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Videos on working with Crisis and Trauma in psychotherapy
DVDs for Teaching, Training, Self Study and Continuing Education
 
Crisis and trauma can be challenging to work with in psychotherapy, whether your client is suicidal, in an abusive relationship or suffering from PTSD. We offer these videos to help guide you in your important work.

Death, Dying and Grief in Psychotherapy, Volumes I & II

Milton Viederman, MD


Therapists of all orientations will benefit from seeing how psychoanalytic and psychodynamic principles can be effectively adapted to short-term therapy with clients and patients facing issues of grief, death and dying.
CE Credits for Death, Dying and Grief in Psychotherapy, Volumes I & II

Resolving Trauma in Psychotherapy: A Somatic Approach

Peter Levine, PhD


Watch a true master, Dr. Peter A. Levine, demonstrate a course of body-oriented trauma therapy in this extremely compelling and in-depth video with an Iraq Veteran diagnosed with severe PTSD. This method can be integrated with and add richness to a number of therapeutic modalities and can be used to treat all manner of trauma – from car accidents, surgeries, child abuse, experiences of violence, and so on.
CE Credits for Resolving Trauma in Psychotherapy: A Somatic Approach

PTSD and Veterans: A Conversation with Dr. Frank Ochberg

Frank Ochberg, MD


How do we help veterans who are returning from war with PTSD? Dr. Frank Ochberg, a leading authority on PTSD, shares his experiences, seasoned insights and suggestions in this intimate conversation with reporter Mike Walters touching on such issues as the importance of trust-buiding, symptoms to look out for, and techniques to help clients work through trauma.
CE Credits for PTSD and Veterans: A Conversation with Dr. Frank Ochberg

Suicide & Self-Harm: Helping People at Risk

Linda Gask, MD


This comprehensive video walks through all the steps necessary to effectively intervene when a client threatens suicide or self-harm. You’ll learn about assessment, crisis management, problem solving, and crisis prevention through a variety of realistic vignettes.
CE Credits for Suicide & Self-Harm: Helping People at Risk

Explaining PTSD & The Counting Method: Essential Tools for Mental Health Professionals

Frank Ochberg, MD, Angie Panos, PhD


Counselors will learn valuable lessons on working with this challenging yet rewarding population by watching these two videos. In Explaining PTSD, experts Dr. Frank Ochberg and Dr. Angie Panos give insightful and thoughtful suggestions on how to explain the disorder to clients, which is the first essential step of treating PTSD. In The Counting Method, you'll learn how to use this powerful technique for treating PTSD by watching an actual therapy session in the middle of a long-term course of treatment.
CE Credits for Explaining PTSD & The Counting Method: Essential Tools for Mental Health Professionals

Children of the Camps: The Documentary

Satsuki Ina, PhD


This film is a powerful lesson in racism and provides a rare glimpse into the very private lives of a few of Japanese Americans who talk openly about the trauma of their experience in internment camps as children. A powerful, thought-provoking video perfect for use in cultural competency classes.
CE Credits for Children of the Camps: The Documentary

Invisible Child Abuse

Robert Firestone, PhD


Emotional child abuse is frequently overlooked in our focus on physical and sexual abuse, often invisible to those both outside and inside the family. In this video, men and women uncover painful memories, and the legacy of emotional child abuse that often spans multiple generations. Featured therapist Dr. Robert Firestone works with these group participants to give them voice to the abuse they experienced, as well as to the child that couldn’t then fight back.
CE Credits for Invisible Child Abuse

Feminist Therapy (Psychotherapy with the Experts Series)

Lenore Walker, EdD


Lenore Walker’s feminist approach incorporates a focus on how a client’s social context contributes to her problem and puts importance on maintaining an even power balance between the therapist and the client. In this video, watch Walker expertly demonstrate her approach in an actual therapy session with a woman who is in the final stages of divorce from a man that abused her.
CE Credits for Feminist Therapy (Psychotherapy with the Experts Series)

Healing Childhood Abuse and Trauma through Psychodrama

Tian Dayton, PhD, TEP


In these two videos featuring extremely powerful live group sessions, master clinician and psychodramatist Tian Dayton works with group participants to confront childhood abuse, and work through trauma that they are carrying in their bodies. Dayton addresses these delicate issues with directness and great care, employing innovative action-oriented techniques that you can use in your work with clients, whether you are trained in psychodrama or not.
CE Credits for Healing Childhood Abuse and Trauma through Psychodrama

The Abused Woman: A Survivor Therapy Approach

Lenore Walker, EdD


Lenore Walker has worked with physically, psychologically, and sexually abused women for more than 30 years and has developed an approach to their treatment called Survivor Therapy. In this dramatic recreation of key moments in the two-year course of therapy with a battered woman with a history of childhood sexual abuse, Walker illustrates the basic principles of her approach.
CE Credits for The Abused Woman: A Survivor Therapy Approach

Voices of Suicide: Learning from those who lived

The Glendon Association, Lisa Firestone, PhD


This video for mental health professionals from the Glendon Association features three individuals who made highly lethal suicide attempts and survived, as well as interviews from experts in the field. It is an invaluable resource to understanding the minds of suicidal individuals and the elements necessary for successful treatment and recovery.
CE Credits for Voices of Suicide: Learning from those who lived

Understanding and Preventing Suicide

The Glendon Association, Lisa Firestone, PhD


This educational program for the public from the Glendon Association describes the risk factors and warning signs of suicide and offers guidelines from experts for getting the troubled person to the professional help he or she needs. You'll also hear from three individuals who have made serious suicide attempts and lived.