In this program, Malin Fors demonstrates and discusses clinical topics associated with the model, such as voluntary and involuntary self-disclosure, similarities between patient and therapist, and internalized oppression, and then highlights specific moments in the demonstration session where client–therapist po...

In this program, Malin Fors demonstrates and discusses clinical topics associated with the model, such as voluntary and involuntary self-disclosure, similarities between patient and therapist, and internalized oppression, and then highlights specific moments in the demonstration session where client–therapist power dynamics come into play.

Two common misconceptions about working with survivors who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are that the disorder always stems from a single event and that effective treatment consists solely of a set of exposure-based interventions that address that one event. However, individuals who have survive...

Two common misconceptions about working with survivors who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are that the disorder always stems from a single event and that effective treatment consists solely of a set of exposure-based interventions that address that one event. However, individuals who have survived prolonged or repeated trauma often develop complex PTSD, a disorder consisting of forms of impairment much more extensive than in PTS...Two common misconceptions about working with survivors who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are that the disorder always stems from a single event and that effective treatment consists solely of a set of exposure-based interventions that address that one event. However, individuals who have survived prolonged or repeated trauma often develop complex PTSD, a disorder consisting of forms of impairment much more extensive than in PTSD. Often, when trauma-focused exposure-based interventions are launched into prematurely, they are highly likely to cause deterioration rather than improvement. In this video, Dr. Steven N. Gold demonstrates an approach to working with clients experiencing complex PTSD that focuses initially on helping them improve their quality of life in the present. By coaching clients on various facets of adult living, such as mastering effective coping skills, maintaining steady employment, and building a social support network, therapists can help them experience marked improvement in the present and form a stable base from which to address the lingering impact of traumatic experiences.
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The process for adopting children, especially older children, can often bring a mix of feelings for both parents and child: happiness, anxiety, confusion, sadness and loss, and children may experience significant behavioral and emotional distress. Adoptive families can be helped by adoption-specific therapy that t...

The process for adopting children, especially older children, can often bring a mix of feelings for both parents and child: happiness, anxiety, confusion, sadness and loss, and children may experience significant behavioral and emotional distress. Adoptive families can be helped by adoption-specific therapy that takes into account the child's past trauma and placement history, recognizing that current behavioral issues may have been adaptive in a...The process for adopting children, especially older children, can often bring a mix of feelings for both parents and child: happiness, anxiety, confusion, sadness and loss, and children may experience significant behavioral and emotional distress. Adoptive families can be helped by adoption-specific therapy that takes into account the child's past trauma and placement history, recognizing that current behavioral issues may have been adaptive in a previous traumatic, chaotic, or neglectful context. In this program, Dr. Jill Waterman demonstrates the initial parent session of ADAPT, a manualized therapeutic approach that combines evidence-based treatments for children and families with best practices from the attachment and adoption literature. In ADAPT, both parents and children are seen for treatment individually and jointly. In this video, Dr. Waterman demonstrates this approach with a young mother who has a 5-year-old adopted son.
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Thinking about a potential career can be overwhelming. The career you end up with will be a big part of how you define yourself, and so you want to make the right choice. But just how DO you find your eventual career? Your journey begins with a better understanding of yourself. Until you know who you are, you can...

Thinking about a potential career can be overwhelming. The career you end up with will be a big part of how you define yourself, and so you want to make the right choice. But just how DO you find your eventual career? Your journey begins with a better understanding of yourself. Until you know who you are, you cannot know what you will become later! A Student’s Guide to a Meaningful Career will help students discover their unique qualities, pas...Thinking about a potential career can be overwhelming. The career you end up with will be a big part of how you define yourself, and so you want to make the right choice. But just how DO you find your eventual career? Your journey begins with a better understanding of yourself. Until you know who you are, you cannot know what you will become later! A Student’s Guide to a Meaningful Career will help students discover their unique qualities, passions, and strengths, and turn them into future career paths. Ideal for students, career counseling centers, and student success programs, this video will help students learn how to take advantage of the opportunities available to them while in college, many of which can make a student more marketable to future employers.
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It’s hard to imagine any task that doesn’t require effective communication. Whether it’s convincing your parents to extend your curfew for a special event, appealing to your teacher to reconsider a grade, charming a college admissions counselor, or promoting yourself to a potential employer... the ability to...

