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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.

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.

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.

Child Therapy: Tools, Toys and Techniques

with Paris Goodyear-Brown, Scott Riviere and Janine Shelby

Simply learning the theories of child development and therapy does not make us better or even more effective child therapists. Watch and learn from a talented trio of child clinicians as they demonstrate 10 playful, creative and interactive techniques for connecting with children and helping them cope with sadness, anger, anxiety and trauma.

Making Child Therapy Work

with 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lessons from Mister Rogers Neighborhood

with Judith Aron Rubin

This documentary highlights the psychological and educational lessons that Fred Rogers taught through music, puppetry and metaphor – in a powerful way that was both authentic and direct.

Solution-Focused Child Therapy

with John J. Murphy

Watch Solution-Focused child therapist John J. Murphy in an actual counseling session with two boys and their mother.

John Bowlby on Attachment and Psychotherapy

with John Bowlby

In this rare 1984 lecture in London, John Bowlby, founder of Attachment Theory, presents his impactful ideas on the role of the early parent-child relationships in development across the lifespan.

Group Counseling with Children: A Multicultural Approach

with Sam Steen, PhD, & Sheri Bauman, PhD

Watch this diverse group of children engage in activities and discussions that increase their awareness of their own cultures and their appreciation for differences.

Involving Children in Child Protection Casework

with Andrew Turnell

Giving children a voice in safety planning after family violence can be tricky terrain for social workers. Andrew Turnell uses a wizard, a fairy, and three houses and gets astonishing results.

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.

Thomas Szasz on The Myth of Mental Illness

with Thomas Szasz

Psychiatrist and social critic Thomas Szasz unsettled the psychiatric establishment in the 1960’s, challenging its foundational notions around normalcy, mental illness and treatment. By watching this pair of riveting interviews, Dr. Szasz will challenge you to explore and question your own cherished beliefs around diagnosis, psychotherapy and freedom; deepening your empathy for even the most challenging clients.

Narrative Therapy with Children

with Stephen Madigan

Watch expert Narrative therapist Stephen Madigan in an actual counseling session with a perfectionist 10-year old boy and his mother.

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.

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.

ADHD in the Classroom: Assessment and Intervention: 2-Video Series

with George J. DuPaul, Gary Stoner

Watch expert ADHD psychologists assess and implement a treatment for a boy struggling with ADHD in school.

Behind Closed Doors: Children Who Witness Violence

with Victoria Women's Transition House Society

This eye-opening video offers strong clinical information on how children are affected by witnessing violence, and outlines useful interventions proven to be effective in the healing process.

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.

PTSD in Children: Move in the Rhythm of the Child

with Frank Ochberg

Learn about symptoms, circumstances and therapeutic techniques for children with acute post-traumatic stress disorder.

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.

Adlerian Play Therapy

with Terry Kottman

Watch Adlerian child therapist Terry Kottman in an actual play therapy session with a 5-year old boy.

Cognitive-Behavioral Child Therapy

with Bruce Masek

Watch Cognitive Behavioral child therapist Bruce Masek in an actual counseling session with a 6-year old girl and her mother.

Object Relations Child Therapy

with David Scharff

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.

Person-Centered Child Therapy

with Anin Utigaard

Watch Person-Centered child therapist Anin Utigaard in an actual counseling session with a shy eight-year-old girl.

Psychotherapy with Medically Ill Children

with Gerald Koocher

Watch medical child therapist Gerald Koocher in an actual counseling session with a 5-year old girl who has a medical condition and a lot of worries.

Reality Therapy with Children

with Robert Wubbolding

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

Adlerian Family Therapy

with James Bitter

Watch James Bitter masterfully demonstrate Alfred Adler’s values and techniques in an actual therapy session with a family caught in a typical power struggle, followed by a fascinating discussion of the nuances of this influential approach to helping families thrive.

