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Couples Therapy

Couples Therapy

RELATIONSHIPS: COUPLES EXPERIENCING COMMITMENT UNCERTAINTY

It is not uncommon for couples to quarrel over issues such as chores or finances. However, such conflicts tend to have underlying, unresolved issues that can easily be mistaken for something else. Therefore, it is essential that therapists have a keen awareness of underlying issues that aren't always expressed out rightly.

In Couples Experiencing Commitment Uncertainty, clinical interventions are led by establishing a secure attachment between partners, and helping couples identify their emotional needs, often hidden amongst conflict.

In this video program, Drs. Johanna Strokoff and Jesse Owen both direct the co-therapy demonstration session by helping a couple express their most authentic and vulnerable desires for comfort, acceptance, and love while also communicating concerns about judgment or abandonment.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2018 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: EMOTION-FOCUSED COUPLE THERAPY

With Rhonda N. Goldman, PhD

For couples undergoing marital distress, common interactional cycles between partners, such as criticizing and withdrawing, can obstruct the emotional engagement needed for secure bonding and partner validation.

An important key in couple therapy is recognizing these patterns as they are occurring and from within a highly validating therapeutic relationship, exploring the underlying, negative emotional and interactional states, and then transforming them into more adaptive cycles that support healthier mutual understanding and bonding.

In this video program, Dr. Rhonda N. Goldman demonstrates her approach to therapy in two sessions, each with a different couple experiencing a conflict marked by a pursuing and distancing cycle and covering deeper emotional wounds. By forming a strong emotional connection with the partners and applying the emotion-focused therapy method that integrates strategies from client-centered, Gestalt, and systemic therapies, Dr. Goldman seeks to help the couples with their unresolved emotional patterns and encourage them toward healthy, positive relational changes.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2018 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: INTEGRATIVE COUPLE THERAPY

With Wachtel, Ellen F.; Wachtel, Paul L.

In this video program, Dr. Ellen F. Wachtel demonstrates her approach to couple therapy, which emphasizes the positives that still exist in the relationship despite the difficulties that have brought the couple to treatment.

Although not ignoring the couple's conflicts and complaints, this strength-based, integrative approach emphasizes the goal of helping each person in the couple to get more of what he or she is longing for, thereby highlighting positives rather than deficiencies, and fostering self-reflection rather than blame.

In this video program, Dr. Ellen Wachtel demonstrates this therapeutic approach with a couple dealing with an impasse in the relationship, while Dr. Paul Wachtel examines and highlights teaching moments taken from the demonstration.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2018 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: FORGIVENESS IN COUPLE THERAPY

With Everett L. Worthington, Jr., PhD, and Steven J. Sandage, PhD

Helping one person to forgive another is among the biggest challenges in therapy, one that may be affected positively or negatively by client religious beliefs or spirituality.

In this video, Drs. Everett Worthington and Steven Sandage discuss how to effectively manage forgiveness within the context of couple therapy. Their evidence-based, spiritually oriented relational approach helps clients collaborate, connect, and work through conflict by analyzing emotional responses across three phases of therapy: uncovering personal resentment, understanding its development, and processing emotional regulation.

This process can lead to a fourth phase where the hurt partner recognizes his or her own need to be forgiven. This model may be integrated into any therapeutic approach, making it useful to students and practitioners of any theoretical orientation.

In this program, Dr. Sandage demonstrates this approach with a couple coping with forgiveness issues, and he and Dr. Worthington discuss the approach and analyze the demonstration session.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2017 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: INTEGRATIVE SYSTEMIC THERAPY WITH COUPLES

With William M. Pinsof, PhD, ABPP, LMFT

In Integrative Systemic Therapy With Couples, Dr. William M. Pinsof demonstrates and discusses an approach that integrates diverse therapeutic strategies and techniques within a multisystemic sequential framework that transcends the notion of the individual, couple, or family.

