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Neurodiversity-Affirming Play Therapy with Children and Teens

with Robert Jason Grant

There is growing awareness that the traditional deficit-based therapeutic mindset that pathologizes neurological differences such as autism and ADHD often lead to poor mental health outcomes. Learn how to help young neurodivergent clients thrive by using neurodiversity-affirming play practices that build therapeutic connection and emphasize collaboration and validation. Empower neurodivergent children and teens with play interventions tailored to support their unique needs and celebrate their strengths all while having fun.

Earn 5.00 CE Credits

Solution-Focused Techniques with a Child

with Sam Steen

Young children can get locked into ineffectual ways of solving problems that only escalate conflicts within the family. By teaching them simple, playful solution-focused skills, you can help build their self-confidence and strengthen their relationships.

Guiding Pre-Teens in Career Exploration: A Creative Arts Approach

with Natalya A. Lindo, Peggy Ceballos

Start your pre-teen clients on their journey down the path of career development with CACCI, a creative, play-based group training program designed to help adolescents develop self-knowledge and skill awareness.

Earn 2.00 CE Credits

Counseling Adolescents: Exploring Intersections of Race and Sexuality

with Sam Steen

How can you work effectively with a young client who is no longer a child but not yet a teenager, especially when complex issues of sexuality and race arise? Learn how to build effective therapeutic alliances with your adolescent clients that will create a safe space for exploration, insight, and growth.

Earn 1.50 CE Credits

Child Therapy with the Experts: 11-Video Series

See many of the world's leading experts in child therapy and counseling conduct actual sessions. This one-of-a-kind series allows you to compare the theories and techniques of a wide range of approaches, including CBT, Gestalt, Narrative, Object Relations, and others.

Making Child Therapy Work

with Robin Walker

Watch master child therapist Robin Walker model therapeutic play with children in a series of vignettes aimed at helping therapists develop authentic, empathic, fun-filled relationships with kids.

Earn 1.50 CE Credits

Solution-Focused Techniques with a Pre-Teen

with Sam Steen

As their autonomy increases, pre-teens need effective skills to solve problems in and outside of the home. Learn how to harness the simple power of Solution Focused Therapy by watching Sam Steen work with 12-year-old Ella.

Person-Centered Career Exploration with a Pre-Teen

with Sam Steen

Learn how to introduce conversations around career direction and skill identification with your pre-teen clients without adding to the pressures they already experience.

Child Therapy: Tools, Toys and Techniques

with Paris Goodyear-Brown, Scott Riviere and Janine Shelby

Simply learning the theories of child development and therapy does not make us better or even more effective child therapists. Watch and learn from a talented trio of child clinicians as they demonstrate 10 playful, creative and interactive techniques for connecting with children and helping them cope with sadness, anger, anxiety and trauma.

Child Therapy Case Consultation

with Violet Oaklander

In this live consultation, you will get a tangible sense of how Violet Oaklander works with a variety of children, while gaining practical skills to bring back to your own clients immediately.

Using Family Play Genograms in Psychotherapy

with Monica McGoldrick

Do you want a powerful new tool to enhance your work with children and families? Watch, learn, and enjoy as master family therapist Monica McGoldrick explains how to use family play genograms.

Group Counseling with Children: A Multicultural Approach

with Sam Steen, PhD, & Sheri Bauman, PhD

Watch this diverse group of children engage in activities and discussions that increase their awareness of their own cultures and their appreciation for differences.

The War Within: Youth Depression

with Educational Video Center

This video presents an honest look into the experiences of black and Latino young people living with depression. Candid interviews of real patients and expert professionals illustrate the struggle these youths face in families and communities often blind to mental health matters.

Gestalt Therapy with Children

with Violet Oaklander

Watch Gestalt child therapist Violet Oaklander in an actual counseling session with a 13-year old boy who has difficulty expressing anger.

Earn 1.75 CE Credits

Solution-Focused Child Therapy

with John J. Murphy

Watch Solution-Focused child therapist John J. Murphy in an actual counseling session with two boys and their mother.

Group Counseling with Adolescents: A Multicultural Approach

with Sam Steen, PhD, & Sheri Bauman, PhD

Over the course of eight sessions with a multicultural group of eighth graders, Drs. Sam Steen and Sheri Bauman offer child therapists a thorough picture of the issues adolescents face and ways to deepen connection with them.

Cognitive-Behavioral Child Therapy

with Bruce Masek

Watch Cognitive Behavioral child therapist Bruce Masek in an actual counseling session with a 6-year old girl and her mother.

Involving Children in Child Protection Casework

with Andrew Turnell

Giving children a voice in safety planning after family violence can be tricky terrain for social workers. Andrew Turnell uses a wizard, a fairy, and three houses and gets astonishing results.

Effective Safety Planning in Child Protection Casework

with Andrew Turnell

One of the more challenging jobs of a social worker is ensuring a child’s safety following in-home violence. This video takes you step-by-step through the process in an accessible and straight-forward way that includes the child’s input.

Earn 1.50 CE Credits

Consultation: Creating School Based Interventions

with Jon Carlson and Don Dinkmeyer, Jr.

If your work involves children—either directly or indirectly—understanding how to consult with parents and teachers is a crucial clinical task. Here, watch two seasoned experts present key ideas and interventions for conducting successful school-based consultations.