It’s hard to imagine any task that doesn’t require effective communication. Whether it’s convincing your parents to extend your curfew for a special event, appealing to your teacher to reconsider a grade, charming a college admissions counselor, or promoting yourself to a potential employer... the ability to effectively express yourself - verbally as well as in writing - in a clear and concise manner is necessary. A Student's Guide to Commu...It’s hard to imagine any task that doesn’t require effective communication. Whether it’s convincing your parents to extend your curfew for a special event, appealing to your teacher to reconsider a grade, charming a college admissions counselor, or promoting yourself to a potential employer... the ability to effectively express yourself - verbally as well as in writing - in a clear and concise manner is necessary. A Student's Guide to Communication and Self-Presentation examines the importance of being able to communicate successfully as well as what to think about when presenting oneself. It touches on where we learn these important skills and how they play a critical role throughout our entire lives. This video will also review the process of asking for letters of recommendation, creating an “elevator pitch” when networking, and effective interviewing and writing skills.
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The Basic Attending Skills, 5th edition video teaches students how to learn and master the fundamental skills of listening.

This video is designed for all courses focusing on listening skills, and applicable to many academic areas including counseling, social work, behavioral health, nursing, pastoral care, and para professional work such as crisis counseling and peer support groups.

Demonstrations of skills with many subtitles identify enab...

The Basic Attending Skills, 5th edition video teaches students how to learn and master the fundamental skills of listening.

This video is designed for all courses focusing on listening skills, and applicable to many academic areas including counseling, social work, behavioral health, nursing, pastoral care, and para professional work such as crisis counseling and peer support groups.

Demonstrations of skills with many subtitles identify enable students to recognize interview behavior, practice skills in small groups, and then generalize skills to the actual interview. Multicultural issues are infused throughout.

The 5th edition includes:

• All new vignettes with real clients• A deeper focus on resiliency and the positive asset search• The Community Genogram – what it is, why it’s important, and how to incorporate it into the interview.• Neuroscience and its relationship to counseling: What you need to know about the brain to work more effectively with your client.
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All mental health professionals and students need to be prepared for the wide range of professional ethical scenarios they will inevitably face. Ethical codes and decision-making models are essential to professional preparation, but students and clinicians need more than codes and models. Ethical practice also inv...

All mental health professionals and students need to be prepared for the wide range of professional ethical scenarios they will inevitably face. Ethical codes and decision-making models are essential to professional preparation, but students and clinicians need more than codes and models. Ethical practice also involves individual practitioners who bring their own individual and cultural backgrounds into the therapeutic process.

To help prepare pr...

All mental health professionals and students need to be prepared for the wide range of professional ethical scenarios they will inevitably face. Ethical codes and decision-making models are essential to professional preparation, but students and clinicians need more than codes and models. Ethical practice also involves individual practitioners who bring their own individual and cultural backgrounds into the therapeutic process.

To help prepare professionals and students, John Sommers-Flanagan and Veronica Johnson focus on three topics central to ethical counseling and psychotherapy practice: (1) interpersonal or cultural self-awareness; (2) self-awareness and competence in making referrals; and (3) boundaries and competence in the digital age through thought-provoking interviews and skill-building counseling vignettes (including a “Be That Client” demonstration), students and professionals will gain a better understanding of how to use competence, empathy, and self-reflection as tools for becoming ethical clinicians.

Witness and learn from master clinician and trauma expert Janina Fisher, PhD., in this series of compelling, real-life therapy sessions that demonstrate key moments in treating trauma and associated disorders with challenging clients. Each session includes an introductory teaching moment from Dr. Fisher, and is in...