Integrative systemic therapy intervenes in a client system, working with the members of that system who are directly involved in therapy while simultaneously considering the indirect system, those members of the client system not "in the room."

Although the direct client system in this work is typically the couple, the indirect system in which the couple is embedded - children, parents, siblings, and friends - remains part of the purview of the therapeutic work.

In this video, Dr. Pinsof demonstrates this approach with a young African American married couple coming into therapy to resolve issues surrounding their relationship.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2017 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: INTEGRATIVE BEHAVIORAL COUPLE THERAPY WITH GAY MEN

With Christopher R. Martell, PhD, ABPP

Like heterosexual couples, gay male couples experience issues that may test their relationships. However, gay couples must also deal with additional challenges that are unique to their culture in the context of a heterosexual-majority society, such as discrimination within their communities and work places as well as ostracism from friends or family members. It is essential that the therapist who counsels gay male couples be cognizant of these unique challenges without focusing exclusively on their clients' sexual orientation.

In this video, Dr. Christopher Martell uses integrative behavioral couple therapy to work with an African American gay male couple who are deeply concerned about the current state of their relationship and their overall safety in a community that can be hostile to and may discriminate against gay men.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2015 / 100 minutes

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CULTURALLY SENSITIVE GUIDELINES FOR NON-BLACK THERAPISTS WORKING WITH AFRICAN-AMERICAN COUPLES

With Helm, Katherine; Dermer, Shannon

African-American couples often experience cultural mistrust when working with non-Black counselors, as they may fear being judged, stereotyped, or simply misunderstood. This video provides specific suggestions for how non-Black clinicians can more effectively build rapport and work with African-American couples. It discusses ways in which non-Black clinicians can understand the specific contextual factors impacting African-American couple relationships, how daily microaggressions effect such couple, how to enact culturally sensitive guidelines, types of presenting issues Black couples bring to counseling, how to join with couples, and how to deal with and interpret potential resistance and possible cultural mistrust. The video reviews the importance of being honest, genuine, and empathetic, the strategic use of self-disclosure, and ways to modify current treatment approaches.

DVD / 2014 / 30 minutes

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CULTURALLY SENSITIVE TREATMENT APPROACHES WITH AFRICAN-AMERICAN COUPLES

Counseling literature often speaks of providing diverse clients with culturally sensitive treatment, but rarely breaks down what this means within individual groups. Discussion of culturally sensitive treatment interventions with African-American couples is particularly rare. This program solves this problem by exploring specific culturally sensitive interventions with African-American couples, including identifying specific contextual factors that impact couples, evaluating intimacy threats to the relationship, exploring the connection between family of origin issues and couples issues, and understanding the role of racism, discrimination, and oppression on the couple.

DVD / 2014 / 30 minutes

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RESURRECTING BLACK COUPLES

With Waller, Byron; Dermer, Shannon

Spirituality has always been an important tool for the African-American community to survive and thrive during times of personal challenge and in oppressive environments. In this video, Dr. Waller presents the importance of spirituality and explains how it is used to overcome life challenges. He also explores ways in which a professional counselor can better understand how African-American individuals and couples use spirituality and suggests ways to work spirituality into therapy.

DVD / 2014 / 30 minutes

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THREATS TO INTIMACY IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN COUPLES

With Helm, Katherine; Dermer, Shannon

African-American couples face unique challenges in fostering relationships. This video helps clinicians and those working with African-American couples identify specific threats to intimacy that may be operating in their relationships and may be outside the couple's awareness. Emphasizing the importance of recognizing and laying the groundwork to neutralize these threats, this program covers constructions of Black sexuality, gender stereotypes, SES issues, an unbalanced sex ratio, the extended family, mistrust, and several other identified threats. It also explains that any counseling professional working with African-American couples must be aware of and understand how to help the couple work with these damaging threats.

