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Watch Kay Redfield Jamison, bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind and international expert on bipolar disorder, in this informative and intriguing interview that presents essential information on assessment and treatment of bipolar disorder in psychotherapy.
A survivor of bipolar disorder herself, Dr. Jamison courageously uses her personal struggle to help clients and therapists understand the misconceptions of this lethal illness. In this riveting interview with Victor Yalom, PhD, clinicians will find out not only what bipolar disorder is, but also what causes it, how to make an accurate diagnosis, and how to treat it effectively. Based on extensive research, Jamison presents compelling evidence that this is a progressive illness that requires medical treatment, and that psychotherapy and medication can be life-saving for people with this devastating disease.
Considering that bipolar disorder puts one at a greater risk for suicide than any other illness, it is essential that clinicians are thoroughly informed about the nature of this sobering disease. There's no person more qualified to learn about bipolar disorder from than Dr. Jamison.
By watching this program, you will:
Learn how to recognize the symptoms of Bipolar Disorder and how to make an accurate diagnosis.
Develop an understanding of how to talk to clients with Bipolar Disorder about medication compliance.
Gain essential information about the critical tasks for therapists treating clients with Bipolar Disorder.
Too many therapists are under-informed about Bipolar Disorder and are treating clients without crucial knowledge. Don't risk a malpractice suit-get informed by watching this illuminating interview and learning how to best help your clients who are suffering from this devastating disease.
Dr. Kernberg and his colleagues at the Personality Disorders Institute have done extensive research on diagnosing and treating patients with severe personality disorders for several decades, so he is definitely the expert to turn to when you need support with your most difficult cases. This is a great opportunity to be a "fly on the wall" as he consults with three different therapists who have three different theoretical orientations: client-centered, psychoanalytic, and cognitive-behavioral. This video will be particularly useful for therapists who want to hone their consulting/supervising skills.
By watching this video, you will:
Gain an understanding of Kernberg's unique and effective approach to both case consultation and to working with challenging patients.
Learn what questions are essential to ask early on in treatment in order to make an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan.
Develop skills to more effectively apply an object relations approach to assess, diagnose, and treat people with personality disorders.
This interview offers much more than a discussion of the theoretical foundations of an object relations approach to therapy. By watching this video, you will have the experience of learning concrete tools and techniques from the leading expert on personality disorders that you can begin utilizing with your most difficult patients immediately. One thing that Kernberg conveys very effectively is the lack of a coherent identity that is at the core of a severe personality disorder. This is dramatically illustrated by his description of one such patient on the video. He reports asking the patient to describe herself and she responds:
"Well, that depends with whom I am. I'm different. And there's always something underneath," she said. She said, "Sometimes I feel like an onion, you know?" "What do you mean?" "You can peel it, and there's a deeper wave, the real onion comes out, and then you continue peeling and there's another onion, and at the end you have nothing." And the patient looked kind of slightly ironic and sad at the same time.
Now you can help your students walk into their first session with confidence! They'll hear from new therapists what it's like to begin clinical work, which will answer troublesome questions, ease anxieties and provide for fruitful group discussion.
Students training to be therapists often don't know what to expect going into their first sessions with clients. This can ignite a quickly growing list of fears inside their heads: What if my client doesn't like me? What if I come off as inexperienced? What if I don't know what to say? Likewise, seasoned therapists all remember the first time they met with a client-the anxiety and self-doubt were palpable.
In this video, you'll hear from several therapists that have just made it through their first internships. Specifically, you'll learn about:
How it felt to meet with a client for the first time: what they were worried about before the session, what it was like in the room, and how it felt afterwards
What was particularly helpful during their first internship
What challenges they faced and how they overcame them
How they developed their clinical confidence
What advice they received that was most helpful during this challenging year in their career
And how it feels now to be a therapist compared to when they first began
Review
"This is an engaging, professionally-done video, giving practical and experience-near advice for beginning therapists-in-training. It demystifies the ordinary fears, exhilarations, and challenges as one begins to practice psychotherapy in trainee and internship settings. It is most appropriate for students in graduate programs in clinical and counseling psychology, and includes a helpful Instructor's Manual to orient classroom discussion." - Kenneth Bradford, PhD - Adjunct Professor, Graduate School for Holistic Studies, John F. Kennedy University
What's the difference between privilege and confidentiality?
When are therapists allowed to break confidentiality and when are they required to?
When can progress notes or confidential psychotherapy notes be subpoenaed as evidence in a trial?
How does a therapist know when to break confidentiality to warn someone of potential danger?
What exactly does "reasonable cause to suspect" mean when deciding whether to report child abuse?
Is failing to report child abuse an ethical violation, or is it actually a crime?
This comprehensive DVD course will answer all these questions and more. You'll learn how the laws impact your practice, as you watch these lively dramatizations of a judge and her law clerk discuss actual key cases in the creation of mental health laws including Tarasoff and Jaffe V. Redmond. As the judge debates both sides of the argument and makes her decisions, you'll see how court rulings became laws and how they impact clinical, ethical, legal and moral concerns.
From watching this program, you'll know how to:
Describe the differences between confidentiality and privilege
Define mandated, permitted and authorized breaches of confidentiality
Discuss situations in which mental health providers have a duty to warn
Explain a mental health professional's duty to report child and elder abuse
Identify common exceptions to confidentiality
Reviews
"Excellent content in a completely enjoyable format--a great way to stay up to date and genuinely useful in practice. By far the best CE course on this topic I've come across." - Margy Heldring, PhD - President, Division of Family Psychology, APA
"The intersection of law and psychology comes alive in these compelling vignettes, which clarify common misconceptions that arise between the fields. Highly viewable and entertaining, every viewer will benefit from this resource." - G. Andrew H. Benjamin, PhD, JD - Senior Professor, Antioch University
"This is a fantastic, one-of-a-kind video. The interesting discussions of landmark cases make old material fresh. The supplemental materials are clear, practical and applicable. Great for students and seasoned professionals alike." - Kellie M. Rollins, PsyD - Director of Psychology Training, San Francisco VA Medical Center
"Dr. Feldman's Legal and Ethical Issues for Mental Health Professionals accomplishes something I did not think possible. The DVD actually makes the legal concepts related to privilege and confidentiality entertaining, while clearly and accurately presenting complex material. And Dr. Feldman's summations after each vignette are right on point. Who knew the Tarasoff duty to protect could make for such interesting viewing!" - Russell Newman, PhD, JD - Vice president for Academic Affairs, Alliant International University; Formerly Executive Director for Professional Practice, APA
A pragmatic, informative and entertaining video offering solutions to the common ethical dilemmas that mental health practitioners face. This video is ideal for classrooms, clinical trainings, and licensed clinicians completing their CE requirement.
Do you know...
Good recordkeeping is what can help you the most if a complaint is brought against you by your licensing board?
Ethical rules vary by licensing board and state when it comes to such vital issues as confidentiality and privilege?
What makes a boundary crossing a boundary violation, and when that violation becomes unethical and exploitive?
The different standards of care as treatment provider and evaluator?
Volume II of this series addresses ethics, and the particular concern of being investigated by one's licensing board for an alleged violation. Specifically, these four lively discussions between a psychologist, lawyer and journalist cover such murky matters as: bartering, boundaries, touch, self-disclosure, gifts, multiple-member clients such as couples and families, the initiation of treatment, breaches in confidentiality, ending treatment, electronic records, HIPAA, client debt, client suicide and a clinician's death. Presented by Stephen Feldman, an expert in mental health law, this video lays out simple changes all clinicians can make to protect themselves and their practice. This is an invaluable resource that will dispel doubts and fears, enabling therapists to practice more confidently.
From watching this video, you'll be able to:
Explain different forms of dual relationships and boundary crossings and the complexities they can bring to your practice.
Define exactly who your client is, what your role is in the therapeutic relationship, and what legal and ethical obligations you have towards your client.
Describe the different purposes, forms and benefits of recordkeeping, and ethical procedures for ending and referring treatment.
Watch a true master, Dr. Peter A. Levine, demonstrate a course of body-oriented trauma therapy in this extremely compelling and in-depth video with an Iraq Veteran diagnosed with severe PTSD.
Working with Ray's presenting symptoms over the course of five sessions, Levine introduces a number of essential trauma resolution techniques that markedly improve Ray's Tourette-like convulsions, as well as his overall pain and emotional outlook. Levine developed Somatic Experiencing® based on the premise that trauma overwhelms the nervous system and that it needs to be addressed somatically before emotional processing is possible. Thorough commentary by Levine, as well as an extensive interview, helps to elucidate the subtleties of his methods. You will walk away from this video with a sound understanding of this approach to trauma work. This method can be integrated with and add richness to a number of therapeutic modalities and can be used to treat all manner of trauma - from car accidents, surgeries, child abuse, experiences of violence, and so on.
By watching this program, you will:
Learn the nine building blocks of the Somatic Experiencing® approach
Understand the physiological orientation that underpins this method of trauma resolution
Have the tools to integrate basic somatic methods into your clinical work with trauma clients
Cognitive Therapy comes to life in this reenactment of a 20-session course of therapy. Arthur Freeman illustrates the foundations and key techniques of cognitive therapy in a way that's enriching and easy to follow.
Edward Crane blames his depression on his wife, who he says abandoned him by going back to school. "I shouldn't feel this way!" he exclaims to Freeman in moments of frustration. Freeman begins by helping Edward focus on short-term, workable goals instead of outward blame. Through the 20-session course of therapy, Edward learns to distinguish between situations, thoughts, and feelings, and to reframe his belief of "I need to be taken care of," to instead "I get angry when I feel incompetent." Freeman works with Edward to develop ways to feel independent and self-sufficient so that he can begin to enjoy time by himself and not feel so angry and abandoned when his family is not around.
By watching this program, you'll be able to:
Develop a therapeutic contract with a client that includes short-term specific, workable goals.
Teach clients how to distinguish between situations, thoughts and feelings, in order to break problems down into workable parts.
Utilize cognitive therapy fundamentals including information-gathering, confrontation, reframing and clarification in your own work with clients.
Psychodrama recreates powerful relational dynamics from the past to bring about cathartic change in the present. Trauma from child abuse remains trapped inside us and continues to threaten our feelings of safety and wellbeing through adulthood. Psychodrama allows us to safely reinhabit the body at the point of past abuse and make sense of the experience from an adult perspective. In this program, Bob fears that he is passing on the legacy of abuse from his stepfather to his four-year-old granddaughter. He acts out scenes with his mother, stepfather and granddaughter, playing both himself and reversing roles. In so doing, Tian helps Bob release hidden emotions, say the things he never got to as a child, and create new meaning around his past and current relationships.
From watching this program, you'll be able to:
Utilize role-play, role reversal and doubling techniques with clients who have suffered trauma from childhood abuse.
Create psychodrama warm-up exercises, action scenes, and group sharing discussions
Adapt Tian Dayton's unique approach to working with childhood abuse to your own therapy work with clients.
The body remembers the trauma that the mind does not. Psychodrama provides a space for the body to speak, for somatic memory to become conscious, and for the mind to connect and process what the body is experiencing. In this program, Travis speaks to his wounded heart and works through his fear of dying; Sheila speaks to her mother who committed suicide and releases anger that was locked up for many years; and Amal speaks to the birth mother she never met, confronting the belief that she was never loved or wanted. Dayton highlights the emotion that emerges from these participants' bodies, and helps give voice and meaning to the catharsis that emerges so that an integration between mind and body can occur.
From watching this program, you'll be able to:
Utilize role-play, role reversal and doubling techniques with clients who have suffered trauma.
Create psychodrama warm-up exercises, action scenes, and group sharing discussions.
Adapt Tian Dayton's unique approach to working with trauma and the body to your own therapy work with clients.
"Our diversity as a profession... is not a weakness that needs to be cured with evidence-based practice. It's a strength and it needs to be nurtured with outcome-informed measures." - Scott Miller, PhD
What works in psychotherapy? In this interview by Randall C. Wyatt, Miller shares everything he knows about psychotherapy outcomes. For starters, it's the therapeutic alliance that's one of the most important elements. And here's the real ticker-Miller has found that the therapist is the determining factor, not the treatment model. This means that therapists can learn, grow and be more effective with their clients by systematically monitoring therapy outcomes, inviting negative feedback, and asking the simple question that so often seems too difficult for therapists to ask: "How is this working for you?"
Miller warns against manualized systems that require therapists to narrowly work in a particular model, citing research that shows that therapists are the most effective when they are allowed to practice what they believe and are confident in. This means you don't need to change your modality to be more effective, and, in fact, can have a meaningful evidence-based practice by adapting some of Miller's simple tools to invite client feedback.
From watching this program, you'll learn:
What factors determine positive and negative outcomes in psychotherapy.
How to be the most effective therapist with all your clients by learning to monitor outcomes.
When the most important times to intervene are, and how therapy approaches vary depending on the client's own stage of change.
Featuring renowned ADHD expert Dr. Russell Barkley, these programs are valuable resources for teachers, school counselors, and all mental health practitioners assessing, treating and working with children with ADHD.
Comprehensive, informative and easy to follow, these programs demonstrate a practical approach to assessing and treating ADHD within the schools.
Assessing ADHD in the Schools
Meet Todd, a 3rd grade student who has been leaving his teacher at wits end. He can't sit still, distracts his peers, and has trouble completing assignments, leading his teacher to suspect that he might be suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. As his teacher begins the assessment process, leading authority on ADHD, Dr. Russell Barkley, offers some words of wisdom, and George DuPaul and Gary Stoner walk us through each step in their multi-method approach. You'll watch interviews with Todd's parents and the school psychologist, as well as meetings with a team of experts from the school, who collaborate to come to a diagnosis and treatment plan.
From watching this program, you will:
Learn step-by-step how to assess a student for ADHD in a school setting using multiple methods.
Get real and practical information about ADHD, the complications of assessment, and the importance of accurate diagnosis.
See how to effectively collaborate with an assessment team, which may include family, teachers, school administrators, and mental health practitioners.
Featuring renowned ADHD expert Dr. Russell Barkley, these programs are valuable resources for teachers, school counselors, and all mental health practitioners assessing, treating and working with children with ADHD.
Comprehensive, informative and easy to follow, these programs demonstrate a practical approach to assessing and treating ADHD within the schools.
Classroom Interventions for ADHD
After Todd has been diagnosed with ADHD by a treatment team at his school, his teacher follows through on a treatment plan to address his difficulties in the classroom. Leading ADHD expert Dr. Russell Barkley provides advice on creating successful interventions, and George J. DuPaul and Gary Stoner walk us through each step of the treatment approach. Watch as his teacher implements several simple changes in the classroom, leading to Todd getting along better with his classmates, scoring higher on quizzes and maintaining better focus throughout the day.
From watching this program, you will:
Learn several simple classroom techniques to address a child's problems with focus and concentration resulting from ADHD.
Get real and practical information about ADHD, the keys to successful treatment, and the pros and cons of different approaches.
See how to effectively collaborate with a treatment team, which may include family, teachers, school administrators, and mental health practitioners.
Thought provoking and accessible, this program is invaluable for all parents, teachers, and professionals working with teenagers.
For gay and lesbian teens, coming out can be a complicated and difficult process. They may be isolated, alienated from their family and peers, and feel the dangerous threat of homophobia in their community. In this program, you will watch real interviews with gay and lesbian teenagers and their parents as they share their experiences of coming out. You will also hear expert commentary by Dr. Wendy Rosen on the special issues these teenagers face at home and at school, as well as the different stages and processes they and their families go through in order to fully embrace their sexuality. In a call for acceptance and community, this program helps pave the way.
From watching this program, you will:
Learn about the different stages teens may go through in the coming out process including isolation, alienation, denial, and finally acceptance and finding community.
Become informed of the special needs of gay and lesbian youth including finding gay and lesbian role models, supportive peer groups, and acceptance from family.
