A comprehensive and groundbreaking series dealing with the multitude and complexity of factors that arise in psychotherapy with gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals, couples and families. Reflects the contributions of 27 of the most influential and respected scholars and practitioners in the field as well as over 30 gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals who share their stories and perspectives.
1. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
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 to pathologize 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; and, real testimony of affirmative psychotherapy from a client after years of negative therapy experiences. Archival film clips and interviews with the experts are used throughout to illustrate this history of treatment approaches and mental health attitudes towards the GLB community.
2. INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
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 video 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; and, 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.
3. RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILIES AND COUPLES COUNSELING
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 video 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
4. THE BISEXUAL EXPERIENCE
The first educational program on the psychology of bisexuality, this video 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.
5. THE COMING OUT PROCESS
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.
6. DIVERSITY AND MULTIPLE IDENTITIES
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.
7. SEXUAL MINORITY ADOLESCENTS
Combining the voices of gay and lesbian youth with leading professionals, this program provides an insightful look at the GLB adolescent experience. This video 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.
Professionals Featured in this Series
Dr. Ron Scott is Professor of Psychology at Chapman University, teaching courses in the areas of clinical, personality and multicultural psychology. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and maintains a small private practice in addition to his work at the university. Dr. Scott is an active teacher-scholar with approximately 20 journal articles and book chapters. He is an officer in the International Council of Psychologists and has been a visiting professor at several universities throughout Latin America. Featured professionals in the series include Dr. Christine Padesky,
Scientists have long operated under the principle that intelligent behavior must be directed by a centralized consciousness. This program examines evidence that the act of swarming creates an altogether different form of intelligence: decentralized awareness, consciousness with no center. The following facets of swarm intelligence are addressed: how individual actions within a flock of starlings create a large-scale system that controls itself and makes collective decisions; how local decisions within a colony of red harvester ants positively shape the aggregate well-being of the entire colony; the limited ability of a single fish to manipulate the movement of its school through bad decision-making; the application of swarm intelligence to robotics; and whether, or to what extent, crowds of people self-organize through the collective dynamics of swarm logic.
Take advantage of this rare opportunity to sit in on three fascinating consultation sessions with legendary psychoanalyst, Dr. Otto Kernberg. The clarity of his insights, and the direct and practical advice he gives, will certainly dispel many myths about contemporary psychoanalytic practice.
1. Amy presents the case of a woman who grew up being severely sexually abused. According to Amy, "She'd be happy if she never had sex for the rest of her life". Amy wants to be able to better help her client free herself from her victim stance and black/white thinking.
2. Steve discusses a client he has been seeing for four months yet still feels like a stranger. Steve wonders why his client's conflicts with his wife, which led him into therapy in the first place, don't come up in sessions.
3. Annie describes her work with an isolated, single man who is longing for a fully expressed sexual life, yet is caught in masochistic and fetishistic wishes. Annie has tried to help him with his extreme sexual inhibition yet feels stuck when her convictions clash with the approach of the 12-step group he attends.
By viewing these consultations, you'll get a keen sense of Kernberg's mastery of working with extremely challenging patients, as well as his skill as a teacher and consultant. By asking a series of wisely chosen questions, he is able to quickly hone in on key characterological aspects of the patients, as well as the dynamics of the therapist-client interactions, and then offer extremely useful and jargon-free suggestions on how each therapist can proceed in a more effective manner.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
Working with severe personality disorders is perhaps the most challenging task clinicians face. And while the psychoanalytic literature offers profound insights on this topic, it also can be quite daunting to many therapists.
In this interview, Kernberg first lays out the core principle of Object Relations theory, and his concept of the "borderline personality organization", characterized by identity diffusion, that underlies severe personality disorders. He walks viewers through the Structured Interview for Personality Organization, giving therapists the opportunity to learn a highly effective and pragmatic way to begin treatment by assessing whether patients suffer from an underlying personality disorder. Kernberg goes on to describe his detailed, manualized, psychoanalytic treatment protocol, explaining the four core treatment techniques: interpretation, transference analysis, technical neutrality, and counter-transference analysis.
Weaving in examples of his own challenging cases, such as an enraged patient who brought in scissors to session and cut up all of his plants, Kernberg serves as a guide for therapists who want support in understanding and managing the dynamics of the oftentimes difficult therapeutic relationship with severely disturbed patients. He discusses how to set limits with chronically suicidal patients, how to work with aggression and violence, how to deal with countertransference reactions, and the essentiality of collegial support.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
This two-program series covers preventing adverse drug reactions and understanding movement disorders caused by psychotropic drugs.
PREVENTING ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS
Addresses the tragic and costly phenomenon of adverse drug reactions in the field of mental health treatment. Explores the various disorders that can arise from the use of psychotropic medications including neuroleptic malignant syndrome, lithium toxicity, atropinic overload, and extrapyramidal side effects. Describes the early warning signs of an adverse drug reaction and what staff can do about it. 25 minutes
UNDERSTANDING MOVEMENT DISORDERS
Describes in depth the various involuntary movement disorders that can occur with patients who take psychotropic medications. Discusses how these disorders can seriously impact a patient's daily functioning, as well as their compliance with treatment. Explores how healthcare providers can commonly misinterpret or become desensitized to movement disorders. Includes discussion of dystonia, dyskinesia, akathisia, paroxysms, and pseudo-parkinsonism, while offering practical assessment techniques for caregivers.
24 minutes
In these two interviews with James Hillman, the founder of Archetypal Psychology minces no words in critiquing current directions in psychotherapy, and shares his vision for a more creative, soulful, and imaginative approach. Hillman further probes deeply into the psyche and underbelly of modern society, and offers some unexpected insights.
JAMES HILLMAN ON ARCHETYPAL THERAPY
If you're a student or professional in the field of psychology and you've ever wondered, "Hey, where's the excitement and imagination in psychology?" you've got a friend in James Hillman. In this fascinating interview, Dr. Hillman offers an inspiring critique of what he calls a "very peculiar field" and passionately expresses his longing for a psychology that enjoys and respects the psyche rather than fears and confines it.
Hillman, a self-described "renegade psychologist", argues for re-visioning psychology in a way that encourages people to get curious about the psyche rather than pathologize it. He argues that the more we embrace surprise and wonder and the less we focus on rational understanding, the more we will enjoy being alive. He speaks fervently about the importance of imagination and dreams, while encouraging clients and therapists alike to cultivate a sense of awe.
With the current emphasis on evidence-based, quick-fix approaches to mental health, Hillman's call to slow down, pay attention, and make time for the soul to come out of its shell is truly radical. If you find yourself feeling heavy and dispirited about the field and long for a more soulful and creative approach to psychotherapy, spend some time with James Hillman on this DVD and you're sure to feel inspired, liberated, and rejuvenated.
JAMES HILLMAN ON THE SOULLESS SOCIETY
In this compelling interview with one of the world's most respected psychologists and social critics, Dr. Hillman takes a critical look at American culture, from how we relate to passersby on the street, to our response to 9/11 and Katrina, to what happens between therapist and client in the consulting room. He delves into diverse topics such as the addiction to innocence, the value of breakdown, the terrible oppression of being normal, and the role of elders. With his characteristic passion and fervor, Dr. James Hillman shares his thoughts on what's wrong with American society, what we can do about it, and what really matters most.
This intriguing video will inspire anyone who has a longing for more authenticity and connection to cultivate a deeper sense of curiosity and wake up to the mystery of being alive. Hillman's discussion about the role of psychology and psychotherapy in perpetuating the addiction to security and innocence will be of particular interest to anyone looking for a thoughtful critique of psychology. With counterintuitive injunctions such as, "Be rude!" and "Leave out hope", Hillman offers his wise guidance about what we can all do.
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
Master therapist Jean McLendon demonstrates Satir Family Therapy in this very compelling and touching video. Watch as McLendon, one of the foremost practitioners of Virginia Satir's approach to family therapy, in this touching live session with Janice, a single mother, and her eleven-year-old son, John. Learn the essence of the Satir method as McLendon elegantly demonstrates what she calls "a model for the brave and courageous and the big-hearted souls."
"I just want to stop having so much anger inside and just stop being mean to other people," declares John at the beginning of the session. Unlike many children who get dragged to therapy against their will by their parents, John stepped up to the plate to ask his mother if he could talk to a counselor about his anger. In this heart-warming session, McLendon gently helps John accept the sadness underneath his anger, as she uncovers a series of significant losses John has had to face so early in his young life. With deep care and reverence, McLendon helps both John and his mother to embrace the vulnerable parts of themselves with tenderness and love.
Viewers will have the opportunity to watch McLendon skillfully demonstrate key aspects of the Satir approach, such as creating safety, making contact, and validating feelings and desires. She also shows how the family mapping technique can be used as a visual tool to help deepen the work. An added bonus is an engaging discussion after the session that sheds further light on the Satir approach to family therapy.
REVIEW
"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
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.
Adrian and Judy are skeptical about therapy. They have been to several therapists to try to understand their daughter Pam's anger, and are frustrated with the lack of improvement in Pam's behavior. Finally, in this session with Aponte, they are on their way to making positive changes in the family dynamic. Aponte masterfully forms an alliance with Pam, a difficult-to-reach woman in her thirties with developmental limitations, by connecting with her humanity through curiosity and direct engagement. He demonstrates key principles of Structural Therapy by focusing on concrete day-to-day issues and engaging actively with all three family members to help them understand the underlying conflicts beneath Pam's anger. Aponte strikes a delicate balance of meeting the family on their terms, and yet confidently making observations as well as asserting what they need to do to make the changes they so desperately desire.
In this three-part video, Aponte discusses his approach to family therapy, conducts a real session with this challenging family, and then offers commentary about the session. Aponte's responses to questions from an audience of therapists further elucidate the rationale behind his interventions. If you've ever struggled with how to engage a hard-to-reach client or are curious about applying a structural approach to therapeutic work with challenging families, this video will prove to be both inspiring and instructive.
*Note that this is the same family as in the Phil Guerin Video Bowenian Family Therapy, so it is interesting to contrast the styles of these two master therapists.