ADHD in the Classroom: Assessment and Intervention: 2-Video Series

Watch expert ADHD psychologists assess and implement a treatment for a boy struggling with ADHD in school.

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.

Adlerian Play Therapy

with Terry Kottman

Watch Adlerian child therapist Terry Kottman in an actual play therapy session with a 5-year old boy.

Narrative Therapy with Children

with Stephen Madigan

Watch expert Narrative therapist Stephen Madigan in an actual counseling session with a perfectionist 10-year old boy and his mother.

Object Relations Child Therapy

with David Scharff

Watch renowned Object Relations psychotherapist David Scharff in an actual counseling session with an 11-year old boy who is grieving the death of his grandmother.

Person-Centered Child Therapy

with Anin Utigaard

Watch Person-Centered child therapist Anin Utigaard in an actual counseling session with a shy eight-year-old girl.

Reality Therapy with Children

with Robert Wubbolding

Watch reality therapist Robert Wubbolding in an actual counseling session with a 15-year old boy.

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.

Behind Closed Doors: Children Who Witness Violence

with Victoria Women's Transition House Society

This eye-opening video offers strong clinical information on how children are affected by witnessing violence, and outlines useful interventions proven to be effective in the healing process.

Adlerian Parent Consultation

with Jon Carlson

Watch Jon Carlson conduct an actual parent consultation session and an actual parenting group with moms who are in power struggles with their teenage children.

Through the Eyes of a Child: Reducing the Trauma of Child Removal

with Tam Communications

This straightforward teaching tool addresses the little-discussed process of removing children from their homes when they are in serious danger. It offers the essential facts and the dos and dont's of handling these very delicate situations.

Assessing ADHD in the Schools

with George J. DuPaul, Gary Stoner

Watch expert ADHD clinicians bring a multi-method approach to assessing ADHD in a school setting.

Child Abuse and Neglect: 2-Video Series

Learn the signs of child abuse and neglect, as well as how to assess and treat families where it occurs, in this important 2-video set.

Child Protection Casework: 2-Video series

One of the more challenging jobs of a social worker is ensuring a child’s safety following in-home violence, and it's best done by including the whole family in the process. These videos take you step-by-step through the process in an accessible and straight-forward way that includes the child’s input.

Classroom Interventions for ADHD

with George J. DuPaul, Gary Stoner

Watch psychologist and ADHD expert Russel Barkley implement a treatment plan in a school setting for a boy struggling with ADHD.

Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Disruptive Child and Adolescent Behavior

with Timothy Bruce, Arthur Jongsma, Jr.

Working with troubled children can stir up deep emotions and challenge our ability to stay grounded and empathic. Learn evidence-based planning for Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder in this video, complete with live vignettes and commentary.

Joshua: When Anger Turns to Violence

with Calamari Productions

Get an unprecedented look inside the juvenile justice system as you watch a thirteen-year-old boy's real juvenile hearing after assaulting his mother.

Of Rocks and Flowers: Dealing with the Abuse of Children

with Virginia Satir

Family therapy pioneer Virginia Satir helps a family struggling with separation and abuse in this dynamic, moving session.

Sidney Bijou on Behavioral Child Therapy

with Sidney Bijou

Sidney Bijou, often credited as the founder of child behavioral therapy, reveals here in conversation with Steven Hayes how he came to develop new treatments for autism and other developmental disorders. Examining his findings across child development fields, Bijou makes recommendations for the next generations of educators, parents, and psychologists.

The Virginia Satir Series: 5-Video Series

In these dynamic videos from the Virginia Satir Series, watch renowned psychotherapist Virginia Satir present her pioneering views on the essential ingredients of successful therapy to a group of students, then conduct therapy with families struggling with abuse, substance use, and parenting conflicts.

Art & Drama Therapy: Child Life Inservice Workshop

with Judith Rubin, PhD & Eleanor Irwin, PhD

This video shows excerpts from a workshop conducted by Judy Rubin, an art therapist, and Ellie Irwin, a drama therapist, with 9 Child Life Therapists and a Music Therapist at a Children’s Hospital. The group is led in art and drama activities, illustrating possible interventions with seriously ill children. In addition to the potential use of the specific exercises, instruction is offered throughout about basic principles for sensitivity and success in ways of incorporating art and drama more safely and effectively. Staff members are invited to raise questions during the training.

Art & Drama Sessions with Two Young Families

with Judith Rubin, PhD & Eleanor Irwin, PhD

Videotaped sessions from two families show similarities and differences in art and drama family sessions, but interactional patterns and conflicts are illustrated in both, including issues of dominance/submission; victim/aggressor; problem-maker/problem-solver.

Art Therapy with Blind Children

with Judith Aron Rubin

This video tells the story of an exploratory art program in a school for blind children with multiple disabilities. Exceeding all expectations regarding their abilities, they express powerful feelings in and through their art.

Individual & Joint Art Therapy with Mother & Child

with Laura Greenstone, Judith Aron Rubin, Cindi Westendorf

Three art therapists demonstrate how to involve family in the process of art therapy as the young patients express grief and adolescent angst.

Individual Child Therapy: Art & Sandtray

with Judith Rubin, PhD & Eleanor Irwin, PhD, Carole Kunkle-Miller

While many arts therapists doing child assessments have adequate play space and an abundance of play materials, this is not always the case. This video showcases how therapists can help a child make up a personalized story or fantasy regardless of abundancy of materials.