Understand the pressures and difficulties, including implicit and explicit homophobia, that make coming out a challenging process for teenagers.
"Relationship is the context in which you get healed... and we think couplehood is the most powerful source of healing there is." - Harville Hendrix, PhD
The founder of Imago Therapy, and one of the leading experts in couples therapy sits down with Randall C. Wyatt to discuss a bold turn in the way we think about psychotherapy and relationships.
Moving away from individual psychology, Harville Hendrix asserts that because we are wounded in relationships, it is ultimately through relationships that we must heal and grow. Relationships often begin full of hope of healing these wounds, but everyday we see couples in our offices, trapped in painful conflicts, unwittingly re-injuring each other.
Hendrix introduces a dialogue process that engages couples in mutual empathy and genuine curiosity, discusses "the defense against love" and other relational challenges, tells us how his therapy model saved his own marriage, and explains the biggest mistake couples therapists make.
From watching this program, you will:
Gain an understanding of the connection between childhood wounds and difficulties in adult relationships.
Develop skills to help clients work through their childhood wounds and enact healthier patterns in their intimate relationships.
Learn to ask new kinds of questions that lead couples towards positive growth, and away from painful rehashing of conflict.
See Master Psychotherapist, James Bugental consult on a real case!
This program presents a rare and invaluable opportunity to view renowned existential-humanistic psychotherapist James Bugental demonstrate his unique group consultation style. Watch as Bugental asks seasoned psychotherapist Orah Krug to role-play her client "Joe," allowing the case to come alive in the room. Bugental hones in on the client's resistance, and demonstrates his mastery of bringing the subjective experience of both the therapist and the client to the forefront. Rather than assuming the role of expert in the supervision process, Bugental helps Orah discover her own truths about where Joe is stuck, and use her discoveries from the role-play to further deepen the therapeutic work.
Then watch as the group comes together for enlightening discussion-Bugental elucidates the critical importance of subjectivity in both psychotherapy and consultation, and explains the therapeutic process of inner searching through personal stories and therapeutic anecdotes.
From watching this program, you will:
Understand the therapeutic importance of focusing on the subjective worlds of both the therapist and client in the consultation process.
Learn new techniques to deepen your clients' inward search process of self-discovery.
Increase your skills to identify and work effectively with client resistance in psychotherapy.
Review
"James Bugental is a master of the living moment. In this revelatory video, Bugental demonstrates his art of case consultation through key here-and-now enactments of therapeutic processes. The result of this approach is remarkable, both to therapists, who learn intimately about themselves, and to clients, who reap the rewards of such illuminations." - Kirk J Schneider, PhD - Editor, Journal of Humanistic Psychology
The founder of Positive Psychology, Martin Seligman, PhD, introduces Positive Psychotherapy.
In this landmark interview by Randall C. Wyatt, Seligman emphasizes that happiness is not just the absence of disorder, as "psychology as usual" might contend. Rather, happiness derives from an execution of our signature strengths. Seligman demonstrates a new set of rigorously tested interventions that lastingly increase happiness while decreasing depression.
Dr. Seligman discusses his predecessors Maslow, Rogers, and Beck, what he took from them, and what he changed. He proposes new questions like, "What was the best experience you ever had?" And he explains how easy, enormously fun and important techniques can be grafted on to therapy with all clients to help them live a more engaged, meaningful, and thus happier life.
After watching this lively, personally revealing conversation, you'll be eager to apply these innovative ideas to your psychotherapy practice!
From watching this program, you will:
See how Positive Psychotherapy incorporates the tenets of Positive Psychology including learned optimism, authentic happiness, meaningfulness, gratitude visits, and signature strengths.
Learn to apply new techniques in your psychotherapy work with clients to increase their happiness and well-being.
Understand the importance in psychotherapy of both getting rid of disorder and creating sustainable happiness.
Review
"I was extremely impressed by Positive Psychology and Psychotherapy. I felt myself being effortlessly and intensely engaged with Seligman's authenticity and passion. Excellent!" - Vanna Schiralli MD, CCFP, FCFP - Assistant Professor, University of Toronto.
As internationally acclaimed family therapist and educator Kenneth V. Hardy observes in this compelling program, slavery remains a "contemporary ghost" that shapes African Americans' self-image, their relationships to one another and their relationships with White Americans. Behind a backdrop of powerful historical and contemporary imagery, Hardy clearly demonstrates the importance of recognizing and openly addressing the past, and lays the groundwork for genuine dialogue, understanding, and healing in clinical environments, classrooms, and other settings.
This program is a catalyst for discussion, a tool for beginning to move toward a more promising future by honestly confronting this deeply significant and painful aspect of our collective past.
By watching this program program, you'll learn:
How residual trauma resulting from slavery shapes the contemporary African American psychological experience.
Ways the legacy of slavery continues to divide African Americans and White people today.
Why feelings of guilt and shame about slavery may lead to avoidance, denial and trivialization of this issue by White Americans.
This program is an excellent resource for:
Fostering awareness and insight among non-Black practitioners and human service providers who work with African American clients.
Triggering candid discussions in multicultural training courses, clinical settings, classrooms, and beyond.
Promoting classroom discussions on slavery, Black history, American history, and current events.
How do we help veterans who are returning from war with PTSD? Dr. Frank Ochberg, a leading authority on PTSD, shares his experiences, seasoned insights and suggestions in this intimate conversation with reporter Mike Walters.
Mental health practitioners treat a variety of clients coping with trauma. Dr. Ochberg emphasizes that we can draw on these experiences to treat veterans returning from war. In addition, he shares his experience treating veterans from the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, insights regarding common symptoms to look out for and the importance of building trust and other aspects of the patient-therapist relationship. He then explains techniques he has developed that help his clients work through the trauma and adapt to civilian life. Ultimately, Dr. Ochberg delivers a message of hope: Although the damaging impact of PTSD is severe, it remains completely treatable by those who are up to the challenge, and it is a privilege for all therapists to work with these brave men and women.
This program will enhance your clinical skills in working with veterans with PTSD by exploring:
Unique challenges to treating veterans
Therapist's experience and ability to absorb client's traumatic stories
Common symptoms of PTSD including the loss of emotional tone, remittent depression, and family issues.
Special circumstances including military sexual trauma and multiple deployments
The critical importance of trust-building and other aspects of the patient/therapist relationship
Techniques to help veterans work through trauma including the Counting Method.
How can you know if your family member or friend may be suicidal? How do you recognize the warning signs? How can you help?
This program for the public describes the risk factors and warning signs of suicide and offers guidelines from experts in suicide prevention and treatment for getting troubled loved ones to the professional help they need.
You'll also hear from three individuals who have made serious suicide attempts and lived, as they share their remarkable stories of self-destructiveness, survival, and recovery.
Featured experts include Dr. Lisa Firestone, Dr. Robert Firestone and Dr. David Jobes.
An educational program for mental health professionals
Learn from three people that made highly lethal suicide attempts and survived, as they courageously share their stories of self-destructiveness, survival, and recovery. They reveal intimate details of their life histories that contributed to their attempts.
In addition, interviews from expert psychologists provide important insights into the relationship between early developmental experiences and the later psychological states that lead to suicidal behavior.
This program is an invaluable resource for mental health professionals to understanding the minds of suicidal individuals and the elements necessary for successful treatment and recovery.
Featured experts in this program include Dr. Lisa Firestone, Dr. Robert Firestone, Dr. Allan Schore, Dr. David Jobes, Dr. Israel Orbach, and Dr. David Rudd.
"My basic approach to therapy is very much that of problem solving. I see that people come into therapy with a whole myriad of different problems, and yet do not know how to solve some simple ones. And quite often simple solutions can have a tremendous, reverberating, positive effect." - Arnold Lazarus
See the master psychotherapist Dr. Arnold Lazarus apply his Multimodal Therapy model as he consults with two clinicians:
Jurgen, an experienced psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapist, presents the case of a recently divorced 38-year-old woman who constantly pulls him to put out fires.
Marlou, a new psychotherapist, presents the case of a mother who is struggling to connect with her teenage foster son.
Multimodal Therapy (MMT) is a form of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy based on social and cognitive learning theory, and practical problem-solving methods. MMT integrates techniques from a broad range of therapeutic disciplines, and is based on the assumption that most psychological problems are multifaceted, multidetermined and multilayered.
By watching this program, you will:
Understand how challenging and complex cases can benefit from simple solutions and problem-solving.
Learn how to apply Dr. Lazarus' unique and effective ideas to your work with clients you are struggling with.
See how Dr. Lazarus' consults using practical ideas and suggestions.
"Existential therapy is something radically different. The aims are to open the person up... to help this person become more sensitive to life, to beauty. Now that sounds a bit sentimental, I know, but it's a very serious thing we need."- Rollo May
See this legendary Existential Psychotherapy master in a dialogue on what matters most in the practice of psychotherapy.
Drawing from the influence of his forefathers-Freud, Jung, and Fromm-as well as classical mythology, philosophy and literature, May gives a passionate explanation of Existential Psychotherapy and why it is so important for the practice of psychotherapy in a world full of "gimmicks." In this personal and provocative dialogue with Kirk Schneider and colleagues, May explores his own unique therapy style, reflects on his work with clients, and gets specific on what we can take and leave from other influential psychotherapists.
From watching this program, you will:
Learn to move your practice beyond symptom reduction to expand your client's capacity to live, think and feel more fully.
Gain insight into Rollo May's therapy style and why his perspective is crucial to keeping psychotherapy vital and relevant in this age of quick fixes.
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of existential psychotherapy and its significance in the evolution of psychotherapy.
Review
"The interview with Rollo is wonderful--perhaps the most moving introduction to and overview of existential psychotherapy." - Ed Mendelowitz, PhD - Psychologist, Boston, MA; Author of Ethics & Lao-Tzu
Psychodrama in Action shows Zerka masterfully conducting an actual psychodrama session with a group of experienced psychodrama practitioners. The protagonist "Frank" has been having great difficulty completing his doctoral thesis on psychodrama. Zerka directs him in several powerful scenes, including role reversals with his thesis as well as with his grandfather. Interspersed throughout is voiceover commentary from Zerka explaining her thoughts and rationale for her interventions. This program is certain to become a classic in the field for years to come.
Psychodrama, Sociometry and Beyond is an extended interview by a panel of experienced psychodrama practitioners. Zerka delves further into sociometry, using psychodrama in other cultures, and more. Comes with a bonus track of a full-length interview by Victor Yalom, PhD.
Zerka on Psychodrama is an interview with Zerka conducted by Adam Barcroft, MS, Co-Director of The Moreno Institute East. In this candid conversation, Zerka outlines what we need to know about psychodrama. She goes into depth on the instruments of a psychodrama including the director, the protagonist, the auxiliary ego and the stage, as well as important tools and terms including doubling, role reversal and surplus reality. She also engages us on the origins and theory behind psychodrama, the basics of sociometry, her entree into the practice and her role as director.
Dr. Lenore Walker has worked with physically, psychologically, and sexually abused women for more than 30 years and has developed an approach to their treatment called Survivor Therapy. In this dramatic recreation of key moments in the two-year course of therapy with Sarah, a 36-year-old battered woman with a history of childhood sexual abuse, Walker (the recipient of the American Psychological Associations 1994 Distinguished Contribution to Women's Health Award) illustrates the basic principles of her approach.
By watching this video, you'll gain increased understanding and skills in:
Conducting the critical first session interview
Collaboratively developing a crisis intervention safety plan
Effectively working with trauma and the cycles of violence
Helping abused women to gradually shed coping strategies that are no longer adaptive, regain self-esteem, and rebuild healthier lives
The Angry Couple dramatically recreates key moments in the six-month course of therapy with Judith and Richard, a distressed couple whose marriage is threatened by a cycle of explosive anger and silent withdrawal. Dr. Heitler quickly reins in their anger, cuts through the impasses that have prolonged their conflict, and uncovers the core issues that have blocked intimacy from flourishing.
Watch Dr. Heitler in action, and you'll learn how to:
Gain control in the first session, and keep subsequent sessions safe
Defuse anger in the therapy office, without taking sides
Teach techniques for preventing anger escalations at home
Convert inflammatory interactions to cooperative dialogue
Help couples develop positive communication skills, so core issues are addressed and resolved.
George Papageorge, MA, Licensed Marriage Family Therapist, has been presenting seminars on parenting, boundaries, and family life for over 20 years. For the first time, we have captured his engaging, humorous, and practical style in action. George offers principles and tools for raising healthy kids without resorting to quick-fix parenting fads or unrealistic expectations. He takes on the big and small issues, including: pushing limits, values, the internet world, MTV, the wrong crowd, music, sex, curfews, drugs, house rules, and more. George's stories, ideas, and suggestions stick in our minds because they connect to the real life experiences that parents and kids live each day.
This video provides insights and tools for parents on:
Perfect vs. Effective Parenting
Communication Killers: Knowing What Doesn't Work
Communication Cultivators: The Path of Growth
The Boundaries Balancing Act
The Heartfelt Parenting Connection
Also, the 5 to 1 ratio, the Human Factor, the Stethoscope Method of Listening, Agenda Free Time, and Shock Therapy (a good kind!)
Parents, step-parents, teachers, family counselors and therapists will find this video filled with principles and practical tools. Conveniently organized segments make it easy to use for parent education and training groups.
A growing number of couples in the United States find themselves facing the profound disappointment of infertility, which can place enormous strain on even the healthiest of relationships. When asked to rate their most stressful life experience, research participants in one study reported that the stress of infertility was nearly as devastating as the death of a child or spouse.
Using a clinical illustration of a family systems approach to treatment, this program offers a framework for understanding the emotional and psychological impact of infertility upon couples who have sought unsuccessfully to conceive.
Presented by the Depression Project of the renowned Ackerman Institute for the Family, the therapists walk viewers through a series of emotionally charged clinical sessions with a real couple struggling with infertility.
By watching this program, you will learn to help couples:
Work through the feelings of profound loss, mourning, and shame that often surround a diagnosis of infertility.
Recognize and cope with the common problems arising from an infertility diagnosis (e.g., marital dissatisfaction, sexual dysfunction, loss of spontaneity, and increased conflict).
Reduce the feelings of isolation the members of the couple feel from each other, as well as from family and friends.
In this videotape, two renowned couples and marriage experts, Dr. Ellyn Bader and Dr. Dan Wile discuss what couples therapy is and what it is not. Dr. Randall Wyatt masterfully engages these experts in the key issues that many couples face when considering couples therapy. In numerous heartwarming stories, they describe the positive changes that can occur in couples therapy, even for couples who appear at first hopelessly deadlocked. They describe the two most common patterns in couples: withdrawal from each other and avoiding dealing with critical issues, or engaging in repeated conflict that leaves each partner hurt and angry. The relationship that each has entered with such excitement and hope has become a painful disappointment.
Despite the hope couple's therapy offers, many couples (or one partner) are reluctant or afraid to seek professional assistance. Couples Therapy: An Introduction can help ease these fears by laying out a roadmap of what the process entails, and providing some reality-based encouragement on what kinds of changes are possible. This videotape will be valued by couples of all types, as well as the therapists and counselors who work with them.
Men often seek psychotherapy only as a last resort-the idea of talking about their feelings to resolve problems is not on the agenda. If they do seek help, they often avoid expressing their emotions due to fear, anxiety or learned ways of relating, making progress difficult and dropout more likely. In this dramatic recreation of key moments in a 12-session course of therapy with Raymond-a man who at mid-life cannot feel excitement at the prospect of his impending fatherhood-Dr. Levant demonstrates an unconventional, yet very effective approach to working with men. At first he helps Raymond understand the socio-cultural forces that restrict the emotional lives of men, and in doing so creates a strong therapeutic bond. Then he gradually helps Raymond experience and appreciate the breadth and richness of his emotions. With these fuller resources at his disposal, Raymond is able to use Dr. Levant's support to make rapid and meaningful changes in his life. By watching this video, you'll gain increased understanding and skills in:
Developing initial rapport and a strong alliance with men who would usually flee aafrom therapy
Supporting men to apply their new self awareness and emotional expressivity to aathemselves and their relationships
Helping men develop their vocabularies to include words that encompass a abroad spectrum of human emotion
Distinguishing between action empathy and emotional empathy
Using an Emotional Response Log to identify and track emotions
Most families have secrets, handed down from generation to generation like "booby-trapped heirlooms" waiting to explode. Secrets have far-reaching implications for families, setting the stage for a tense emotional climate of guardedness, anger, and reactivity.