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 approach conducts an initial family therapy session
**Please click here to view the trailer on YouTube
Watch Dr. Philip Guerin masterfully conducting a live family therapy session, followed by an illuminating discussion about his innovative and sophisticated approach to Bowenian Family Therapy.
Pam is a 32-year-old woman who lives at home with her parents, Adrian and Judy, and doesn't have many friends. She clearly has some sort of developmental disability, but Adrian and Judy don't understand why Pam is so angry and uncommunicative. In fact, Pam says she doesn't even understand why she behaves the way she does. In this live family therapy session, Dr. Guerin helps this befuddled family gain more understanding and clarity, while shining a light on the underlying anger, fear, and sadness that reside beneath the surface not only in Pam, but in her parents as well.
In this video, Philip Guerin skillfully demonstrates ways to engage a closed family system, while highlighting several key principles of Bowenian therapy, including: establishing therapeutic safety and connection with each family member; lowering anxiety; utilizing process questions; neutralizing dysfunctional triangles in the family system; and offering relationship experiments.
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.
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.
REVIEW
"I found the Guerin DVD to be a lovely piece of work demonstrating individuation and de-triangulation in this complex family system. Guerin demonstrates connectedness, directness and gentle humor as he untangles the knots in this family with a developmentally disabled daughter, while showing us how to respect when a family cannot yet open a taboo subject." Evan Imber-Black, PhD, Editor, Family Process; Director, Center for Families and Health
Couples therapy is exceedingly difficult to master, and in-depth training and experience in individual therapy unfortunately does not prepare one for the rapid pace, potential pitfalls, and multifaceted nature of working with couples in crisis. This exceptional series will help you whether you are new to couples therapy, or are a seasoned practitioner wishing to expand your skills. It is especially compelling to view these leading experts translate theory into practice; although their underlying assumptions and techniques vary widely, each manages to find unique way to engage with the couple and begin to help them sort out the areas where they are stuck or in conflict.
This unique series showcases six leading couples therapist conducting live sessions and then discussing their work. By viewing these practitioners actually doing couples therapy, students and therapists-in-training will get a better sense of what couples therapy is really like, and can have different styles to emulate.
Six Programs approximately 2 hours each: detailed descriptions of each title are available upon request:
BEHAVIORAL COUPLES THERAPY - Richard Stuart, DSW
EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED COUPLES THERAPY - Sue Johnson, EdD
EXPERIENTIAL THERAPY - Augustus Y. Napier, PhD
IMAGO COUPLES THERAPY - Pat Love, EdD
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY - Richard Schwartz, PhD
STRATEGIC COUPLES THERAPY - James Coyne, PhD
*Includes an Instructor's Manual which provides many valuable teaching aids.
Albert Ellis and his protege, Janet Wolfe, demonstrate the tools and techniques of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) in this gripping series.
Consists of four titles...
RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY FOR ADDICTIONS by Albert Ellis
Learn to use Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy with clients struggling with addiction by watching the originator of the method in an actual therapy session.
REBT FOR ANGER MANAGEMENT by Janet Wolfe
See REBT in action in an actual therapy session with a client needing help with anger management.
MY KIDS DON'T APPRECIATE ME by Janet Wolfe
See REBT in action in an actual therapy session with a single mother struggling to effectively parent her teenage children.
COPING WITH THE SUICIDE OF A LOVED ONE by Albert Ellis
Learn to use Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) from the man who developed the method in a therapy session with Roseanne, whose husband committed suicide in front of her and her baby daughter ten years ago.
In this video of an actual cognitive therapy 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. 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. This video will help therapists develop the skills required to fully utilize CBT in these cases.
REVIEWS
"This DVD is a rare opportunity to watch master clinician Judith Beck show how the proven principles of CBT can help clients achieve permanent weight loss. The coaching session focuses on identifying and changing the cognitive and behavioral processes that accompany eating, weight gain and weight loss. Dr. Beck artfully blends the specific strategies of CBT with empathy, genuineness, gentleness and warmth. If you have a thirst for new knowledge, this will give you a taste of the newest area that CBT is proving to be effective in." Dennis Greenberger, PhD, Co-author (with Christine Padesky PhD) of Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel By Changing The Way You Think
"As an experienced CBT practitioner, I found that this video really helped me refocus my behavioral change efforts for dieters. Judith Beck superbly teaches therapists how to help clients learn cognitive skills about countering self-criticism, creating motivation, and enabling regular pleasurable eating within a diet. Her emphasis on teaching these skills prior to actual dieting was particularly useful. I heartily recommend this to all therapists who wish to improve their effectiveness with this population."
Ted Gradman, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, San Mateo, CA
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 ONE: 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 TWO: 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.
"A senior and skilled clinician introduces us to five patients with terminal or life-threatening illnesses. We learn about their experiences as they confront pain, the anticipation of death, the problems of treatment, the crises that emerge in intimate relationships, and their strategies for coping. We also learn how an expert understands these issues-and uses that understanding in helping patients cope more effectively. This is an invaluable educational tool for all who work with dying patients, and particularly for medical students, residents, and other psychiatrists who consult in general medical settings."
Robert Michels, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College
"These outstanding videos are invaluable aids in the teaching of psychotherapy. Dr. Viederman demonstrates just how he approaches and explains patient suffering from loss and from physical illness. The major benefit is the opportunity that Viederman offers to see the patient in different ways and with different theories."
Arnold Goldberg, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Rush Medical College; Training and Supervising Analyst, Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago
"One of American's most gifted psychotherapists, Professor Milton Viederman, has given us an opportunity to witness his science, art, and wisdom in establishing an effective therapeutic relationship with patients with severe medical illnesses. The therapeutic interventions that aid these patients highlight the role of brief psychotherapy and some of the key emotional processes and cognitive mechanisms that must be dealt with. Consideration of the psychodynamic aspects, meanings, and context of their lives is a critical part of the well-being of the patients and of good medical care. Powerful and moving, a stunning set of examples of the achievement of psychotherapy by a teacher's teacher."
Jack Barchas, MD, Psychiatrist-in-Chief, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York
In this program, Dr. Laura S. Brown demonstrates how this qualitative and phenomenological approach, which takes into account the meanings of gender and power in the client's social realities, empowers the client.
The goals of the therapy are determined collaboratively within the session, creating not just tailor-made therapy, but an egalitarian relationship conducive to client empowerment. This relationship, in which each person brings equally valued expertise to the process, is essential to the therapeutic goal of helping clients to feel more personal power in their lives.
Over the course of six sessions, Dr. Brown works with a 43-year-old woman who has three children and a history of substance abuse, poor relationship choices, and feeling unloved, unappreciated, and devalued. She also has struggled for years with her size and how she feels about her body. Although she is now in early recovery and feels more stable in her life, she suffers from critical self-talk and a habit of blaming herself for things for which she is not responsible, as well as difficulties in being able to take feedback about her own actions.
Dr. Brown talks with the client about developing self-empathy, learning to quiet the critical voice she hears, and recognizing that caring for herself is empowering. The client is invited to see that she has many of the inner resources that she needs for her recovery process, with a goal of reducing her reliance on the authority of others, including the therapist.
Those who prey upon children for sex have committed crimes so abhorrent that most of us would like to lock them away for life. But in some cases, an offender can be rehabilitated - and, in the process, provide insight into the predator's mind.
This program goes inside a pedophile's distorted thought patterns while showing how expert psychological treatment, combined with blunt feedback from fellow offenders, can help bring such criminals out of denial and curb their deviant behavior. Following a professional actor who, using real criminal profiles, takes on the psyche of a child sex offender, the film examines Rolleston Prison's groundbreaking Kia Marama rehabilitation unit in Christchurch , New Zealand.
"War is about one thing only: it's about killing. You either learn to kill somebody else or you get killed or wounded yourself." This film examines how soldiers grapple simultaneously with their duty and their own humanity as it tracks the perilous psychological journeys of four decorated combat veterans of World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War. A combination of frank interviews and battlefield footage, The Good Soldier addresses the initial reluctance to kill, the act of killing from a distance and hand-to-hand, incidences of combat zone atrocities, the experience of getting wounded, mixed feelings of relief and alienation upon returning stateside, post-tour substance abuse and mental trauma, efforts at closure, and involvement with veterans-for-peace movements. A sobering statement both about and against war.
*Contains graphic military-related violence and instances of harsh language.
Dr. Anika K. Warren provides multicultural supervision to Melissa Corpus, an advanced doctoral student in Counseling Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. In the first segment, Melissa uses an integrative approach to counsel a Vietnamese-American gay male who completed an intake with Dr. Warren a few years prior. In the second segment, the client provides an overview of his counseling experience and describes his perceptions of effective counseling. In the third segment, Dr. Warren integrates experiential, multicultural, practical, and theoretical techniques to provide supervision to Melissa. The final segment consists of closing comments and analysis from Melissa and Dr. Warren. The client is not an actor. He is a person who agreed to share his personal and professional experiences while reflecting on his future.
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, 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
With English Subtitles for hearing-impaired viewers.
REVIEWS
"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
"The students interviewed in this engaging video candidly voice some of the key concerns of novice clinicians and share some of the ways they have effectively addressed them. It is guaranteed to stimulate student discussion and authentic exploration of the fears, crises of confidence, and challenges associated with first clinical experiences. In short, an inspiring video that is an excellent resource for students and faculty supervisors."
J. Fraser Pierson, PhD - Professor of Psychology Southern Oregon University
"This training video is useful in so many ways. The trainees are both articulate and down-to-earth, and are able to normalize the anxiety of beginning to see clients from a variety of perspectives. Even more essential, the students model self-reflectiveness and an appropriate level of self-disclosure. Supervisors of beginning students are sure to appreciate both the content of this video, and the process of healthy and compassionate self-examination that it promotes. Unlike many training videos, I liked the length, the quality, and the educational value of this video. We will use the video with all of our beginning students."
