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Motivational Interviewing for Adolescent Health Behavior

with Cathy Cole

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

Managing Weight Loss with Motivational Interviewing

with Cathy Cole

The challenges surrounding weight loss can be complex, and effective clinicians must do more than simply offering advice on diet and exercise. Discover how to use MI techniques to get to the core of your clients’ barriers to weight loss so they can begin to affect meaningful change in their lives.

Assessment & Psychological Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

with Kay Redfield Jamison

Watch Kay Redfield Jamison, bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind and international expert on bipolar disorder, in this informative and intriguing interview that presents essential information on assessment and treatment of bipolar disorder in psychotherapy.

Crisis Counseling: 7 Steps to Effective Intervention

with Derrick Paladino

How can you provide immediate relief to clients devastated by a crisis? This online course provides therapists and counselors with a blueprint they can use to confidently intervene, stabilize and support clients overwhelmed in the wake of crises.

Building Confidence in Motivational Interviewing

with Cathy Cole

Having a plan isn't enough. Learn to help clients build the confidence they need to put a change plan into action. Cathy Cole works with three clients who lack confidence in their ability to achieve their goals.

Cognitive Therapy for Weight Loss: A Coaching Session

with Judith Beck

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.

Creative Healing in Mental Health

with Judith Rubin, PhD & Eleanor Irwin, PhD

Here is a rare opportunity to witness world-famous art and drama therapists working with clients from all walks of life on their journeys to healing, including an adolescent boy with Asperger’s, families affected by cancer, an Alzheimer’s patient, and combat veterans.

Death, Dying and Grief in Psychotherapy (2-Video Series)

with Milton Viederman

Watch Milton Viederman, MD, bring a psychoanalytic orientation to psychotherapy with patients struggling with grief — both in a private clinical setting and with in-hospital cancer patients—in this profound series on death and dying.

Experiential Therapy

with Augustus Y. Napier

Gus Napier demonstrates Experiential Therapy with a couple whose problems have escalated to a matter of life and death. Watch this master therapist and learn how to authentically engage couples in the here-and-now with interventions that really make a difference.

Psychotherapy with Medically Ill Children

with Gerald Koocher

Watch medical child therapist Gerald Koocher in an actual counseling session with a 5-year old girl who has a medical condition and a lot of worries.

Resolving Ambivalence in Motivational Interviewing

with Cathy Cole

Learn Motivational Interviewing's tools and techniques for helping clients fully explore their ambivalence as a critical part of the change process.

Resolving Trauma in Psychotherapy: A Somatic Approach

with Peter Levine

Therapists know how difficult it can be to help clients heal from trauma, especially when using traditional cognitive or insight-oriented approaches. Learn powerful techniques for treating trauma from Peter Levine, developer of Somatic Experiencing®, as he demonstrates his body-oriented trauma therapy with an Iraq War veteran diagnosed with severe PTSD.

Core Concepts of Motivational Interviewing

with Cathy Cole

Expert MI trainer Cathy Cole discusses the principles and spirit of MI, along with core concepts and techniques and ingredients for change.

Motivational Interviewing Step by Step: 4-Video Series

with Cathy Cole

Learn Motivational Interviewing with the most in-depth training series to date. Demonstrations and interviews illuminate the underlying principles, tools, techniques, and strategies that will enhance your skills in leading clients through the change process.

Managing Depression

with Brad Hagen

What are the most essential skills and techniques for working with severely depressed patients? Find out what to do—and what not to do—in this two-part demonstration of a mental health practitioner interviewing a suicidally depressed hospital patient.

Managing Aggression and Delusions

with Brad Hagen

When patients threaten to become verbally or physically aggressive, it takes a special set of skills to work safely and effectively. In this video, watch two health care providers demonstrate how these skills—or the lack thereof—impact their work.

Managing Dementia and Anxiety

with Brad Hagen

In this video, learn to work calmly and efficiently with patients experiencing the severe agitation of dementia or anxiety. Here, two vignettes contrast the differences between inexperienced and experienced providers, including a counterintuitive method for soothing dementia patients.

Mental Health in Hospitals and Treatment Centers: 5-Video Series

with Brad Hagen

What are the most essential skills and techniques for succeeding with patients in hospitals and treatment centers? Discover the difference between novice unskilled and expert work care for a range of severe conditions in this 5-part video series.