In this illuminating program, Evan Imber-Black, an expert on rituals, larger systems, and family secrets, speaks to viewers about the implications of secrets, and presents techniques for ushering families through the process of identifying, understanding, and resolving secrets. Imber-Black leads a moving series of reenacted family therapy sessions to illustrate the important stages of helping families to uncover their shrouded pasts.
By watching this program, you will learn to help families:
Uncover and examine key events in their family history
Understand how these patterns may affect family functioning
Decide whether, when, and how to reveal a secret
Promote fuller integration of the family history and events of the past
The Depression Project at the Ackerman Institute for the Family has pioneered a marital therapy approach that addresses the cultural gender "mandates" that predispose men and women to depression and undermine intimate relationships.
This emotionally compelling program features a series of real clinical sessions in which the Depression Project's treatment team works with a severely depressed couple to help reduce marital discord, alleviate each partner's feelings of despair, and bolster the couple's sense of competency and satisfaction within the marriage.
By watching this program you will learn to help couples:
Restore a sense of connection as individuals and within the couple
Redistribute and equalize responsibility in relationships
Develop new skills and competencies in their work, family life, social interactions, and marital relations
Modify stereotypic gender patterns that undermine the health of a relationship and exacerbate depression
By watching this program you will also learn:
How men's and women's self-esteem is shaped by social and cultural forces
The distinct elements that trigger depression in men and women
The different ways husbands and wives of depressed partners handle their partner's depression
This DVD, The Gift of Therapy: A Conversation with Irvin Yalom, MD, coincides with the publication of his book, The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients. In this hour-long interview by Randall Wyatt, PhD of Psychotherapy.net, Dr. Yalom discusses the central themes of his life's work as a psychotherapist and writer.
Yalom masterfully addresses the core issues facing therapists:
Working in the Here-and-Now
Therapist Self-Disclosure
Keeping Therapy Alive in the Era of Managed Care
Avoiding Burnout by Staying Curious
Existential and Group Psychotherapy
The Therapist Role and Fellow Travelers
Challenges and Tips for the Next Generation of Therapists
He elucidates these topics as always with engaging stories from his work with patients, and his own personal life experiences. This DVD will be valuable for personal and professional learning for therapists and students, patients, and anyone interested in the process of human growth and self-understanding.
Family therapy is well known for understanding the symptoms of the identified patient within the context of the larger family system. Monica McGoldrick has been a pioneering voice in extending the power of family therapy even further, helping us see how one family member's loss has ramifications for others-through an extended family network, and even across several generations.
In this realistic simulation of an18-week course of therapy with the Rogers family, we see how the presenting problem-teenage daughter Michelle's rebellious behavior-masks unresolved loss across three generations of family members. Despite the father's initial resistance to explore the death of the children's mother, McGoldrick links this loss with the family's current struggles, and assists them in the delayed grieving. She shows remarkable fluidity and mastery as she changes her stances based on the family's needs of the given moment, while her commentary provides the viewer with insight about her interventions.
By watching this video program, you'll learn how to:
Use genograms to quickly assess patterns of unresolved loss
Assign homework that helps families mourn their losses and resolve their grief
Evaluate how diverse factors, including ethnic and gender issues, impact family's ability to cope with loss
Achieve therapeutic goals by supplementing regular family sessions with an individual or couple sessions
In this compelling program, renowned therapist Constance Ahrons demonstrates her groundbreaking approach to working with divorced families, with an emphasis on helping ex-spouses and new spouses effectively manage their shared parenting obligations. In a time when fifty percent of American marriages end in divorce, therapists frequently encounter families struggling with the aftermath.
This program depicts a series of productive and poignant therapy sessions with an entire binuclear family: the divorced mother and father, their two sons, and the new wife of the children's father. Dr. Ahrons aptly demonstrates how, over time, she brings these reluctant family members together to begin forging a more agreeable, cooperative approach to parenting.
By watching this program, you'll learn how to:
Assist divorced couples in overcoming their resistance to meeting together to address their children's problems.
Help binuclear families break out of unproductive patterns and explore new territory in cooperative relationships.
Foster constructive, non-blaming conversations between ex-partners about joint child rearing issues.
Help ex-spouses develop a long-term view in which they retain a sense of kinship in fulfilling their joint roles as parents.
Clients seeking psychotherapy frequently suffer from both anxiety and depression, making treatment particularly challenging. In this video, internationally renowned therapist Donald Meichenbaum demonstrates a brief, effective approach for treating these comorbid disorders. Viewers follow a dramatic recreation of key moments in his 12-session course of therapy with Anna P., a 40-year-old woman who experiences recurrent bouts of panic in addition to a long history of depression.
By watching this video, you'll gain increased understanding and skills in:
Using assessment procedures to establish therapeutic priorities and a collaborative treatment plan.
Helping clients clearly see the connections between their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and develop strategies for change.
Reconceptualizing presenting complaints into problems with hopeful solutions.
Teaching intra- and interpersonal coping skills by means of stress inoculation training and other cognitive-behavioral techniques.
The first part of the film is an introduction to the warming up and subsequent transfer of simple spontaneity states, such as a sculptress starting a new creation in clay, or a mother visiting her daughter at boarding school.
The next part is a therapeutic film. A young woman from a well-to-do home, but with a history of emotional instability and a poor responses to previous social demands, learns how to become a waitress. The film shows her development in the skills necessary for this profession before, during, and after the psychodramatic treatment. Records of every session were made, including criticism by the other students, and analysis by the director, Zerka Moreno.
Introduction to Psychodrama (around 1942) In this film, Moreno demonstrates basic techniques such as self-realization, doubling, and role-reversal, using actual students from his Beacon training school. We see Moreno's powerful and unique style as his concepts come to life on stage.
Based on an actual couple treated by Moreno in 1939 in the Therapeutic Theater of Beacon, this movie is a dramatized version of the case, yet includes many variations from the original script. It was intended for an audience of couples and marital therapists, to facilitate a greater understanding of Moreno's theory and techniques, and to stimulate further discussion. This movie still raises fundamental questions today about the process of therapy with couples, the objectives of psychodrama when dealing with marital conflicts, and the role of the director in such situations.
This movie takes place in a mental hospital in California; it was produced in the 1960's when Moreno was touring the state. Originally made by Moreno and a group of patients, the production was entirely unrehearsed, and was broadcast via closed circuit television to several thousands of patients in the various wards of the hospital! The problem addressed was: "Are these patients ready for discharge?" Moreno used different approaches, especially the future projection technique, to explore this issue. It has the character of a "psychodramatic exit test," sprinkled with astute observations by Dr. Moreno. Zerka Moreno, his wife and collaborator, joins this production playing different auxiliary roles.
This movie was shot in Paris during the First International Congress of Psychodrama. It was produced by Radio and Television Center of France in September, 1964. The opening scene takes place at the Faculte de Medecine at the Sorbonne. Moreno greets the audience, goes into a short warm-up, and ends up working with a married couple, Paul and Michelle. Viewers have the opportunity to witness a psychodrama with two protagonists. Michelle is an old Parisienne, and Paul an unhappy American living in France because of his marriage. Moreno uses psychodramatic techniques to lead the couple into an exploration of their conflicts.
This video depicts renowned therapist and teacher Erving Polster artfully and adeptly plying his trade with Gerald, the type of client we have all struggled with: bright, cynical, emotionally detached, overly-intellectual, and seemingly determined to defeat this therapist as he has previous ones. Polster summarizes his approach: "Obvious therapeutic techniques will alienate him. Instead I'll try to stay in close contact with him, more like a savvy uncle than a therapist, meeting and matching him with sarcasm, humor, confrontation, and common sense. Everything I say will be as close to the truth and responsive to our interchanges as possible."
In numerous vignettes over the course of treatment, we watch Polster continuously engage him in here-and-now interactions, matching wits, joining him with humor, and challenging his defenses with a delicate balance of confrontation and empathy. Erving and Miriam Polster provide illuminating commentary, sharing with the viewers mature wisdom garnered from a lifetime of practicing therapy and training thousands of therapists. It is hard to imagine any therapist who will not benefit from the viewing of this tape.
Renowned family therapist Steve Lerner presents his work with men who are in crisis after being left by their wives or partners. Using excerpts from a clinical interview with a client who was left by his wife, as well as an actual family session including the now-divorced couple, their young son, and each of their respective new partners, Lerner cogently demonstrates his unique four-stage approach for helping men to cope more adaptively with the end of a marriage or significant relationship.
By watching this program, you'll learn how to help male clients:
Cope with their strong feelings of shame, sorrow, isolation, and loss
Bolster their sense of self-worth and masculinity while simultaneously expanding their view of male roles
Redirect their focus from pursuing the partner who has left to enhancing their own personal growth and life goals
Learn how to recognize and respond to a partner's signals of discontent before divorce becomes the only option
Dr. Hanna Levenson, a leading proponent of Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy (TLDP), takes the viewer through the highlights of a 20 session course of therapy with a depressed, passive, and somatizing 74 year-old man. She illustrates how to develop and maintain a focus of treatment, intervene, and terminate in a time-effective manner. With helpful voiceovers, she shares her perceptions and insights as the case is unfolding, explaining the rationale for her interventions. She demonstrates how TLDP integrates psychodynamic, interpersonal, cognitive-behavioral, and system approaches, and is especially useful for patients with chronic and pervasive interpersonal difficulties. The clarity of Dr. Levenson's instruction makes it clear why Hans Strupp, the co-founder of TLDP, refers to her as a "master teacher."
By watching this video, you'll learn how to:
Quickly assess the patient's suitability for TLDP
Collaboratively set meaningful and achievable goals
Keep the therapy focused on the goals at hand
Use transference and countertransference to focus on interpersonal patterns
JOHN EDWARDS has spent the last twenty years distilling the intricacies of family systems theory into a user-friendly approach that has enhanced the work of thousands of clinicians and educators in North America.
Now you have a chance to experience first-hand Dr. Edwards' deceptively nonchalant therapeutic style. Utilizing a blend of workshop footage, family sessions, and focused interviews, this video provides an overview of eleven fundamental techniques for effective family work.
Finally, a video that shows clinicians of all orientations how to provide effective treatment for alcoholics, without having to choose between a 12-step versus psychotherapeutic approach! Dr. Brown demonstrates her Developmental Model in the treatment of "Ted," a forty-eight year old manager, who initially denies that his drinking is related to problems at home and on-the-job. While skillfully fostering the therapeutic alliance, Dr. Brown gently but persistently brings alcohol into the focus of the treatment. This video follows the course of treatment through the four stages of the Developmental Model: Drinking, Transition, Early Recovery, and Ongoing Recovery. In a dramatic reenactment of key moments in seven outpatient sessions over the course of five years, we see Dr. Brown address the multitude of challenges inherent in the treatment of alcoholics.
By watching this video, you'll learn how to:
Assess for appropriate treatment modality
Work effectively with denial and resistance
Modify your technique to the needs of each developmental stage
Integrate Alcoholics Anonymous into the treatment
Deal with relapses, and other complications and setbacks
Psychotherapists and chemical dependency counselors alike will find a wellspring of material in this program to enhance their existing skills in working with this difficult population.
In Volume 2 of this highly acclaimed video series, Dr. Brown presents her groundbreaking research that led to the Developmental Model, which emphasizes that sobriety is the mid-point, not the end-point in the full recovery of any alcoholic. She then leads viewers step by step through the four phases of alcoholism recovery: Drinking, Transition, Early Recovery, Ongoing Recovery, detailing the behavioral, cognitive, and emotional characteristics of the alcoholic at each stage. She defines key tasks that face the therapist and client during each phase, as well as challenges for mental health practitioners and substance abuse professionals in fulfilling these tasks.
Volume I, Outpatients portrays a re-enactment of four segments of group sessions over the course of a mixed adult psychotherapy group. Dr. Yalom provides insightful, behind-the-scene commentary regarding his interventions. You'll see how his interpersonal model is applied, and learn techniques to steer groups into the here-and-now so they remain dynamic, on-track, and powerfully therapeutic. The general principles clearly outlined her will be extremely helpful and applicable to al ltherapists leading outpatient psychotherapy groups.
Volume II, Inpatients will teach you how to run effective groups with challenging clinical populations. This video program shows Dr. Yalom in action conducting an entire group session in an inpatient psychiatric setting, based on an adaptation of his Interpersonal Model of group psychotherapy. This highly structured approach helps to contain rather than escalate client anxiety, and can be adapted to work witha wide range of lower to mid-functioning populations in diverse clinical settings.
The group session is presented in three main segments: Orientation, Agenda Formation, and Agenda Filling. Dr. Yalom provides commentary before and after each segment, giving clear step-by-step explanations of teh specific interventions and overall structure.
After viewing this program you will no longer tolerate unproductive sessions where clients go on with lengthy monologues about problems they have discussed for years. Instead you will be eager to harness the power of the here-and-now, helping clients to give and receive useful feedback, and develop more adaptive interpersonal skills.
In Volume III, An Interview Dr. Yalom engages in an in-depth discussion of the finer points of group therapy. He elucidates the therapeutic factors that are at play in a well-running group, and tackles such issues as selection of group members, dealing with dropouts, and working with a co-leader. He also discusses the early professional influences in his life that inspired his interest in both group work and existential psychotherapy, his research on bereavement, and his concerns for the next generation of psychotherapists.
This program offers a rare opportunity: Learn how to use a powerful technique for treating PTSD by watching an actual therapy session in the middle of a long-term course of treatment.
Traumatic memories invade the consciousness of those who suffer from PTSD, presenting a profound challenge for both the survivor and therapist. In this program, Ochberg explains and models his Counting Method, a simple yet effective tool used to master the flashbacks and intrusive recollections so common in PTSD.
During this extraordinary session, Ochberg works with a client with PTSD who is midway through a long-term, outpatient therapy. You'll see Ochberg explain the Counting Method to her, guide and anchor her through the recollection of a traumatic event, and then discuss and debrief the experience with her. It is powerful to watch this client move into, through and out of the pain of the torturous memories she brings forth. Ochberg teaches us a valuable lesson on how to work safely, effectively and compassionately with such difficult material.
By watching this program, you'll be able to:
Explain each step of the Counting Method technique.
Use the counting method with PTSD clients who are ready to master their traumatic memories and flashbacks.
Integrate Ochberg's use of pacing, a steady and safe presence, and the therapeutic connection in your own work with clients with PTSD.
Reviews
"This is a nice, concise, easy to watch DVD that is simple, yet profound... The gems that come from these two well-respected, seasoned PTSD experts...are well worth keeping." - Carl C. Bell - MD, President/CEO, Community Mental Health Council, Chicago, IL
"I cannot stress enough how very much my staff and I enjoyed this program... Frank Ochberg and Angie Panos encapsulated concisely and clearly the most important and salient treatment protocols for the therapist." - Beverly J. Anderson - BCETS, Clinical Director, Metropolitan Police Employee Assistance Program, Washington, DC
An actual therapy session conducted by Depth Oriented Brief Therapy co-originator Bruce Ecker, MFT
Dominating our field is the assumption that for psychotherapy to be effective in a few sessions, depth must be sacrificed. Clinicians striving for brevity usually steer clear of clients' compelling, unconscious, lifelong themes. Challenging this view, Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy (DOBT) demonstrates that focused, rapidly effective in-depth therapy with individuals, couples and families turns out to be a very real option.