Shelly Smith-Acuna, PhD - Director of PsyD Program, Graduate School of Professional Psychology, University of Denver
ABOUT ERIK SWEEN, PsyD
Erik Sween is a psychologist, educator, and filmmaker. He has worked in a variety of settings including private practice, community mental health, college counseling, and family medicine over the past 20 years, and has trained interns and student therapists in over 10 different programs. His areas of interests include strength-based therapies, resilience, and insiders' perspectives. He has worked for Outward Bound and presented workshops on narrative therapy. Currently, he maintains a private practice in Boulder, Colorado and teaches at the University of Denver.
A pragmatic, informative and entertaining video offering solutions to the common ethical dilemmas that mental health practitioners face. 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.
Part 1
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*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.
With English Subtitles for hearing-impaired viewers. Three hours and 11 minutes.
Includes Instructor's Manual
REVIEWS
"Provides an excellent update on ethics. It addresses some of the thorniest issues in a very engaging manner. An excellent resource for both the training of students and the continuing education for practitioners! I plan to recommend it to my students and colleagues."
Ronald Levant, PhD, ABPP - 2005 President American Psychological Association, Professor of Psychology, Univ. of Akron
"Provides a wealth of information on important issues every therapist's faces, and does so in a conversational, engaging, and professional manner. I am particularly impressed with the in-depth analysis of these critical topics and how the complexity of each is addressed. This DVD, and its accompanying Instructor's Manual, appears to me to be the most comprehensive material anywhere on ethics in the helping professions."
Samuel T Gladding, PhD - 2004-5 President, American Counseling Association, Professor, Wake Forest Univ.
"This program does a good job of distinguishing between clinical, ethical and legal concerns as well as the differences between various federal, state and professional codes. In addition, various theoretical perspectives are considered with an emphasis on consistency between theoretical stance and clinical interventions. The use of vignettes is effective in presenting the issues in a meaningful and memorable way, while the dialogue captures the complexity of the issues and allows for the presentation of multiple perspectives. Rather than codifying absolutes, the presentation emphasizes the various elements that should be taken into account when facing an ethical dilemma, including the importance of consultation. Useful for instructors teaching legal and ethical considerations in professional practice as well as students and interns studying for licensing exams."
Deborah Harkin, PhD - Academic Coordinator, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute
ABOUT STEPHEN FELDMAN, JD, PhD
Stephen Feldman, JD, PhD, is an attorney and psychologist who has practiced and taught both law and psychology from Harvard in the east to Seattle University in the west. He holds a law degree from Harvard and a psychology degree from the University of Nebraska. He has lectured extensively on the law and ethics of mental health practice at conferences and in academic settings. His numerous articles and books include the Washington state volume of the American Psychological Association's series, Law & Mental Health Professionals (co-author). He currently is on the faculty of the University of Washington School of Medicine, and in private practice consulting with counseling services and individual practitioners on legal and ethical problems that arise in the course of practice. He was named the "Distinguished Psychologist" for 2006 by the Washington State Psychological Association.
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.
Session 1
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*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
Three hours 20 minutes
Includes Instructor's Manual
*ABOUT PETER LEVINE, PhD
Peter A. Levine, PhD, is the developer of Somatic Experiencing® and founder of the Foundation for Human Enrichment. He teaches trainings in this work throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures. Levine is the author of the best-selling book Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences and he has recently co-published a comprehensive book on childhood trauma, Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing as well as a guide for parents, Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents' Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience.
Offering such examples of conformity as teenage fashion choices and the groupthink leading to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, this program with Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University examines the psychological concept of conformity. It explores such classic experiments as Sherif's 1935 study, Asch's 1951 study, Crutchfield's 1995 study, and Bond and Smith's 1996 study; discusses Hodges's and Geyer's 2006 re-examination of Asch's findings; and examines Stanley Milgram's study of obedience. Outlines factors influencing obedience and conformity and shows how age, self-esteem, and culture influence compliance. It also discusses the cognitive process of groupthink; outlines its symptoms; and introduces key strategies for overcoming it.
This program with Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University discusses Leon Festinger's 1956 "When Prophecy Fails", examines research into cognitive dissonance by such figures as Festinger and Carlsmith, Aronson and Mills, Brehm, Comer and Laird, Cooper, Lieberman, and Santos; and outlines the essential components of cognitive dissonance as defined by Joel Cooper and Russel Fazio. The program considers how cognitive dissonance motivates human behavior and shows how it applies to research in such areas as effort justification, threat and punishment, and decision making. It also introduces Daryl Bern's Social Perception theory as an alternative explanation to cognitive dissonance.
The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was one of the founding fathers of modern depth psychology. His most famous concept, the collective unconscious, had a deep influence not only on psychology but also on philosophy and the arts. Here, in his own words and writings, as well as with accounts of his closest relatives, we gain a personal insight into the life of the great psychoanalyst. He was a colleague of Sigmund Freud early in his career, but a disagreement in 1909 ended their collaboration. Nearing the end of his life, Jung stated that he remembered "only interior experiences, those that - beyond all illusions - really count in the life of an individual," which helps explain why Jung has inspired the New Age movement with his interest in occultism, Eastern religions, the I Ching, and mythology. This documentary approaches some of the most intimate aspects of Jung's life, while exploring some of his greatest and most sensational therapeutic intuitions of his acute and original mind.
A highly regarded expert on memory's malleability "and a lightning rod for controversy" Elizabeth Loftus has proved that people can become subject to false memory, with major implications for matters involving eyewitness testimony and repressed recollections. In this lecture, Loftus details her research on the malleability of memory. Topics include memory paradigms; memory distortion, as demonstrated by an incident involving Hillary Clinton; growing evidence of criminal convictions that were based on false memories; repressed memory accusations and implanted memories, as demonstrated by the landmark case Ramona v. Isabella; induced memory and misinformation studies; the creation of false memories, as demonstrated by Loftus's Lost in the Mall Experiment; how psychotherapy techniques such as guided imagination, dream interpretation, and hypnosis can lead to false memories; and more. A Q&A session follows.
"A good program and gives good examples." Director of Education
Depression is a clinical condition often overlooked or misdiagnosed in children and adolescents. Especially with the latter, it is particularly easy to attribute the symptoms of depression to something else. This video is a frank discussion on depression in children and adolescents, the signs and symptoms, and the latest research findings related to appropriate management.
Through compelling client testimonials from both men and women and expert guidance from renowned researchers at the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center (PRC) and the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD, this program educates clinicians, clients, and families on the history, epidemiology, challenges, and treatment of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from domestic violence to combat trauma. This groundbreaking video features leading treatment methods based on current research and best practices, providing professionals the tools needed to help clients grow and recover through mindful meditation, flexible thinking or cognitive restructuring, and education. Sample cognitive-behavioral therapy sessions between counselor and client model realistic applications of the concepts presented.
The video includes
* Details on the major diagnostic symptoms of PTSD
* Information on co-occurring substance use disorders that
emerge as a result of mollifying those symptoms with drugs and
alcohol
* Explanations of the top criteria for diagnosing and treating PTSD
* Sample cognitive-behavioral therapy sessions between therapist
and client that offer realistic applications of the treatment concepts
presented
* Step-by-step instruction on cognitive restructuring using the
REBT model to examine and alter beliefs that lead to disruptive
consequences and behavior
* Information relevant to helping clients let go of the stigma of mental
health disorders like PTSD and depression
* Inspiring true stories of recovery that offer clients a sense of hope for
the future
Five programs feature Dr. Landreth in a two-day workshop "Making Contact with Children Through Play Therapy". Engaging and insightful, these DVD's provide a detailed background for play therapy.
THE PLAY THERAPIST'S LANGUAGE OF CHANGE
Skills and tools for responding to children's questions, anger, wanting to leave. Students learn how to formulate responses that keep the child in the lead, helping them become responsible, creative, and resilient. 60 minutes
THERAPEUTIC DIMENSIONS OF THE PLAY THERAPY RELATIONSHIP
Play therapy asks us to see the world through the eyes of a child. Landreth teaches critical skills for facilitating emotional growth, healing, empowerment, and increasing self-esteem.
60 minutes
THERAPEUTIC LIMIT SETTING IN PLAY THERAPY: Purpose, Areas, and ACT Model
Explores limit setting in play therapy and the therapist's role. Landreth presents The ACT Model with case examples of limit setting, and what to do when a child breaks the limits.
60 minutes
TOYS AND MATERIALS FOR PLAY THERAPY
What should - and should not - be included in a play therapy room. We also discover a "totebag playroom" and practical places to conduct play therapy sessions. 60 minutes
UNDERSTANDING PLAY BEHAVIOR AND THEMES IN PLAY THERAPY
Students will identify stages in a play therapy relationship, messages revealed in play, and learn how to teach parents how to respond to their child's play. 60 minutes
*See also CHILD CENTERED PLAY THERAPY #13273
Now, for the first time, counselors have access to a comprehensive boxed set of DVDs on working with diverse clients.
The DVDs are guided, explicit demonstrations of how to seamlessly infuse culture into counseling sessions. This is a first-of-its-kind product, one that will be needed as the counseling field embraces all clients from all groups in our society. Above all fields, counseling and psychotherapy require modeling of sessions and skills in realistic settings. Here, eight sessions are conducted with narrative introductions to the central issues for working with each group. Each session has been scripted to highlight the most common topics in each area. Subtitles teach viewers the skills being used as well as the cultural issues that clients are exhibiting. The vignettes were created in consultation with national experts in each area. As an added bonus, the DVD Key Practices in Culturally Alert Counseling is included, which demonstrates more than 20 overall culturally alert counseling skills that can be used immediately by counselors. By viewing the session in its entirety, students and clinicians will benefit from seeing firsthand how the counselor manages the session and uses opportunities to deepen the therapeutic relationship.