DVD / 2014 / 30 minutes

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MILITARY AND PTSD, THE: COUNSELING A COUPLE IN CRISIS

With Joshua Taylor

More and more, veterans are surviving the wounds of combat, facing multiple deployments in combat zones, and returning home with PTSD. This video series will help identify the unique issues that our veterans face, particularly the challenges of returning home and adjusting to life outside of the military.

Dr. Joshua Taylor, himself a veteran, explores the causes, symptoms, and treatments of PTSD. He meets with an Asian American couple who is caught off-guard by the significant marital difficulties resulting from the husband's multiple deployments and recurring traumas. The film provides practical solutions to working with a military family and illustrates ways to break down the barriers that veterans have to seeking help.

DVD / 2012 / 60 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: INTEGRATIVE BEHAVIORAL COUPLE THERAPY

With Andrew Christensen, PhD

Integrative behavioral couple therapy (IBCT) is an empirically validated approach that integrates the twin goals of acceptance and change as positive outcomes for couples in therapy. Using a variety of treatment strategies in a consistent behavioral theoretical framework, IBCT's key features include emphases on case formulation, emotional acceptance as a basis for concrete change, and evocative rather than prescriptive interventions.

IBCT is keenly focused on the emotional underpinnings of a couple's problems as the therapist offers a conceptualization of the problem from an IBCT perspective and engages in a variety of strategies to promote greater emotional acceptance as well as concrete change.

In this demonstration, Andrew Christensen works to give the couple a dyadic perspective on their problems and uses the IBCT interventions of empathic joining and unified detachment to evoke compassionate and caring responses from the couple.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2012 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: SCHEMA THERAPY WITH COUPLES

With Jeffrey E. Young, PhD

Schema therapy is an innovative, integrated therapeutic approach, originally developed as an expansion of traditional cognitive-behavioral treatments. This therapeutic method blends the active, structured elements of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with the more depth-oriented and emotion-focused strategies used in other approaches.

In comparison to CBT, schema therapy emphasizes lifelong patterns (or schemas), affective change techniques, and the therapeutic relationship, integrating all of these strategies as opposed to focusing on just one of them.

Schema Therapy With Couples demonstrates this integrative method, in which each partner's schemas are explored to determine how they interact and connect. Dr. Jeffrey E. Young works with a couple to identify the conflicts they experience, how these conflicts are linked to each partner's schemas, and how they can better express to each other what they need in the relationship.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2012 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED COUPLE THERAPY FOR CLIENTS DEALING WITH INFIDELITY

With Sue Johnson, CPsych, EdD

In Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy for Clients Dealing With Infidelity, Sue Johnson demonstrates this experiential, integrative approach for helping couples deal more effectively with feelings of distress and negative interaction patterns so that they may restore trust and develop more secure attachment bonds.

Emotionally focused couple therapy centers on emotions and how partners communicate their emotions to one another. This is a collaborative approach in which the therapist focuses on sitting with the couple as they make sense of their emotions, creating a secure base that facilitates the forgiveness process and the sharing of core fears and needs. The ultimate goal of therapy is to help couples to learn to speak in a direct and open way about their feelings so that they may state their needs and develop a deeper, richer attachment bond.

In this video, Johnson helps a couple as they struggle with issues surrounding infidelity.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2011 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: ENHANCED COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL COUPLE THERAPY

With Donald H. Baucom, PhD

In Enhanced Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy, Dr. Donald H. Baucom demonstrates this approach to working with couples coping with relationship difficulties. Although regular cognitive-behavioral therapy has been useful in working with couples, it has largely neglected the broader patterns and core themes in intimate relationships, such as differences in needs for intimacy. In addition to focusing on a couple's interactive processes, enhanced cognitive-behavioral therapy attends to the two unique individuals, including all that each partner brings to the relationship, as well as to the context in which the relationship exists.

