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Psychology and Counseling


Family Therapy



RELATIONSHIPS: RESTORING TRUST AFTER INFIDELITY

With Lawrence Josephs, PhD

Infidelity in any relationship creates devastating feelings of loss and betrayal, and can potentially result in insecure attachment bonds and subsequent separation or divorce. Couples seeking therapeutic intervention want to recover and repair the rupture, but often times are not sure how to push past what seems like an impasse - the betrayed partner suffers from hurt and anger, while the unfaithful partner suffers from shame and guilt.

In Restoring Trust After Infidelity, Dr. Lawrence Josephs demonstrates his integrative mentalization-based approach for helping couples manage conflicts and emotional dysregulation.

In the therapy demonstration, Dr. Josephs works with a couple engaged to be married who have suffered from issues stemming from infidelity. Applying his approach, Dr. Josephs helps the couple to effectively manage negative interaction patterns and begin to restore trust and develop more secure attachment bonds.


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2017 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: WORKING WITH ISSUES IN DIVORCE

With Jay Lebow, PhD, ABPP

Divorce is stressful for partners, children, and other family members, causing problematic thoughts and behaviors. High levels of conflict often occur, usually surrounding difficulties in establishing the structure crucial in post-divorce life, such as the custody of children, how much time children spend in each parent's household, and other coparenting factors.

For this reason, it is not uncommon for one or both partners to come into therapy seeking help. Dr. Jay Lebow's approach requires first generating a comprehensive picture of what is occurring in the entire family - including those not in the room - and only then developing a plan for helping each family member. The central therapeutic task is to help clients best use available resources to ameliorate the difficulties they are experiencing.

In Working With Issues in Divorce, Dr. Lebow demonstrates this pragmatic, integrative system for working with families struggling through divorce.


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2017 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: ATTACHMENT-BASED FAMILY THERAPY

With Guy S. Diamond, PhD

Attachment-based family therapy (ABFT) aims to repair interpersonal ruptures and rebuild emotionally protective, secure relationships between family members. With its unique emphasis on the adolescent's developmental need for attachment and autonomy, ABFT aims to facilitate corrective attachment experiences within the therapy session.

Although the model is trauma-focused and process-oriented, it provides a clear structure for this reparative process. In this video, Dr. Guy S. Diamond discusses the core ABFT principles and clinical strategies, the theoretical basis of the approach, and the evidence base that supports it.

In the demonstration, Dr. Diamond works closely with a mother, a father, and their teenage daughter as they cope with the daughter's struggle with depression and her suicide attempt. Dr. Diamond listens attentively to all family members and then encourages the parents to focus on rebuilding an emotionally protective family structure for their daughter.

This DVD features clients portrayed by actors on the basis of a composite of several cases.


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2014 / 100 minutes

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SPECIFIC TREATMENTS FOR SPECIFIC POPULATIONS: FUNCTIONAL FAMILY THERAPY FOR HIGH-RISK ADOLESCENTS

With James F. Alexander, PhD

In Functional Family Therapy for High-Risk Adolescents, James F. Alexander demonstrates his approach to working with families that have teenage children exhibiting behavior issues and associated emotional disruptions.

Teens with behavior problems are one of the most difficult populations with whom therapists work, as adolescents and their families frequently enter treatment against their will, either under legal order or at strong insistence of authority figures such as school administrators. Family interactions can be hostile, and a sense of hopelessness is not uncommon.

Dr. Alexander's approach involves working to increase family motivation to change by disrupting negative attributions they may have about themselves and other family members and replacing these with more positive and adaptive attributions.

In this video, Dr. Alexander works with a mother, father, and their 15-year-old son, who has been exhibiting behavior problems such as drug use and school truancy and who has recently been charged with breaking and entering. The session focuses not only on the son, but also the mother and father, whose relationship has been under significant strain for years due to the mother's own substance use and frequent disappearances from the family.

This DVD features clients portrayed by actors on the basis of a composite of several cases.


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2014 / 100 minutes

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SYSTEMS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY: ATTACHMENT-BASED PSYCHOTHERAPY IN PRACTICE

With Peter C. Costello, PhD

Early attachment experiences with our primary caregivers shape the adults that we become. The goals of attachment-based psychotherapy are to address the limiting effects of negative early attachment experiences and to strengthen the capacity for secure relationships and adaptive actions in the world.