Witness and learn from master clinician and trauma expert Janina Fisher, PhD., in this series of compelling, real-life therapy sessions that demonstrate key moments in treating trauma and associated disorders with challenging clients. Each session includes an introductory teaching moment from Dr. Fisher, and is interspersed with commentary – giving you the best opportunity to truly learn proven therapeutic trauma techniques and improve treatmen...

Witness and learn from master clinician and trauma expert Janina Fisher, PhD., in this series of compelling, real-life therapy sessions that demonstrate key moments in treating trauma and associated disorders with challenging clients. Each session includes an introductory teaching moment from Dr. Fisher, and is interspersed with commentary – giving you the best opportunity to truly learn proven therapeutic trauma techniques and improve treatment outcomes.

"CP", a client with Dissociative Identity Disorder, is working on changing her relationship to chronic suicidal ideation and impulsivity. In this session, she is helped to re-frame the wish to die as an expression of a suicidal part of her personality trying to control flashbacks and overwhelming emotions. This helps her more clearly differentiate the wish to live despite the self-destructive impulses. She speaks frankly about the shame evoked by traditional approaches to suicidality and how it fuels the suicidal part to desperate measures. By understanding the suicidal ideation as a communication from the suicidal part, she reports a growing ability to keep herself safe, no matter how intense the suicidal impulses.

DISCLAIMER: The videos in the APA Psychotherapy Video Series are intended for educational and training purposes. Unauthorized viewing of these videos is expressly prohibited. All participants have agreed to allow their clinical demonstrations...

There are many different, yet equally effective, evidence-supported therapies for most psychological problems today. Yet, if different, how can they be equally effective? How can therapists integrate them in practice? In this video, J. Scott Fraser discusses the process paradigm, which proposes that all problems a...

There are many different, yet equally effective, evidence-supported therapies for most psychological problems today. Yet, if different, how can they be equally effective? How can therapists integrate them in practice? In this video, J. Scott Fraser discusses the process paradigm, which proposes that all problems are vicious cycles, shaped by context, that effective treatments intercept and reverse. This approach targets pattern shifts in clients..There are many different, yet equally effective, evidence-supported therapies for most psychological problems today. Yet, if different, how can they be equally effective? How can therapists integrate them in practice? In this video, J. Scott Fraser discusses the process paradigm, which proposes that all problems are vicious cycles, shaped by context, that effective treatments intercept and reverse. This approach targets pattern shifts in clients’ vicious cycles and provides a model for matching effective treatment approaches for the client and therapist. In this video, J. Scott Fraser demonstrates the approach with a client and discusses the therapy session with highlights that illustrate how this approach translates theory into practical integration of psychotherapies that work.
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Early childhood trauma has lasting and dramatic effects on attachment formation and on the later capacity for intimacy and mutuality. Instead of experiencing relationships as a haven of safety, traumatized couples are driven by powerful wishes for and fears of closeness. By using somatic and mindfulness-based inte...

Early childhood trauma has lasting and dramatic effects on attachment formation and on the later capacity for intimacy and mutuality. Instead of experiencing relationships as a haven of safety, traumatized couples are driven by powerful wishes for and fears of closeness. By using somatic and mindfulness-based interventions, conflictual patterns are disrupted, allowing couples to address the intense responses and impulsive reactions that undermine...

Early childhood trauma has lasting and dramatic effects on attachment formation and on the later capacity for intimacy and mutuality. Instead of experiencing relationships as a haven of safety, traumatized couples are driven by powerful wishes for and fears of closeness. By using somatic and mindfulness-based interventions, conflictual patterns are disrupted, allowing couples to address the intense responses and impulsive reactions that undermine all sense of safety and hope and recreate the experience of threat in the body and in the relationship.

Educational Objectives:

Discuss the neurobiological consequences of traumatic experience on individuals and couples