Self-Neglect: What We Can Learn From the Mary Northern Case

with Terra Nova Films

A pioneer case in Adult Protective Services and elder care, the life of Mary Northern, an elderly woman refusing life saving surgery, offers mental health professionals a complex exploration of the limits of self-determination.

Facing Terminal Illness: A Guide for Helping Professionals

with Satir Institute of the Southeast

Virginia Satir's model for the process of change is illustrated in this video through the story of a terminally ill patient and the hospice workers who support her through the process of dying.

Death, Dying & Grief in Psychotherapy: Hospital Consultation with Medically Ill Patients

with Milton Viederman

Watch Milton Viderman, MD, work psychodynamically with skill and empathy with cancer patients in a hospital setting.

Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents: 4-video series

with 0

Do you want to effectively help adolescents change their most destructive behaviors? In this series, learn how to apply motivational interviewing in your work with teens struggling with substance use, health behaviors, delinquency, or the every-day difficulties of this challenging period of life.

It Takes a Team: Integrating Behavioral Health into Primary Care Settings

with Carol Tosone

Learn the mechanics of an integrated behavioral healthcare team treating a patient with medical, mental health, and substance abuse needs, and the important roles social workers play in enabling their patients to access services more seamlessly.

Art Therapy Review Session with Ed, a Cancer Survivor

with Paula Howie

Ed, a long-term cancer survivor, discusses his therapeutic artwork. Articulate and introspective, Ed deliberates about what he was experiencing as well as the physical and psychological issues arising from his long course of treatment for testicular cancer.

Individual Art Therapy in Cancer Care

with Elizabeth Stone

Liz Stone & Cancer Patient

This is a 3-part live-session demonstration film, featuring art therapist Elizabeth Stone and a 55 year-old female cancer patient, Lucette.

Art as Therapy for Cancer

with Janice Kaminsky, Dirk Wales

This collection regales the viewer with a visual feast of three beautifully filmed videos. Each illustrates another facet of art helping individuals to navigate their cancer experience. Art provides an irreplaceable psychological healing experience during the trauma of cancer.

The Arts in Health Care

with James Babanikos, Joan Baranow, Judith Aron Rubin

This grouping of two films about a pioneering Arts in Medicine program is presented along with interviews of two creative arts therapists who work in that program. The touching experiences shared by the patients engaged in expressive arts treatment remind us of why one begins to create in the first place.

Edith Kramer – Art Therapy’s Muse Part 3

with David Henley, Jim Pruznick, Judith Aron Rubin

This video offers an overview of Kramer’s pioneering clinical work in art therapy with children and her unique, effective methods.

Art Therapy for Individuals with AIDS & Cancer

with Ellen Urbani

One might, at first, think that this video is about Occupational Therapy, as we view Roger, a cancer patient, discuss his project with his art therapist. But asked to talk about how therapy helped him to cope with depression, the emotional and psychological tone of the video changes.

The Arts as Therapy in Medicine

with Multiple Therapists

This is a grouping of films focused on the arts as therapy in medicine.

Wheel Art: An Inspired Idea

with Judith Aron Rubin

Wheel art is an inspired and highly therapeutic approach for people of all ages who need to use a wheelchair - invented and implemented by art therapist Mickie McGraw, herself in a wheelchair due to polio at age 11.

Yes You Can: Art-Centered Therapy for People with Disabilities

with Mickie McGraw

Discover the courage, commitment, and creative coping skills of Mickie McGraw who, together with Dr. George Streeter, founded a hospital-based art therapy program that has served as a blueprint for using art therapy to help individuals move forward in the face of daunting medical diagnoses and disabilities.

A Shared Diagnosis: Managing Breast Cancer Together

with Maggie Mulqueen

What clinical choices does a therapist have when both they and their clients are navigating cancer treatment?

Should Transgender Youth Care be Guided by Beliefs or Science?

with Stephen B. Levine

In the volatile domain of transgender care, science often clashes with beliefs and values, leaving mental health professionals with many unanswered questions.

Deciding How to Die: Narrative Therapy in Palliative Care with Someone Considering Stopping Dialysis

with Sasha McAllum Pilkington

Working with dying clients demands that clinicians honor their choices and desires in end-of-life care.

Narrative Therapy in a Cross-Cultural Conversation with Someone Approaching Death

with Sasha McAllum Pilkington

Bridging the distance between herself, a Pakeha" New Zealander, and her client, a Maori" New Zealander, Sasha McAllum Pilkington shows how relationships can mean the difference between life and death.

