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Learn the techniques and skills vital to your counseling work with children and adolescents by watching the masters engage in play, talk and family therapy.

ADHD in the Classroom: Assessment and Intervention

Gary Stoner, PhD, George J. DuPaul, PhD


Comprehensive, informative and easy to follow, these videos demonstrate a practical approach to assessing and treating ADHD within the schools - a valuable resource for teachers, school counselors, and all mental health practitioners. You'll follow Todd, a 3rd grade student, and a treatment team from his school, as they screen him for ADHD and follow through on a multi-method treatment approach.
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Adlerian Parent Consultation (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD


Therapists often find themselves in over their heads when parents seek their advice about a misbehaving child or teen. Watch Jon Carlson conduct an actual parent consultation session and a parenting group with moms who are in power struggles with their teenage children, and see how he masturfully brings the focus away from the child’s behavior and back to the parent’s actions.
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Coming Out: Voices of Gay and Lesbian Teens and their Families

Karin Heller, MSW


For gay and lesbian teens, coming out can be a complicated and difficult process. In this video, watch real interviews with gay and lesbian teenagers and their parents as they share their experiences of coming out, as well as expert commentary on the special issues these teenagers face at home and at school. Thought provoking and accessible, this video is invaluable for all parents, teachers, and professionals working with teenagers.
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Making Divorce Work: A Clinical Approach to the Binuclear Family

Constance Ahrons, PhD


In this compelling video, renowned therapist Constance Ahrons demonstrates her groundbreaking approach to working with divorced families. This video depicts a series of productive and poignant therapy sessions with an entire binuclear family. Dr. Ahrons aptly demonstrates how, over time, she brings the reluctant family members together to begin forging a more agreeable, cooperative approach to parenting.
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Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients (7 DVD Series)

Ron Scott, PhD (Series Producer) and 27 Leading Mental Health Professionals


Finally, a comprehensive series dealing with the multitude and complexity of factors that arise in the psychotherapy with gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals, couples and families! This groundbreaking series reflects the contributions of 27 of the most influential and respected scholars and practitioners in the field as well as over 30 gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals who share their stories and perspectives.
CE Credits for Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients

Reality Therapy with Children (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

Robert Wubbolding, EdD


World-renowned reality therapist Robert Wubbolding demonstrates how his sensible, straightforward approach is equally effective with children as it is with adults, in an actual counseling session with a 15-year old boy. Through the use of a series of strategic questions, Dr. Wubbolding guides his young client through a process of self-evaluation and priority clarification.
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Solution-Focused Child Therapy (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

John J. Murphy, PhD


We know that children need lots of positive strokes, but all too often therapists focus on problems. In this video, Solution-Focused child therapist John J. Murphy presents a refreshing approach in an actual counseling session with two boys and their mother. In a compelling demonstration, see Dr. Murphy encourage a family to recognize successes and focus on small changes for the future.
CE Credits for Solution-Focused Child Therapy (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

Adlerian Play Therapy (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

Terry Kottman, PhD


Expert child therapist Terry Kottman illustrates that children communicate through play and that all play has a purpose. In this video, watch her in an actual play therapy session with a 5-year old boy who is split between two homes and lacking a sense of control in his life. By reflecting his actions, and using encouragement and suggestions through play, Dr. Kottman soon discovers that this young client needs to show her who's boss.
CE Credits for Adlerian Play Therapy (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

Cognitive-Behavioral Child Therapy (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

Bruce Masek, PhD


Watch Cognitive Behavioral child therapist Bruce Masek in an actual counseling session with a 6-year old girl and her mother. Dr. Masek builds on behavioral therapy techniques while working to modify a child’s thoughts and feelings. In this video, Dr. Masek adapts his therapy model to a mother-child dyad, helping Mom learn strategies for managing her young daughter’s back talk and tantrums.
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Gestalt Therapy with Children (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

Violet Oaklander, PhD


Gestalt child therapist Violet Oaklander has a knack for getting her clients to speak honestly and reveal their difficult feelings. In this video, we watch Dr. Oaklander in an actual counseling session with a 13-year old boy who has difficulty expressing anger. Pay attention as she masterfully provides openings for him to reveal hidden parts of himself.
CE Credits for Gestalt Therapy with Children (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

Person-Centered Child Therapy (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

Anin Utigaard, MFT


Anin Utigaard masterfully teaches us to pay attention to all of the ways we communicate with children in therapy. Watch her in an actual counseling session with a shy eight-year-old girl, as she enters the child’s world through her speech, body language and play, and carefully attends to the child’s need to please.
CE Credits for Person-Centered Child Therapy (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

Object Relations Child Therapy (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

David Scharff, MD


Watch renowned Object Relations psychotherapist David Scharff in an actual counseling session with an 11-year old boy who is grieving the death of his grandmother. In Dr. Scharff’s approach, the parent-child relationship is the central concern, with particular attention paid to the representation of that relationship in the child’s mind. Using talk and art therapy techniques, Scharff demonstrates in this video how to reach the internal world of a child.
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Narrative Therapy with Children (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

Stephen Madigan, PhD


Expert Narrative therapist Stephen Madigan presents a refreshing approach that allows family members to separate themselves from their problems and retell their stories. In this video, watch him in an actual counseling session with a perfectionist 10-year old boy and his mother. Madigan helps this pair uncover skills, strengths and solutions to take home in order to break a family pattern of competitive taunting.
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Adolescent Family Therapy (Child Therapy for the Experts Series)

Janet Sasson Edgette, PsyD


Parents and therapists often fall into the same traps with teenagers: getting into power struggles, coming across as phony, and not setting limits. Janet Sasson Edgette shows us how to be candid and real with adolescents rather than fighting for control or approval. In this video, watch Dr. Edgette in an actual counseling session with a single mother and her 15-year old daughter.
CE Credits for Adolescent Family Therapy (Child Therapy for the Experts Series)

Psychotherapy with Medically Ill Children (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

Gerald Koocher, PhD


Many therapists feel overwhelmed with the prospect of helping children cope with physical illness. Watch expert in the field Dr. Gerald Koocher in an actual counseling session with a 5-year old girl who has a medical condition and a lot of worries. You'll see how his warm relational stance and play therapy techniques allows his client to share her experiences regarding her illness.
CE Credits for Psychotherapy with Medically Ill Children (Child Therapy with the Experts Series)

Family Secrets: Implications for Theory and Therapy

Evan Imber-Black, PhD


Secrets have far-reaching implications for families, setting the stage for a tense emotional climate of guardedness, anger, and reactivity. In this video, Evan Imber-Black leads a moving series of reenacted family therapy sessions to illustrate the important stages of helping families to uncover their shrouded pasts.
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The Legacy of Unresolved Loss: A Family Systems Approach

Monica McGoldrick, LCSW, PhD


Monica McGoldrick, helps us see how one family member’s loss has ramifications for others—through an extended family network, and even across several generations. In this realistic simulation of an 18-week course of family therapy, McGoldrick demonstrates remarkable fluidity and mastery as she changes her stances based on the family’s needs of the given moment, while her commentary provides the viewer with insight about her interventions.
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