Watch as a male client discovers how major past and current life themes generate his baffling annual depression. In a single session, Ecker masterfully leads him into a deep exploration and reassessment. By using a variety of simple but highly effective techniques to discover unconscious emotional truth, the basis of the client's low self-esteem is revealed, prompting a new sense of mastery and possibilities.
By watching this program, you will:
Understand the principles and structure of DOBT.
Increase awareness of how symptoms relate to unconscious beliefs.
Witness the real-life application of the DOBT theoretical model.
Counselors new and experienced in treating clients with PTSD will learn valuable lessons on working with this challenging yet rewarding population.
In this program, experts Dr. Frank Ochberg and Dr. Angie Panos give new and experienced therapists insightful and thoughtful suggestions on how to explain the disorder to clients, which is the first essential step of treating PTSD. They elucidate the next stages and basic building blocks of PTSD treatment, as well as techniques for educating the significant others and caregivers of clients about the disorder. Their seasoned advice, presented in an accessible and supportive manner, will be appreciated by all therapists.
By watching this program, you'll be able to:
Explain PTSD to clients in a therapeutic, supportive and informative way.
Help your client understand what the treatment process for PTSD will entail.
Begin the PTSD treatment process with greater understanding and confidence.
Reviews
"This is a nice, concise, easy to watch DVD that is simple, yet profound... The gems that come from these two well-respected, seasoned PTSD experts...are well worth keeping." - Carl C. Bell - MD, President/CEO, Community Mental Health Council, Chicago, IL
"I cannot stress enough how very much my staff and I enjoyed this program... Frank Ochberg and Angie Panos encapsulated concisely and clearly the most important and salient treatment protocols for the therapist." - Beverly J. Anderson - BCETS, Clinical Director, Metropolitan Police Employee Assistance Program, Washington, DC
The history of mental health practice with gay, lesbian and bisexual people is both complex and constantly evolving. This introductory program to the series focuses on some of the most important historical developments from ancient times to the present, including:
Early attempts topathologize and change homosexuality.
The influences that led to the depathologizing of homosexuality.
The contemporary bias in psychotherapy, illustrated by a poignant account of therapy abuse by Robert Gentry, the nation's first openly gay mayor.
"Conversion therapies" to repathologize homosexuality and modern attempts to change sexual orientation.
Recent affirmative mental health approaches.
The current APA guidelines for working with GLB clients.
Real testimony of affirmative psychotherapy from a client after years of negative therapy experiences.
Gay, lesbian, and bisexual people utilize mental health services at a rate considerably higher than heterosexuals, and over 95 percent of psychotherapists treat GLB clients in their practice. This program focuses on some of the most salient assessment and treatment issues that clinicians should know.
This program will teach you about:
The effectiveness of cognitive therapy with this population.
Implications of internalized homophobia and the importance of hypothesis testing in therapy.
Assessment of presenting problems and stages of identity development for GLB clients.
Heterosexist bias in diagnosis of several DSM-IV-TR disorders.
In the last half of the program you'll see an extraordinary simulation of two therapy sessions by Dr. Christine Padesky with 'Greg' on his coming out issues, as well as descriptions of the therapy process and techniques being demonstrated. This award-winning segment, highly rated by graduate school classes, is an outstanding training demonstration for both students and experienced psychotherapists.
Gay, lesbian, and bisexual couples and families are different from heterosexual couples and families in issues related to their social context and societal stigmatization. Until recently, the couples and family therapy literature has ignored same-sex families and few clinicians have had training in this area.
In this groundbreaking program, you will see:
Dr. Robert Jay Green, an innovative researcher and clinician, emphasize key issues and new approaches in providing mental health services to GLB couples, including relational ambiguity, sexual exclusivity, and development of social support networks.
Dr. Armand Cerbone join Dr. Green in a discussion of how internalized homophobia affects relationships.
Dr. Richard Rodriguez discuss the importance of families of choice for GLB couples.
Dr. Isaiah Crawford, a leading scholar on same-sex parenting, summarize research-based characteristics of GLB family constellations, as well as provide very helpful suggestions on how therapists can provide support to GLB families.
Throughout this program interview clips from same-sex couples, parents and their children are used to illustrate and personalize the important material covered by the expert presenters. This program program will enhance your understanding of GLB relationships and families, allowing you to be more effective in conducting individual and couples therapy with this population.
This program features three diverse personal coming out stories: A young African American woman who was institutionalized when she told her parents; a retired professional Latino man who came out to his wife and children later in life; and an affirming mother who shares the process her family went through when her teenage son came out to them. Commentary is provided by Dr. Eli Coleman, Dr. Sari Dworkin, and Dr. Ritch Savin-Williams, noted experts and researchers in the field.
By watching this program, you will increase your understanding of:
The usefulness and limitations of Dr. Coleman's frequently cited coming out stages.
How to assist clients with their coming out process.
The process parents go through when their GLB child comes out to them, including helpful suggestions to parents on their adjustment process, presented by Dr. Ritch Savin-Williams, a primary researcher in this field.
The first educational program on the psychology of bisexuality, this program features cutting-edge research presented by some of the leading scholars in the field. The emerging body of scientific evidence over the past 30 years suggests a new paradigm of sexual orientation that is multidimensional, sometimes fluid, and highly individual, allowing for a greater validation of bisexuality.
In this program you'll see:
Three bisexual individuals, Greg, Susannah, and Skott share their insightful personal journeys.
Dr. Fritz Klein use his famous grid to demonstrate the multivariable and fluid nature of sexual orientation.
Dr. Sari Dworkin present various definitions, models, and types of bisexuality, as well as the developmental challenges of bisexual identity and the bisexual coming out process.
Dr. Ron Fox profile who bisexuals are using data from his largest-to-date demographic study.
Dr. Mary Bradford join Dr. Fox in educating therapists on how to provide more effective and affirming mental health services to bisexual women and bisexual men.
Lesbians, gay, and bisexual people of color must manage conflicting allegiances with divergent social worlds including their ethnic culture, the majority culture and the gay/bisexual community. This program highlights personal accounts by GLB individuals from diverse ethnic groups, as well as commentary by Dr. Beverly Greene and other distinguished experts. The final segment shows a reenactment of a compelling cross-cultural therapy session by Dr. Christine Padesky with a Korean lesbian client.
By watching this program, you will increase your understanding and expertise in:
The empirical findings associated with multiple oppressions
Clinical challenges in the development of a positive identity
Culture-specific GLB issues experienced by Latino/as, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans
Specific treatment issues and strategies for therapists who are working with GLB's of color
Combining the voices of gay and lesbian youth with leading professionals, this program provides an insightful look at the GLB adolescent experience. This program combines the latest research and effective treatment approaches by such experts as Dr. Ritch Savin-Wiliams, Dr. Karla Anhalt and Teresa DeCrescenzo, and includes vital information for working with this special population.
By watching this program, you'll learn about:
Typical adolescent developmental milestones
Four key "differential developmental trajectories" - a comprehensive model for understanding healthy GLB identity development.
Stressors common to identifying as GLB during adolescence, including loss of social support, victimization/harassment, suicidality, high-risk sexual behavior and substance abuse.
Ways to help GLB youth become resistant to potential stressors.
The paradigm shift from a pathologizing model to a strength-based treatment approach that includes mentoring, trust building, adjusting to social roles, building resiliency against harassment, and dealing with religious conflicts.
The GLB youth perspective as they share their positive and negative experiences.
Although sexuality is one of the greatest pleasures in life and an opportunity for gratification and fulfillment, it can be complex, difficult, and sometimes even traumatic. Men and women are often confused about themselves as sexual beings and are vulnerable to distorted self-perceptions and destructive internal voices that have been incorporated during their developmental years.
This compelling film explores three fundamental questions: "What is healthy sexuality?" "What is love?" and "Why do so many men and women find it difficult to sustain closeness, sexuality and love in their intimate relationships?" Dr. Robert Firestone describes early childhood experiences and societal influences that impact an individual's emerging sexuality. These concepts are vividly brought to life as actual couples explore their sexual and relational dynamics, and identify destructive thoughts and critical voices that often occur before, during or after a sexual experience. Finally, the film introduces clinicians to Voice Therapy, a powerful approach that they can use to help clients challenge the voices that interfere with healthy sexual relating and sustain a relationship that combines true intimacy and sexuality.
From watching this program, you'll learn:
What love and sexuality mean to several different couples.
Why distorted sexual perceptions often interfere with relationships.
How to help couples challenge internal destructive voices regarding their sexuality and help them build true intimacy with their partners.
This program is a must for all those working in and developing Therapeutic Communities in prisons.
Dr. Harry Wexler walks through the past and current research developments on the efficacy of Therapeutic Communities in prisons. A timeline from the 1950s to present details how the Therapeutic Community model developed in prisons, and what research efforts supported that development. Wexler discusses a breadth of topics including: the evidence that prison treatment alone is insufficient for long-term change, and the importance of aftercare; the benefits and potential problems of manual-based treatment; the need for incentives; the importance of bridging TC members and facilitators with their outside communities; and the promising new research of TCs in maximum-security prisons and the potential of reducing violence among their prisoners.
De Leon lays out the framework and theory underlying a therapeutic community, including the TC approach to substance abuse treatment and recovery. He explains that the TC is different from other treatment models in that it views substance abuse as a disorder of the whole person, and aims to treat that whole person, not just the drug addiction. Thus, TCs create social living situations where all aspects of a person's personality is displayed in work, formal groups and social activities, and then addressed directly by the community.
From watching this program, you'll be able to:
List the common personality characteristics of people with substance abuse disorders that TCs address.
Utilize the TC model of recovery including mutual self-help, motivation, and developmental and social learning.
Discuss the beliefs and values that encompass the TC's "right way of living."
De Leon explains how a therapeutic community uses its social environment to change individuals' behaviors, lifestyles and identities. The community is the method itself: constant participation, evaluation, feedback and reinforcement of personal responsibility are core components of daily life.
From watching this program, you'll be able to:
Discuss the necessary context for change including exclusivity of setting and variety of roles.
Explain the expectations of TC members on participation and responsibility.
Describe how assessment and response are administered as part of the ongoing activity and culture of TCs.
De Leon goes beyond theory to explain the specific operations of an ideal therapeutic community: what happens on a daily basis, what the physical space looks like, what activities are involved, and what are the functions and roles of the staff and community members. He emphasizes that all TCs can maximize their efficacy by enhancing and adhering to these components.
From watching this program, you'll be able to discuss:
The importance of creating psychological separateness from the outside culture and creating space that reflects a community environment.
The structure of day-to-day life including the resident work program, phase format, pathways of communication, duration of program and community activities.
The roles and functions of staff versus community members and the importance of maintaining the peer support model.
The use of encounter groups, awareness training, and emotional growth training to help community members change.
Set in a community group home in South Central Los Angeles, this program shows actual footage of a team of narradrama therapists working with a multicultural group of both staff and teens for a series of extended meetings. Watch as the severe disconnection between residents and staff dissolves, mutual respect and connections build, and each side uncovers their strengths and values.
this program offers an introduction to the tools and techniques of Narradrama, a new therapeutic approach and alternative to traditional talk therapy. Narradrama is an integration of narrative therapy and drama therapy that incorporates creative arts and experiential activities.
This is the first program featuring this exciting new therapeutic approach!
By watching this program, you will:
Become familiar with the foundation and principles of Narradrama
Learn how to apply techniques of Narradrama in groups and communities.
Increase your awareness of how this action-oriented approach can be helpful in tough real life situations and with difficult to reach populations.
Be ahead of the curve and open your therapeutic work to new perspectives and possibilities.
Chock full of interviews with some of the most important people in J.L. Moreno's life, this program will be a treat for Moreno fans, old and new alike.
You'll watch:
Moreno's 2nd wife Florence Gunsher, and his widow Zerka, recount critical moments and influences in the development of psychodrama.
His son Jonathan discuss why he drifted from his father, and how he reconnected.
His daughter Regina discuss his father's philosophy, eccentric view of himself and spiritual affinities.
His German disciple, Grete Levitz, recall stories of reading poems to him on his deathbed.
Historical footage of Moreno directing a psychodrama.
Poignant recollections of Moreno's brother William, Helen Jennings, and many others - no important figure is left out!
Reviews
"Exposes the depth and breadth of Moreno's ideas-a rare presentation of the historical figures in his life and work. Very well done, and quite moving." - Edward Schreiber, Med, TEP, Director of Moreno Institute East
"This video reflects the man and his ideas as experienced by some of his closest companions during his lifetime." - Zerka T. Moreno, TEP
Watch Jon Carlson conduct an actual parent consultation session and an actual parenting group with moms who are in power struggles with their teenage children.
Therapists often find themselves in over their heads when parents seek their advice about a misbehaving child or teen. Expert Adlerian psychotherapist and educator, Jon Carlson, demonstrates how to bring the focus away from the child's behavior and back to the parent's actions. In this program, you'll see Dr. Carlson consult with a mom whose 13-year old son back-talks on every chore and request. Then Carlson facilitates a parenting group, helping the parents shut down the power struggles with their teens so they can recognize when to give responsibility, when to back off and when to draw boundaries.
From watching this program, you will:
Learn techniques to run effective parenting groups, including helping parents connect and leverage their own experience to help each other.
Understand the key aspects of Adlerian parent consultation, including eliciting specific examples of the problems that have occurred, and encouraging shifts in parenting styles, which can result in significant changes in children's behavior.
Gain insight into how Dr. Carlson masterfully connects with parents, highlights their knowledge and expertise, and empowers them to try new things
Watch Adlerian child therapist Terry Kottman in an actual play therapy session with a 5-year old boy.
Expert play therapist Dr. Terry Kottman illustrates that children communicate through play and that all play has a purpose. In this program, Dr. Kottman meets with a 5-year old boy who is split between two homes and lacking a sense of control in his life. By reflecting his actions, and using encouragement and suggestions through play, Dr. Kottman soon discovers that this young client needs to show her who's boss. Jon Carlson and Don Keat introduce Dr. Kottman, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of this approach.
From watching this program you will:
Develop an understanding of the four phases of Adlerian play therapy including using play to build and explore the client relationship, make interpretations, and teach new skills.
Gain insight into Terry Kottman's therapy style including using tracking, reflection of feelings, encouragement, guessing and suggestions through play.
Learn how to apply Terry Kottman's Adlerian play therapy techniques to your own therapeutic work with children.
Watch expert adolescent family therapist Janet Sasson Edgette in an actual counseling session with a single mother and her 15-year old daughter.
Parents and therapists often fall into the same traps with teenagers: getting into power struggles, coming across as phony, and not setting limits. Janet Sasson Edgette shows us how to be candid and real with adolescents rather than fighting for control or approval. In this program, Dr. Edgette works with a mom and her teenage daughter who comes and goes as she wants. Watch as Dr. Edgette softens the teen's combative, provocative stance and empowers mom to take charge. Jon Carlson and Don Keat introduce Dr. Edgette, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of adolescent family therapy including empowering parents in order to strengthen the parent-child relationship.
Gain insight into Dr. Edgette's therapy style and how therapists' authenticity and candor enhances therapy with adolescents.
Learn how to apply Dr. Edgette's techniques to your own family therapy work with adolescent clients and avoid common traps.
Watch Cognitive Behavioral child therapist Bruce Masek in an actual counseling session with a 6-year old girl and her mother.
Cognitive behavioral therapy with children builds on behavioral therapy techniques while working to modify a child's thoughts and feelings. In this program, Dr. Masek adapts his therapy model to a mother-child dyad, helping Mom learn strategies for managing her young daughter's back talk and tantrums. See Dr. Masek conduct a focused behavioral assessment to identify the issues that have sparked the young girl's negative acting out. Jon Carlson and Don Keat facilitate an in-depth discussion with Dr. Masek on the further impact, relevance and uses of the model for children and their families.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of some of the key adaptations of cognitive behavioral therapy with children and parents, including behavior modification, parent training and modifying maladaptive cognitions.