In this session, Dr. Baucom works with a couple who have a history of resistance to vulnerability, helping them to learn to open up and truly listen to each other.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2008 / 100 minutes

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SPECIFIC TREATMENTS FOR SPECIFIC POPULATIONS: COUPLES THERAPY FOR EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIRS

With Don-David Lusterman, PhD

In Couples Therapy for Extramarital Affairs, Dr. Don-David Lusterman demonstrates his empathic, psychoeducational approach to working with couples in which one partner has had an affair. Therapy begins with acknowledgment of the "victim" status of the partner who discovered the affair. Dr. Lusterman then works to restore trust and helps the discoverer to transcend the role of victim by encouraging empathy in the offending partner for the discoverer's feelings. In this session, Dr. Lusterman works with a couple in which the husband has admitted to an affair with a coworker. The emotionally charged nature of this session requires the therapist to actively guide the couple away from the dynamic of blame and blame-avoidance toward honesty and openness.

This program features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of actual case material.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2007 / 100 minutes

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COUPLES THERAPY: AN INTRODUCTION

with Ellyn Bader.and Dan Wiles.

In this videotape, two renowned couples and marriage experts, Dr. Ellyn Bader and Dr. Dan Wile discuss what couples therapy is and what it is not. Dr. Randall Wyatt masterfully engages these experts in the key issues that many couples face when considering couples therapy. In numerous heartwarming stories, they describe the positive changes that can occur in couples therapy, even for couples who appear at first hopelessly deadlocked. They describe the two most common patterns in couples: withdrawal from each other and avoiding dealing with critical issues, or engaging in repeated conflict that leaves each partner hurt and angry. The relationship that each has entered with such excitement and hope has become a painful disappointment.

Despite the hope couple's therapy offers, many couples (or one partner) are reluctant or afraid to seek professional assistance. Couples Therapy: An Introduction can help ease these fears by laying out a roadmap of what the process entails, and providing some reality-based encouragement on what kinds of changes are possible. This videotape will be valued by couples of all types, as well as the therapists and counselors who work with them.

DVD / 2006 / 43 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL COUPLES THERAPY

With Arthur Freeman, EdD

In Cognitive-Behavioral Couples Therapy, Dr. Arthur Freeman demonstrates his approach to working with couples. This is a present-focused therapy that first looks at a couple's past experiences for ways to improve their interpersonal exchanges. Dr. Freeman works from a perspective that motivates a couple to stay together and helps them to focus on this and break away from past patterns of thought and behavior.

In this session, Dr. Freeman works with Kim and Si, a couple having communication difficulties. In addition, because of busy work schedules, the demands of caring for a family of six, and past patterns of interaction, they find it hard to make time to spend together. Dr. Freeman helps foster better communication skills and works with them to focus on the future and move away from past patterns of blame, avoidance, and defensiveness.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: COUPLE POWER THERAPY

With Peter L. Sheras, PhD, ABPP and Phyllis R. Koch-Sheras, PhD

In Couple Power Therapy, Dr. Peter L. Sheras and Dr. Phyllis R. Koch-Sheras demonstrate their positive approach to couples treatment. Rather than focusing merely on correcting specific relationship problems, they work with both partners to help them achieve a shared identity as a couple - an identity that centers on their vision for the future together, not on issues solely from the past that are the most frequent topics of couple sessions.

In this session, Sheras and Koch-Sheras work with a couple who have recently considered divorce. The husband has recommitted himself to the marriage, and his wife has hope that they might be able to make the partnership work. With the aid of the therapists, the couple develops a joint proclamation - a statement that expresses their vision of themselves as a couple. The couple then begins to use this tool to strengthen their commitment to one another. This creates a renewed sense of purpose and specific plans for proceeding in recreating a healthier relationship.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: COUPLES AND ILLNESS

With Tamara Goldman Sher, PhD

In Couples and Illness, Dr. Tamara Goldman Sher demonstrates her approach to working with couples in which one or both partner suffers from an illness. The goal of this therapy is to help the couple understand how the illness or recovery process affects the couple's relationship, and identify resources that will help the couple to cope.

