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Counseling Adolescents: Exploring Intersections of Race and Sexuality

with Sam Steen

How can you work effectively with a young client who is no longer a child but not yet a teenager, especially when complex issues of sexuality and race arise? Learn how to build effective therapeutic alliances with your adolescent clients that will create a safe space for exploration, insight, and growth.

Neurodiversity-Affirming Play Therapy with Children and Teens

with Robert Jason Grant

There is growing awareness that the traditional deficit-based therapeutic mindset that pathologizes neurological differences such as autism and ADHD often lead to poor mental health outcomes. Learn how to help young neurodivergent clients thrive by using neurodiversity-affirming play practices that build therapeutic connection and emphasize collaboration and validation. Empower neurodivergent children and teens with play interventions tailored to support their unique needs and celebrate their strengths all while having fun.

Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents: 4-video series

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Do you want to effectively help adolescents change their most destructive behaviors? In this series, learn how to apply motivational interviewing in your work with teens struggling with substance use, health behaviors, delinquency, or the every-day difficulties of this challenging period of life.

Leading Groups with Adolescents

with Janice DeLucia-Waack, PhD & Allen Segrist, PhD

In this comprehensive video featuring a live, unscripted group with actual high school students, two expert group therapists share their extensive knowledge, making this video a must-see for those new to leading groups as well as for experienced group therapists looking to refine their skills.

Guiding Pre-Teens in Career Exploration: A Creative Arts Approach

with Natalya A. Lindo, Peggy Ceballos

Start your pre-teen clients on their journey down the path of career development with CACCI, a creative, play-based group training program designed to help adolescents develop self-knowledge and skill awareness.

Group Counseling with Adolescents: A Multicultural Approach

with Sam Steen, PhD, & Sheri Bauman, PhD

Over the course of eight sessions with a multicultural group of eighth graders, Drs. Sam Steen and Sheri Bauman offer child therapists a thorough picture of the issues adolescents face and ways to deepen connection with them.

How to Use Play Interventions with Neurodivergent Children and Teens

with Robert Jason Grant

Deficit-based theories and techniques often pathologize neurological differences commonly associated with Autism and ADHD, resulting in poor mental health outcomes. Learn how to help young neurodivergent clients thrive by using neurodiversity-affirming play practices that build therapeutic connection through empowerment and collaboration — all while having fun.

Motivational Interviewing with a Defiant Teen

with Sebastian Kaplan

What do you do when your young client doesn’t want to be in school, much less therapy? Learn how to avoid the landmines commonly set by teens struggling to assert their autonomy, and develop rapport with even the most resistant clients.

Solution-Focused Techniques with a Pre-Teen

with Sam Steen

As their autonomy increases, pre-teens need effective skills to solve problems in and outside of the home. Learn how to harness the simple power of Solution Focused Therapy by watching Sam Steen work with 12-year-old Ella.

Person-Centered Career Exploration with a Pre-Teen

with Sam Steen

Learn how to introduce conversations around career direction and skill identification with your pre-teen clients without adding to the pressures they already experience.

Skills in Youth Suicide Prevention

with Iris Educational Media

This excellent training tool is a must-see for clinicians and non-clinicians alike who deal with students every day, providing step-by-step strategies and clear instructions to address suicidal behavior in teens.

Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents: Core Concepts

with Sebastian Kaplan

Learn how to apply Motivational Interviewing principles to resistant adolescent clients and how to support and empower them to change their destructive behaviors.

Solution-Focused Techniques with a Child

with Sam Steen

Young children can get locked into ineffectual ways of solving problems that only escalate conflicts within the family. By teaching them simple, playful solution-focused skills, you can help build their self-confidence and strengthen their relationships.

Assessment and Engagement in Family Therapy

with 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 War Within: Youth Depression

with Educational Video Center

This video presents an honest look into the experiences of black and Latino young people living with depression. Candid interviews of real patients and expert professionals illustrate the struggle these youths face in families and communities often blind to mental health matters.