Gain insight into Dr. Masek's therapy style and how he works with parents to effect change in a children's behavior.
Learn how to apply Dr. Masek's cognitive and behavioral techniques to your own therapeutic work with children and parents.
Watch Gestalt child therapist Violet Oaklander in an actual counseling session with a 13-year old boy who has difficulty expressing anger.
Expert child therapist Dr. Violet Oaklander has a knack for getting her clients to speak honestly and reveal their difficult feelings. In this program she meets with a boy who is angry with his father but unable to express it directly. Watch as she gauges the boy's level of contact throughout the session, and masterfully provides openings for him to show cut-off parts of himself. She then collaborates to develop real-world strategies for ongoing expression of his difficult emotions. Jon Carlson and Don Keat introduce Dr. Oaklander, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of Gestalt child therapy, including evaluating the child's contact level, and helping the child identify and express emotions.
Gain insight into Dr. Oaklander's therapy style and how she builds a therapeutic relationship based on the coming together of two equals.
Learn how to apply Dr. Oaklander's creative and projective techniques to your own work with child clients.
Watch expert Narrative therapist Stephen Madigan in an actual counseling session with a perfectionist 10-year old boy and his mother.
Children can feel overtaken by family problems and allow those problems to define who they are. In this program, Stephen Madigan presents a refreshing approach that allows family members to separate themselves from their problems and retell their stories. By asking a series of compassionate questions, Madigan quickly gets to the heart of this family's frustration-a pattern of competitive taunting among the six children in the house. Madigan then helps them uncover skills, strengths and solutions to take home in order to break the family pattern. Jon Carlson and Don Keat introduce Dr. Madigan, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of Narrative Therapy with children, including separating the child from the problem, understanding how the problem has taken control, and allowing alternate stories of strength and resistance to be told.
Gain insight into Dr. Madigan's therapy style and how he asks unformulated compassionate questions from a stance of curiosity and appreciation.
Learn how to apply Narrative Therapy techniques to your own therapeutic work with children.
Watch renowned Object Relations psychotherapist David Scharff in an actual counseling session with an 11-year old boy who is grieving the death of his grandmother.
In David Scharff's Object Relations child therapy approach, the parent-child relationship is the central concern, with particular attention paid to the representation of that relationship in the child's mind. In this program, Scharff first consults with Mom to gather vital background information. Then using talk and art therapy techniques, Scharff demonstrates how to reach the internal world of a boy who is grieving his grandmother's death, gets picked on by his dad and is struggling with separation anxiety. Jon Carlson and Don Keat introduce Dr. Scharff, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of this approach.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of Object Relations child therapy, including the importance of being a receptive container for the child's powerful feelings.
Gain insight into Dr. Scharff's therapy style and how he works with each child at their particular developmental capacity to create a psychological holding environment.
Learn how to apply Dr. Scharff's talk and play therapy techniques to your own therapeutic work with children.
Watch Person-Centered child therapist Anin Utigaard in an actual counseling session with a shy eight-year-old girl.
Anin Utigaard masterfully teaches us to pay attention to all of the ways we communicate with children in therapy. Watch as she enters the child's world through her speech, body language and play, and carefully attends to the child's need to please. In this program, Utigaard connects with a little girl's shyness and fear of doing something wrong. Interacting with her through play and art, Utigaard builds safety and trust, and sparks the girl's sense of initiative. Jon Carlson and Don Keat introduce Ms. Utigaard, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of this approach.
From watching this program you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of person-centered child therapy including utilizing empathy, unconditional positive regard, congruence, and attention to children's need to please.
Gain insight into Anin Utigaard's therapy style and how she mirrors children's feelings and expresses her own honestly through speech, body language and play.
Learn how to apply Utigaard's person-centered techniques to your own therapeutic work with children.
Watch medical child therapist Gerald Koocher in an actual counseling session with a 5-year old girl who has a medical condition and a lot of worries.
Many therapists feel overwhelmed with the prospect of helping children cope with physical illness. Learn from expert in the field Gerald Koocher as his warm relational stance and play therapy techniques allow children to share their experiences regarding their illnesses. In this program, watch as he maintains a developmental focus to build rapport with the young girl, and tests various hypotheses in an effort to identify the source of her emotional suffering. Afterwards, Dr. Koocher meets with the mother to develop a plan to address some of her child's symptoms. Jon Carlson and Don Keat introduce Dr. Koocher, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of this approach.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of therapy with medically ill children, including information gathering, relationship building, collaborating with parents and family members, and testing hypotheses.
Gain insight into Gerald Koocher's therapy style and how he uses the therapeutic relationship to obtain understanding of children's internal experiences.
Learn how to apply Dr. Koocher's comprehensive approach to your own therapeutic work with medically ill children and their families.
Watch reality therapist Robert Wubbolding in an actual counseling session with a 15-year old boy.
World-renowned reality therapist Robert Wubbolding demonstrates how his sensible, straightforward approach is equally effective with children as it is with adults. Through the use of a series of strategic questions, Dr. Wubbolding guides his young clients through a process of self-evaluation and priority clarification. In this program, see him help a typical teenage boy develop motivation and a plan of action to improve his grades at school, and increase the boy's commitment to his algebra homework. Jon Carlson and Don Keat introduce Dr. Wubbolding, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.
From watching this program you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of reality therapy with children, including helping them enhance their relationships with others and getting their needs met for belonging, power, freedom and fun.
Gain insight into Dr. Wubbolding's therapy style and how he helps his clients increase their self-awareness and internal locus of control.
Learn how to ask strategic questions to elicit client self-evaluation in your own therapeutic work with children.
Watch Solution-Focused child therapist John J. Murphy in an actual counseling session with two boys and their mother.
We know that children need lots of positive strokes, but all too often therapists focus on problems. In this compelling demonstration, see John Murphy encourage a family to recognize successes and focus on small changes for the future. The two boys, ages eight and ten, are struggling with fighting and turning in homework, leaving their single mother overwhelmed and discouraged. Watch as Dr. Murphy transforms this family's discouragement into encouragement, building on their strengths and validating their successes. Jon Carlson and Don Keat introduce Dr. Murphy, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of solution-focused child therapy including collaborating with the client, focusing on small changes, validating strengths and building on successes.
Gain insight into Dr. Murphy's therapy style and how he meets children at their developmental level, uses humor, and encourages involvement from everyone to forge a relationship with a family.
Learn how to apply Dr. Murphy's solution-focused techniques to your own therapeutic work with children.
Jeffrey Kottler showcases his expert skills in integrating multiple therapy approaches in an actual counseling session in this 3-part program.
What Jeffrey Kottler has noticed in his vast training in multiple theoretical perspectives is that all kinds of therapy work. Good therapy is when the therapist engages the client and combines certain core ingredients including a combination of insight and action, and cognition and affect. In this program, Kottler engages with a client who is struggling with two losses: the ending of a romantic relationship and her children moving out. You'll be impressed by how quickly he makes a connection with her and uses this alliance to allow his interventions to take root. Creatively pulling techniques from a variety of approaches, and even using humor, he helps her develop a new focus on how she can bridge her loneliness by reaching out to people in new ways. Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Kottler and facilitate a discussion on the approach.
By watching this counseling program, you'll be able to:
Discuss the essential elements of what Kottler views as good therapy, including focusing on the relationship, listening, creating a place for catharsis, activating emotion, and providing insight and structure for taking action.
Describe Kottler's counseling style and how he tailors his approach depending on the client's wants and needs.
Integrate multiple counseling approaches in your sessions with clients.
See Bruce S. Liese utilize his Cognitive Therapy approach in an actual counseling session with a client struggling with addiction.
Watch Dr. Liese demonstrate his cognitive therapy approach for addictions, as he collaborates with the client to identify and change the thought patterns and maladaptive beliefs that relate to addictive behaviors and lead to substance abuse. In this program, Dr. Liese works with a client whose issues include alcohol abuse, cocaine abuse and involvement in the criminal justice system. Jon Carlson and Judy Lewis introduce Dr. Liese, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of Cognitive Therapy for Addictions and its relevance in addictions counseling today.
Gain insight into Liese's therapy style and how he works with clients to modify thought patterns and beliefs, leading to change in addictive behaviors.
Learn how to apply cognitive therapy to help your clients successfully tackle their addictions and other life challenges.
See Barbara S. McCrady work with a couple struggling with addiction in an actual couples therapy session.
Dr. McCrady reminds us that alcohol and drug problems always exist in a context that includes families and relationships, and that couples therapy is an important model for working with addictions. Dr. McCrady uses a behavioral approach that helps the client change his or her addictive behaviors, helps the partner learn to respond differently, and helps the couple change the relationship itself. In this program, Dr. McCrady works with a young couple trying to change behaviors related to alcohol and marijuana use. Jon Carlson and Judy Lewis introduce Dr. McCrady, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of Couples Therapy for Addictions and its relevance in addictions counseling today.
Gain insight into McCrady's therapy style, and how she helps clients change their addictions by fostering change in their relationships.
Learn how to apply couples therapy to help your clients successfully tackle their addictions.
See G. Alan Marlatt utilize his Harm Reduction Therapy approach in an actual counseling session with a client struggling with addiction.
Harm Reduction Therapy is an innovative approach that focuses on reducing the harmful consequences of drug use. The therapist accepts the client on his or her own terms and tries to reduce barriers to treatment. In this program, see expert on harm reduction therapy and relapse prevention, Dr. Marlatt, work with a heroin-addicted client who is considering entry into a methadone program. Jon Carlson and Judy Lewis introduce Dr. Marlatt, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.
From watching this program you will learn how to:
Develop an understanding of the key aspects of the Harm Reduction Therapy model and its relevance in addictions counseling today.
Gain insight into Marlatt's therapy style, and how he promotes change by helping clients reduce the harmful aspects of their drug use.
Learn how to apply the Harm Reduction Therapy model to help your clients successfully tackle their addictions.
See Joan Ellen Zweben demonstrate how to integrate therapy with 12-step programs in an actual counseling session with a client struggling with addiction.
Psychotherapy and 12-step groups have complimentary roles in a client's process of recovery, so illustrates expert on addictions Dr. Zweben as she focuses on the role of such groups as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous within the therapy session. In this program, Dr. Zweben works with a Desert Storm veteran who is currently drinking and who is considering the possibility of contacting Alcoholics Anonymous. Jon Carlson and Judy Lewis introduce Dr. Zweben, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.
From watching this program you will:
Develop an understanding of the key techniques of integrating therapy with 12-step programs and its relevance in addictions counseling today.
Gain insight into Zweben's therapy style, and how she uses the complimentary roles of psychotherapy and 12-step programs to facilitate change.
Learn how to integrate therapy with 12-step programs to help your clients successfully tackle their addictions.
See William R. Miller utilize Motivational Interviewing in an actual counseling session with a client struggling with addiction.
Dr. Miller demonstrates how Motivational Interviewing helps people resolve their ambivalence about changing addictive behaviors. The therapist creates an atmosphere that is conducive to change by expressing empathy and encouragement, rolling with resistance, and helping the client explore the gaps between their current behaviors and the life they would like to lead. In this program, Dr. Miller works with a client who is considering changing his alcohol use and smoking habits. Jon Carlson and Judy Lewis introduce Dr. Norcross, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of Motivational Interviewing and its relevance in addictions counseling today.
Gain insight into William R. MillerOs therapy style, and how he fosters change by utilizing empathy, exploration and encouragement.
Learn how to apply Motivational Interviewing to help your clients successfully tackle their addictions and other life challenges.
See Robert Wubbolding utilize his Reality Therapy approach in an actual counseling session with a client struggling with addiction.
Watch as Dr. Wubbolding adapts his renowned Reality Therapy approach to work with clients struggling with addictions. His practical and systematic approach helps clients evaluate the effectiveness of current behaviors and focus on practical plans of action for change. In the program, Dr. Wubbolding works with a client whose recovery from cocaine addiction is complicated by depression. Jon Carlson and Judy Lewis introduce Dr. Wubbolding, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.
From watching this program you will:
Develop an understanding of the key aspects of the Reality Therapy model and its relevance in addictions counseling today.
Gain insight into Wubbolding's therapy style, and how his systematic approach promotes practical plans of action and change.
Learn how to apply the Reality Therapy model to help your clients successfully tackle their addictions and other life challenges.
See John C. Norcross utilize the Stages of Change model in an actual counseling session with a client struggling with addiction.
Years of research by Dr. Norcross and his colleagues have helped to identify the stages people go through in addressing and confronting addictions. In a psychotherapy based on this model, strategies and relationship stances are matched to the individual clientOs stage. See Dr. Norcross demonstrate the Stages of Change model in this program as he works with a client who is in early recovery from cocaine addiction and contemplating changing his use of alcohol. Jon Carlson and Judy Lewis introduce Dr. Norcross, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.
From watching this program you will learn how to:
Develop an understanding of the key aspects of the Stages of Change model and its relevance in addictions counseling today.
Gain insight into Norcross' therapy style, and how he promotes change by addressing the client's stage of addiction.
Learn how to apply the Stages of Change model to help your clients successfully tackle their addictions and other life challenges.
Donald Meichenbaum expertly demonstrates his refined and renowned Cognitive-Behavioral approach in an actual therapy session in this 3-part program.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy works with the interconnection between thoughts, feelings and behavior using psychoeducational techniques that target symptoms to help clients reach their specific goals. In this program, Meichenbaum demonstrates how to integrate seven key CBT tasks in a single therapy session with a woman who is struggling with severe anxiety and insomnia as the caretaker for her mentally ill father. Meichenbaum highlights the list of "shoulds" and self-criticisms she continually rotates through her mind, and through an exercise helps the client reveal some of the pain and anger that those self-criticisms mask. He offers techniques to help her curb her insomnia and educates her on how an ongoing therapy would help her heal past wounds and teach her to nurture herself. Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Meichenbaum and facilitate a discussion on his approach.
By watching this counseling program, you'll be able to:
Understand the key elements and tasks that make up Meichenbaum's unique therapeutic approach.
Describe Meichenbaum's therapy style and how he creates a connection with his client, then pulls from an array of techniques to tailor the therapy session to the client's needs.
Integrate a cognitive-behavioral approach into your own therapeutic work with clients.
Watch Robert Wubbolding expertly demonstrate Reality Therapy in an actual therapy session in this three-part program.
Wubbolding believes that as human beings we have much more control over our lives than we think, and that the challenge is to learn how to be more responsible in our drives for belonging, power, enjoyment, freedom and survival. In this program, Wubbolding works with a graduate student who lacks focus in his efforts to complete his master's thesis and make pivotal life decisions. This challenging client is initially difficult to pin down, speaking in tangents and diverting Wubbolding's questions throughout the session. However, Wubbolding is able to reel him in during key moments, leading the client to realize that it is his motivation, not external factors that prevent him from moving forward with his thesis and other life decisions. Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Wubbolding and facilitate a discussion on the approach.
By watching this counseling program, you'll be able to:
Understand the major components of Reality Therapy including interventions that help clients gain more responsibility and control in their lives.
Describe Wubbolding's therapeutic approach and the kinds of questions he asks his clients that focus on their wants, needs, motivations and plans.
Integrate a Reality Therapy approach into your own therapeutic work with clients.
As mental health professionals, there is no way for us to know who is going to commit suicide, but learning to successfully assess risk and address threats will greatly improve the chance that we can prevent it from happening.
This comprehensive program from the University of Manchester walks through all the steps necessary to effectively intervene when a client threatens suicide or self-harm. You'll learn about assessment, crisis management, problem solving, and crisis prevention through a variety of realistic vignettes. Knowing what to do or say can be difficult to figure out when sitting with a potentially suicidal client. By watching clinicians work with a range of clients-including a school teacher, a teenage addict, and a paranoid-psychotic man-you'll learn how to create a quick and effective alliance with your client, and how to ask the difficult questions that are necessary to assess suicidality and help them through their crisis. With her expert narration, Dr. Linda Gask guides you through each key step and technique of the process from beginning to end.