In this session, Dr. Sher helps a couple deal with older relationship issues that have affected their ability to rebound as a couple from the stress of a recent serious illness, concomitant surgery, and the return to health.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: COUPLES AT AN IMPASSE

With Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD; Hosted by Pat Love, EdD

In Couples at an Impasse, Dr. Jon Carlson meets with a couple who have been stuck in an impasse for several months. He uses an optimistic approach that builds on the couple's strengths to help them transcend their impasse. This session demonstrates the four stages of therapy - engagement, assessment, insight, and reorientation. Carlson uses confrontation, or what host Pat Love calls "a velvet hammer," to help the couple to understand how they contribute to their own misery and guides them through strategies to help realize satisfaction.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY WITH COUPLES

With Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD

In Emotionally Focused Therapy With Couples, Leslie S. Greenberg demonstrates his affect-centered approach to working with couples. In this session, Dr. Greenberg works with a couple in their 20s who have been married for 2 years and live with the female partner's family. During the session, the focus shifts from problems with her family to problems with the couple's relationship. By focusing on the couple's problems, Dr. Greenberg helps them to begin to reveal their underlying emotions to each other in order to change their negative interactional pattern.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: OLDER COUPLES

With Paula Hartman-Stein, PhD

In Older Couples, Dr. Paula Hartman-Stein demonstrates her approach to conducting therapy with couples in their later years. Working with older couples involves many issues not common in therapy with younger people, including issues surrounding illness, cognitive impairment, and physical decline, all of which generally cause some stress in marital relationships. Hartman-Stein's approach is to teach couples better ways to cope with the challenges of aging with the resources they have available.

In this session, Dr. Hartman-Stein works with a couple in their early 60s who have become entrenched in negative patterns of interaction. After performing an assessment, she builds rapport with the couple and begins the work of instilling hope.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: WORKING WITH COUPLES CONSIDERING DIVORCE

With William J. Doherty, PhD

In Working With Couples Considering Divorce, Dr. William J. Doherty demonstrates his approach to therapy with couples who are thinking of dissolving their marriages. Dr. Doherty's therapeutic approach is to consider the viewpoints of each member of the couple individually, then to look at them as a unit, and to try to help them resolve the issues that seem to be leading them toward divorce.

In this session, Dr. Doherty works with a couple who have been married for 12 years who have two children. The husband has recently moved out and they are considering divorce. Doherty is able to highlight their ambivalence and manages to get a commitment from each to work for 6 months in therapy before making a decision regarding the marriage. This powerful session is 90 minutes long and involves the therapist working with the couple together, with each partner alone, and then back together.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / 100 minutes

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PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH GAY, LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL CLIENTS PROGRAM 3: RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILIES AND COUPLES COUNSELING

Gay, lesbian, and bisexual couples and families are different from heterosexual couples and families in issues related to their social context and societal stigmatization. Until recently, the couples and family therapy literature has ignored same-sex families and few clinicians have had training in this area.

In this groundbreaking program, you will see:

Dr. Robert Jay Green, an innovative researcher and clinician, emphasize key issues and new approaches in providing mental health services to GLB couples, including relational ambiguity, sexual exclusivity, and development of social support networks.

Dr. Armand Cerbone join Dr. Green in a discussion of how internalized homophobia affects relationships.

Dr. Richard Rodriguez discuss the importance of families of choice for GLB couples.

Dr. Isaiah Crawford, a leading scholar on same-sex parenting, summarize research-based characteristics of GLB family constellations, as well as provide very helpful suggestions on how therapists can provide support to GLB families.

Throughout this program interview clips from same-sex couples, parents and their children are used to illustrate and personalize the important material covered by the expert presenters. This program program will enhance your understanding of GLB relationships and families, allowing you to be more effective in conducting individual and couples therapy with this population.