CULTURALLY ALERT COUNSELING: WORKING WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN CLIENTS
Working with ethnically and racially diverse clients presents counselors with a unique set of opportunities and challenges. Understanding a client's worldview offers the opportunity to connect and build trust on a deeper level, but it also presents counselors with a challenge to develop the right set of skills unique to their client(s). This DVD presents a carefully illustrated counseling session, which brings out many issues common for working with African American clients. A White male counselor works with an African American professional woman on her adjustment to a new workplace and the challenges of being in an ethnic minority. The session brings out five key topics that can be included in counseling with African Americans: spirituality and religion, family, communication, language, and discrimination. The counselor demonstrates four dimensions of culturally alert counseling that may be important, especially for members of other cultural groups who are working with many African American clients: building trust, acknowledging societal bias, including family and ancestors in the work, and advocating. . 29 minutes
CULTURALLY ALERT COUNSELING: WORKING WITH ASIAN CLIENTS
Working with ethnically and racially diverse clients presents a unique set of opportunities and challenges. Understanding a client's worldview offers the opportunity to connect and build trust on a deeper level, but it also presents counselors with a challenge to develop the right set of skills unique to their client(s). In this carefully illustrated session, a White counselor helps an East Asian client deal with family and relationship dilemmas. The demonstration highlights issues that many Asian American clients face, such as duty to one's family, conformity to group norms, obedience to parents and deference to authorities, maintenance of interpersonal harmony - which includes avoidance of confrontation and indirect expression of negative feelings or views - and educational and career achievement. The counselor demonstrates the following skills that might be important in working with Asian clients: taking a solution-focused approach, showing interest in and knowledge of the client's culture, giving self-disclosure about previous successes, and including the place of the family in discussion of individual concerns. The session is tightly scripted to highlight key elements in culturally alert counseling with this group. 20 minutes
CULTURALLY ALERT COUNSELING: WORKING WITH CONSERVATIVE RELIGIOUS CLIENTS
For many clients, religion is a central aspect of their lives. Counselors must know how to support and challenge clients in a helpful way by incorporating religion into counseling in a useful way. This breakthrough DVD illustrates key issues in the important but often-ignored area of working with religious issues in counseling. In this session, a counselor helps a conservative Christian woman incorporate her faith into the solution to her family and relationship dilemma. The DVD demonstrates many of the following issues in working with religious clients: showing respect for the client's faith, having some knowledge of that faith tradition, assessing the role and importance of the client's faith, establishing trust, and reinterpreting religious understandings. 17 minutes
CULTURALLY ALERT COUNSELING: WORKING WITH LATINO/LATINA CLIENTS
Latino/Latina clients share many characteristics while, of course, being diverse among themselves. In this DVD, a White female counselor works with a Latino/Latina couple with alertness to some issues common to traditional Latino/Latina culture. The counselor sensitively accounts for cultural dimensions such as familismo, respeto, simpatia, and defined gender roles in this session. The DVD illustrates culturally alert counseling skills that might be important in working with Latino/Latina clients, such as focusing on the present, taking a problem-solving orientation, including family in the process, acknowledging the family hierarchy, and adapting language. The session uses graphics and narrative voiceover to teach counselors how to be effective with Latino/Latina clients. 21 minutes
CULTURALLY ALERT COUNSELING: WORKING WITH GAY/LESBIAN YOUTH CLIENTS
The importance of sensitive, proactive counseling work with members of sexual minorities cannot be overemphasized. Counselors must be prepared to work with the unique and universal issues that lesbian and gay youth face. In these six highly illustrated sessions, counselors gently help clients become themselves at two stages in the coming out process: coming out to self and coming out to others. The issues of those two stages are presented in graphics, followed by sessions that illustrate each issue. This is a must-see demonstration for all counselors. 59 minutes
CULTURALLY ALERT COUNSELING: A DEMONSTRATION OF SKILLS
For the first time, more than 20 key practices for incorporating culture into counseling work are illustrated in one place. The DVD is organized into the three important topics of culturally alert accessibility, assessment, and intervention. Counselors demonstrate each of the subskills in this highly illustrated, fast-paced DVD. Narrator voiceover, subtitles, and segments of sessions leave the viewer with a complete view of how to bring culture into the counseling room and beyond. This is necessary viewing for ethical practice in the 21st century. 59 minutes
*Includes 63-Page booklet that provides some background on how to use the programs and some foundational background on each
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 video, 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.
Includes Instructor's Manual and English subtitles for hearing impaired
Learn to use REBT 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 video, 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.
Includes Instructor's Manual and English subtitles for hearing impaired
Cultural identity theory changed the way we think about therapy with all clients, regardless of color, gender, or sexual orientation. William Cross's original work with racial identity theory has expanded and influenced all multicultural thought. In this new program, we see an expanded version of the theory. Covers: a definition of key stages in cultural identity development; issues of racism and social influence; Important new developments informed by research; and, news about new cultural identity theory information.
Nationally known group experts work with high school students in an actual psycho-educational group. The initial stage, goal setting, working activities and termination are all explored. Activities focus on building self-esteem, managing anger, improving communication skills, and resolving irrational beliefs. This group work model is highly applicable to all school and agency work and a valuable training tool for all counselors working with teens.
Features Janice DeLucia-Waack, University of Buffalo; Allen Segrist, Purdue University (Emeritus); Andy Horne, University of Georgia
Features Edward Hamann, William McFarland, and Carrie Alexander-Albritton, Western Illinois University
One client, three approaches to counseling! Viewers will witness theory in action with solution-focused, reality therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapies demonstrated. The client is an adolescent female who describes problems with her parents, lack of control in her life, and stress. See how three different therapists take the same client and work from three different theoretical perspectives. This is an excellent DVD for use in counseling theory courses. Students will understand the how and why of these different theoretical approaches. 1 hour 50 minutes
*Includes PDF Leader Guide
Spirituality permeates everything in life - it is part of who we are, and the counseling relationship is no exception. This DVD will teach your students concepts and skills for integrating spirituality into the counseling process. Several professors of religion are briefly interviewed to explain the breadth and depth of spirituality, including its similarities and differences to religion. Then, Dr. Briggs, Past-President of ASERVIC, provides information on the historically significant figures in counseling and spirituality and also provides an overview of the spiritual competencies in counseling. The DVD ends with 2 vignettes – one with Sam Gladding and one with Michele Briggs. The viewer observes the implementation of spirituality within the counseling relationship. Concerns about envy, meaning and identity are addressed in these interactions. Each session ends with a moderator’s help to process the sessions and explore the impact and meaning of these therapeutic encounters for the client and clinician alike.
Philip Zimbardo has spent decades researching the transformation of character that occurs when generally good people are led to engage in evil actions. In this lecture, Zimbardo discourses on theories of conformity, prejudice, aggression, social influence, and antisocial behavior.
Topics include the permeability of behavioral boundaries; the nature of evil and its societal consequences; Zimbardo's Lucifer Effect; the Abu Ghraib atrocities, a recent example of evil in action; blind obedience as demonstrated by Stanley Milgram's experiments and by the Jonestown mass suicide; anonymity as an enabler of evil action, as illustrated by the Ku Klux Klan; Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment; dehumanization as demonstrated by Albert Bandura's experiments and by the Rwandan genocide; how systems create evil, as illustrated by the Holocaust and the lynching of African-Americans; heroism as an antidote to evil; and more. A Q&A session follows.
***Viewer discretion is advised. (2 hours 8 minutes)
"Deeply absorbing . . . hard to reckon with, but even harder to shake off" Scott Foundas, LA Weekly
This feature documentary examines the life, bipolar disorder and suicide of fifteen year-old Evan Perry. Contemporary interviews with family, friends, doctors and therapists attempt to shed light on this devastating illness. Includes extensive home-movies, photographs and documents to create an intimate portrait of this vibrant, troubled young man and the effect his illness and death had on those who loved him most.
*Also available in a 53 minute version (less friends' and uncle's story) #15165
*See also DIAGNOSIS BIPOLAR: Five Families Search for Answers
This series is designed to make some of psychology's more abstract theoretical and methodological issues accessible to students through case studies and examples that relate to everyday life experiences.
There are six programs in the series:
PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH IN CONTEXT
This program clarifies selected principles of science by contextualizing them through easily comprehensible applications of psychological research. Divided into five sections, the video illustrates the hypothetical-deductive model of scientific reasoning via Piaget's classic conservation experiment and Donaldson and McGarrigle's challenge of it; the analysis of statistics involving scenarios in which a record producer considers signing a new band and a student carries out IQ testing; the use of graphs to present data from a study of romance ads; the concept of statistical significance through the conducting of memory tests; and data interpretation through a study measuring levels of aggression. 29 minutes
PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGY
Better self-control begins with an understanding of the psychological factors that affect behavior. Section one of this program focuses on the influence of brain structure, brain chemistry, and genetics on behavior; section two illustrates key concepts of psychoanalytic theory; and section three distinguishes between classical and operant conditioning. Strengths and limitations of the biological, psychodynamic, and behaviorist perspectives are addressed as well. The program concludes by considering the issue of determinism and free will. 41 minutes
MENTAL DISORDER
What is abnormality? Using the case studies of two young women-one who has depression, one who has an anxiety disorder-as a springboard, this program presents three psychological perspectives on mental disorder. Section one considers it as a bodily disease, identifying underlying assumptions of the biomedical model and illustrating the treatments it offers. Section two looks at it as a disease of the mind, developing the view that the origins of some mental disorders may lie in people's experiences. And section three outlines the basis of the constructionist perspective and the idea that mental disorder is socially defined. The increasing medicalization of behavior is also addressed. 30 minutes
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Drawing upon laboratory and field experiments, this program compares and contrasts experimental research methods through an attractiveness study involving young adults. Section one observes how subjects respond to photos in two lab environments - one comfortable, and one not. Then, section two repeats the experiment in two field locales: a trendy bar and a dull coffee shop. Does context make a difference to the outcomes? The program concludes with a third section, in which experts explore some of the issues common to both experimental methods: demand characteristics, ethical concerns, and reductionism. 28 minutes
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This program presents non-experimental research methods - questionnaires, interviews, and naturalistic observation - through three studies on the effects of cell phone use. Section one explains good questionnaire design while considering both the advantages and limitations of this method. Section two examines the use of unstructured interviews, a more nuanced approach to data collection. And section three spotlights the performance of naturalistic observation - and in the process illustrates some of the practical difficulties and ethical issues involved in this type of research. 34 minutes
CLASSIC STUDIES IN PSYCHOLOGY
This program brings to life five of psychology's most significant studies: Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment, 1961; Milgram's Study of Obedience, 1963; Ainsworth's Strange Situation Experiment, 1971 and 1978; Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment, 1973; and Loftus's Eyewitness Testimony Experiment, 1974. Footage from the original experiments and from contemporary reconstructions is featured throughout, along with expert commentary and analysis. 38 minutes
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*Viewable/printable educational resources are available online
*Closed Captioned
In this extremely powerful live group session, master clinician and psychodramatist Tian Dayton works with group participants to confront childhood abuse, and work through trauma that they are carrying in their bodies. Dayton addresses these delicate issues with directness and great care, employing innovative action-oriented techniques that you can use in your work with clients, whether you are trained in psychodrama or not.
