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Family Therapy

Family Therapy

RELATIONSHIPS: ADOPTION-SPECIFIC THERAPY IN PRACTICE

With Jill Waterman, PhD

The process for adopting children, especially older children, can often bring a mix of feelings for both parents and child: happiness, anxiety, confusion, sadness and loss, and children may experience significant behavioral and emotional distress. Adoptive families can be helped by adoption-specific therapy that takes into account the child's past trauma and placement history, recognizing that current behavioral issues may have been adaptive in a previous traumatic, chaotic, or neglectful context.

In this program, Dr. Jill Waterman demonstrates the initial parent session of ADAPT, a manualized therapeutic approach that combines evidence-based treatments for children and families with best practices from the attachment and adoption literature. In ADAPT, both parents and children are seen for treatment individually and jointly.

In this video, Dr. Waterman demonstrates this approach with a young mother who has a 5-year-old adopted son.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2018 / 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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MULTIDIMENSIONAL FAMILY THERAPY: A RESEARCH-PROVEN, INNOVATIVE TREATMENT FOR ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Explaining that multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) is a comprehensive, family-centered treatment for adolescent substance abuse and delinquency, this program features a counseling session with MDFT founder Howard Liddle and a 16-year-old boy arrested for purchasing marijuana. The session illustrates the key areas of focus of MDFT and discusses the model's three stages.

DVD / 2013 / 75 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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FAMILY THERAPY: UNIVERSAL AND UNIQUE APPROACHES TO SOLVING PROBLEMS

Through a series of entertaining, brief, and instructional role plays, Dr. Gladding reviews several universals of family treatment approaches, such as types of communication patterns, rules, and feedback. He describes additional concepts including homeostasis, secondary change, and developmental aspects of a problem, then demonstrates effective use of these techniques to treat a multi-generational family. Stimulating and enlightening, this video perfect for most classes in family therapy and is a creative resource for hooking beginning graduate and advanced undergraduate students into seeing multiple aspects of how to clinically work with families to achieve therapeutic results.

DVD / 2012 / 46 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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MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING: COUNSELING LATINA/LATINO CLIENTS USING A FAMILY SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE

With Joseph M. Cervantes, PhD, ABPP

In Counseling Latina/Latino Clients Using a Family Systems Perspective, Dr. Joseph M. Cervantes demonstrates an indigenous therapeutic approach integrated with more mainstream psychological practice. This model, which he calls Mestizo spirituality, is a narrative approach that sees physical illness and psychological issues as interpersonal stories that, once told and understood, can provide meaning to the client. In this approach, the therapist takes on the role of a guide or cojourneyer helping to foster a healing environment for the clients.

Working with Latina/Latino clients involves assessing their level of acculturation, something that varies depending not only on how recently the clients have come to the United States, but on how the client's family relates to their culture and community.

In this session, Dr. Cervantes does a spiritual assessment of a young woman who is struggling with family issues, primarily her separation from her husband, who had been abusive and unsupportive of her life goals. Dr. Cervantes assesses the client's strengths, helping her to see that she may already have the skills and support to move beyond what she has experienced in the past as well as to handle the problems she currently faces.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2009 / 100 minutes

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PSYCHOTHERAPY IN SIX SESSIONS: FAMILY THERAPY OVER TIME

With Susan H. McDaniel, PhD

In Family Therapy Over Time, Dr. Susan H. McDaniel demonstrates this approach to working with clients. Family therapy focuses on changing interactions among people so as to alleviate a client family's presenting problem. Although family therapists ideally want to involve as many family members in the therapy as possible, family therapy may be conducted with a single client. Whether working with one client or a family unit, therapists look at the family system, as well as the community, school, or work systems, to determine ways to help clients improve their lives.

In this series of six sessions, Dr. McDaniel works with a mother, father, and one of their daughters, a teenager from the mother's previous marriage. The family presents with what they call a communication breakdown between the daughter and her mother, as well as with conflict over the daughter's sexual activity with her boyfriend.

