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Clinical Interviewing: Intake, Assessment & Therapeutic Alliance

with John Sommers-Flanagan, PhD & Rita Sommers-Flanagan, PhD

How do you do an assessment, collect historical data, develop a treatment plan and create a warm working alliance with clients all in the first session? Learn from experts John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan how to quickly create the foundation for a successful therapy and engage clients collaboratively in the treatment process.

Psychiatric Diagnosis and Interviewing

with Jason Buckles

Is it possible to get the diagnostic data you need during the first session in a way that leaves clients feeling like they want to come back for a second session? This video takes a close look at how the DSM-5-TR and the diagnostic process can be used to improve mental healthcare. Through step-by-step clinical demonstrations, you’ll develop client-oriented diagnostic interviewing skills that lay the foundation for a strong therapeutic alliance and successful course of treatment.

Peter Levine on Adding Somatic Techniques to Your Practice

with Peter Levine

What can psychotherapists and counselors do to help clients relieve their suffering by accessing the healing power of their bodies? Learn how, regardless of your therapeutic orientation, to help clients tap into the wellspring of their body’s energy by watching renowned clinician and researcher, Peter Levine, demonstrate his groundbreaking methods.

Masterclass in Advanced Psychotherapy Skills, Vol 1: Deepening Client Self-Discovery

with Orah Krug, Victor Yalom

Asking “How do you feel?” is a typical way we try to help clients expand their internal awareness. But unfortunately, it’s often a dead-end, and many therapists don’t know how to follow up. In this masterclass, you’ll learn powerful techniques to help clients accelerate the internal discovery process so they can gain additional resources to tackle the problems bringing them to therapy.

Working in the Here and Now: Deepening Therapeutic Encounters Part 2

with Victor Yalom

Therapists can easily fall back on intellectual discussions, abstractions, and analyzing thoughts with anxious or depressed clients, when the real struggle is connecting with their feelings and, in turn, with others. Learn to harness the therapeutic power of the here-and-now to free clients who are walled off from themselves and others so you can help them begin to live authentic, connected lives.

Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach

with Travis Heath

What if, rather than focusing on presenting problems, symptoms, diagnoses and other traditional approaches to working with clients, we embraced a culturally democratic approach that invites clients to speak on behalf of their own healing? Discover how to go beyond listening and emphasizing, and learn how to collaborate with clients using their existing strengths, traditions and heritage.

Working in the Here and Now: Deepening Therapeutic Encounters Part 1

with Victor Yalom

What can psychotherapists do to help clients fully experience their emotions and, in the process, improve their relationships? Learn to use powerful here-and-now therapy techniques so clients can fully access their inner emotional worlds while deepening their connections with others in their life.

Powerful Ideas for Developing Your Best Therapeutic Self

with Victor Yalom

There’s a powerful tool that you can use to improve client outcomes regardless of therapeutic issue, modality or population. And the best part? You've already got it. It’s you. Victor Yalom shares insights on how to hone your clinical self.

Experiential Techniques for Moving Beyond "How Do You Feel?" - Laura: Stuck in Despair

with Victor Yalom

When clients are battling depression, it can be challenging to know how they can share their emotions in a way that promotes growth. Learn powerful here-and-now techniques to connect with clients and move sessions forward by inviting them to fully experience their world of emotions.

Experiential Techniques for Moving Beyond "How Do You Feel" — Hamed: Prompting Self-Discovery

with Victor Yalom

What do psychotherapists and counselors do when clients want to explain rather than experience their feelings? Learn simple but powerful techniques for helping clients expand their inner awareness and discover new things in every session.

What Works in Psychotherapy

with Scott Miller

What works in psychotherapy? In this interview by Randall C. Wyatt, Miller shares everything he knows about psychotherapy outcomes, including simple practices that significantly improves outcomes.

Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach, Volume 2: Beverly

with Travis Heath

What do you do when you meet with a client who has no presenting problems? For many therapists, their approach is so pathology-oriented that such sessions can feel unfocused and disarming. Discover a Contemporary Narrative Therapy approach that shifts the focus to people, not problems, and invites you to engage with your client’s stories with a curiosity and creativity that cultivates hope and healing.

Legal and Ethical Issues for Mental Health Professionals: Revised 2020

with Stephen Feldman

Finally, a video program to fulfill your legal and ethical CE requirements that is not only indispensable for daily practice, but also engaging, entertaining and informative. Updated 2020 to include changes in laws, use of technology, and more!

The DSM-5 and Psychodiagnostic Interviewing, with TR Updates (4-video series)

with Jason Buckles

The best clinicians seamlessly combine diagnostic interviewing and rapport-building during the initial session, and in this series, you’ll learn how to do just that. Through rich discussions and clinical demonstrations, you’ll learn how to gather the information you need while building the alliance you want.

Telehealth: Legal and Ethical Issues

with Stephen Feldman

Learn about the legal and ethical issues surrounding telehealth, and discover specific, practical solutions for providing effective, compliant telehealth services to your clients in this discussion with Stephen Feldman, JD.

Conducting an Effective Mental Status Exam

with John Sommers-Flanagan, PhD & Rita Sommers-Flanagan, PhD

Learn how to elicit important information from clients during the initial stages of treatment, while leveraging therapeutic listening, empathy and intuition to deepen rapport and create therapeutic alliance.

Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice

with John Sommers-Flanagan, PhD & Rita Sommers-Flanagan, PhD

Finally, some examples of the major psychotherapy theories all in one video! John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan present eleven of the best-known approaches to counseling and psychotherapy side-by-side, with real therapy sessions and extensive commentary covering theory, strategy, and effective techniques.

Diagnosing Anorexia, Schizophrenia and Borderline Personality Disorder

with Jason Buckles

Schizophrenia, Anorexia, and Borderline Personality Disorder are often challenging for clinicians to treat, and an accurate diagnosis is key to establishing treatment. Through a series of discussions and clinical sessions, you’ll learn specialized skills for gathering information from clients while attending to the therapeutic relationship. By laying the foundation for a strong alliance, you’ll build better outcomes for clients struggling with these difficult disorders.

Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach, Volume 3: Ian

with Travis Heath

How can you bring yourself to the room more fully as a person, offering more than just empathy? Discover how to become an active participant in the process of moving clients beyond the limits of their worlds as they know them. Using a Contemporary Narrative Therapy approach, you can help clients trace the profound impact of systemic racism, and redefine not just their own stories, but the limits they have set for themselves.

Diagnosing Depressive, Bipolar, and Alcohol Use Disorders

with Jason Buckles

With symptoms that often overlap, depressive disorders, bipolar, and substance use disorders can be hard to distinguish from one another. In Volume 3 of The DSM-5 and Psychodiagnostic Interviewing, with TR Updates you’ll learn a systematic approach to accurately diagnosing these conditions while at the same time building a solid therapeutic alliance.

Diagnosing PTSD, Adjustment, Generalized Anxiety and Panic Disorders

with Jason Buckles

How can clinicians obtain essential diagnostic information while establishing and maintaining therapeutic rapport? Watch clinical demonstrations of some of the most common disorders therapists encounter— Adjustment, Panic, Generalized Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders—and learn how to gather diagnostic data without compromising client care.

Becoming a Therapist: Inside the Learning Curve

with Erik Sween

In this candid video a group of new therapists reveal the challenges they faced during their first year of seeing clients. Especially useful for preparing beginning therapy students.

Couples Therapy: An Introduction

with Ellyn Bader, Dan Wile

In this video, two renowned couples and marriage experts, Ellyn Bader and Dan Wile discuss what couples therapy is and what it is not. A valuable resource beginning therapists, and for clients this to help them get their couples therapy off on the right track.

Tools and Techniques for Family Therapy

with John Edwards

John Edwards has spent the last twenty years distilling the intricacies of family systems theory into a user-friendly approach that has enhanced the work of thousands of clinicians and educators in North America.

Developmental Aspects of Group Counseling: Process, Leadership, and Supervision

with Rex Stockton

Gain new skills for leading psychotherapy groups in this video featuring seasoned group expert, Rex Stockton, supervising two students as they lead a 16-week group to deeper insight, connection, and personal engagement.

Building a Successful Career in Counseling and Psychotherapy

with Sherry Smith, PhD & Susan Smith, LPC

Amid an ever-changing field, what are the most important things a beginning therapist should know? In this video, six seasoned clinicians discuss career paths, benefits and pitfalls of the work, successful business practices, and ways to prevent burnout.

The Essence of Change

with Virginia Satir

Watch renowned psychotherapist Virginia Satir present her pioneering views on the essential ingredients of successful therapy to a group of four students.

Effective Psychotherapy with Men

with Ronald Levant

In this dramatic recreation of key moments in a 12-session course of therapy with Raymond—a man who at mid-life cannot feel excitement at the prospect of his impending fatherhood—Dr. Levant demonstrates an unconventional, yet very effective approach to working with men.

Living with PTSD: Lessons for Partners, Friends, and Supporters

with Frank Ochberg & Angie Panos

Watch two trauma experts offer family and community members clear, useful information about the nature and symptoms of PTSD, as well as concrete advice about how they can assist their loved ones in the recovery process.

The Therapeutic Relationship, Individualized Treatment and Other Keys to Successful Psychotherapy

with John C. Norcross

In this compelling interview with one of the most prominent psychotherapy researchers of our time, Dr. John Norcross presents the results from fourteen meta-analyses that reveal the secrets to successful therapy.

Legal & Ethical Issues for Mental Health Professionals, Volume 2: Revised 2020

with Stephen Feldman

Finally, a pragmatic, informative and engaging video that offers solutions and suggestions for the most common legal and ethical dilemmas confronting mental health practitioners. Updated 2020 to include changes in practices due to use of technology and other trends.

Legal & Ethical Issues for Mental Health Professionals, Volume 1: Revised 2020

with Stephen Feldman

Finally, a video program to fulfill your legal and ethical CE requirements that is not only indispensable for daily practice but also engaging, entertaining and informative. Updated 2020 to include changes in laws, use of technology, and more.

The Virginia Satir Series: 5-Video Series

with Virginia Satir

In these dynamic videos from the Virginia Satir Series, watch renowned psychotherapist Virginia Satir present her pioneering views on the essential ingredients of successful therapy to a group of students, then conduct therapy with families struggling with abuse, substance use, and parenting conflicts.

Mental Health in Hospitals and Treatment Centers: 5-Video Series

with Brad Hagen

What are the most essential skills and techniques for succeeding with patients in hospitals and treatment centers? Discover the difference between novice unskilled and expert work care for a range of severe conditions in this 5-part video series.