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 video, 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.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
*English Subtitles for hearing-impaired viewers
In this extremely powerful live group session, master clinician and psychodramatist Tian Dayton guides participants to confront childhood abuse, and work through trauma that they are carrying in their bodies. Trauma from child abuse remains trapped inside 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 video, 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 video, 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; and, Adapt Tian Dayton's unique approach to working with childhood abuse to your own therapy work with clients.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
*English Subtitles for hearing-impaired viewers
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 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.
Also includes several bonus features:
*Education and Employment
*The Prison Journal: A Special Issue
*Essential Elements of TC
*Aftercare: Further Research Questions
Bracing themselves for a living nightmare, three individuals from varied backgrounds have agreed to live together while facing their common enemy: extreme agoraphobia. This two-part series follows their intense and emotional struggle, which at times appears hopeless. But Simon, Su, and Archana aren't alone in their endeavor - they're helped along the path to recovery by Professor Paul Salkovskis, Clinical Director of the Maudsley Hospital Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma at London's Institute of Psychiatry. Viewers will gain insight into the concept of exposure and response as a viable dimension of cognitive behavioral therapy.
*Contains some profanity
There are two programs in the series:
VENTURING OUT: Agoraphobics Confront Their Fears
When renowned psychologist Paul Salkovskis offers three agoraphobics a base from which to battle their fears, each sufferer embraces the opportunity to utilize the professor's "safe house". There's only one problem - getting there. This program illustrates the paralyzing anxiety agoraphobics typically experience when stepping outside their cloistered comfort zones. After Simon, Su, and Archana finally arrive at the house, Professor Salkovskis forces each to keep going outdoors to unearth the roots of his or her affliction. Su realizes that loud noises trigger her panic attacks, while Archana recognizes her own abandonment issues and Simon discovers how much he depends on the opinion of others. 48 minutes
FAR FROM HOME: Agoraphobics Face the Ultimate Test
Supported and cajoled by psychologist and cognitive behavioral therapist Paul Salkovskis, three agoraphobic Londoners have tentatively confronted their fears - but they still have a huge amount of work to do. This program shows what happens when the experiment moves to the next level. After frantic preparations, Simon, Su, and Archana accompany Professor Salkovskis on a 13-hour airplane flight to Japan. There they walk the hectic streets of Tokyo, explore an exotic fish market, and ride a bullet train while coming to terms with their deepest internal struggles - and the hard-won understanding that agoraphobia has much more to do with what's inside than outside. Contains some profanity. 49 minutes
Since the 1950s therapeutic communities (TCs) have effectively treated people with the most severe cases of substance abuse. The focus on an all encompassing community and peer support model is still thriving in TCs today. This comprehensive series blends historical and contemporary footage from active TCs with George De Leon's expert lectures on the framework, methods and components of an ideal TC.
Volume 1: THE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE
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 are displayed in work, formal groups and social activities, and then addressed directly by the community. 54 minutes
From watching this video, 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".
Volume II: COMMUNITY AS METHOD
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. 44 minutes
From watching this video, 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.
Volume III: COMPONENTS OF GENERIC THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
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. 79 minutes
From watching this video, 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.
Encounter groups are at the heart of therapeutic communities. They demonstrate a break from traditional addiction counseling techniques and have been proven to be an effective and important means for change. However, institutional demands including increased paperwork and funding cuts have recently threatened the livelihood of encounter groups. In this series, Rod Mullen creates a strong argument for how and why we need to keep the encounter group thriving. Illustrated with powerful and compelling vignettes from actual encounter groups, these videos explore how encounter groups have evolved, what we can do to improve groups and overcome pitfalls, and what the keys are to leading successful groups.
Volume 1: EVOLUTION OF THE ENCOUNTER GROUP
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. 65 minutes
From watching this video, 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.
Volume II: PITFALLS AND SOLUTIONS
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! 75 minutes
From watching this video, 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.
Volume III: KEYS TO FOSTERING GROWTH
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. 75 minutes
From watching this video, 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.
*See also INTERACTIVE GROUP THERAPY IN ADDICTION: Interventions for Dynamic Groups #9223
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 effect 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 video, 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.
ABOUT ROBERT FIRESTONE, PhD
Robert Firestone, PhD is the Glendon Association's consulting theorist. His innovative ideas related to psychotherapy, couple and family relationships, suicide and parenting are the cornerstone of Glendon's research and publications. He developed Voice Therapy, as well as the Firestone Assessment of Self-destructive Thoughts (FAST), a scale that assesses suicide potential. He is the author of several books including The Fantasy Bond, Voice Therapy, Combating Destructive Thought Processes and Compassionate Child Rearing.
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 video, 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.
ABOUT ROBERT FIRESTONE, PhD
Robert Firestone, PhD is the Glendon Association's consulting theorist. His innovative ideas related to psychotherapy, couple and family relationships, suicide and parenting are the cornerstone of Glendon's research and publications. He developed Voice Therapy, as well as the Firestone Assessment of Self-destructive Thoughts (FAST), a scale that assesses suicide potential. He is the author of several books including The Fantasy Bond, Voice Therapy, Combating Destructive Thought Processes and Compassionate Child Rearing.
This comprehensive video 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 video, 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.
ABOUT LINDA GASK, MD
Linda Gask is Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Manchester, and was the founder of the STORM training initiative for suicide prevention. She is the Western European Zonal Representative for the World Psychiatric Association and has worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization. She has done extensive research on improving the quality of care for people with depression and medically unexplained symptoms, and the management of people at risk of self-harm.
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 sustain 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 video, 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.
*Includes a downloadable chapter by Dr. Firestone entitled, "Therapeutic Approach to Parenting Groups"
ABOUT ROBERT FIRESTONE, PhD
Robert Firestone, PhD is the Glendon Association's consulting theorist. His innovative ideas related to psychotherapy, couple and family relationships, suicide and parenting are the cornerstone of Glendon's research and publications. He developed Voice Therapy, as well as the Firestone Assessment of Self-destructive Thoughts (FAST), a scale that assesses suicide potential. He is the author of several books including The Fantasy Bond, Voice Therapy, Combating Destructive Thought Processes and Compassionate Child Rearing.
In this follow up to the groundbreaking film The New Asylums, FRONTLINE examines what happens to the mentally ill when they leave prison and why they return at such alarming rates. The intimate stories of the released, along with interviews with parole officers, social workers, and psychiatrists, provide a rare look at the lives of the mentally ill as they struggle to stay out of prison and reintegrate into society.
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Emmy Nominated! There are nearly half a million mentally ill people serving time in prisons and jails. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and ill-equipped gatekeepers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern: are jails and prisons our new asylums? FRONTLINE goes inside the prison system to present a searing exploration of the complex and growing topic of mental health behind bars.
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"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 video, 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.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
Watch Mary Goulding demonstrate Transactional Analysis and Redecision Therapy in this three-part video. 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 video, 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 video, 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.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
Watch Natalie Rogers masterfully integrate expressive arts with a client-focused approach in an actual therapy session in this three-part video.
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 video, 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 video, 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.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
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 three-part video!
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 video, 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 video, 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.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
Watch Allen Ivey masterfully demonstrate Integrative Therapy in an actual counseling session in this three-part counseling video. 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 video, 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 video, 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.
Includes Instructor's Manual
Jeffrey Kottler showcases his expert skills in integrating multiple therapy approaches in an actual counseling session in this three-part video.
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 video, 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 video, 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.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
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 three-part video!
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 video, 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 video, 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.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
Watch Jon Carlson masterfully demonstrate Adlerian Therapy in an actual therapy session in this three-part video!
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 video, 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 video, 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.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
*Featuring Insoo Kim Berg, LCSW
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 too often the scapegoat to a family's troubles and the impetus for a family to enter therapy. In this video, 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 video, 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.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
*Includes English Subtitles for hearing-impaired viewers
*Featuring Ivory Toldson Ph.D., Howard University
In 1982, Pasteur and Toldson published an intensive examination of Black expressive behavior in Roots of Soul. Themes introduced provide critical guidelines for counseling African Americans. Dr. Toldson emphasizes the challenges counselors face when working within traditional counseling settings. He presents solutions that involve understanding, appreciating, and celebrating Black culture, contextualizing mental health issues, promoting social advocacy and justice, and using resilience models.
*Featuring Sumie Okazaki Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The growth of Asian American psychology has resulted in multiple challenges not only in methodology but also in epistemology. Dr. Okazaki discusses Asian American psychology's activist roots in the late 1960s to early 1970s Civil Rights Era as a model that needs to be brought once again to the forefront. She encourages us to move beyond research and practice that reify the notion of Asian Americans as the model minority She point out how and why research and practice need a more activist approach in current multi-disciplinary scholarship.
*Featuring Michelle Fine Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York
"Bearing witness" - in our homes, in our research, and in our travels - can help us move towards social justice. Dr. Fine retells stories from her experiences as the child of immigrant Jews, travels through Palestine and Israel, and work in prisons. She leads us to understand how we need to place our work squarely inside all the mind and experiences of others if we are to understand oppression and be electrified into action.
Each of these programs provides comprehensive explanations and demonstrations from highly regarded experts in the field. Excellent for professional development and students of psychotherapy.
