Introduction to Psychotherapy
A fundamental video resource for undergraduate psychology students
APA Video Introduction to Psychotherapy Systems provides an authoritative view of psychotherapy, featuring superior educational content for student success, and is an important resource for undergraduate students who are just beginning their training in psychology.
Each therapy session features actors portraying clients and provides instructive insight about the methods used within each demonstration, ensuring that students gain a solid foundation of the essential skills they will need as professionals.
Key benefits of APA Video Introduction to Psychotherapy Systems
- A dynamic teaching and learning tool that gives students an inside view of therapy demonstrations from well-known clinicians.
- More than 20 videos of therapy interactions that explore common psychotherapy topics, including addiction, anxiety, depression, social phobia, trauma, and more.
- Expert-led demonstrations of various therapeutic approaches, including family therapy, play therapy, cognitive therapy, and others.
- Synchronized and searchable transcripts make finding relevant videos and clips quick and easy.
APA Video Introduction to Psychotherapy Systems contains videos from previously published DVDs in the APA Psychotherapy Video Series. The videos feature actors portraying clients on the basis of actual case material.
Titles Include:
- Behavior Therapy for Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
Samuel Turner - Client-Centered Therapy
Nathaniel Raskin - Cognitive-Affective Behavior Therapy
Marvin R. Goldfried - Cognitive–Behavior Therapy
Jacqueline B. Persons - Cognitive–Behavioral Relapse Prevention for Addictions
G. Alan Marlatt - Cognitive Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Mary Anne Layden - Cognitive Therapy for Panic Disorder
David M. Clark - Couples Therapy for Extramarital Affairs
Don-David Lusterman - Effective Psychoanalytic Therapy of Schizophrenia and Other Severe Disorders
Bertam Karon - EMDR for Trauma: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Francine Shapiro - Ericksonian Hypnotherapy for an Impulse Problem
Jeff Zeig - Ethnocultural Psychotherapy
Lillian Comas-Diaz - Experiential Psychotherapy
Alvin Mahrer - Family Therapy With Patients Having Physical Health Problems
Susan McDaniel - Feminist Therapy
Laura S. Brown - Individual Therapy From a Family Systems Perspective
Florence Kaslow - Interpersonal Reconstructive Therapy for Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder
Lorna Smith Benjamin - Multimodal Therapy
Arnold Lazarus - Play Therapy With a 6-Year-Old
Jane Annunziata - Practical Psychotherapy With Adolescents
Alice K. Rubenstein - Prescriptive Eclectic Therapy
John C. Norcross - Process Experiential Psychotherapy: An Emotion-Focused Approach
Leslie Greenberg - Short-Term Dynamic Therapy
Donald K. Freedheim
Therapeutic Approaches Include:
- Adolescent Psychotherapy
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Family Therapy
- Play Therapy
- Experiential Psychotherapy
- Multimodal Therapy
- Interpersonal Reconstructive Psychotherapy
- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
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