Using illustrative clips from a demonstration session, Dr Farber discusses ways therapists can recognise client avoidance and dishonesty, understand the factors that inhibit or facilitate honest disclosure, determine when to accept and when to challenge, and learn to work with the clinical consequences of these behaviours.
In this video, Dr. Linda R. Mona demonstrates disability affirmative therapy (DAT), a framework for psychotherapy with people with physical disabilities. DAT is a metatheoretical perspective that provides a disability-positive context where specific treatment interventions can be effectively applied. The DAT model focuses on empowerment and ......
In this video program, Dr Ford works with an African American man who is still profoundly affected by developmental trauma that occurred when he was a young man serving overseas in combat. Dr Ford integrates a transtheoretical framework to help the client understand the psychobiology of stress reactions.
Dreams frequently come up for discussion in the course of therapy, and the insights clients might gain from dreams can help the therapeutic process. This title teaches clients to use a technique called dream language, which emphasizes the client's own creation of the dream.
In this program, Dr. Michael A. Tompkins explores the ways that cognitive behavioral therapy works with emotion, and guest experts Norka T. Malberg and Leslie S. Greenberg ask Dr. Tompkins questions as he discusses excerpts from previously published videos that illustrate aspects of this approach to working with emotion.
Emotion-focused therapy looks beyond a client's symptomatic behavior to the role that emotion plays in its formation. Emotion-focused therapists view emotion as our primary meaning system and as such emotion is used as the path to greater awareness of what is important in any given situation. Emotion-focused therapy reaches past awareness and ......
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies see emotion as a gateway to meaning, and emotion often provides the initial motivation leading to therapeutic change. In this program, Dr. Norka T. Malberg discusses the mainstream psychodynamic and psychoanalytic model of emotion as well as that of mentalization-based therapy, a recent approach within ......
Investigates the role of emotion in the development and maintenance of psychological problems, and in effecting psychological change. The authors examine emotion as it is conceptualized and used in three of the most widely practiced approaches today - psychodynamic, cognitive behaviour, and emotion-focused psychotherapy.
In Working With Gay Male Clients, Douglas C. Haldeman demonstrates his eclectic, relationship-focused approach to therapy with gay men. In working with clients from this population, therapists must be aware of what it means to be part of a stigmatised sexual minority group. In this session, Dr. Haldeman works with a young man who, although he ......