ADLERIAN THERAPY with Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD #12749
**Please click here to view the trailer on YouTubeCOGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY with John Krumboltz, PhD #12751
*Click here to VIEW CLIPEXISTENTIAL-HUMANISTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY with James Bugental, PhD #12492
FAMILY SYSTEMS THERAPY with Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD #12491
INTEGRATIVE COUNSELING with Jeffrey Kottler, PhD #12752
INTEGRATIVE THERAPY with Allen Ivey, EdD #12753
MULTIMODAL THERAPY with Arnold Lazarus, PhD #12495
OBJECT RELATIONS THERAPY with Jill Savege Scharff, MD #12489
PERSON-CENTERED EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPY with Natalie Rogers, PhD #12755
SOLUTION-FOCUSED THERAPY with Insoo Kim Berg, LCSW #12497
TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS with Mary Goulding, MSW #12756
FEMINIST THERAPY with Lenore Walker, EdD #12868
REALITY THERAPY with Robert E. Wubbolding, EdD #12869
COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY with Donald Meichenbaum, PhD #12819
*Instructor's Versions - Licensed for Teaching and Institutional use - each includes Manual.
*Detailed descriptions of each program are available at www.kineticvideo.com
*Featuring Samuel Johnson Ph.D., City University of New York
As the founder of the Winter Roundtable, Dr. Johnson reflects on his twenty five years since the first conference; he highlights significant outcomes in the field and contemplates the future of cross cultural counselor training.
*Featuring Rosie Bingham , Past-President, Society for Counseling Psychology
The recipient of the Janet E. Helms award of mentoring and scholarship, Dr. Bingham passionately engages her audience with reflections of her life - growing up on a plantation as a young child to moving through her various stages of cultural and racial identity. She discusses the changes and trends in the field of multicultural counseling and research and provides the latest demographic data on ethnic minorities.
This two-part series featuring Sylvia Nassar McMillan, provides both content and practical knowledge, as well as demonstration counseling vignettes to illustrate diversity among Arab American clients and their issues, particularly in today's post 9-11 U.S. and global climate. Authors are leading scholars in the field, with roots in one of the largest Arab American communities in the country.
Part One - DIVERSITY, TREATMENT GOALS AND INTERVENTIONS
In the post 9-11 climate, individuals and families of Arab American descent are both increasingly profiled and misunderstood. The authors present three modules on Arab American demographics and other diversity, Arab American culture, and sociopolitical background. Actual therapist interviews then examine common mental health issues, typical treatment goals, appropriate interventions, and helpful cultural knowledge. Implications for practice and resource modules complete the program. This DVD provides both background information and practical perspectives essential to success in working with Arab American clients.
Part Two - CLINICAL VIGNETTES
This demonstration presents three clinical vignettes of a therapist working individually with members of an Arab American family. The authors explore each demonstrated counseling session in terms of diversity of presenting issues, treatment goals, appropriate interventions, and helpful cultural knowledge. A concluding discussion explores overall issues within the family and community systems.
Featuring Ishu Ishiyama, University of British Columbia
Packed with vignettes that showcase specific examples of direct and indirect oppression, this program is a must for all counselors who wish to teach teens to combat oppression. Young actors dramatically depict discrimination, prejudice, and harassment related to race, ethnic culture, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, appearance, ethnic accent, and age.
*Featuring Ervin Staub, Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts
Being a victim of violence can lead to severe psychological consequences, including Post Traumatic Stress, depression and anxiety. It can also lead to violence against others. But there ARE alternatives to these negative reactions. Dr. Staub addresses the need to overcome trauma from a positive perspective - specifically - how victims of violence can become caring and helpful to others, and what happens when they do. Counselors and graduate students will gain incredible insight into this concept of "Altruism born of Suffering" and the research that Dr. Staub has conducted.
*Includes Transcript
Featuring Allen Ivey, EdD, ABPP, Distinguished Univ. Professor (Emeritus), U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dr. Allen Ivey presents brain basics to a class of counselors and therapists. Those who teach the skills course will find this video's attention to microskill implications for neural plasticity and the impact of a positive approach on neurons and neurotransmitters. Social justice implications such as the poisoning of the brain from poverty and abuse are stressed. Counseling using the microskills wellness approach can actually help the client develop new neural networks.
*Includes Leader Guide and Transcript
Featuring Mary Ballou, Northeastern University; and Martin J. La Roche, Harvard Medical School-Children's Hospital
Two dynamic and real interviews demonstrate key principles of Feminist Counseling and Cultural Therapy, their similarities and differences. A male cultural counselor and then a female feminist therapist meet with a male Japanese client to discuss stress management of work and educational demands on the client. The demonstration of these two progressive contemporary developments in counseling and therapy showcase how gender, culture and power are among the many dynamics to consider. In keeping with collaborative and egalitarian relationships of this new force, the concluding discussion includes the client and a skilled moderator.
*Featuring Dr. Molefi Asante, Temple University, Author of over 65 books and 300 articles.
Dr. Asante is recognized as one of the most creative and important liberatory African American scholars. In this DVD, he argues that Eurocentric power structure prevents proper schooling of African American children. Eurocentricsm takes power at the center, with others at the margins. This sets up an "us vs. them" system rather than a "we" relationship. Counseling students will learn how to think about hegemony and power in the interview. We want students and clients owning knowledge and gaining agency. This presentation leads us all to empowerment, and responsibility.
Features Lori Russell-Chapin, Associate Dean and Professor, Education, Bradley University, Putnam Award Winner for Teaching Excellence; Douglas Smith, Trainer and Author.
Insightful and moving, this program will enable students to work with and understand both their own and others grief journey. Personal sharing of grief narratives and stories highlight this dramatic and highly useful professional presentation. Students will encounter the meaning of loss, the critical part of story telling in the process of grieving, and surprises that grief brings. This DVD helps us all understand the process and cope more effectively.
*Includes transcript and leader guide
*Free with DVD! Lori Russell-Chapin's book "Writing Your Grief Story" (75 pages)
A perfect tool for counselors who will be working with clients who have experienced loss. Dr. Lori Russell-Chapin takes readers on a journey of healing and discovery and helps them learn simple techniques to manage grief.
In a spontaneous and unrehearsed demonstration, Dr. John Krumboltz of Stanford University applies Happenstance Learning Theory with a female Chinese-American graduate student contemplating career directions.
Concepts that will enrich viewer's understanding of career counseling include: Unexpected events almost inevitably play a role in everyone's career; Clients can create opportunities by taking appropriate actions; and, Counselors can encourage new experiences and allow mistakes.
Dr. Krumboltz is then interviewed by a Japan Career Development Assoc. member to clarify theory and application. Many subtitles highlight key points.
Blends lecture, case vignettes, and de-briefings for a comprehensive overview of counseling people of Muslim faith. In a dynamic lecture coupled with PowerPoint slides, Dr. Farah Ibrahim presents demographics, tenets of the faith, and strategies to incorporate Islamic spiritual beliefs in the counseling process to make it culturally appropriate to Muslims.
Following the lecture are four counseling vignettes that include:
1. An initial client interview featuring a woman of Muslim faith discussing her struggles with infertility and communicating with her husband
2. A family counseling session with an intergenerational crisis with an adolescent
3. A couple struggling with their contrasting interpretations of a man and woman's role in a marriage
4. An individual counseling session featuring a Muslim woman experiencing trauma post 9/11
All vignettes are followed by short de-briefing by Dr. Ibrahim.
Features Herbert Exum and Amy Menna, University of South Florida, who feel that the counseling profession has not given sufficient attention and study to the problems of returning military. Only with Iraq and Gulf Wars are counselors beginning to understand their needs and how to deal with them responsibly. The first step is the realization that veterans are actually members of a distinct cultural group. This program examines that culture and vets' special needs. Viewers learn about post-traumatic stress, specific treatment issues, and the critical importance of working with military families.
William Liu, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa; Jay Greenfeld, University of Iowa; Derek Turesky, University of Iowa
Dr. Liu, leading researcher and developer of the Social Class World View Model (SCVM) brings us the first DVD of its kind featuring:
*A brief narrated summary of what social class is and how the SCVM applies to the counselor's practice working with diverse individuals or group varying in social class.
*Two counseling vignettes that demonstrate Dr. Liu's pioneering SCVM model. The counseling session reveals five separate factors to consider when processing difficult issues that pertain to social class.
*A reflective summary of all the content presented, including understanding what social class means, and how it pertains to the field of mental health. The viewers will be asked to revisit and reflect on what their experiences of social class awareness were like, how it affected them, and how their understanding can help guide their therapeutic work.
With Dr. John Winslade, Cal State Bernardino; Gerald Monk, San Diego State University
Dr. John Winslade conducts a therapy session involving a client struggling with low self-esteem. Using a Narrative Therapy approach, Dr. Winslade respectfully and collaboratively examines the stories that inform and shape his client's experience and listens for the history and pattern of how those stories are constructed. After separating the stories that work from those non-preferred problematic stories, Winslade guides the client in authoring more satisfying, preferable stories of strength and hope. With compassion, genuine listening, and acceptance, Dr. Winslade provides a profound example of how to embody Narrative Therapy principles in the therapy session. Following the main session, Dr. Winslade reflects upon the session with guest Dr. Gerald Monk in the Narrative Therapy tradition of respect, reflection, and transparency.
Dr. John Westefeld brings us his life-time work and research on suicide prevention in a format that will show your students information key to their counseling and clinical practice. Viewers will: receive latest data concerning suicide and prevention; learn how to access suicidal risk; learn how to conduct a suicide intervention, including suicide prevention education programs, counseling with a suicidal person, and the major components of suicide post-intervention; view a therapist working with a suicidal client around the issues of assessing risk in conjunction with developing a "no-harm" contract.
*Includes Leader Guide and Handouts
Communication is a process of creating shared understanding. This program describes the importance of positive communication for healthcare workers and teaches effective methods for creating clear, respectful communication. Topics include: verbal and non-verbal communication, positive body language, active listening, asking open-ended questions, clarification, pacing, obstacles to communication, honoring your client's feelings and more.
*Program comes with reproducible support materials, which include outline, learning objectives, key points and definitions, test and answer key.
