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Psychotherapy for Children
This program shows a range of body-oriented group work with children, teens, and adults.
Topics
Different Professional Backgrounds
Working with Children
Project Joy
Trauma Drama: Urban Improv Intensive
Classroom/Campus-Based Intervention
Impact Model Mugging
Black Lotus Yoga Project
Crisis Response: Indonesian Tsunami
"Traditional psychotherapy or talk therapy, and action-oriented approaches that really engage mind and body in unison, aren't and shouldn't be two separate tracks, but really are best served when they co-exist and are integrated. And that's something that our center and several others around the country are really committed to doing." - Joseph Spinazzola, PhD
DVD / 2008 / 45 minutes
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With John M. Littrell, EdD
In Brief Therapy With Adolescents, John Littrell, EdD, demonstrates his approach to working with teenage clients. This approach seeks to shorten the length of therapy by looking at the client's patterns of behavior and helping to change the patterns that do not fit the client's goals.
In this session, Dr. Littrell works with a 17-year-old boy who is having problems with grades and getting into trouble in school. Dr. Littrell helps the client increase his sense of agency and see that he has more choices than he is currently aware of, which helps the client develop a concrete set of goals for change.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2007 / Approx. 100 minutes
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With Jane Annunziata, PsyD
In Play Therapy With a 6-Year-Old, Dr. Jane Annunziata demonstrates her approach to working with children. Play therapy is premised on the assumption that a child's problems come from unconscious conflicts and developmental deficits, both of which will be revealed in their play.
In this session, Dr. Annunziata works with a young boy named Matthew who has been sad and withdrawn. Through the process of play therapy, Matthew expresses more of his emotions, and the therapeutic alliance becomes stronger.
This program features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of actual case material.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2007 / Approx. 100 minutes
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This program explains the internal effects of trauma on children, and the behaviors that abused and neglected children may display. It provides the framework for rest of the series.
Topics
Children's Response to Trauma
Triggers
Behavioral Impacts
The Power of Parents
The Dissociative Defense
Beyond Normal Forgetting
Parental Trauma History
"[Traumatized children] have problems with their body where they can't understand signals from their body and have a lot of somatic symptoms. They can't integrate their memories. They have difficulty, of course, relating with other people. So there's a whole array of biological and social and psychological disregulation that happens because secure attachment never gave them the foundation to learn those things." - Kathy Steele, MN CS
DVD / 2007 / 42 minutes
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While interviewing an abused child is never easy, using the right approach can make the process less stressful and produce better results.
Topics
Before the Interview
Instructions and Rapport-Building
Open-Ended Questioning
Working with Dissociation
The Extended Forensic Evaluation
Interviewer Self-Care
"It is very important for the interviewer or evaluator to stay attuned to the child's psychological state during the interview. Because the last thing we would want to do is retraumatize the child by the way that we interview them or evaluate them, and add more trauma. So paying attention to either hyperarousal or dissociation, those are clues to the child's emotional state. " - Connie Carnes, MS LPC
DVD / 2007 / 44 minutes
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This program delves into the difficult issues prosecutors may face when pursuing child abuse cases.
Topics
Need for Psychological Training
Dissociation
Hearsay Evidence and Crawford
Preparing the Child for Court
Supporting the Child in Court
Expert Testimony
Vicarious Trauma
"In order to investigate a case of suspected child abuse or litigate that case, you have to not only understand the legal issues, which are complex enough, but one really has to understand something about child development, about the impact of traumatic experiences on children, in order to understand how they react to it and to understand how we react to them. " - John E.B. Myers, JD
DVD / 2007 / 43 minutes
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This program discusses therapeutic issues, and is intended for counselors, social workers, and therapists.
Topics
Therapist as Coach
Therapeutic Interaction
Building a Sense of Self; Safety
The Therapeutic Relationship
Structuring Therapy Sessions
Therapeutic Issues
Therapeutic Techniques
"If the child ultimately is going to come to trust the containing relationship, at some point in that containing relationship, they're going to have to hate you, and find out that their hating you doesn't break the connection between you, doesn't cast them out into the darkness, doesn't cast you into your dark place, doesn't make you punishing or abandoning." - Vivienne Roseby, PhD
DVD / 2006 / 43 minutes
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By Jennifer Baggerly
This DVD is the place to begin instruction in play therapy-it is upbeat and entertaining with great visuals, but also includes the critical basics for students with many live demonstrations. Jennifer uses puppets to help communicate the rationale, principles, and basic skills of play therapy. Each skill is demonstrated through DVD clips of play therapy sessions with culturally diverse children. Demonstrated skills include tracking play behavior, reflecting feelings, returning responsibilty, encouragement, facilitating understanding, and setting therapeutic limits
DVD / 2006 / Approx. 60 minutes
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With Richard A. Gardner, MD
In Psychotherapy of Children With Conduct Disorders Using Games and Stories, Dr. Richard A. Gardner demonstrates his approach to working with children who present with this common disorder. Children with conduct disorders are often incapable of understanding their own behavior, making this therapy very difficult. By using games and stories, Dr. Gardner allows young clients to self-disclose through metaphoric stories and within the boundaries of game play.