In the early sessions, Dr. McDaniel gathers information from the family to create a genogram - a diagram that depicts the family genealogical relationships and the history and quality of those relationships. In ongoing sessions, the genogram will help Dr. McDaniel and the family understand how the system of interactions in the immediate family and in past generations may contribute to the issues they are presently working on.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2009 / 300 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: MULTIDIMENSIONAL FAMILY THERAPY

With Howard A. Liddle, EdD, ABPP

In Multidimensional Family Therapy, Dr. Howard A. Liddle demonstrates this integrative, empirically supported approach for working with families of adolescents with behavior and substance abuse problems. Multidimensional family therapy (MDFT) protocols guide therapists in assessing and intervening simultaneously in developmentally critical domains of a teen's and family's life. Emotions, cognitive processes, and behavior are interconnected and are all addressed in MDFT. Adolescent problems such as drug abuse and delinquency are multidimensional in etiology and current manifestation, and therefore attempted remedies and therapist behavior must be multidimensional as well.

As a multisystems model, MDFT clinicians work individually with the adolescent and the parent, with the family as a whole to facilitate new relationships, and with family members in relation to sources of ongoing influence such as school and juvenile justice systems to address current functioning and new solutions for the adolescent.

In this session, Dr. Liddle works with a 15-year-old boy, recently diagnosed with ADHD and depression, who seeks a better relationship with his father. Dr. Liddle meets with the adolescent client and his mother to help them move beyond previous therapy to make changes in their lives.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2008 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: INTEGRATIVE FAMILY THERAPY

With Jay Lebow, PhD, ABPP

In Integrative Family Therapy, Jay Lebow, PhD, ABPP, demonstrates his multimodal, evidence-based approach to working with families. This approach views family issues as complex combinations of biology, behavior, cognition, affect, and systemic factors. Anchored in a client-oriented philosophy, Dr. Lebow first delineates client goals and then uses the most appropriate generic evidence-based strategies that can help achieve the goals set by the clients.

In this session, Dr. Lebow works with a family whose 7-year-old son was recently diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder (ADD). Dr. Lebow focuses on helping the family better understand ADD, determining situations associated with stronger exhibition of ADD symptoms, supporting the family in continuing the behavioral treatment program in which they are already participating, and processing their experience with this problem.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2007 / 100 minutes

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SPECIFIC TREATMENTS FOR SPECIFIC POPULATIONS: FAMILY THERAPY WITH PATIENTS HAVING PHYSICAL HEALTH PROBLEMS

With Susan H. McDaniel, PhD

In Family Therapy With Patients Having Physical Health Problems, Dr. Susan H. McDaniel demonstrates her biopsychosocial systems approach to working with clients experiencing health issues. In this form of therapy, the focus is on the role medical illness plays in the client's emotional life and in the client's relationships with family members and with health professionals. In this session, Dr. McDaniel works with a 60-year-old woman with symptoms of depression. She meets with the client, her husband, and her son to help them to deal with her diagnosis.

This program features a client and family members portrayed by actors on the basis of actual case material.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2007 / 100 minutes

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SYSTEMS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY: INDIVIDUAL THERAPY FROM A FAMILY SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE

With Florence W. Kaslow, PhD

In Individual Therapy From a Family Systems Perspective, Dr. Florence W. Kaslow demonstrates her integrative approach to therapy. This approach combines techniques from relational-contextual, Bowenian, structural, and cognitive-behavioral therapies, among others, and focuses on the individual within the family context.

In this session, Dr. Kaslow focuses on interpersonal conflicts and stresses between the client and members of his family as well as on the client's own internal conflicts. The case concerns a son involved in a family business and some of the issues frequently encountered in such situations when the interpersonal problems within the family are not resolved and spill over into the family business arena. Dr. Kaslow proposes possible resolution strategies to help the son individually and within the business context for the benefit of everyone.