To do this, the therapist first establishes a security-engendering therapeutic relationship with the patient and then within that relationship helps the client to elaborate and express the types of communications, emotions, perceptions, and behaviors that were defensively excluded in earlier, formative relationships with attachment figures. As a result, the client becomes better able to communicate openly and accurately and to access more adaptive feelings, thoughts, and behaviors in his or her own life.

In this video, Dr. Peter C. Costello discusses the theoretical basis of attachment-based psychotherapy, and explores with a client the origins of her inability to communicate her needs and fears to those on whom she most depends.


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2014 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: STEPFAMILY THERAPY IN PRACTICE

With Scott Browning, PhD

Stepfamilies and first families have markedly different dynamics and developmental cycles, and clinicians too often approach stepfamily work with insufficient understanding of these differences.

Scott Browning's stepfamily therapy model differs from standard practice in its emphasis on stabilizing each family subsystem before moving on to more integrative work with the whole stepfamily. This model holds that stepfamilies are especially aided by comprehending the systemic dynamics that influence them, and that this understanding mitigates frustration with differences in personality style and leads to recognizing the importance of every family member's role. Specific interventions used by the therapist normalize the experiences of family members, which helps to shift perceptions and clarify intentions.

In this demonstration, Dr. Browning helps a stepfamily to normalize their experience, increase empathy among stepfamily members, identify mistaken beliefs and misperceptions that cause tension, and uncover techniques to avert issues that create impasses.


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2013 / 100 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: COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL FAMILY THERAPY

With Frank M. Dattilio, PhD, ABPP

When applied to families, the cognitive-behavioral therapeutic approach examines the interactional dynamics of family members and how they contribute to family functioning and dysfunction. In Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy, Dr. Frank M. Dattilio demonstrates a single-session intervention with a single mother and her three sons, identifying some of the automatic thoughts and schemas that exist among these family members.

This DVD depicts the manner in which a cognitive-behavioral approach can be addressed within a family structure, with the therapist engaging the family and highlighting issues that involve emotions, beliefs, and behavioral exchange.


DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2011 / 100 minutes

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ASSESSMENT AND ENGAGEMENT IN FAMILY THERAPY

By Monica McGoldrick

Whether you're new to family therapy or seeing a new family client, you need a clear and effective framework to navigate this often treacherous terrain. In this new video, legendary family therapist and genogram innovator Monica McGoldrick demonstrates how to engage and assess a family in the initial stage of treatment.

The systems approach to family therapy has taken root over the past half-century as a prominent and trusted assessment framework. Even as other methods have entered the field, the systems perspective-including the genogram-remains a reliable way of understanding the complex relationships and rich histories that characterize a family. While we now largely accept that family dynamics can influence individual members' healing capacities, we can still feel mystified by how to actually begin a course of family therapy. In this excellent new video resource, family systems expert Monica McGoldrick offers practical tools to help you move forward with adolescents and their families. Over five clinical sessions with the Zapata family, she demonstrates how to integrate specific techniques into treatment focused on helping family clients manage not just their presenting issues, but also the systems-oriented background concerns that underlie them.

To start, McGoldrick outlines the key principles of early-stage systems therapy and discusses the many judgment calls a family therapist must make. Covering genogram application, the need (or not) for risk assessment, separating family members during a session, and more, McGoldrick illustrates the collaborative yet directive, client-engaging nature of the approach. You'll also find helpful commentary in which McGoldrick generously discusses her frustrations in session and then shows how to clinically address them.

This video is an essential tool for clinicians who want useful strategies for systems therapy, adolescent therapy and risk assessment, or family-based alliance building.

By watching this video, you will:
  • Get an expert perspective on systems therapy and its application to adolescents and their families.
  • Learn how to engage parents in a discussion about their respective backgrounds and its collective impact.
  • Find helpful tips for working with immigrant client populations.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 241 minutes

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    EXPERIENTIAL FAMILY THERAPY

    By Carl Whitaker

    Learn from groundbreaking family therapist Carl Whitaker as he conducts two riveting and instructive initial interviews with a family seeking treatment for their son's ADHD. You can't help but be awed and inspired as you watch this true master in action.