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 video, 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.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
This video is an invaluable resource for mental health professionals in understanding the minds of suicidal individuals and the elements necessary for successful treatment and recovery.
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.
Special features include a directory of resources on suicide prevention, and information on and publications by the experts featured in this program.
Featured experts in this video include Dr. Lisa Firestone, Dr. Robert Firestone, Dr. Allan Schore, Dr. David Jobes, Dr. Israel Orbach, and Dr. David Rudd.
This video 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. Also included are four bonus tracks, where Bugental relates inspiring, touching and often funny stories from his lifetime of knowledge and therapeutic experience.
From watching this video, viewers 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 clients' inward search process of self-discovery
*increase skills to identify and work effectively with client resistance in psychotherapy.
*Includes Instructor's Manual
"After years and years of working in this and grappling with this, the conclusion that many of us are coming to is that in order to help these animal, frozen, inappropriate, fight / flight / freeze responses to come to an end, you need to work with people's bodily responses. You need to help their body to feel like it's over." Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Over the past several years, many therapists have found that working with clients to identify where and how they hold trauma in their body and helping them to release it can be far more effective than traditional talk therapy alone. They've learned that somatic approaches can help trauma survivors to befriend their body, which they so often have come to see as the enemy.
In this three-part series, researchers and clinicians share their perspectives on the nature of trauma, including recent research on heart rate variability and the role of the social engagement system. They describe trauma's impact on mind and body, and the most effective tools for helping clients heal. Presenters demonstrate a variety of somatic techniques in excerpts from model therapy sessions. Body-oriented practices such as yoga and Impact Model Mugging are discussed, and ways of working with at-risk children and survivors of war and natural disasters are shown.
Presenters include Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, Pat Ogden, Bill Bowen, Janina Fisher, and Stephen Porges.
*Includes TRAINER'S GUIDE (see below)
BODY-ORIENTED TRAUMA THERAPY I: Clinical Perspectives, 45 minutes
Examines the nature of trauma and its long-term effects, including recent research.
Topics include:
Trauma and the Fight-Flight-Freeze System
Trauma Memory Is Not Cognitive
Intervening on a Body Level
Body-Oriented Therapy
Safety During Therapy Sessions
Developing Mindfulness and Other Resources
Window of Tolerance, Boundaries, and Touch
Pleasure and Joy
*Click here to VIEW CLIPBODY-ORIENTED TRAUMA THERAPY II: TREATMENT MODALITIES, 52 minutes
This program describes and demonstrates somatic techniques in excerpts from model therapy sessions. Topics include:
Accessing the Body
Boundaries, Grounding, and Posture
Demo Session One: Janina Fisher, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Demo Session Two: Peter Levine, Somatic Experiencing Psychotherapy
Demo Session Three: Bill Bowen, Psycho-Physical Therapy
BODY-ORIENTED TRAUMA THERAPY III: CHILDREN AND GROUPS, 45 minutes
This program shows a range of body-oriented group work with children, teens, and adults.
Topics include:
Different Professional Backgrounds
Working with Children
Project Joy
Trauma Drama: Urban Improv Intensive
Classroom/Campus-Based Intervention
Impact Model Mugging
Black Lotus Yoga Project
Crisis Response: Indonesian Tsunami
*Click here to VIEW CLIP***THE TRAINER'S GUIDE
The 51-page trainer's guide includes objectives, reproducible viewer handouts, review and discussion questions, and a resource list. The appendices include two journal articles, described below.
How do we help our veterans who are returning from war with PTSD? This program provides an intimate conversation with Dr. Frank Ochberg, as he shares his experiences, seasoned insights and suggestions. Excellent for the mental health practitioner who has treated a variety of clients including those traumatized by abusive relationships, sexual assault, disasters, Sept 11, and violent crime. Dr. Ochberg feels that treating veterans is a privilege and he shares his experiences dealing with veterans from the Vietnam era, Afghanistan and Iraq. He welcomes those therapists who are supporting our returning men and women as they adapt to civilian life.
Topics include: Unique Challenges; Tools of the Trade; The Loss of Emotional Tone; Remittent Depression; Family Issues; Military Sexual Trauma; The Patient and Therapist; Relationships; and, The Counting Method.
This program is appropriate for psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, educators, and allied health professionals, including those new to trauma work as well as those who have helped a range of trauma victims.
The Participants:
Frank Ochberg, MD, is a psychiatrist and the former Associate Director of the National Institute of Mental Health and a member of the team that wrote the medical definition for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. He was the editor of America's first PTSD treatment text and is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Mike Walter, the interviewer, is an acclaimed Anchor/Reporter in Washington, DC and speaks from the heart on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. His brother fought in Vietnam in the 60s and Mike was able to see first hand the impact PTSD can have on the returning veteran and the family. Mike was also an eyewitness to the attack on the Pentagon on 9-11. In the days that followed, he found himself grappling with the same issues that affected his brother. He struggled with depression and replayed the attack again and again in his mind. He is a Dart-Ochberg Fellow where he met Dr. Frank Ochberg and learned about PTSD.
Autism is becoming more and more prevalent. Autism has no boundaries, equally affecting the rich and poor; the young and the old; white and blue collar workers and the unemployed as well as all races, ethnicities, and religions. Its symptoms range from subtle to severe and can affect communication, intellect, socialization, and movement. Not only are those with the diagnosis impacted, but so are their parents, siblings, extended families, and caretakers.
The healthcare, educational and therapeutic professionals working with them are affected as well.
This three-part series delves into the mysteries of autism exploring the causes of the disorder, the signs and symptoms seen, tests performed to make or confirm the diagnosis, and interventions used in its treatment. Each of the syndromes under the umbrella known as Autism Spectrum Disorders is also described in detail. This series is an excellent resource for physicians, nurses, developmental specialists, therapists, and teachers.
THE MANY FACES OF AUTISM
Autism includes a myriad of symptoms including impaired communication, social interactions, and repetitive behaviors which can range from mild to severe. This program describes the known pathophysiology as well as manifestations of the most common forms of the disorder: Classic Autism; Asperger's Disorder; Rett's Disorder; Childhood Disintegrative Disorder; and Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified. In addition, the phenomenon of autistic savants is discussed.
AUTISM: The Diagnostic Process
This program describes the various mechanisms used to make the diagnosis of autism or one of its related syndromes. Begins with recognition of the child with autistic behaviors and a description of the disorder by the DSM-IV-TR. In addition, screening tools such as ALARM, Ages and Stages Questionnaire, Child Development Inventory, Bayley Infant Neuro-Development Screen, and the Denver II Developmental Screening Test are discussed. Finally, a team assessment is described in which the child is evaluated for speech, language, motor skills, and school success as well as concurrent medical conditions and other co-morbidites.
TREATING INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS
This program describes specific treatment modalities including Applied Behavioral Analysis, Direct versus Intermediary Learning, Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication of Handicapped Children (TEAACH) as well as speech, occupational, social skills, physical, and play therapies. In addition, factors which affect individual response to each of these modalities are explored.
*Includes learner objectives, discussion questions, a pretest, a computer-graded test, and a final exam.
*Closed Captioned
Derald Wing Sue is Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. Enhance your students' classroom learning experience with these seven 60-minute training DVDs by Derald Wing Sue. These programs cover multicultural counseling and therapy as discussed in the new edition of Counseling the Culturally Diverse by Derald Wing and David Sue.
DVD 1: EMOTIONAL ROADBLOCKS TO COUNSELING THE CULTURALLY DIVERSE:
A conversation with Drs. Mark Kiselica and Derald Wing Sue
Emotional roadblocks often arise when issues of race, culture, ethnicity are met by helping professionals. Drs. Kisela and Sue describe their racial/cultural awakening as a White person and a Person of Color and share personal experiences with racism, bigotry and bias. Dr. Kiselica courageously describes his defensive reactions to reading the text as a doctoral student, his anger at Sue for attacking the mental health professions as being harmful to marginalized groups, and his final painful realization that he had inherited racist attitudes and beliefs. Dr. Sue describes early experiences of prejudice and discrimination in childhood, lessons and insights learned as a result of being different in a monocultural society, and the constant feeling that current psychology did not reflect his experiential reality which led to the writing of his best-selling book. Specific suggestions are given about what students must do to overcome their own racist cultural conditioning in order to be a culturally competent citizen and helping professional.
DVD 2: CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN THE HELPING PROFESSIONS
What is cultural competence? What is multicultural counseling and therapy? Is there any difference between counseling a White client as opposed to a Black one? What do we mean by multiculturalism? Does it include gender, sexual orientation, class, religion and other sociodemographic groups? This DVD answers these questions and more-students will learn key basics for practice and the deeper meanings of identity development.
DVD 3: RACIAL MICROAGGRESSIONS: Impact and Implications for Counseling Practice
Is it possible for anyone to be born and raised in the United States without inheriting the racial biases of the society? How is it possible for good, moral and decent human beings to act in ways that oppress others? Do I oppress?
Derald Wing Sue presents his most recent research on racial microaggressions; brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults to the target person or group. While the lecture concentrates on racial microaggressions, Sue links the phenomenon to gender and sexual orientation microaggressions as well. Therapists who are unaware of their biases and prejudices may unintentionally engage in microaggressions that create impasses for clients of color.
DVD 4: OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING / THERAPY
Why do people of color, Gays/Lesbians, and other marginalized groups often assert that counseling and psychotherapy are unhelpful? And why do they underutilize traditional mental health services and prematurely terminate after only one contact with a helping professional? Derald Wing Sue takes viewers on a journey to explore the culture-bound, class-bound and linguistic biases of traditional forms of counseling and psychotherapy.
DVD 5: MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING / THERAPY: Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies
Isn't good counseling, good counseling? Do I need to change my helping style when working with clients of color? In this engrossing presentation filled with case examples, Derald Wing Sue illustrates how a Western European approach to counseling may lead to mistaken assessment, diagnosis and treatment of culturally diverse clients
DVD 6: RACIAL / CULTURAL IDENTIFY DEVELOPMENT: Implications for Counseling/Therapy
Sue uses his "Racial/Cultural Identity Development Model" as a conceptual framework to aid therapists in understanding their culturally diverse clients' attitudes and behaviors. The model defines five stages of development that oppressed people experience as they struggle to understand themselves in terms of their own culture, the dominant culture, and the oppressive relationship between the two cultures. Implications for counseling culturally diverse clients are given for each level of identity.