DVD / 2005 / 37 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: COUPLE THERAPY FOR DEPRESSION

With Mark A. Whisman, PhD

In Couple Therapy for Depression, Dr. Mark A. Whisman shows his approach to treating couples in which one or both partners are experiencing depression. His cognitive-behavioral approach focuses on building relationship skills and behavioral patterns, as behavior can usually be changed more readily than emotions, and oftentimes a change in affect follows a change in behavior.

In this session, Dr. Whisman works with a married couple in which the husband has bipolar disorder and the wife is experiencing depression. Both partners are dealing with issues outside their marriage, including financial demands from ex-spouses. Dr. Whisman works with the couple on discerning the crux of their presenting issues, and then he introduces them to some problem-solving and communication skills so they might support each other more effectively.

DVD / 2005 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: TREATING DIFFICULT COUPLES

With Douglas K. Snyder, PhD

In Treating Difficult Couples, Dr. Douglas K. Snyder demonstrates his approach to working with difficult couples - those experiencing deficiencies in relational skills, a major life crisis, or longstanding and counterproductive relational patterns. Because of the complexity of this couples therapy, the approach involves multiple therapeutic modalities, requiring therapists to combine two or three approaches for any given couple. The primary goal of this approach is to help difficult couples to understand themselves and each other as partners.

In this session, Dr. Snyder works with Mary and Gary, a couple who, although they are 50 years old, have only been married several years. Mary has been diagnosed with cancer, and it has infiltrated much of her body, including her brain. Dr. Snyder helps this couple deal with the emotional impact of Mary's illness on their lives, something they have not faced because they have been too caught up in the daily tasks of medical care, family life, and work.

DVD / 2005 / 100 minutes

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BRIEF THERAPY FOR ADDICTIONS: COUPLES THERAPY FOR ADDICTIONS - A COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL APPROACH

By Barbara S. McCrady, PhD

See Barbara S. McCrady work with a couple struggling with addiction in an actual couples therapy session.

Dr. McCrady reminds us that alcohol and drug problems always exist in a context that includes families and relationships, and that couples therapy is an important model for working with addictions. Dr. McCrady uses a behavioral approach that helps the client change his or her addictive behaviors, helps the partner learn to respond differently, and helps the couple change the relationship itself. In this program, Dr. McCrady works with a young couple trying to change behaviors related to alcohol and marijuana use. Jon Carlson and Judy Lewis introduce Dr. McCrady, and facilitate an in-depth discussion of the further impact and uses of the model.

From watching this program, you will:

Develop an understanding of the key concepts of Couples Therapy for Addictions and its relevance in addictions counseling today.

Gain insight into McCrady's therapy style, and how she helps clients change their addictions by fostering change in their relationships.

Learn how to apply couples therapy to help your clients successfully tackle their addictions.

DVD / 2000 / 116 minutes

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SOLUTION-FOCUSED INTERVIEW WITH A VIOLENT COUPLE

By Lipchik, Eve

A substance abusing couple who have a history of violence have just completed a residential treatment program.Their therapist accompanies them for this solution-focused consultation.Annotated with information about this method.

DVD / 60 minutes

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ACTION METHODS IN COUPLES THERAPY

By Daniel Wiener

We frequently struggle to help our clients get out of their heads and into the present moment. Improvisation is a powerful tool in the therapy room to help people let go of their fixed identities and experience more freedom, spontaneity, and aliveness. It is especially useful with couples, who often get stuck in limiting relational patterns. In this video, you get to see the transformation of a married couple as they participate in various theater games that help them creatively explore common themes that most couples face, such as: power, competition, dealing with differences, vulnerability, conflict, mutuality, and sex. Dr. Wiener will show you how to create a safe space for your clients to experiment with different ways of being and how to facilitate insight-oriented discussions about the exercises, so that they can discover a host of options and possibilities they never knew they had.

Although many innovators in our field claim that their approaches work for all populations, Wiener freely (and refreshingly) admits that many couples are not open or interested in trying out these exercises; but these improvisations techniques are indeed a valuable resource to have in your therapy toolbox. If you find yourself feeling restless with therapy as usual, this video may add some creative spark to your practice.