Narrative Family Therapy

with Stephen Madigan

Ollie is a 12 year-old African-American boy who has been court-ordered to therapy after hitting his classmate with his belt. Watch Stephen Madigan, expert Narrative therapist, as he compassionately engages Ollie and his mother in a fascinating inquiry into their experience of racism, discovering there’s much more to this incident than meets the eye.

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.

Blended Family with a Troubled Boy

with Virginia Satir

Watch one of family therapy’s most esteemed pioneers in action! In this engaging video, Virginia Satir helps a blended family of four untangle longstanding parenting and communication issues.

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.

Assessing ADHD in the Schools

with George J. DuPaul, Gary Stoner

Watch expert ADHD clinicians bring a multi-method approach to assessing ADHD in a school setting.

Classroom Interventions for ADHD

with George J. DuPaul, Gary Stoner

Watch psychologist and ADHD expert Russel Barkley implement a treatment plan in a school setting for a boy struggling with ADHD.

Child Abuse and Neglect: 2-Video Series

with Learning Seed

Learn the signs of child abuse and neglect, as well as how to assess and treat families where it occurs, in this important 2-video set.

Recognizing and Preventing Child Neglect

with Learning Seed

Many social workers have a difficult time recognizing neglect. The effects are just not as visible as abuse. This video clearly moves students through various signs that indicate neglect and empowers them to be more confident in their work of keeping children safe.

Recognizing and Preventing Physical Child Abuse

with Learning Seed

Working with physically abusive parents can be difficult for the new social worker, challenging their feelings of empathy and often eliciting anger. This video offers insight into why parents use physical discipline and provides strategies for keeping children safe.

Chelsea: Surrendered to the State

with Calamari Productions

After countless failed efforts, a mother makes the difficult decision to turn over custody of her volatile nine-year-old daughter to the state in an effort to get her the help she needs.

Joshua: When Anger Turns to Violence

with Calamari Productions

Get an unprecedented look inside the juvenile justice system as you watch a thirteen-year-old boy's real juvenile hearing after assaulting his mother.

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 & Drama Therapy: Child Life Inservice Workshop

with Judith Rubin, PhD & Eleanor Irwin, PhD

This video shows excerpts from a workshop conducted by Judy Rubin, an art therapist, and Ellie Irwin, a drama therapist, with 9 Child Life Therapists and a Music Therapist at a Children’s Hospital. The group is led in art and drama activities, illustrating possible interventions with seriously ill children. In addition to the potential use of the specific exercises, instruction is offered throughout about basic principles for sensitivity and success in ways of incorporating art and drama more safely and effectively. Staff members are invited to raise questions during the training.

Art & Drama Sessions with Two Young Families

with Judith Rubin, PhD & Eleanor Irwin, PhD

Videotaped sessions from two families show similarities and differences in art and drama family sessions, but interactional patterns and conflicts are illustrated in both, including issues of dominance/submission; victim/aggressor; problem-maker/problem-solver.

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.

Art Therapy with Blind Children

with Judith Aron Rubin

This video tells the story of an exploratory art program in a school for blind children with multiple disabilities. Exceeding all expectations regarding their abilities, they express powerful feelings in and through their art.

Drama Therapy with Children

with Judith Rubin, PhD & Eleanor Irwin, PhD

In Drama Therapy with Children, Dr. Eleanor Irwin helps viewers understand the vast potential of play-acting as a tool in child psychology. Topics include spontaneous dramatic play, puppetry, body movement, storytelling, and dream exploration by children of all ages in school and community settings.

Individual Child Therapy: Art & Sandtray

with Judith Rubin, PhD & Eleanor Irwin, PhD, Carole Kunkle-Miller

While many arts therapists doing child assessments have adequate play space and an abundance of play materials, this is not always the case. This video showcases how therapists can help a child make up a personalized story or fantasy regardless of abundancy of materials.

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.