From watching this program, you will:
Increase your confidence in working with suicidal patients.
Develop skills for the assessment of suicide and self-harm risk.
Improve techniques in managing situations in which people are at risk.
Understand the different tasks involved in crisis management, problem-solving and crisis prevention.
Sue Johnson demonstrates Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy in an actual couples therapy session. Watch this master therapist and learn how to emotionally engage couples within a structured, manualized therapy format.
In this program, Johnson works with a couple on the brink of divorce. Leslie says she can't take Scott's explosive temper anymore; Scott says he thinks Leslie sees him as "just a mean and nasty guy." Johnson helps Leslie communicate that it is not Scott she can't be close to, but his temper that keeps her away. As Johnson helps Scott explore "softer" emotions hidden underneath his anger, the couple discovers how difficult it is to traverse this foreign territory. Nonetheless, Johnson's persistent and gentle coaching helps them to take risks and begin to connect in ways they've never experienced before, providing a spark of hope that they can reverse their downward spiral.
By watching this program, you will:
Learn how to help couples deescalate their negative emotional interactions and create new, healthy patterns and cycles of engagement.
Gain an understanding of the research that backs the Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy approach.
Develop new ways of working with couples that allow you to facilitate visible change within the therapy session.
Gus Napier demonstrates Experiential Therapy with a couple whose problems have escalated to a matter of life and death. Watch this master therapist and learn how to authentically engage couples in the here-and-now with interventions that really make a difference.
Napier believes that therapists can use their own personal experiences to connect with clients and that their frank feedback within the session can stimulate change, even with couples entrenched in disabling conflict. In this program, Napier works with one such couple, Bill and Pat. Bill's recent heart attack has sent this couple into crisis mode-Bill doesn't want Pat involved with his health, which triggers Pat's deep-seated rage to boil over, leading Bill to shut down, which in turn further infuriates Pat. Napier provocatively warns them that this spiral may result in Bill having another heart attack, thereby solving both their problems. He highlights the behaviors that they each need to change, then secures a commitment from them both to begin regular couples therapy in order to end the dangerous cycle.
By watching this program, you will:
Learn how to help clients break down their problems in the here-and-now of the session, and offer them new, healthier ways of communicating with each other.
Gain insight into Napier's therapy style of remaining active and interruptive in the first session with couples, then more quiet and observant in the next few.
Develop new ways of relating to your clients that are honest and open, and that model relational aspects your clients are currently missing.
Pat Love demonstrates the Imago Dialogue Process in an actual couples therapy session. We're sure you'll be impressed with Love's passionate commitment as she takes charge and keeps her clients calm and focused.
Before delving into hot button issues with couples, how do you get them to speak to each other without defenses or explosive arguments running rampant? Imago Couples Therapy provides the structure for your clients to have calm, empathic conversations with each other, no matter the conflict.
In this program, Pat Love demonstrates this process with Kathy and Dave who report that they don't know how to discuss problems without tensions running high. Dave is afraid to talk to Kathy about his concerns and so they build up. Kathy is losing patience and trust in Dave. Love carefully and adeptly helps Dave communicate fears and requests to Kathy, and patiently helps Kathy reflect them back correctly. The couple leaves the session optimistic, with new tools to communicate their difficulties, and insight into unique ways they can demonstrate their love for each other.
By watching this program, you will:
Learn how to facilitate the Imago Couples Therapy dialogue process.
Gain an understanding of how images of love from our original caregivers influence whom we choose as romantic
partners and cause problems in those relationships.
Develop new couples therapy techniques that help each partner become a healing agent for the other.
Richard Schwartz demonstrates Internal Family Systems Therapy in an actual couples therapy session. Learn to help partners in a couple get to know all parts of themselves so that they can engage more fully in relationship.
Schwartz's approach helps individuals gain a sense of self-leadership over the parts of themselves that they are struggling with. In this session, Schwartz helps Loren and Kathy examine the parts of themselves that are causing problems in their marriage. Loren says Kathy disengages for several days after they have a fight. Kathy says that she is afraid if she reveals her true self to Loren, he won't like it and will look to other women for intimacy. Watch as Schwartz helps Kathy get in touch with her fear of Loren "wandering," by naming, talking to and comforting that little girl part of herself. Loren is visibly moved by watching Kathy's exploration, gains a deeper understanding of her vulnerability, and agrees to work on his own fearful part that has an impulse to "wander."
By watching this program, you will:
Learn how to help couples identify their own constraining and problematic sub-personalities and gain self-leadership over them.
Gain an understanding of the self as a whole, along with different types of sub-personalities, including exiled parts, "managers" and "firefighters."
Develop new couples therapy strategies that integrate deep individual exploration with systems approaches.
Learn how to apply object-relations theory to family therapy by watching world-renowned psychoanalysts Drs. Jill and David Scharff conduct a live session with a very distressed family.
How can Object-Relations theory be applied to family therapy?
Judy, Adrian, and Pam (their 32 year-old daughter) are stuck. They don't understand why Pam--who still lives at home--is so uncooperative. In this live session with Jill and David Scharff, this troubled family gains insight into Pam's behavior by coming face-to-face with the pain they've been avoiding for ten years: the tragic suicide of Pam's brother, Victor. Experience how the Scharffs masterfully create a psychological "holding environment" for the family, allowing them to begin to mourn the mysterious and violent loss of their beloved son and brother.
Using their own countertransference reactions as clues to what is going on beneath the surface, the Scharffs join with the Adrian, Judy, and Pam to create thought-provoking interpretations that help this family understand Pam's symptoms in a whole new light. The compelling session is followed by a fascinating discussion with a live audience of therapists who grapple with the nuances of the Object-Relations Family Therapy approach.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of Object-Relations Family Therapy.
Gain insight into how Jill and David Scharff create a therapeutic relationship that allows families to face underlying anxieties.
Learn how to apply an Object-Relations approach to your own therapeutic work with families.
This is a rare opportunity to see Jill and David Scharff, a married couple, doing co-therapy. You even get to see them disagree with each other in the session! If you want to see how they work separately, check out Jill's video on Object Relations Therapy and/or David's video on Object Relations Child Therapy.
Watch O'Hanlon passionately discuss and demonstrate his innovative approach in this three-part video, which includes an actual therapy session with an intriguing, non-traditional family.
How do people get happy? That is the question that inspired pioneer Bill O'Hanlon to become a therapist and devote his life to respectfully and effectively helping people change through Solution-Oriented Therapy. Unlike many therapies that tend to focus on problems and explanations, Solution-Oriented Therapy (also known as Possibility Therapy) is an exciting, optimistic, and non-pathologizing model that taps into people's potential to change.
Pam is a woman in her thirties who lives at home with her retired father, Adrian, and her working mother, Judy. Adrian and Judy are fed up with the way Pam always slams doors, mumbles, and walks away when they ask her questions or tell her what to do. According to Adrian, "She won't talk to us about nothing!" In this live family therapy session, O'Hanlon helps this struggling family improve their communication by shining a light on their habitual interactional patterns, thus enabling them to begin to relate to each other more effectively. As O'Hanlon warmly engages and gently challenges each family member, he demonstrates some of the key aspects of Solution-Oriented Therapy, such as:
attending primarily to the present and future,
acknowledging feelings,
the three key components of change, and
focusing on exceptions and possibilities.
If you're serious about helping your clients change, take advantage of this opportunity to learn from one of the most optimistic, dynamic, and inspirational therapists of our time.
By watching this program, you will:
Learn how to describe the principles and techniques of Solution-Oriented Family Therapy.
Learn how to apply the three key components of change in Solution-Oriented therapy.
Develop new strategies to help families change their habitual interactional patterns.
In a field that has a tendency to label and pathologize people, O'Hanlon's respectful approach is quite refreshing. Whereas many therapists might focus on how this family is dysfunctional, O'Hanlon sees the best in them.
Watch Jon Carlson masterfully demonstrate Adlerian Therapy in an actual therapy session in this 3-part program!
Adlerian therapists aim to understand how clients fit into their worlds, and how family and cultural backgrounds shape clients and influence their therapeutic processes and individual needs. In this program, Carlson explores with his client Gina the family values she learned growing up, highlighting a fierce independence that became headstrong at times. Carlson then confronts her about how this value might have contributed to the downfall of her marriage. Gina admits, "I'm tired of fixing things all the time," and explores with Carlson possibilities for change. Host Diane Kjos introduces Dr. Carlson and facilitates an enlightening discussion on the approach.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key components of Adlerian Therapy and the four steps of the therapeutic process: relationship building, assessment, insight and re-orientation.
Gain insight into Carlson's therapy style and how he remains goal-directed and future-oriented, and examines clients within their social context.
Learn how to integrate an Adlerian approach into your own therapeutic work with clients.
John Krumboltz's learning approach to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an inspiration to all therapists, regardless of orientation. Watch him masterfully demonstrate an actual therapy session in this 3-part program!
John Krumboltz sees himself as a teacher and emotional coach. He doesn't think psychotherapy needs to be a mysterious process, and instead works with clients to figure out ways to improve behaviors and prevent problems from recurring in the future. In this program, Krumboltz helps his client Robin give up on struggling for her mother-in-law's approval. Through a role-play telephone conversation, she learns to shift the locus of control so she can take better care of herself in that difficult relationship-and leaves with plans to have this conversation in real life. Hosts Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Dr. Krumboltz and facilitate an enlightening discussion on the approach.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key components of Krumboltz's Cognitive-Behavioral approach, including establishing ground rules and clear goals, providing hope and possibility, and rehearsing and assigning tasks that move the client towards change.
Gain insight into Krumboltz's therapy style and how he removes the mystique surrounding the therapeutic process by remaining sensible and down-to-earth.
Learn how to apply a Cognitive-Behavioral approach to your own therapeutic work with clients.
Watch Kenneth V. Hardy masterfully demonstrate Family Systems Therapy in an actual therapy session in this 3-part program. What a treat to see this innovative therapist in action!
For Hardy, it is imperative to move therapy beyond a strict individualistic approach, focusing instead on how clients influence and are influenced by their relationships and larger social contexts. In this program, Hardy works with a client who's efforts to avoid conflict have the unintended effect of increasing tension and creating a rift in his marriage. He urges the client to express his feelings to his wife directly, bringing to light deep fears of revealing his anger and receiving disapproval. Hosts Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Dr. Hardy and facilitate an enlightening discussion, highlighting the relational and contextual aspects of the case.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key tenets of Family Systems Therapy: relationships, interactions and context.
Gain insight into Kenneth Hardy's therapy style and how he assesses a client's beliefs and value systems in order to intervene within the client's context of meaning.
Learn how to apply a Family Systems approach to your own therapeutic work with clients.
Watch Lenore Walker expertly demonstrate her feminist therapy approach in an actual therapy session in this 3-part program.
Lenore Walker believes that it is important to empathize not only with clients' problems, but also with their strengths, and that many female clients have never had their strengths valued. Walker's feminist approach incorporates a focus on how a client's social context contributes to her problem and puts importance on maintaining an even power balance between the therapist and the client. In this program, Walker works with a woman who is in the final stages of divorce from a man that abused her. Walker demonstrates how to ask direct questions about the abuse without overwhelming her client. In addition, Walker focuses on her client's accomplishments and the importance of keeping safe even though her ex-husband is now out of the house. Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Walker and facilitate a discussion on the approach.
By watching this counseling program, you'll be able to:
Discuss the essential elements of a feminist therapy approach including focusing on the power balance between therapist and client, the race, gender and class context of the client, and the client's strengths.
Describe Walker's therapy style and how she gives her clients permission to talk about difficult subjects by asking them direct questions.
Integrate a feminist approach into your own therapeutic work with clients.
Watch Allen Ivey masterfully demonstrate Integrative Therapy in an actual counseling session in this 3-part counseling program. What a treat to see this innovative therapist in action!
Allen Ivey is both a developmentalist and a true integrationist. He helps clients get to know their strengths on self, relationship and community levels by exploring stories from their pasts, borrowing techniques from all orientations depending on the client's needs and goals. In this program, Ivey works with Robin, who wants to capture the strengths of her family background rather than the negative legacies that she often feels influence her behavior. Ivey helps her explore poignant details from her past, evoking sensory details that lead Robin to own and carry with her a core strength: "I can make an impact." Hosts Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Dr. Ivey and facilitate an enlightening discussion with Dr. Ivey and Mary Bradford Ivey on the approach.
From watching this counseling program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of Ivey's Integrative approach, including starting with determining the client's needs, establishing goals, and integrating techniques tailored to the client.
Gain insight into Ivey's therapy style and how he helps clients evoke sensory details from the past to reveal their core strengths.
Learn how to apply an integrative approach to your own therapeutic work with clients.
Advances in neuroscience confirm the importance of the mind-body connection. Watch pioneer Ernest Rossi demonstrate a Mind-Body approach in an actual therapy session in this 3-part program!
Ernest Rossi brings to light important new research indicating that the brain is constantly growing and changing, and, with this, the profound realization that our mind and its responses can also change. In this program, Rossi works with Robin, who says she is constantly analyzing but doesn't know how to imagine. Rossi endeavors to elicit a sense of wonder in Robin, leading her in mind-body exercises that challenge her to think in new ways. In so doing Robin uncovers a belief that she always needs to have control, as well as a previously unknown desire to find some mental peace and quiet. Hosts Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Dr. Rossi and facilitate an enlightening discussion on the approach.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key components of Mind-Body Therapy, including examining symptoms as mind-body signals that need attention, and helping clients navigate between social constraints and their own creativity.
Gain insight into Rossi's therapy style, including how he asks basic accessing questions to tap into a client's mind-body connection.
Learn how to apply a Mind-Body approach to your own therapeutic work with clients.
Watch Arnold Lazarus masterfully demonstrate Multimodal Therapy in an actual therapy session in this 3-part program. What a treat to see this innovative therapist in action!
Arnold Lazarus considers himself a technique collector. His multimodal approach is redefining eclecticism, as he finds what works best for a client and uses strategies, techniques and interventions from various modalities to tailor the therapy to that person's needs. In this program, Lazarus develops his approach by trial and error: he tries different techniques, watches his client's reactions, and ultimately hones in on the client's constant self-criticism, providing tools to address it. Hosts Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Dr. Lazarus and facilitate an enlightening discussion, highlighting Lazarus' strategies to break through the client's resistance.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of Multimodal Therapy including utilizing theories and techniques that are testable, and addressing the seven modalities of our basic ID: behavior, affect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relationships and drugs/biology.
Gain insight into Lazarus' therapy style: how he begins neutrally, looks for openings to intervene, tracks his client's reactions, and adapts his approach according to his client's responses.
Learn how to apply a Multimodal approach to your own therapeutic work with clients.
Watch renowned psychoanalyst Jill Savege Scharff masterfully demonstrate Object Relations Psychotherapy in an actual therapy session in this 3-part program.
An object relations approach eschews the blank slate and instead makes the relationship between therapist and client primary. As Scharff explains, the psychotherapist creates a holding environment for unconscious material to emerge and childhood wounds to be worked through-a process that's mystifying and out of reach to many of us. In this program, Scharff brilliantly demonstrates this process: she remains neutral yet connected, follows her client's lead, looks for the subtle affect and patterns of speech that signal underlying conflict, and ultimately encourages her client's deeper issues of guilt towards his mother to surface and be addressed. Hosts Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Dr. Scharff and facilitate an enlightening discussion of the approach.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of Object Relations Psychotherapy including the components of creating a holding environment.
Gain insight into Jill Scharff's psychotherapy style and how she remains neutral and connected as she pays close attention to her client's subtle actions and reactions.
Learn how to apply an Object Relations approach to your own therapeutic work with clients.