In this session, Dr. Gardner works with a 12-year-old girl named Ruth who refuses to interact with him. His repeated invitations to her to play a therapeutic board game called "The Talking, Feeling, and Doing Game" result in her increased willingness to disclose her feelings.
This program features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of actual case material.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / Approx. 100 minutes
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With Wendy Lader, PhD
In Self-Injury, Dr. Wendy Lader demonstrates her brief analytic approach to working with clients who purposefully injure themselves. Self-injury, which often takes the form of cutting or burning, is best viewed as a coping strategy: Clients usually injure themselves because they want to avoid some painful emotion, and self-injury brings a sense of control over these unwanted feelings.
Dr. Lader's approach is to analyze early childhood beliefs and relationships and then incorporate psychoeducation and cognitive¡Vbehavioral strategies into the session. Interventions are designed to reduce self-injury by increasing awareness of impulsive behavior and expressing any avoided emotions.
In this session, Dr. Lader works with a teenage girl who began cutting herself soon after her mother remarried. Dr. Lader talks with the client about the loss of her father, then gives the client a tool to help her monitor the emotions she experiences preceding the impulse to cut herself. This is an excellent example of a first session with an adolescent client who self-injures.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2006 / Approx. 100 minutes
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With Arthur M. Horne, PhD
Bullying Prevention shows a brief, ecosystemic approach to preventing larger, older children from bullying smaller, younger children. Dr. Arthur M. Horne discusses how he works with both the victims and the perpetrators of bullying, always examining the school and family systems that may inadvertently support bullying behavior. In this session, Dr. Horne meets with a teenage boy and his mother and provides him with skills and actions for coping with bullies, including practicing self-calming techniques, keeping a long-term perspective, and asking a trusted teacher for help.
DVD / 2005 / Approx. 100 minutes
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With Wes Crenshaw, PhD
In Working With Children Who Have Experienced Neglect or Abuse, Dr. Wes Crenshaw demonstrates his approach to working with children who have been neglected or sexually or physically abused. Because most offenders in cases of abuse or neglect are within the child's family, this approach by necessity treats the entire family system, and the goal of therapy is to recontextualize the act of injustice, in both the offender's and the victim's minds.
In this session, Dr. Crenshaw works with three sons who were neglected and abused by their mother, who is addicted to drugs. Dr. Crenshaw listens to the painful experiences of this family and then helps the boys and their father to place the mother's behavior within the broader context of their lives.
DVD / 2005 / Approx. 100 minutes
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This series describes the assessment tools and therapeutic approaches that the presenters have found most useful in working with complex PTSD in children. The clinician's role in such cases often includes working with parents or guardians as well as children with complex PTSD, and can extend far beyond the therapy room to encompass psychoeducation and advocacy.
Topics
Stabilization and Safety
Establishing Internal Safety
Learning to Talk in Therapy
Dissociation
Working with Parents as Partners
Processing the Trauma
The Use of EMDR
Group Work
Integration
Therapist Self-Care
DVD / 2001 / 43 minutes
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By Gary Landreth Ph.D.
An unrehearsed session demonstrates relationship building, focusing on strength, self-esteem, and empowerment, and returning responsibility to the child
DVD / Approx. 50 minutes
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By Mary Bradford Ivey
This DVD shows how to conduct a five-stage interview with elementary students. Mary demonstrates how to se the community genogram and family tree to obtain cultural and contextual strengths of children. DVD subtitles highlight the key skills and strategies Mary uses in her positive approach to counseling children, Spirituality is demonstrated as an important strength for children.
Brief counseling methods are also important in these energetic and spontaneous short sessions. Mary shows how to help children achieve results in a time frame children understand.
DVD / Approx. 60 minutes
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By Sheri Bauman, Sam Steen
Two experienced counselors lead a six-part group counseling session with a diverse group of 5th grade students. The goal of the group is to increase members' appreciation of cultural diversity. Viewers will see members' developmental level, the leaders' choice of activities and processing strategies, and issues surrounding the concept of "culture" within the group. This DVD is an excellent tool for counselor educators teaching group work and for school counselors and guidance directors seeking relevant training materials.
DVD / Approx. 3 hours
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By Robin Walker
Watch master child therapist Robin Walker model therapeutic play with children in a series of vignettes aimed at helping therapists develop authentic, empathic, fun-filled relationships with kids.
By watching this video, you will:
Understand how to build a therapeutic relationship that provides children with a "genuine experience of self."
Identify the four stages of child therapy and how to be most effective in each stage.
Learn how to help children identify, explore, and express their emotions.
DVD (With Instructor's Manual, English Subtitles) / 94 minutes
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