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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BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND HEALTH COUNSELING: TREATING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE THROUGH CAREGIVER FAMILY THERAPY

With Sara Honn Qualls, PhD

In Treating Alzheimer's Disease Through Caregiver Family Therapy, Dr. Sara Honn Qualls demonstrates her approach to helping families care for loved ones with Alzheimer's disease. Caregiver Family Therapy (CFT) assists families with recognizing, interpreting, and taking action to address symptoms of growing cognitive impairment while continuing to meet the needs of multiple family members.

In this session, Dr. Qualls works with a young African American woman named Michelle who is married with a family. Her mother, who lives with the client's disabled sister, is becoming less and less able to take care of herself. The night before the session, her mother called 911 to accuse Michelle's sister of abuse. This false accusation is seen as a harbinger of changes that will need to be made in Michelle's sister's living arrangement because of her mother's decline.

In the session, Michelle begins to realize that her caregiving is having a negative impact on her family and marriage. Dr. Qualls helps Michelle to explore restructuring the family and to develop a list of tasks that need to be accomplished to protect the well-being of her mother, sister, and herself and her family.

DVD / 2006 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: FUNCTIONAL FAMILY THERAPY

With James F. Alexander, PhD

In Functional Family Therapy, Dr. James F. Alexander demonstrates his approach to working with families with youth at risk. This approach focuses on the strengthening relationships in the family by opening up communication and reframing negative behaviors by putting them within a positive relational context.

In this session, Dr. Alexander works with two daughters and their mother and stepfather. Initially, he assesses the state of family relations and works with the family to highlight the strengths they exhibit and ways they can work toward understanding and improving their relationships.

DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: HELPING CHILDREN UNDERSTAND ADOPTION

With Marc A. Nemiroff, PhD

In Helping Children Understand Adoption, Dr. Marc A. Nemiroff shows how to help adopted children come to terms with the question of "Where did I come from?" and with any potential traumas they may have experienced before adoption. The child-centered approach illustrated in this program emphasizes empathizing with the child and helping parents to truly understand their adopted child's experience.

In this session, Dr. Nemiroff meets with a 9-year-old girl who, before being adopted, was believed to have been abused by her birth family as a toddler; in addition, she lived for some years in an orphanage. Dr. Nemiroff works separately with the girl's adoptive mother, assisting her in understanding her daughter's interpretation of her adoption and helping her to help her daughter cope with the trauma she has experienced.

DVD / 2005 / 100 minutes

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RELATIONSHIPS: WORKING WITH STEPFAMILIES

With James H. Bray, PhD

In Working With Stepfamilies, Dr. James H. Bray shows his approach to counseling stepfamilies or remarried families - families created when two spouses who already have children get married. This is a complex form of therapy - as there are usually many people involved - including the parents, their respective children, the nonresidential parents of those children, grandparents and other members of the extended family, and children born to remarried ex-spouses. The goal of this therapy is to help the family blend together by improving their functioning in four areas: parenting, disciplining, strengthening the marital relationship, and working to include nonresidential family in the stepfamily.

In this session, Dr. Bray works with a couple who, although they have been involved for 5 years, have only recently married, and are dealing with the bickering and acting out of their children from previous marriages. Dr. Bray works with the couple and their children, attending to the needs of each member of the family, focusing especially on parental disciplining skills, communication skills, and blending of family traditions.

DVD / 2004 / 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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INTIMATE HISTORY OF FAMILY THERAPY, AN

By Hoffman, Lynn

In an intimate conversation with Harlene Anderson, Lynn Hoffman discusses the evolution of the postmodern edge of family therapy. Hoffman has been the historian of many of the theories developed in family therapy and her relationships with the pioneers of these ideas. Particular attention is focused on the early eighties where she describes the differences in the views of the epistemologists (who were contruct-ivists and engineers) and the practitioners of family therapy. She also discusses the dilemma of finding the clinical work of social constructionism disappointing to audiences, questioning if they have preconceived ideas about what it is to be in conversation. This is an informative interview for those who don't yet understand social constructionist ideas.

DVD / 56 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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