Watch Natalie Rogers masterfully integrate expressive arts with a client-focused approach in an actual therapy session in this 3-part program.
Natalie Rogers tells us that to experience empathy is to understand what a powerful experience it is. Combining the person-centered philosophy of her father and the expressive arts background from her mother, Rogers uses artwork to allow her clients to go beyond words, and provides an environment that allows each individual to tap into his or her inner resources and full potential. In this program, Rogers works with a client who feels torn between her responsibilities as a stay at home mother and her desire for independence. Rogers helps her to express this conflict through drawing, allowing the client to begin exploring what she wants out of her life and who she wants to become. Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Rogers and facilitate a discussion on the approach.
By watching this counseling program, you'll be able to:
Discuss the essential elements of a person-centered expressive arts approach including deep listening, empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard, and the use of color and movement to explore inner resources, desires and conflicts.
Describe Rogers' therapy style and how she helps her client move into a deeper understanding of herself by providing the environment to do so.
Integrate a client-focused expressive-arts approach into your own therapeutic work with clients.
Watch Insoo Kim Berg masterfully demonstrate Solution-Focused Therapy in an actual therapy session in this 3-part program. What a treat to see this legendary therapist in action!
As the name implies, solution-focused therapy emphasizes clients' existing strengths and skills instead of problems and psychopathology. In this program, Berg demonstrates her uniquely optimistic and supportive therapy style. See how effectively she connects with the client, using her language, tracking how the client frames her problems, and mirroring her skills and assets. Hosts Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Berg and facilitate an enlightening discussion, which sheds light on the subtle nuances of this seemingly simplistic approach.
From watching this Solution-Focused Therapy program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of Solution-Focused Therapy including assuming the client as expert, and focusing on strengths and solutions, rather than problems and diagnoses.
Gain insight into Insoo Kim Berg's interview style and how she responds to clients using their words, mirrors their skills and assets, and reframes problems into solutions.
Learn how to apply Solution-Focused techniques including the Miracle Question, Scaling, and Exceptions to your own therapeutic work with clients.
Watch Mary Goulding demonstrate Transactional Analysis and Redecision Therapy in this 3-part program. You'll be impressed by how deeply this master takes her client in a single session!
Redecision Therapy combines elements of Transactional Analysis and Gestalt Therapy. Using positive strokes, encouragement, and bringing the past into the present, Goulding helps her clients change paths from decisions made at a young age. In this program, she helps her client Beverly act out pivotal childhood moments, return to her recently passed mother's graveside for a final goodbye, and speak directly to her 12-year-old self, helping Beverly mourn losses and open new doors for the future. Hosts Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Goulding and facilitate an enlightening discussion on the approach.
From watching this program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key components of Redecision Therapy, including focusing on what clients wants to change, and bringing past and future scenes into the present.
Gain insight into Goulding's therapy style: how she uses positive strokes instead of diagnosis, and challenges her clients to dive deep into emotionally difficult material.
Learn how to apply Redecision Therapy and Transactional Analysis to your own therapeutic work with clients.
See REBT in action in an actual therapy session with a single mother struggling to effectively parent her teenage children.
Janice has worked hard to improve her situation for herself and her four children. She left an abusive relationship, obtained her GED, re-entered the workforce and gotten off general assistance. Now she struggles with the age-old dilemma so many parents face -- her teenage children don't appreciate her. Watch as Dr. Janet Wolfe uses REBT techniques to challenge the irrational beliefs that keep Janice mired in hurt feelings and anger.
Dr. Wolfe works to help Janice make the connection between her irrational beliefs ("they shouldn't treat me this way") and the emotional and behavioral consequences of those beliefs. Moving to a more rational belief system empowers Janice to sidestep the power struggle with her teenagers and parent more effectively.
Interspersed throughout this actual session is an informative discussion that elucidates Dr. Wolfe's rationale in utilizing classic REBT techniques.
Most people associate REBT with the confrontative and even cantankerous style of its founder, Albert Ellis. Dr. Wolfe shows how REBT principles can be practiced with a softer touch.
By watching this video, you will:
Learn the ABC's of REBT practice: identifying activating events (A), working with beliefs (B) and making the connection to emotional and behavioral consequences.
Gain insights into the use of REBT techniques and how to adapt them based on particular client needs.
Deepen an understanding of how this action-oriented psychotherapy teaches individuals to replace self-defeating thoughts, beliefs and actions with those that are more productive.
It is certainly a treat to see one of the most bold and influential psychotherapists of our generation in an actual therapy session. Watch Albert Ellis demonstrate his signature style: confrontative, headstrong and steadfastly rational...and remarkably effective in just one session.
Learn to use Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy by watching the originator of the method in a therapy session with Roseanne, whose husband committed suicide in front of her and her baby daughter ten years ago. Ellis immediately points out how Roseanne uses the irrational beliefs of "condemnation" and "demandingness" to keep upsetting herself about the horrible event. Using REBT techniques, he helps Roseanne separate herself from her actions, reframing her belief that "I did a rotten thing/that makes me a bad person" to "I did a rotten thing that means I made a mistake, but I am not a bad person." You'll be impressed at how quickly Ellis's reframes take root in Roseanne, as she repeats Ellis's teachings in her own words and from her own heart.
By watching this program, you'll be able to:
Utilize REBT techniques, including defining goals, offering hypotheses about irrational beliefs and new emotions, and disputing inferences.
Teach clients the definition of a rational belief, an irrational belief and the REBT philosophy on human growth.
Integrate Ellis's use of confrontation, repetition and rational explanation in your own therapy work with clients.
Learn to use Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy with clients struggling with addiction by watching the originator of the method in an actual therapy session. Albert Ellis demonstrates his signature style with a difficult client; using rationality, strong language, and forceful directives, he is remarkably effective in just one session.
Orville would like to reduce his marijuana, alcohol and hallucinogen dependency but doesn't know how. Ellis immediately focuses in on Orville's low frustration tolerance and "self-downing" as the irrational beliefs that sustain his drug and alcohol addictions. Ellis debunks Orville's claim that if he doesn't always behave well, he is a bad person. He clarifies that it is certainly highly preferable to behave well, but that we are all fallible human beings who screw up sometimes. Orville's distractibility and flights into tangential stories challenge Ellis to keep Orville on task. You'll be impressed to see how Ellis remains focused on the issue at hand, pushing Orville to grapple with beliefs that are tough to change and addictive behaviors that are difficult to conquer.
By watching this program, you'll be able to:
Utilize REBT techniques with clients struggling with addiction, including offering hypotheses about and disputing irrational beliefs, recognizing secondary gains and supporting rational thinking.
Explain the REBT to your clients.
Integrate Ellis's use of confrontation, repetition and rational explanation in your own therapy work with clients.
See REBT in action in an actual therapy session with a client needing help with anger management.
At one time or another, all clinicians have had to meet the challenge of dealing with an angry client. Skilled in empathy and active listening, we are sometimes at a loss when confronted with clients who have difficulty containing their rage. In this video with an actual client, you will learn an REBT approach to anger management. Students and interns will especially find this action-oriented approach useful when facing those clients who may only be in treatment for a few sessions.
Melanie, an African-American woman with a history of drug addiction, comes to treatment as part of an anger management course. Her past angry outbursts have led her to violence and even incarceration.
Dr. Janet Wolfe helps Melanie connect her irrational beliefs to their ineffectual, and sometimes violent, consequences. Using the ABCs of REBT helping the client understand how not only the activating event (A), but her beliefs (B) about that event trigger the emotional and behavioral consequences c Dr. Wolfe introduces a specific Anger Management Sequence, which she uses immediately during a role play in the session.
Interspersed throughout this actual session is an informative discussion that elucidates Dr. Wolfe's rationale in utilizing classic REBT techniques.
Although most people associate REBT with the confrontative and even cantankerous style of its founder, Albert Ellis, Dr. Wolfe shows how REBT principles can be practiced with a softer touch.
By watching this video, you will:
Learn a specific REBT approach to Anger Management.
Learn the ABC's of REBT practice: identifying activating events (A), working with beliefs (B) and making the connection to emotional and behavioral consequences c.
Deepen an understanding of how this action-oriented psychotherapy teaches individuals to replace self-defeating thoughts, beliefs and actions with those that are more productive.
What prevents most people from being able to sustain romantic, meaningful relationships that satisfy their needs and desires? In this film, actual group participants identify negative thoughts or voices toward themselves and others that seriously impair their capacity for intimate relating. Dr. Robert Firestone helps them identify and understand this negative thought process, and challenge the self-defeating behavior patterns through the powerful technique of Voice Therapy.
Voice Therapy quickly taps into clients' core negative beliefs and combines insight with deep affect in a way that profoundly shifts clients' point of view toward self and others to a more compassionate and realistic perspective. By verbalizing their negative thoughts in the second person, clients are able to separate themselves from their harsh and hostile inner voices. Through the use of this technique and further collaboration with the therapist on resisting destructive acting out and increasing positive behavior, clients gain greater levels of intimacy in their relationships, experience a lift in their depression, and resist relapse into self-defeating behaviors.
From watching this program, you'll learn:
What kinds of negative thoughts and beliefs people hold about themselves and their partners that impair or prevent them from intimate relating.
Why Voice Therapy is an effective means for challenging the negative thoughts and voices.
How to utilize a Voice Therapy approach with your own clients who are struggling in their relationships.
Insoo Kim Berg's unique style and unwavering optimism comes to life in this demonstration of Solution-Focused Family Therapy.
Children and teenagers are all to often the scapegoat to a family's troubles and the impetus for a family to enter therapy. In this program, Insoo Kim Berg shows us how to help a family come together as a whole to build on their strengths and collaborate on solutions.
Berg demonstrates her approach in two therapy sessions with a family. Judy is at wits end with her husband, Lou, who won't help out at home and with her daughter, Sarah, who prefers to hang out with her boyfriend instead of going to school. Sarah is sick of her mother nagging her and of the tense atmosphere at home. Lou is struggling with unemployment and admits that the family doesn't laugh anymore. Berg uses techniques to reconnect this family so that they can build on what has brought them together in the past and hear laughter in the home again.
From watching this program, you will:
Gain an understanding of the goals of a solution-focused family therapy approach, and what it means to support, generate and enlarge solutions.
Learn how to apply solution-focused techniques to your work with families including finding Exceptions to Problems, the Miracle Question, Scaling, and Amplifying Change.
Witness Berg's remarkable ability to connect with challenging clients and inspire them to discover their strengths and resources.
This film is a highly valuable resource for mental health professionals, abuse survivors and their loved ones.
Emotional child abuse is frequently overlooked in our focus on physical and sexual abuse, often invisible to those both outside and inside the family. However, the damage that emotional child abuse can inflict has severe impact later in life on a person's self-esteem, relationships, and career. In this film, actual group participants discuss how despite their successes they continue to treat themselves the way they were treated as children, and continually struggle with the ghosts of their childhood. In powerful footage, men and women discuss painful incidences, and uncover the legacy of emotional child abuse that often spans multiple generations. Featured therapist Dr. Robert Firestone works with these group participants to give them voice to the abuse they experienced, as well as to the child that couldn't then fight back.
From watching this program, you'll learn:
How childhood emotional abuse is kept hidden, how it can have a damaging impact later in life, and how its legacy can span many generations.
What emotional child abuse looks like from many different perspectives and experiences.
How to give voice to childhood emotional abuse, and increase one's compassion in order to move beyond it.
Insoo Kim Berg's unique style and unwavering optimism comes to life in this demonstration of Solution-Focused BriefTherapy.
When couples come to therapy they are often combative, quick to point the finger, and about to give up on the relationship. In this program, Insoo Kim Berg demonstrates her approach with one such couple, and in two sessions shows how effective it can be to focus a couple on their strengths and resources, moving them away from fighting and towards collaboration.
Leslie is angry with her husband, Bill, for working long hours and neglecting her and the children. Bill is struggling to support his family and believes Leslie doesn't appreciate or trust him. Insoo Kim Berg uses techniques to focus this fiery and argumentative couple on solutions, and bring their mutual commitment to the relationship and family to the forefront.
From watching this program, you will:
Gain an understanding of the goals of a solution-focused brief therapy approach with couples, and what it means to support, generate and enlarge solutions.
Learn how to apply solution-focused techniques to your work with couples including finding Exceptions to Problems, the Miracle Question, Scaling, and Amplifying Change.
Witness Berg's remarkable ability to connect with challenging clients and inspire them to discover their strengths and resources.
This program provides an introductory glimpse into the exciting and dynamic world of art therapy. With footage from art therapy sessions conducted all over the world and spanning several decades, you'll see the diversity of the field and the many benefits to incorporating an art therapy approach into your practice.
Art for healing is as ancient as the drawings on the walls of caves. Famous artists like Vincent Van Gogh, Jackson Pollock and Frida Kahlo used art to cope with their anguish. Now the practice of art as healing is a growing discipline that has been effective in helping those suffering schizophrenia, cancer, depression, trauma, grief, autism, physical or mental disability, AIDS and neurological disorders, among others. Further, art therapy can be used with children, families, the elderly, couples and groups.
In this program, you will be introduced to two major branches of art therapy: the use of art as a healing method unto itself, and the use of art as a tool in the psychotherapy process. In either approach, art therapy provides a way for clients to tell without talking, and a new way for therapists to listen.
From watching this program, you will:
Understand the many benefits of using an art therapy approach in your practice.
Learn how Art Therapy developed into a field, and who were its founders.
Be inspired to pursue further education and practice in art therapy.
A powerful, thought-provoking program perfect for use in cultural competency and awareness classes. We are sure it will provide you and your students a deeper understanding of the impact of racism, and discussions that travel far outside the classroom.
Shortly after the Japanese attack on Peal Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. It led to the mass evacuation and incarceration of over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry... more than half were children.
The impact of the World War II internment on Japanese Americans still lingers in the form of humiliation, anger, shame, regret and abandonment. This program provides a rare glimpse into the very private lives of a few of these Japanese Americans who have not previously talked openly about the trauma of their internment experience. Satsuki Ina, a psychologist and former internee, leads a three-day intensive group therapy where the participants give words to their childhood trauma and mirror each other's experiences. In so doing, the group members allow themselves to feel and subsequently let go of the humiliation and shame they have been holding onto for many years.
This film is a powerful lesson in racism in the United States, and provides a group therapy model on how to help heal the wounds caused by institutionalized oppression. In light of the recent wars in the Middle East, this film is more important than ever, and is a must-see for anyone wanting to understand how intolerance, prejudice and racism deeply impact the lives of Americans.
Clients with weight issues frequently become caught in a vicious cycle of losing weight and gaining it back, impairing their ability to enjoy their lives fully. At the same time, many therapists struggle with how to be helpful to these clients. In this video of an actual session, Dr. Judith Beck works with Anne to develop practical skills that will enable her to lose weight and make enduring changes to her lifestyle.
Anne has struggled all her life with food and weight issues and has dieted dozens of times, only to gain the weight back. In this very human, and touching session, Beck emphasizes the development of a new set of skills as the crucial element of weight loss. Beck takes an extensive dieting history-including Anne's assessment of "good eating days" and "bad eating days," she identifies Anne's motivations for losing weight and teaches self-motivation techniques, and she prepares Ann to recover quickly from the inevitable mistakes she will make. Other techniques she uses include identifying the obstacles that may prevent Anne from making these changes, strategizing solutions, exploring Anne's eating triggers and working with Anne's "all-or-nothing" approach to dieting.
While Beck bases her approach on the core principles of Cognitive Therapy, the tools and techniques demonstrated in this video can be integrated with many types of therapeutic styles and will be useful to any therapist working with clients with weight issues.
By watching this program, you will:
Learn Beck's approach to weight loss and maintenance, including the specific techniques used to help people lose weight and keep it off.
Be able to identify common pitfalls dieters face and Beck's recommendations for preventing these pitfalls.