The Legacy of Unresolved Loss: A Family Systems Approach

with Monica McGoldrick

In this realistic simulation of an 18-week course of therapy with the Rogers family, we see how the presenting problem—teenage daughter Michelle's rebellious behavior—masks unresolved loss across three generations of family members.

Managing Weight Loss with Motivational Interviewing

with Cathy Cole

The challenges surrounding weight loss can be complex, and effective clinicians must do more than simply offering advice on diet and exercise. Discover how to use MI techniques to get to the core of your clients’ barriers to weight loss so they can begin to affect meaningful change in their lives.

Anorexia: What Therapists and Parents Need to Know

with Lisa Sabey and Robert Blair

Anorexia is the third most common chronic illness among US adolescents, but it has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. In this video about the devastating impact of anorexia on parents, see how Family-Based Therapy (FBT) actively engages parents in effective treatment.

Motivational Interviewing for Adolescent Health Behavior

with Cathy Cole

Learn how to effectively support and empower adolescents dealing with health concerns using Motivational Interviewing skills and techniques.

Motivational Interviewing for Adolescent Substance Use

with Sebastian Kaplan, PhD, & Ali Hall, JD

Acquire practical Motivational Interviewing tools to help you manage challenging sessions with adolescent clients struggling with substance use.

Motivational Interviewing in Juvenile Justice Settings

with Ali Hall

Without a strong alliance and clear boundaries, mandated clients will often shut down or act out—especially if they are teenagers. How do you work to meet both institutional and clinical goals? MI expert Ali Hall demonstrates how to use this collaborative approach in juvenile justice settings.

I‘d Hear Laughter : Finding Solutions for the Family

with Insoo Kim Berg

Insoo Kim Berg’s unique style and unwavering optimism comes to life in this demonstration of Solution-Focused Family Therapy.

Melissa: Teen Mother in Foster Care

with Calamari Productions

Watch the intense struggles of a fifteen-year-old girl living in a foster home with her medical needs infant as she learns how to care for her daughter and returns to school.

Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients 7: Sexual Minority Adolescents

with Ron Scott

Combining the voices of gay and lesbian youth with leading professionals, this program provides an insightful look at the GLB adolescent experience.

Coming Out: Voices of Gay and Lesbian Teens and their Families

with Karin Heller

Thought provoking and accessible, this video is invaluable for all parents, teachers, and professionals working with teenagers.

Evidence-Based Treatment Planning for Disruptive Child and Adolescent Behavior

with Timothy Bruce, Arthur Jongsma, Jr.

Working with troubled children can stir up deep emotions and challenge our ability to stay grounded and empathic. Learn evidence-based planning for Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder in this video, complete with live vignettes and commentary.

Exploring Narradrama

with Pamela Dunne

This video offers an introduction to the tools and techniques of Narradrama, a therapeutic approach that combines narrative therapy, drama therapy and creative arts.

Adlerian Parent Consultation

with Jon Carlson

Watch Jon Carlson conduct an actual parent consultation session and an actual parenting group with moms who are in power struggles with their teenage children.

Adolescent Family Therapy

with Janet Sasson Edgette

Watch expert adolescent family therapist Janet Sasson Edgette in an actual counseling session with a single mother and her 15-year old daughter.

Gestalt Therapy with Children

with Violet Oaklander

Watch Gestalt child therapist Violet Oaklander in an actual counseling session with a 13-year old boy who has difficulty expressing anger.

Reality Therapy with Children

with Robert Wubbolding

Watch reality therapist Robert Wubbolding in an actual counseling session with a 15-year old boy.

Child Therapy with the Experts: 11-Video Series

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See many of the world's leading experts in child therapy and counseling conduct actual sessions. This one-of-a-kind series allows you to compare the theories and techniques of a wide range of approaches, including CBT, Gestalt, Narrative, Object Relations, and others.