    With a focus on process over progress, a co-created experiential field, and a therapeutic power exchange with the family, Carl Whitaker demonstrates a playfully ruthless brand of family therapy in this two-session video. His own past suicide attempt, "this ADD thing" the son experiences, dad's leveraging his polio for psychological gain, and mom's "conning" people into various states of unconscious compliance all get addressed here, as the renowned family therapist presents a rare live glimpse into the approach that's influenced a generation of subsequent clinicians.

    You'll be shocked and delighted throughout this video-it's truly a classic example of groundbreaking therapy from a one-of-a-kind clinician. While every therapist must ultimately develop their own style congruent with their personality, watching a vibrant master like Whitaker can inspire you to find your own voice-and not have it be squelched as you try to adhere to a specific orientation or manualized treatment.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Discover the theoretical underpinnings of Whitaker's pioneering approach.
  • Understand the major characteristics of the therapeutic system with regard to families.
  • Identify the four essential steps of the family therapy process.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 130 minutes

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    FAMILY THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS: ADLERIAN FAMILY THERAPY

    By James Bitter

    Watch James Bitter masterfully demonstrate Alfred Adler's values and techniques in an actual therapy session with a family caught in a typical power struggle, followed by a fascinating discussion of the nuances of this influential approach to helping families thrive.

    By watching this video you will:
  • Learn how to integrate an Adlerian approach into your own therapeutic work with families.
  • Develop an understanding of the key components of Adlerian Family Therapy, including how to conduct a "Typical Day" assessment and the role of birth order in understanding families.
  • Gain insight into how to adopt an encouraging attitude by reframing problems into possibilities.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 115 minutes

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    FAMILY THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS: BOWENIAN FAMILY THERAPY

    By Philip Guerin

    Watch Dr. Guerin masterfully conducting a live family therapy session, followed by an illuminating discussion about his innovative and sophisticated approach to Bowenian Family Therapy.

    As noted above, Pam clearly has some sort of developmental disability, although it is unclear what the nature of her deficit is. But it is quite striking to notice how Guerin finds a way to engage her as a full adult member of the family, not talking down to her in any way, and in doing so provides effective modeling for the parents. Note that this is the same family as in the video Structural Family Therapy featuring Harry Aponte, so it is interesting to contrast the styles of these two master therapists.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Learn the theoretical components of Bowenian Family Therapy.
  • Identify specific techniques and interventions characteristic of Bowenian Family Therapy.
  • Observe how a clinician employing a Bowenian Therapy approach conducts an initial family therapy session.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 117 minutes

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    FAMILY THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS: EMPOWERMENT FAMILY THERAPY

    By Frank Pittman

    Do you want to be more effective at empowering your clients to make the changes in their lives that will get them what they really want? Dr. Frank Pittman is one of the most passionate therapists around when it comes to helping people take responsibility for their lives, as you'll see in this live couples therapy session.

    If there's one thing Pittman can't stand, it's a therapeutic approach that enhances a client's sense of being a victim. Empowerment Therapy is a character-building experience in which therapists tell clients that they are responsible for what they do -- no matter how they feel, no matter what's happened to them. If you're reaching your limit with clients who aren't making the changes they claim to want to make, spend a little time with Frank Pittman in this video: his no-nonsense approach to change may be just the inspiration you and your clients need.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Learn how to develop a therapeutic relationship with clients that empowers them to make the changes they want in their lives.
  • Develop an understanding of how to negotiate a family's resistance to change.
  • Discover how to help parents make responsible decisions that are in their family's long-term best interest.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 114 minutes

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    FAMILY THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS: INTEGRATIVE FAMILY THERAPY

    By Kenneth V. Hardy

    Watch Integrative Family Therapy in action as Kenneth V. Hardy masterfully applies his holistic approach in an actual family therapy session with a single African-American mother and her teenage daughter.

    By watching this video you will:
  • Develop an understanding of the key tenets of Integrative Family Therapy, including: embracing a "both/and" philosophy; looking for the "pearls of functionality;" and the significance of the broader social context.
  • Gain insight into Kenneth Hardy's therapeutic style and how he brings together various theories of family therapy.
  • Learn how to apply an Integrative approach to your own therapeutic work with families.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 117 minutes

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    FAMILY THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS: NARRATIVE FAMILY THERAPY

    By Stephen Madigan

    Ollie is a 12 year-old African-American boy who has been court-ordered to therapy after hitting his classmate with his belt. Watch Stephen Madigan, expert Narrative therapist, as he compassionately engages Ollie and his mother in a fascinating inquiry into their experience of racism, discovering there's much more to this incident than meets the eye.

