couples consolidate their experiences in order to move forward with relational confidence.
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    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 165 minutes

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    EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY STEP BY STEP VOLUME 4 - IMPASSES AND CHALLENGES IN EFT

    By Rebecca Jorgensen

    What can you do when you run into the inevitable obstacles of couples work? In this volume with Rebecca Jorgensen, get expert advice and practical tools for dealing with common challenges in couples therapy.

    This Volume 4, offers an in-depth look at the most common clinical challenges of the method. Jorgensen (as interviewed by Victor Yalom) begins with an overview of oft-encountered impasses. She then focuses in on each one, deconstructing incidents, reframing them in terms of attachment, and showing how various clinicians handle them. Jorgensen and her team of colleagues demonstrate actual EFT sessions with five couples, illustrating how corrective experiences look in the room. She even includes clinical misses here, for a very accessible guide that normalizes these challenges and helps reassure therapists that repair is indeed possible.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Understand the main obstacles EFT therapists face with couples.
  • Find core EFT interventions for maintaining the alliance, managing reactivity, and working with trauma.
  • Learn to reinforce your attachment-based lens in order to stay focused on a couple's relational process.
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    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 171 minutes

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    IRVIN YALOM AND THE ART OF PSYCHOTHERAPY - IRVIN YALOM IN SESSION: EUGENIA

    By Irvin Yalom

    Watch Irvin Yalom work with Eugenia, a 23-year-old struggling with a sudden crippling existential panic, over the course of 9 deeply moving sessions.

    Meet Eugenia: A bright, articulate, optimistic and seemingly happy 23-year-old who one day, while ambling through the streets of New York, is beset by an existential loneliness and awareness of death that haunts her from that day forward. Struck hard by an unexpected and seemingly inexplicable case of "existential angst," she arrives to therapy with complaints of anxiety and a sense of insignificance that are making it hard to get through her day-to-day life. "I feel like I've realized something that cannot be unrealized... And I just see no point," she reveals to Yalom.

    Through excerpts of the 9-session course of therapy, we see Yalom struggle to understand this "sudden onset" of death anxiety, particularly since in the early sessions Eugenia claims to have had a perfectly happy childhood and to never have really struggled much until her trip to New York. With warmth and candor-and detailed, behind-the-scenes commentary describing his thinking and interventions-we see Yalom slowly unravel the mystery of Eugenia's problem, and the repressed pain that led her to see him. We see Yalom utterly bewildered by her seeming contradictions, unsure of how to help her, and then watch him utilize his own vulnerability to elicit hers. Along the journey, we learn how to work in the here-and-now, how to incorporate Yalom's existential approach into therapy with clients, and ultimately how to take risks with our clients in service of their growth.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 132 minutes

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    IRVIN YALOM AND THE ART OF PSYCHOTHERAPY - IRVIN YALOM IN SESSION: GARETH

    By Irvin Yalom

    Watch master therapist Irvin Yalom work in live sessions with Gareth, a 69 year old man who has struggled with anxiety most of his life, and is now facing his upcoming retirement with a sense of existential dread.

    Gareth is the type of client many therapists cherish: he is bright, articulate, engaging, and quite motivated to find a way to reduce his distress. And yet...he presents certain challenges as well. He is insightful, and can speak easily about himself and his difficulties, often staying at a cognitive level, so it may feel that it is hard to break new ground with him. So it's most interesting to witness first hand the various strategies Yalom uses to connect with him and help him gain some new perspectives.

    There are several moving exchanges between these two men, both in the later stages of their lives. Any therapist who sees our work as helping clients navigate the challenges of the human condition will find these sessions riveting, and Yalom's commentary illuminating. And if that's not how you typically see therapy, perhaps you'll reconsider!

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 56 minutes

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    IRVIN YALOM AND THE ART OF PSYCHOTHERAPY - IRVIN YALOM IN SESSION: LUKE

    By Irvin Yalom

    In two engaging sessions with Luke, a 39-year-old husband and father grappling with whether to have a vasectomy, Yalom brings to life the subterranean longings symbolized by this existential crossroad, and helps Luke "surrender to life."

    Luke comes to therapy with a seemingly straightforward dilemma: Should he have a vasectomy or not? A father of two, happily married with a secure job, he can't quite figure out why he's having so much trouble going through with the procedure. It's not long before he and Yalom dive deep below the surface question to the dreams, fantasies and "other lives" that are speaking to Luke in both conscious and unconscious ways. Yalom weaves together disparate pieces of Luke's life to call him to a deeper reckoning with his choices, illustrating how an existential perspective can aid us in exploring the types of human struggles we encounter daily in our offices.

    See what true authenticity and honesty looks like in therapy, learn how to enliven and deepen the relationship with "here-and-now" interventions, and see one of the world's most-loved psychotherapists doing what he does best. If you've enjoyed and been enriched by Yalom's diverse writings on therapy.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 61 minutes

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    IRVIN YALOM AND THE ART OF PSYCHOTHERAPY - IRVIN YALOM: FOUNDATIONS OF MY LIFE AND WORK

    By Irvin Yalom

    In this poignant, intimate and in-depth interview with his son, Victor, Irvin Yalom weaves together the central ideas and key life experiences that have formed the basis for his contributions to psychotherapy.

    Irvin Yalom has been widely considered one of the most influential psychotherapists in our generation. Now, for the first time, you'll get a front row seat as Victor Yalom probes deeply into his work and life. Spanning over 60 years in the field of psychotherapy, this three-and-a-half-hour interview covers the full range of Yalom's contributions, from his groundbreaking model of group therapy, to the development of his existentially-oriented approach, to his steadfast insistence on the importance of therapist transparency and authenticity.