Countertransference to Sexual and Developmental Trauma in the Psychoanalysis of a Disabled Patient

with Roberta Satow

At the fascinating and complex intersection of polio, psychoanalysis and sexuality, healing begins.

Using A Holistic Approach to Therapy with Clients Experiencing Chronic Illness, Disability, and Mental Health Challenges

with Lavinia Magliocco

Working with clients at the intersection of chronic health problems, disability, and mental health issues offers great challenges and powerful benefits.

Family Therapy with Families Facing Catastrophic Illness: Building Internal and External Resources

with Ellen Pulleyblank Coffey

Dr. Coffey discusses common challenges and interventions for families coping with terminal illness.

Terminally Ill Pediatric Patients and the Grieving Therapist

with Sara Loftin

A pediatric clinician shares the rewards and challenges of working with terminally ill children and their families.

Cancer and The Secret

with Regina Huelsenbeck

Positive thinking isn't everything; life has a rhythm we must honor for our own mental health.

In a Volatile Post-Roe World, Morals and Medicine Clash

with Lawrence Rubin

Psychotherapists working with women's healthcare professionals should understand the conflicting paths of medicine and morality.

Psychotherapy with Medically Ill Patients: Hope in the Trenches

with Tamara McClintock Greenberg

Working with clients who are medically ill not only requires us to learn more about the seemingly distant and disembodied relational aspects of medicine, but also forces us to confront painful existential realities on a daily basis.

Psychotherapy with Older Adults: Unjustified Fears, Unrecognized Rewards

with George Kraus

A geriatric clinical psychologist debunks the stereotypes about working with elderly populations, and shares his discovery of the joy and gratitude that come from intimate contact with wise elders.

Motivational Interviewing in End-of-Life Care

with Ellen Young

A social work intern grapples with a situation that would challenge even an experienced clinician: helping a loving wife decide whether to stop feeding her dying husband of 64 years.

Grief and Gratitude: Working with Stroke Survivors

with Carol Howard Wooton, MFT & Gwyn Fallbrooke

After suffering from a stroke herself, a therapist recounts her journey from patient to professional, culminating in her leading groups for other stroke survivors.

Infertility on Both Sides of the Couch

with Wendy Iglehart

A psychotherapist treats a client struggling with infertility while facing it herself.

After the Diagnosis: Helping Patients Cope With their Emotions

with Gary McClain

Psychotherapist Gary McClain discusses the importance of understanding clients' reactions to new diagnoses, the three main responses they have, and advocating for them with healthcare providers.

Psychotherapy with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients

with Karisa Barrow

With attempted suicide rates greater than 40% in the transgender community, it's important for clinicians to be aware of the issues gender nonconforming clients bring to therapy, and to be knowledgeable about how best to support them. Karisa Barrow challenges therapists to deconstruct the gender binary, identify and work through prejudices, and seek guidance from gender specialists to ensure that we "do no harm."

A Small Hope: Co-creating a Narrative of Grief – Part I *

with Sasha McAllum Pilkington

In the shadow of grief, Sasha Pilkington helps a couple embrace the gift of life along with their impending loss.

A Small Hope: Co-creating a Narrative of Grief - Part II

with Sasha McAllum Pilkington

Following the loss of her husband, a client finds her way back to living fully for herself and her children through narrative storytelling.

Brooklyn Zoo: The Education of a Psychotherapist

with Darcy Lockman

In this excerpt from psychologist Darcy Lockman's book, Brooklyn Zoo: The Education of a Psychotherapist, follow Lockman through an ordinary day as a post-doc at a notorious Brooklyn psychiatric hospital.

Michael Lambert on Preventing Treatment Failures (and Why You're Not as Good as You Think)

Dr. Michael Lambert's groundbreaking work on tracking client outcomes has revealed a huge blindspot for psychotherapists: We don't notice when our patients are getting worse. But he's got the solution if you're willing to try something new.

Gary Greenberg on the DSM and Its Woes

Psychotherapist and muckraking author, Gary Greenberg, shares the critical insights—and skepticism—that formed the basis of his two best-selling books, Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease and The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry.

Psychotherapy with Coronavirus: A Novel Experience

with Natan P F Kellermann

What if Coronavirus were a patient seeking psychotherapy? Warning: Contains irony. Read at your own risk. Not approved by CE credentialing boards.

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