Same Child Seen by 2 Art Therapists

with Edith Kramer, Judith Aron Rubin

In this video, two noted pioneers in art therapy, Dr. Judith Rubin and Edith Kramer, provide an art therapy session for the same child, a 10-year-old girl in the outpatient clinic of Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

The Arts as Therapy with Children

with Judith Aron Rubin

This video shows activities in multiple arts modalities—music, dance, art, and drama—in a creative arts program for young children at risk for the development of emotional problems.

Trauma & Attachment Issues

with P. Glussie Klorer

This video, narrated by Dr. Gussie Klorer, PhD, ATR-BC, HLM, follows the course of 26 years of intermittent treatment with a client who first entered therapy at age 4 due to abuse, neglect, and abandonment.

A Childs Grief

with Simcha Jacobovici

Children express grief differently than adults, but their pain is just as real and their feelings equally as intense. “A Child’s Grief” takes viewers into the lives of eight children in bereavement support group.

Edith Kramer – Art Therapy’s Muse Part 3

with David Henley, Jim Pruznick, Judith Aron Rubin

This video offers an overview of Kramer’s pioneering clinical work in art therapy with children and her unique, effective methods.

Arts Therapies for Children with Disabilities in School

with Judith Aron Rubin

In this video, arts therapists with specialties in dance/movement, music, and art are seen working with special needs children of elementary school age in different schools, explaining why they work the way they do.

Gestalt Child Therapy: Three Individual Sessions

with Violet Oaklander

In this video, Violet Oaklander sensitively guides two children in the exploration of their conflicts while engaging them in the therapeutic use of clay and sand.

A Time to Dance: The Life & Work of Norma Canner

with Norma Canner

This unique, inspiring film provides viewers the opportunity to discover the life and work of Norma Canner, a dance teacher, therapist and pioneer in the field of dance movement therapy, and former instructor at Lesley Expressive Therapy Graduate Schools in Cambridge, MA, and Israel.

Crossing Cultures: Introducing Child Art Therapy to India

with Judith Aron Rubin

The 2007 Savera Seminar in Chennai, India represents a seminal event in the development of art therapy in India. This video offers foundational information on art therapy and developmental art stages, highlighting the usefulness of engaging children in the arts as a tool to understanding their world view and experience.

A Troubled Childs World and Her Dramatic Play Therapy

with Eleanor C. Irwin

In this initial diagnostic session, Ellie Irwin, a drama therapist and psychologist, demonstrates the benefits of using play therapy to facilitate sharing of the trauma narrative in a non-threatening manner.

The Bad and Good Ghosts: A Story of Reauthoring in Narrative Therapy with Children

with Adriana Bellodi Cosa César

With the help of a creative narrative therapist a child and his mother chase away the ghost of anger.

Effects of Social Media on Child Development: Healthy Strategies

with Ezra Lockhart

Social media can threaten children’s emotional and psychological health; a family therapist shares how to identify the benefits and pitfalls, and ways to intervene.

Building on Family Strengths to Solve the Puzzle of Child Protection Work

with Jay Lappin, MSW, LCSW and Lauren McCarthy

Explore the systemic nature of child protection casework with troubled families and learn a useful clinical exercise that therapists, counselors, and social workers can use to connect with family strengths.

Jessica Stone on Play Therapy in the Digital Age

Crossing the digital divide with young clients can lead to great therapeutic strides.

Mary Jo Barrett on the Collaborative Treatment of Incest and Complex Developmental Trauma

Join internationally renowned expert Mary Jo Barrett in a riveting conversation with our editor, Lawrence Rubin, on the collaborative treatment of incest and complex developmental trauma.

Violet Oaklander on Gestalt Therapy with Children

The founder of Gestalt therapy with children and adolescents discusses therapeutic relationship building with kids and teens, the unique rewards of introducing expressive arts therapy techniques, and the challenges of being sufficiently directive in working with children.

In the Shadow of COVID, It’s Play Therapy to the Rescue

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