DVD 7: WHITE RACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT: Implications for Counseling/Therapy
What does it mean to be White? Aren't we all just human beings? As a White person, why do I feel so uncomfortable and conflicted about racial issues? Is there really something called "White Privilege"? Derald Wing Sue describes how White racial identity awareness is correlated with lower levels of racism and higher levels of multicultural competence. The most desirable outcome is one in which the White person not only accepts his or her Whiteness but also defines it in a nondefensive and nonracist manner.
*Programs are also available separately
Designated as one of America's best physicians for seven years, Dr. John Ratey, M.D., Harvard Medical School, explains what is currently known about neuroscience and the brain. Aimed at mental health workers he describes the importance of brain plasticity and how clients can learn new thoughts, feelings, and behaviors during a therapy session, and develop new neural networks as a result. Perceptual, attentional, and motor systems are basic to memory and emotion. Dr. Ratey describes the "social brain" that is deeply impacted by learning and environmental conditions. He presents specifics for counselors on improving the brain functioning of clients. Essential for professionals and students of mental health.
*Includes Transcript
How do those who provide counseling deal most effectively with clients who suffer from stress? This program will provide information, techniques, and handouts viewers can immediately use with clients. Dr. Edna Brinkley (Psychological Consultant and Private Practice) works with four clients of multi-ethnic backgrounds where she and her clients demonstrate and discuss:
* How stress affects the body, especially chronic stress.
* How to identify clients' unique sources and symptoms of stress.
* Lifestyle strategies for stress reduction.
* How to create a shared frame of reference about stress.
The excellent demonstrations, coupled with subtitles that highlight major points, make this "a must" for those in helping professions. The easy to use format allows viewers to immediately practice what they view after each section. DVD includes a separate CDROM that provides transcripts, PowerPoints and leader guide.
Session 1
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All too often dignity is crushed by the terrible things people do to each other. These five therapists have a different story to tell about clients who have experienced violence, trauma, grief and loss. The human spirit is greater than the labels of "victim" or "survivor". These stories illustrate how resilience, growth and wisdom can arise in the face of suffering.
The therapists describe how they are educated by their clients' courage and informed by the culture and values of their community. Useful therapeutic questions and steps are described and illustrated by clinical example. In-depth theory is provided through articles by the therapists in the accompanying manual.
The therapists are:
Makungu Akinyela Decatur, GA, USA
Tonya Gomes - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Imelda McCarthy Dublin, Ireland
Richard Tedeschi Charlotte, NC, USA
Allan Wade Duncan, BC, Canada
*Includes a 72 page manual with articles by the therapists.
This program will be of interest to:
* counsellors, psychologists, social workers
* women¹s transition house workers
* victim services workers
* the criminal justice system
* anyone inspired by the resilience of human beings
For therapists new to trauma work, you will see how mature practitioners have developed their approach. For seasoned therapists, the creativity and ingenuity of these five remarkable practitioners will energize and inspire you.
Features Deryl Bailey, University of Georgia; Mary Bradford Ivey, University of South Florida, Tampa; Norma Gluckstern-Packard, Former Warden Pautuxent Prison, Maryland; Azara Santiago-Rivera, President, National Latino/a Psychological Association; Allen Ivey, University of South Florida, Tampa
Designed for all courses focusing on skills, counseling theories, and multicultural issues, students will be able to complete an entire session using only listening skills.
*Click here to VIEW CLIPLive demonstrations of real issues with many subtitles identify specific skills enabling students to recognize interview behavior, practice skills in small groups, and then generalize skills to the actual interview.
*Click here to VIEW CLIP Multicultural issues are infused throughout. The video is useful with all skill and theory textbooks, including the best-selling Intentional Interviewing and Counseling as well as Essentials of Intentional Interviewing and Counseling. Published by Brooks/Cole, a part of Cengage Learning.
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VIEW CLIP***Basic Attending Skills DVD live demonstrations with real issues:
1.Attending behavior and positive asset search
2.Questions
3.Encouraging and Paraphrasing
4.Stimulus vignettes to identify emotions
5.Reflection of feeling
6.Summarization
7.Conducting a full interview using only listening skills
*Approximately 2 1/2 hours and also Includes textbook, leader guide and transcripts
"When a child has a poor attachment to their parent, it leads to all kinds of problems, because they have not learned how to regulate their emotions, they have not learned self-control, they have not learned self-reliance in a positive way. So all these problems come out in every other relationship in their life." Alexandra Cook, PhD
A secure attachment system forms the foundation for a child's development. The often devastating impact of attachment disorder on children's sense of self, and on their capacity to form attachments with new caregivers, can pose major challenges for foster and adoptive parents, as well as for therapists and group home staff.
In this four-video series, the presenters describe the impact of attachment disorder on the ways that children see themselves and interact with others, and how adults can respond most effectively. They explore such topics as setting limits, avoiding power struggles, providing structure, and building a trusting relationship. Their observations are reinforced by the accounts of foster and adoptive parents, group home staff, and former foster children. The presenters emphasize the importance of understanding what drives children's behaviors, rather than simply reacting to them, and provide concrete suggestions for containing negative behaviors and improving adult-child interactions.
The four programs are:
1. UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN WITH DISRUPTED ATTACHMENT
This introductory video explains the internal effects of attachment disorder, and the behaviors that children lacking a "secure base" may display. Intended for parents, residential care workers, and therapists. 42 minutes
TOPICS:
Secure Attachment
Disrupted Attachment
Neglect
Violence and Abuse
Internal Effects of Attachment Disorder
Behavioral Effects of Attachment Disorder
Obstacles to Rebuilding Attachment
Reactive Attachment Disorder Diagnosis
"You can tell them that you love them, you can tell them that you're going to keep them safe, you can tell them all these things, but it takes them years to really believe that that's actually what you're doing. They have no trust. They can't trust themselves, let alone trust anybody else." Denise, Adoptive Mother
2. PARENTING CHILDREN WITH DISRUPTED ATTACHMENT
This video examines issues encountered by parents, including foster parents, adoptive parents, or family members who are caring for a child with attachment disorder. 45 minutes
TOPICS:
Understanding Behaviors
Testing Limits
Ongoing Repair and Crises
Developmental Level
Developing Trust
Routine, Consistency, Predictability
Attunement
Limits and Control
Containment and Self-Regulation
Self-Care
Building Basic Skills
Feelings
Touch
"In order to create attachment with a child, the staff have to be safe. You're not going to have access to them unless you present in a way that appears to them safe. So you cannot create an attachment with the kids unless you're aware of your own self-care. " Frank Grijalva, Residential Care Consultant
3. CARING FOR CHILDREN WITH DISRUPTED ATTACHMENT
This video discusses issues affecting residential staff, including child care workers, camp counselors, and group home supervisors. 44 minutes
TOPICS:
Importance of Attachment
Understanding Behaviors
Testing Limits
Ongoing Repair and Crises
Developmental Level
Developing Trust
Routine, Consistency, Predictability
Limits and Control
Containment and Self-Regulation
Self-Care
Building Basic Skills
Feelings
Touch
Strengthening Families
Maintaining Connection
"If the child ultimately is going to come to trust the containing relationship, at some point in that containing relationship, they're going to have to hate you, and find out that their hating you doesn't break the connection between you, doesn't cast them out into the darkness, doesn't cast you into your dark place, doesn't make you punishing or abandoning." Vivienne Roseby, PhD
4. TREATING CHILDREN WITH DISRUPTED ATTACHMENT
This video discusses therapeutic issues, and is intended for counselors, social workers, and therapists. 43 minutes
TOPICS:
Therapist as Coach
Therapeutic Interaction
Building a Sense of Self; Safety
The Therapeutic Relationship
Structuring Therapy Sessions
Therapeutic Issues
Therapeutic Techniques
*Programs also available individually.
THE TRAINER'S GUIDE
The 60-page trainer's guide includes objectives, reproducible viewer handouts, review and discussion questions, and a resource list. The appendices include a journal article, a book chapter, and a parent checklist, described below.
Kinniburgh, Kristine, & Blaustein, Margaret. Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC): A Comprehensive Framework for Intervention with Complexly Traumatized Youth, Psychiatric Annals, 35(5), 2005, p. 424-430. The Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) model provides a component-based framework for intervention, and is grounded in theory and empirical knowledge about the effects of trauma. It emphasizes the importance of understanding and intervening with the child-in-context, with a philosophy that systemic change leads to effective and sustainable outcomes.
Chapter 6, "Reparenting the Hurt Child", from Richard Kagan's book, Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children: Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse, and Neglect (Haworth Press, 2004), discusses community support, countertransference, misbehavior, developing trust, giving directions, choices and consequences, life skills, affect management, matching children and families, reality-based expectations, and psychotropic medications.
Vivienne Roseby's checklist for parents, "The Two Step For Managing Limits, Disappointments and Other Upsets: Relate And Contain," discusses noticing your child, opening up and being available, verbalizing the limits, and enfolding with safety.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Margaret E. Blaustein, PhD is a clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of children and families impacted by chronic trauma. She is the Associate Director of Children's Services and Director of Training at The Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Alexandra Cook, PhD is Director of Development and Evaluation Services at The Trauma Center. She is also co-author of With the Phoenix Rising: Lessons from Ten Resilient Women who Overcame the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse.
Richard Kagan, PhD is Director of Psychological Services at Parsons Child and Family Center in Albany, New York. He is author of Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children, Real Life Heroes, and Wounded Angels.
Vivienne Roseby, PhD is in private practice in Davis, California, where she specializes in working with attachment and character disorder. She is coauthor of In the Name of the Child and Helping Children in Highly Conflicted and Violent Divorced Families.
Thomas Young, MFT was a school psychologist and special education director, and has been in private practice since 1985, specializing in children with attachment disorders.
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