Learn how to structure an initial session with a client who wants to lose weight.
Here's a chance to have a front row seat as Dr. Irvin Yalom talks to a packed room of therapists about a topic rarely discussed in our field: death. Sharing ideas from his most recent book, Staring at the Sun Yalom shows us how to confront death in order to invigorate and enhance our own lives and the lives of our patients.
By watching this video, you will:
Learn how to recognize the presence of death anxiety in your patients, and learn techniques to not only alleviate their excessive anxiety, but to truly enhance their lives.
Understand how to apply an existential perspective to any psychotherapy approach.
Identify ways to utilize the here-and-now of the therapeutic relationship to help clients gain a deeper understanding of their interpersonal world.
Richard Stuart demonstrates his integrative approach to Behavioral Couples Therapy in an actual couples therapy session.
Stuart utilizes basic principles of Behavioral Therapy to empower clients to change their own behaviors and develop insight and understanding into how what they do influences the behavior of others.
In this program, Stuart works with Adele and Wesley, a couple with many elements of a successful marriage but struggling to find a way to stay together. While issues from her past trouble Adele, Wesley feels hurt and rejected and does not know how to recapture his loving feelings for his wife.
Using information derived from a brief developmental history as well as pre-session questionnaires, Stuart is able to quickly dive into the language and metaphor of each client-using anecdotes and personal stories to reflect his understanding. He then moves on to identify each of their primary concerns, and reframe their understanding of problematic behaviors. After negotiating strategies for achieving a mutually desired solution, the clients are then asked to engage in specific behavioral changes that can be evaluated the following week.
Consistently focusing on their strengths and the positive aspects of their marriage, Stuart helps the couple re-commit to each other in order to successfully undertake the behavioral changes asked for.
By watching this program, you will be able to:
Describe the specific techniques used in Stuart's approach to couples therapy.
Identify the basic principles of Stuart's Integrative Behavioral approach to couples therapy.
Explain how a clinician employing Stuart's approach would conduct an initial session with a couple.
James Coyne demonstrates Strategic Couples Therapy in an actual session with a gay couple. Watch this master therapist and learn the basic principles of Strategic Therapy, which seeks to help the couple develop a problem-solving strategy tailored to their specific concerns and values.
Hugh and Alan have been together more than a decade, and now find themselves ready to work on some of the more persistent annoyances in their relationship. Coyne illustrates many core Strategic Therapy techniques, including meeting with each partner individually prior to bringing them in together, describing the problem explicitly and concisely, investigating all solutions that have been previously tried, defining a clear and concrete change to be achieved and formulating and implementing a strategy for change.
Coyne demonstrates other techniques such as reframing, and gives Hugh and Alan a paradoxical homework assignment: permission to do what they are already doing in order to view their conflicts as an opportunity for change. The therapy session is both preceded and followed by an in-depth exploration of the principles of Strategic Therapy and a discussion of Coyne's own thought process and methodology.
By watching this program, you will:
Describe Coyne's approach to couples therapy, including the specific techniques used in Strategic Therapy.
Identify the basic principles of Strategic Therapy.
Explain how a clinician employing a Strategic Therapy approach would conduct an initial session with a couple in conflict.
Therapists of all orientations will benefit from seeing how psychoanalytic and psychodynamic principles can be effectively adapted to short-term therapy with clients and patients facing issues of grief, death and dying.
Volume I: A Brief Psychodynamic Approach
Over the course of four actual sessions, Milton Viederman, MD demonstrates a psychoanalytic approach to working with grief.
Paying detailed attention to the subtle nuances of the therapeutic relationship, Viederman adapts the principles of psychoanalysis to a course of brief therapy. Pat is the primary caregiver for her dying husband and is experiencing the grief and fear around his impending death. Forming an interpretation of Pat's core conflict and elaborating this theme throughout the sessions, Viederman helps Pat explore the early life experiences that give meaning to her current emotional responses. He builds rapport and trust with this open and engaging client, offering her a supportive environment in which true insight is produced.In a poignant follow-up session, Pat reveals that the therapy was instrumental in helping her be at peace with her husband's death.
Volume II: Hospital Consultation with Medically Ill Patients
Milton Viederman, MD, brings his psychoanalytic orientation to actual hospital consultations with cancer patients.
In this companion volume, Viederman continues his exploration of the application of psychoanalytic principles to brief therapy. While many of us feel comfortable meeting clients on our own turf, we are often less certain how to navigate the therapeutic relationship in a hospital setting with visibly ill patients. Working quickly to assess the conscious and unconscious coping mechanisms that affect the patient's experience of illness and treatment, Viederman's main objective is to create a supportive relationship and relive patient distress. Interspersed with illuminating commentary, Viederman skillfully demonstrates when to probe defensive structures and when to leave them alone so as not to increase the patient's anxiety.
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Dr. Sue Johnson has been hailed as "the most original contributor to couples therapy to come along in the last 30 years." Now you'll have the chance to watch her conduct an actual session with a challenging couple haunted by the "echoes of war."
By watching this video you'll learn:
The core theory and principles of EFT;
How to help couples identify the negative cycles that keep them stuck;
Specific techniques to help clients access the primary emotions that drive their conflicts, including reframing, amplification, "relentless empathy," and enactments.
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Mullen explores the evolution of encounter groups beginning with the first groups created by Synanon founder Chuck Dederich in the 1950s. Mullen discusses the essential elements of these first groups including honesty, authenticity and mutual self-help-elements that are still core to encounter groups today. He highlights that although the brutal confrontational style of the first groups have softened, the commitment to hold oneself and other accountable remains central. He also discusses the challenges that face encounter groups and offers guidance on how to work within managed care systems while holding on to the traditions that make encounter groups such an effective means for change.
From watching this program, you'll be able to:
Describe the most integral aspects of encounter groups that have remained relevant from the 1950s to the present.
Discuss the early history of encounter groups and how they came about.
Explain how encounter groups have changed over time, and how changes in the field during the last 20 years have posed significant challenges to running effective encounter groups.
Mullen walks us through several groups to show us what works and what does not work when facilitating an encounter group. He warns us of several traps facilitators can fall into: dominating the group, getting into power struggles, not being prepared or knowing the group members, and leading groups that are too large and don't go deep enough. Through numerous vignettes, he illustrates solutions to these common problems, and offers words of experience and wisdom to the encounter group facilitator: know your people, be prepared, get feedback, and listen, listen, listen!
From watching this program, you'll be able to:
Implement strategies for breaking the we/they dichotomy between staff and group members.
Explain why it is important for a facilitator to know the members of his or her group and what the dangers are if they don't.
Compare the differences between large and small groups, the effectiveness of both, and ways to make them each work.
Mullen discusses several key components to fostering growth and change in groups. He first explores the "marathon group" and how these day or weeklong sessions can bring participants into deeper understanding of themselves and what they need to change. He then discusses the importance of moral growth and ways in which facilitators can lead groups that foster moral growth by providing credible role models, healthy levels of conflict, role-reversal, and the teaching of responsibility. Finally, Mullen discusses the prevalence of PTSD among addicts and how encounter groups offer opportunities to heal from childhood abuse.
From watching this program, you'll be able to discuss:
Describe ways marathon groups differ from regular encounter groups, the importance of them for group members, and different possibilities for doing them today.
Discuss the conditions a facilitator must create to foster moral growth within group members.
Explain how PTSD increases a person's risk for abusing drugs, and how trauma can be worked through in encounter groups.
This is really a fantastic family therapy demonstration. McLendon's gift for forming an authentic connection with the son and mother, and help them engage in depth work in a single session is very impressive and inspiring.
By watching this video, you will:
Learn the theoretical components of Satir Family Therapy.
Identify specific techniques and interventions characteristic to the Satir approach.
Observe how one of Virginia Satir's most prominent students conducts an initial family therapy session.
Reviews
With this demonstration, Jean illustrates the Satir Model in practice. It is a marvelous teaching tool. The way she moves her body and uses her voice reminds me of Virginia. Every step she takes is precious and to the point. Her focus is positive and transformational. Rather than dwelling on the presenting symptom, Jean carefully helps her clients move forward from anger to hurt, to loss, to grief and to acceptance. - Maria Gomori, PhD, Director of Training, Satir Professional Development Institute of Manitoba, Canada
As a teacher of twenty years, I just want to say that this demonstration was always the one that impressed my students the most. It is a beautiful demonstration of how Satir's approach can be used successfully by others. It inspires, educates and moves the viewer - Sharon Loeschen, LCSW, President of the Satir Global Network
In this three-part video, Dr. Doherty, a prominent family therapist and founder of Value-Sensitive Therapy, discusses and demonstrates through an actual live session what he calls moral consultation.
Has the field of psychotherapy gone too far with the cultural imperative to "do your own thing," as we encourage our clients to liberate themselves from social conformity? According to William Doherty, what's needed now is not freedom from an overly powerful moral code, but just the opposite: to take the moral domain seriously in the consultation room.
Jan is a high-functioning woman who is dealing with a difficult moral dilemma that many therapists will recognize: she is a wife and mother, unfulfilled in her marriage, and she recently began having an affair. In this session with Jan, Dr. Doherty demonstrates Value-Sensitive Therapy by first honoring both sides of her dilemma, and then making it clear that he values marital commitment. From this values-based perspective, he encourages Jan to work on finding more fulfillment in her marriage, beginning by being honest with her husband about the affair.
Many therapists will find this approach controversial, because most of us have been taught not to bring our own values into the therapy room. However, according to Doherty, neutrality is a myth and "we cannot not influence our clients." The group discussion after the session is particularly fascinating, as the therapists grapple with the complexities of bringing morality into therapy.
By watching this program, you will:
Gain an understanding of the principles of Value-Sensitive Therapy.
Develop ways to bring the moral domain into the therapy room.
Learn how to effectively help clients who are struggling with moral dilemmas.
Doherty makes a very compelling case for the importance of helping clients reflect on the consequences of their behavior on others, interweaving a poignant social critique of the dangers of the ethos of individualism in contemporary American culture. He compares psychotherapy with trickle-down economics, making you stop and think whether your work with clients might be too focused on the individual, and what you can do to keep the larger community in mind in the consultation room.
Watch James Bitter masterfully demonstrate Alfred Adler's values and techniques in an actual therapy session with a family caught in a typical power struggle, followed by a fascinating discussion of the nuances of this influential approach to helping families thrive.
By watching this video you will:
Learn how to integrate an Adlerian approach into your own therapeutic work with families.
Develop an understanding of the key components of Adlerian Family Therapy, including how to conduct a "Typical Day" assessment and the role of birth order in understanding families.
Gain insight into how to adopt an encouraging attitude by reframing problems into possibilities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
This DVD coincides with the publication of his book, The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients. In this hour-long interview by Randall Wyatt, PhD of Psychotherapy.net, Dr. Yalom discusses the central themes of his life's work as a psychotherapist and writer.
Yalom masterfully addresses the core issues facing therapists:
Working in the Here-and-Now
Therapist Self-Disclosure
Keeping Therapy Alive in the Era of Managed Care
Avoiding Burnout by Staying Curious
Existential and Group Psychotherapy
The Therapist Role and Fellow Travelers
Challenges and Tips for the Next Generation of Therapists
This video captures a historic presentation at the American Group Psychotherapy Association Annual Meeting, and the release on DVD has been eagerly anticipated. It is a must see for group therapists and fans of Irvin Yalom and Molyn Leszcz alike. The video is enhanced by a discussion between Irvin Yalom and Victor Yalom.
By watching this video, you will:
See Yalom's model of group therapy in action.
Learn techniques for engaging and maintaining the group in here-and-now interactions.
Gain a deeper understanding of the theory and practice of this approach.
In James Hillman on Archetypal Psychotherapy, be prepared to be both challenged and inspired as Dr. Hillman doesn't hold back in his critique of modern psychology.
From watching this video, you will:
Gain an understanding of archetypal psychotherapy
Develop ways to think imaginatively about mental illness and how to relate to clients' symptoms with curiosity and awe
Learn to ask new kinds of questions that point clients in the direction of greater enjoyment and liberation.
James Hillman on the Soulless Society is an enlivening critique of modern American society and a call for awakening more authenticity in our daily lives.
From watching this video, you will:
Learn how to cultivate more curiosity and awe in your everyday life.
Be motivated to think critically about the role of psychology and psychotherapy in modern American society
Learn about the possibility of re-visioning psychology to include the soul
Watch legendary psychotherapist James Bugental masterfully demonstrate Existential Therapy in an actual therapy session in this 3-part program.
Bugental believes that each of us has a great deal more potential than we utilize, and he aims to help his clients live out their potential more fully, focusing almost exclusively on the client's experience in the present moment. In this program, Bugental helps a client let down the walls that keep her in constant survival mode. He gently and persistently brings attention to her implicit emotional cues, including snide laughs and hidden self insults, ultimately bringing to light her impulsive self-judgment, which covers up the "hurt under the mountain." Through Bugental's guidance she is able to stay with her feelings in the moment-a feat she admits she never allows herself on her own. Hosts Jon Carlson and Diane Kjos introduce Dr. Bugental and facilitate an enlightening discussion of the approach.
From watching this existential therapy program, you will:
Develop an understanding of the key concepts of Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy including helping clients maximize their full potential and determine their actions by choice instead of habit.
Gain insight into James Bugental's therapy style and how he brings attention to clients' implicit speech and gestures to help them be more fully in the moment.
Learn how to apply an Existential-Humanistic approach to your own therapeutic work with clients.
Learn about symptoms, circumstances and therapeutic techniques for children with acute post-traumatic stress disorder.
This DVD is an excellent teaching tool for all individuals whose lives are dedicated to the resolution of traumatic experience. Specifically, therapists, social workers, school personnel, health professionals, and all members of community "critical incident" teams would benefit from viewing this presentation.
By watching this video, you will:
learn how to recognize the symptoms of PTSD in children
understand the various stages of treatment, from first-aid to initial assessment, to brief therapy and long-term treatment.
through the voice of therapists recounting their experiences, hear about various treatment issues that may arise when treating traumatized children
In this compelling interview with one of the most prominent psychotherapy researchers of our time, Dr. John Norcross presents the results from fourteen meta-analyses that reveal the secrets to successful therapy.
By watching this video, you will:
Learn what three questions to ask all of your patients in order to: tailor the psychotherapy to each individual; maximize the effectiveness of treatment; and reduce the rate of premature terminations.
Understand the importance of the therapeutic relationship and how to skillfully address and repair alliance ruptures.
Identify evidence-based steps you can take to improve your therapeutic effectiveness.
If you're skeptical of the idea that psychotherapy is akin to a medical procedure, and uncomfortable with the trend towards empirically validated treatments which don't acknowledge the therapeutic relationship, then this video will show you that your doubts are more than reasonable, and, in fact, backed up by decades of research. Norcross persuasively makes the case that the human element inherent in psychotherapy should take center stage, because it is scientifically proven to play a significant role in successful treatment outcomes.
Six noted therapists and experts offer their stories and advice on dealing with Compassion Fatigue, and discuss ways of recognizing and addressing this condition in yourself and others.
Produced for trauma workers, relief workers and those exposed to trauma due to their profession or work as volunteers, this DVD addresses the issue of Secondary Traumatization and Compassion Fatigue. These conditions are a hazard to the helping professionals that deal with traumatic events and through the voice of six therapists and experts, this DVD heightens awareness of symptoms and risks, and provides new information about prevention, resilience and treatment. Specific strategies on awareness, lifestyle balance and connecting with others are given to assist trauma workers. You will hear personal stories and advice from Frank Ochberg, MD, Charles Figley, PhD, John Wilson, PhD, Carl Bell, MD, Atle Dyregrov, PhD, and Angie Panos, PhD. This DVD is used by the US Army as part of their Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program.
This DVD features a Full Version (52 min) and an Abbreviated version (17 min) which can be used in workshops, training and classrooms.