    Viewers will get a much deeper and more personal understanding of Yalom's contributions, will be inspired to take risks with clients--and to encourage clients to follow suit--and to be more vulnerable in their work as therapists. You'll learn tools for working in the here-and-now of the therapy hour, gain insights into how to introduce existential themes, and will be more empowered to use many of the riches of his ideas in your sessions immediately. The warmth between father and son yields rich stories and details about the life of one of psychotherapy's most iconic thinkers.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 203 minutes

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    MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING FOR ADOLESCENT HEALTH BEHAVIOR

    By Cathy Cole

    Learn how to effectively support and empower adolescents dealing with health concerns using Motivational Interviewing skills and techniques.

    In this course, MI trainer Cathy Cole, LCSW, outlines the basic principles of MI known as the "MI Spirit," and together with colleague Nikki Cockern, PhD, demonstrates how to apply these principles in 4 sessions with high school and college-age teens dealing with serious health issues: HIV, weight management, Type 1 diabetes, and risky sexual behavior.

    Covering the four MI processes, change talk and sustain talk, and "the righting reflex" - our natural yet ill-advised urge to "fix" our clients - Cole emphasizes the method's nonjudgmental, client-centered nature.

    In sessions with Sean, Carlotta, Olga, and Missy, you'll observe how to use MI to manage risk, communicate nonjudgment, deepen rapport, and draw out your clients' innate strengths. This video also offers realistic commentary, in which Cole discusses both the successes and the challenges of each session and how to work with your own "righting reflex."

    You will see why MI is so widely adopted in health-care settings and how its spirit of collaboration reduces resistance and promotes adolescent interest in change.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 186 minutes

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    MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING FOR ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE USE

    By Sebastian Kaplan, PhD, & Ali Hall, JD

    Acquire practical Motivational Interviewing tools to help you manage challenging sessions with adolescent clients struggling with substance use.

    Working with adolescents can be challenging enough without adding substance use issues to the mix. When teens' age-appropriate desire for autonomy gets compromised by substance use and addiction, it can be difficult for clinicians to effectively navigate heightened levels of client ambivalence alongside their own "righting reflex" - their desire to fix their clients.

    In this compelling new video, Sebastian Kaplan, PhD, and Ali Hall, JD, demonstrate how to manage these elements using tools from Motivational Interviewing, a client-centered alternative to traditional, often confrontational addiction treatment. Here, you'll discover how to deepen rapport, diffuse resistance, and draw out adolescent clients' intrinsic strengths.

    Learn strategies to engage teenage clients who do not even want to be in your office, much less receive treatment, through clinical demonstrations with three adolescent clients using marijuana, heroin, and opiates. Develop your skills to support adolescent clients, without conveying the disrespect they might expect from adults in authority roles.

    This course is a must If you're seeking resources for teens, addiction and recovery, or client-centered counseling.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 139 minutes

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    MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING IN JUVENILE JUSTICE SETTINGS

    By Ali Hall

    Without a strong alliance and clear boundaries, mandated clients will often shut down or act out - especially if they are teenagers. How do you work to meet both institutional and clinical goals? Here, Motivational Interviewing expert Ali Hall demonstrates how to use this collaborative approach in juvenile justice settings.

    Are you looking for an alternative to the directive approaches traditionally used in Juvenile Justice settings? Working with mandated clients is a complicated endeavor to begin with, but when your clients are teens who are seeking - and testing the limits of - their autonomy, treatment can easily backfire without a collaborative working alliance.

    In this course Ali Hall, JD, and her colleagues demonstrate how to reach effective outcomes with juvenile justice clients using Motivational Interviewing (MI). Through demonstrations with 4 clients, you will see how MI enables the counselors to partner with teens in ways that validate and empower them, even within the confines of the correctional system. What's more, you'll learn how to sidestep the urge to advise, direct, or confront struggling youth.

    See how MI provides Hall with the tools to build a strong alliance with Samantha, on probation for marijuana possession, and how it enables her to take responsibility for her own behavior. Daniel Domaguin will show you how to deescalate angry clients using MI techniques in juvenile hall, while Deborah Collins demonstrates both MI-compliant and non-compliant approaches working with Tony, a teen mandated to counseling for substance use.

    Finally, a roundtable discussion with the 3 counselors demonstrates how to provide ongoing coaching support for your staff.

    This highly praised course fills a much-needed gap for training staff and counselors in this challenging environment.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 156 minutes

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    MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING WITH ADOLESCENTS: CORE CONCEPTS

    By Sebastian Kaplan

    Learn how to apply Motivational Interviewing principles to resistant adolescent clients and how to support and empower them to change their destructive behaviors.

    In this course, Sebastian Kaplan, PhD, demonstrates how to successfully apply MI in 4 individual and family sessions with 2 thirteen-year-old girls.

    Marley's falling grades and increased truancy and Katie's self-harming behavior in response to bullying have brought them into a therapist's office. Watch as Kaplan demonstrates how to use MI to manage risk, deepen rapport, and draw out his clients' innate strengths. This video also offers in-depth commentary, in which Kaplan openly discusses his frustrations in session and then shows how to make therapeutic use of them.

    In addition to an overview of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and its application to adolescents, you will learn how to bring parents into the clinical picture and discover helpful tools for working with your own internal responses to clients.

    This course is an excellent resource for clinicians who want useful strategies for Motivational Interviewing, adolescent therapy, or family-based interventions.

    DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 176 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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