By watching this video, you will:

Understand the components of Rehearsals for Growth™ and how to apply these improvisational techniques to assessment and therapy with couples.

Learn how to facilitate discussions that will enrich each couple's understanding of their relational tendencies, enabling them to try out new ways of being.

Find more ease in transitioning between action methods and talk therapy.

DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 99 minutes

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CASE OF A COUPLE OF FRIENDS, MILAN SYSTEMIC, THE

By Goolishian, Harry

The work of the new Milan Systemic therapy is demonstrated in this training program. The session is a reenactment of the transcribed hour, with Dr. Boscolo himself delivering the epilogue. A couple with the presenting complaint of not enough sex, money or time receive a consult which yields much new information from questions asked by Dr. Boscolo. That the systemic questioning process is an intervention is demonstrated in this interview. Narrative and graphics detail theory, methods and techniques of the Milan Systemic Therapy

DVD / 56 minutes

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COUPLES THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS: BEHAVIORAL COUPLES THERAPY

By Richard Stuart

Richard Stuart demonstrates his integrative approach to Behavioral Couples Therapy in an actual couples therapy session.

Stuart utilizes basic principles of Behavioral Therapy to empower clients to change their own behaviors and develop insight and understanding into how what they do influences the behavior of others.

In this program, Stuart works with Adele and Wesley, a couple with many elements of a successful marriage but struggling to find a way to stay together. While issues from her past trouble Adele, Wesley feels hurt and rejected and does not know how to recapture his loving feelings for his wife.

Using information derived from a brief developmental history as well as pre-session questionnaires, Stuart is able to quickly dive into the language and metaphor of each client - using anecdotes and personal stories to reflect his understanding. He then moves on to identify each of their primary concerns, and reframe their understanding of problematic behaviors. After negotiating strategies for achieving a mutually desired solution, the clients are then asked to engage in specific behavioral changes that can be evaluated the following week.

Consistently focusing on their strengths and the positive aspects of their marriage, Stuart helps the couple re-commit to each other in order to successfully undertake the behavioral changes asked for.

By watching this program, you will be able to:

Describe the specific techniques used in Stuart's approach to couples therapy.

Identify the basic principles of Stuart's Integrative Behavioral approach to couples therapy.

Explain how a clinician employing Stuart's approach would conduct an initial session with a couple.

DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 120 minutes

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COUPLES THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS: STRATEGIC COUPLES THERAPY

By James Coyne

James Coyne demonstrates Strategic Couples Therapy in an actual session with a gay couple. Watch this master therapist and learn the basic principles of Strategic Therapy, which seeks to help the couple develop a problem-solving strategy tailored to their specific concerns and values.

Hugh and Alan have been together more than a decade, and now find themselves ready to work on some of the more persistent annoyances in their relationship. Coyne illustrates many core Strategic Therapy techniques, including meeting with each partner individually prior to bringing them in together, describing the problem explicitly and concisely, investigating all solutions that have been previously tried, defining a clear and concrete change to be achieved and formulating and implementing a strategy for change.

Coyne demonstrates other techniques such as reframing, and gives Hugh and Alan a paradoxical homework assignment: permission to do what they are already doing in order to view their conflicts as an opportunity for change. The therapy session is both preceded and followed by an in-depth exploration of the principles of Strategic Therapy and a discussion of Coyne's own thought process and methodology.

By watching this program, you will:

Describe Coyne's approach to couples therapy, including the specific techniques used in Strategic Therapy.

Identify the basic principles of Strategic Therapy.

Explain how a clinician employing a Strategic Therapy approach would conduct an initial session with a couple in conflict.

DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 120 minutes

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EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY WITH SAME-SEX COUPLES

By Sue Johnson

The therapeutic needs of same-sex couples are given some long-overdue attention in this masterful video with EFT originator Dr. Sue Johnson, who offers fresh hope to a gay and a lesbian couple using her signature framework for repairing the partners' emotional "dance."

The underlying assumption in Emotionally Focused Therapy, says expert couples therapist Dr. Sue Johnson, is that vulnerable emotions, emotion regulation strategies, and attachment needs and fears are universal. In this illuminating new video, Johnson applies her groundbreaking therapeutic framework to the relationship difficulties of two same-sex couples, one gay and one lesbian.

Tim and Andrew, along with Jamie and Kelly, have participated in a handful of EFT sessions to understand their seemingly deep-seated conflicts and salvage their partnerships - or to decide once and for all if that's even possible. In consultation with their respective therapists, Johnson enters the room for an extended session with each couple, where she masterfully helps deconstruct their relationship patterns, meticulously tracks each partner to reveal their core attachment messages, and employs direct communication tactics to guide them closer to the "safe haven" of a mutually satisfying bond. All this is done with a trusting working alliance and empathic attention to the issues same-sex couples face - which you'll learn more about by watching Johnson's unique panel discussion with three other EFT therapists.

If you're looking to increase your skill with same-sex couples or gain deeper insight into the EFT model for partners of any sexual orientation, you'll love this engaging and culturally important video.

By watching this video, you will:

Understand how the core attachment orientation of EFT fits with same-sex couples.

Learn to apply essential EFT interventions to these couples.

Deepen your knowledge of the particular issues same-sex partners face, and ways to adapt EFT to address these issues.

2 DVDs (With Instructor's Manual) / 220 minutes

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RECOVERING FROM AN AFFAIR: 6 SESSIONS OF COUPLES THERAPY

By Richard Schwartz

What really happens in therapy over time? Watch from the front row as Richard Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems Therapy, conducts six full-length sessions with a real couple facing a devastating crisis.

Renee and Dennis, married for sixteen years, enter treatment a month after Renee discovered Dennis had been having an affair. This video documents their entire course of therapy, as Schwartz demonstrates how to help a couple work through this difficult issue.

See how Schwartz helps Renee and Dennis gradually identify the key parts of themselves that interfere with their ability to be intimate with each other; for instance, Dennis's "minimizer" part activates Renee's rageful "Cruella" part by concealing and trivializing the details of his affair. While they still have work to do by the end of the sixth session, you'll be impressed with how far this couple has come with Schwartz's expert guidance.

The video also includes Schwartz's introduction to the principles and techniques of Internal Family Systems Therapy, along with his commentary after each session, giving the viewer an opportunity to hear why he chose specific interventions.

By watching this video, you will be able to:

Help couples identify their own parts that get in the way of getting and staying close to each other,

Create a safe atmosphere for couples to drop their defenses and engage in Self-to-Self connection,

Apply IFS principles to your own countertransference reactions so you can be more present with your clients.

2 DVDs (With Instructor's Manual) / 332 minutes

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TESTIMONY THERAPY: WORKING WITH AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN COUPLE IN CRISIS

This video introduces students to a discursive approach to therapy similar to Narrative, Solution Focused and other discursive therapies with a special focus on a series of interview questions called the four healing questions. In the video you will learn the basic theoretical principals of testimony work, and the significance of the four healing questions. You will also find a demonstration of testimony therapy and the healing questions in the first session with a couple seeking help.Testimony therapy, developed by Dr. Makungu Akinyela is an Africentric system of therapy grounded in the experiences, history and cultural knowledge of the African American community. Dr. Akinyela points out however that while it is specific in it's cultural grounding as are all approaches to therapy, Testimony therapy is universal in it's application possibilities. In much the same way that African, Asian, Latin and Native American people might learn from and expand upon the methods of European and Anglo-American therapists, it is hoped that these therapists can learn from and find useful the work of Testimony therapy and other non-western approaches to therapeutic work.

DVD / 64 minutes

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