Integrative Family Therapy

with 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.

Child Therapy Case Consultation

with Violet Oaklander

In this live consultation, you will get a tangible sense of how Violet Oaklander works with a variety of children, while gaining practical skills to bring back to your own clients immediately.

Experiential Family Therapy

with 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.

Connecting with Our Kids

with George Papageorge

George Papageorge offers principles and tools for raising healthy kids without resorting to quick-fix parenting fads or unrealistic expectations.

Inside the Juvenile Justice System: Rodricks Initial Hearing

with Calamari Productions

Witness 17-year-old Rodrick in his initial hearing after a drug relapse has taken off the road to rehabilitation.

Inside the Juvenile Justice System: Rodricks Disposition Hearing

with Calamari Productions

See the final outcome of Rodrick's legal battle in this disposition hearing that will determine his fate.

Juvenile Justice in Action (2-video series)

with Calamari Productions

Take a front row seat to the court proceedings for a 17-year-old who had a drug relapse following a year of working toward rehabilitation. Witness how the mental health profession can be a voice for clients in a punitive justice system.

Children in Crisis: 3-Video Series

with Calamari Productions

Witness three different families as they journey through the juvenile justice and foster care system with their social work and mental health care teams.

Art Therapy for Youngsters in Schools and the Community

with Judith Aron Rubin

Explore the implementation of art therapy interventions for students with behavioral and/or academic challenges in different school settings. Case studies of elementary and high school students are profiled at two different locations: a public school in the United States and two in England, and underscore the need for accessible interventions in schools.

Clinical Art Therapy with Families

with Maxine Junge, Helen B. Landgarten, Shirley Riley

“Being a real family art therapist is different than just using art with the family,” states Maxine Junge, Ph.D, ATR-BC, HLM who hosts this historic look at the work of three premier family art therapists. Learn from these pioneers’ actual art therapy sessions with families in need.

Art Therapy in the Public Schools

with Janet Bush

The Miami-Dade County Public Schools Clinical Art Therapy Program for grades K-12 offers opportunities to work through obstacles to educational success and helps students experience benefits such as a decrease in disruptive behaviors, experience feelings of empowerment, belonging and confidence.

Group Art Therapy: Adolescents with ADHD

with Diane Safran

Led by Board Certified Art Therapist Diane Safran, this psychoeducational group focused on self-esteem, interpersonal relationships, and managing ADHD for middle school youth.

Individual & Joint Art Therapy with Mother & Child

with Laura Greenstone, Judith Aron Rubin, Cindi Westendorf

Three art therapists demonstrate how to involve family in the process of art therapy as the young patients express grief and adolescent angst.

Individual Art Interviews with Adolescents

with Judith Aron Rubin

Judith A. Rubin implements art-based questions to gain insight related to the development of adolescents. Through meeting with individuals one-on-one and showing curiosity about the art as well as the individual, Judy uncovers situational, transitional, and environmental factors underlying their behavior.

Individual Art Therapy with Neurologically Impaired Youth

with Pierre Boenig-Scherel, Carole Kunkle-Miller, Craig Siegel

This video features three art therapists working individually with neuro-diverse boys between 11 and 18 years old. In its three different experiential vignettes many instructional points are conveyed in vivo.

Individual Puppet Therapy with Four Children

with Eleanor C. Irwin

This video shows four different children (ages 6 to 13 years old) in therapy using puppets. Through four different sessions, conducted by three different therapists (two drama therapists, and one child psychiatrist), one can see how the clinician listens to and follows the interactions.

Teenage Siblings: Three Joint Sessions in Drama & Art

with Eleanor C. Irwin, Rosemarie Perla, Judith Aron Rubin

In this video, teenaged siblings, Ben and Anna, are in expressive therapy (art and drama) sessions. The video provides three different examples of how different therapists use their helping skills that might be applied to work with couples or groups as well.

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