    Madigan shares a refreshing approach to therapy that genuinely honors the individual's experience. A great tool for learning the theory and techniques of Narrative Therapy, this video is also an exceptional example of how to truly listen to your clients. At the end of this family therapy session, the mother says to Madigan, "I didn't know we would get to tell the story but it is a true story." This session reminds us how healing it can be for people to have a space to tell their stories to a concerned and interested listener, and Madigan teaches us how to create that space.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Learn how to conduct a therapeutic interview using Narrative Therapy techniques such as deconstruction, re-authoring, and identifying communities of concern.
  • Understand the significance of privileging the client's understanding of the problem and how to do this in an effective way.
  • Develop skills for engaging clients in conversations about how socio-political issues such as racism play a role in the problems they are currently facing.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 112 minutes

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    FAMILY THERAPY WITH THE EXPERTS: STRUCTURAL FAMILY THERAPY

    By Harry Aponte

    Watch Harry J. Aponte, a highly regarded therapist who worked closely with Salvador Minuchin, demonstrate his unique approach to Structural Therapy in this compelling family therapy session.

    By watching this video, you will:
  • Learn the theoretical components of Structural Family Therapy.
  • Identify specific techniques and interventions characteristic of Structural Family Therapy.
  • Observe how a clinician employing a Structural Therapy


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 114 minutes

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    HARNESSING THE POWER OF GENOGRAMS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

    By Monica McGoldrick

    Watch master family therapist Monica McGoldrick, MSW, create a genogram on the spot in this live session with a client struggling to understand why he is distancing from his wife.

    This is a rare opportunity to watch the therapist who developed and popularized genograms demonstrate how to actually create and utilize them in a therapy session. In this video, you will see Monica McGoldrick in action as she masterfully conducts an initial interview with a new client, demonstrating the step-by-step process of gathering historical information, creating the genogram, and contextualizing the client's presenting problem within a multigenerational family systems framework.

    John is a 39-year-old African-American graphic designer who is having marital problems. Mystified and distressed by his pattern of distancing from his wife who is six months pregnant, he desperately wants to understand why he is pulling away. McGoldrick's focused interest in John's family story gently guides him in a thorough investigation of the social and historical context of his current struggles. With McGoldrick as an ally, John makes fascinating discoveries as he uncovers surprising coincidences, poignant tragedies and inspiring sources of resilience.

    Watching McGoldrick engage a client in exploring the connection between his presenting problem and his family-of-origin issues is a treat in and of itself, but a bonus feature of this video is following McGoldrick's step-by-step creation of John's genogram on the spot. It makes for a compelling and highly educational experience.

    By watching this video, you will learn how to:
  • Utilize the genogram to place clients' presenting problems in a historical and social context
  • Respond when a client resists exploring family issues
  • Explain to clients why exploring family background is relevant


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 113 minutes

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    SALVADOR MINUCHIN ON FAMILY THERAPY

    By Salvador Minuchin

    In this fascinating interview with his beloved friend and mentee of over thirty years, Jay Lappin, Salvador Minuchin discusses a wide range of themes, from his early influences to his thoughts on how to best teach new therapists. With candor and humility, he discusses personal and provocative topics such as:
  • the impact of being a Jew in an anti-Semitic country and how he developed a sense of being the "Other;"
  • why psychodynamic therapy isn't enough;
  • pivotal moments and mistakes;
  • the essential elements of therapeutic change;
  • how therapists are too nice and why they need to challenge their clients more;
  • the importance of "daring when you're doubting;" and
  • why he thinks Attachment Theory doesn't make any sense.

  • This is a great interview to watch with colleagues or to show in a class because it is sure to spark lively debate and to get viewers really thinking about their own beliefs about therapy.

    By watching this video you will:
  • Learn the theory, goals, and techniques of Structural Family Therapy.
  • Understand the history of family therapy and how Minuchin developed his approach to working with diverse populations.
  • Identify effective strategies for joining with clients and challenging them to find alternative ways of relating with each other.


  • DVD (With Instructor's Manual) / 81 minutes

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