Counseling and Therapy in Video

PREPUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT

PREVIEW THE CONTENT: Sample Video Clips

Counseling and Therapy in Video is a landmark collection in the Alexander Street Press Critical Video Editions™ series, containing more than 300 hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. The videos are designed for training and continuing education, providing an invaluable firsthand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice. As part of the Critical Video Editions series, Alexander Street Press has deeply indexed all of the content to enable functionality never before possible in DVD or VHS format. Now video footage can be accessed, cited, and assigned as easily as readings from a textbook.

Perhaps the greatest source of anxiety for students—and even seasoned professionals—in the mental health field is the prospect of dealing with clients in face-to-face counseling sessions. Books and journal articles do a good job of relating theory, but are poor at conveying the actual experience of dealing with individuals in an interactive environment. Only video offers the ability to observe the intricacies of behavior, tone, facial expression, and body language that define both successful and unsuccessful counseling experiences. And yet, due to the physical and logistical constraints of DVDs and VHS tapes, video has rarely been used as a primary training and teaching tool. Counseling and Therapy in Video changes that: for the first time students, instructors, researchers, and practitioners can find videos by searching their contents—including therapy type, diagnoses, symptoms, client/therapist characteristics, and more—and then create and share their own personalized clips and playlists. Class assignments and published papers will take on a whole new dimension.

This collection features world-renowned therapists such as Jon Carlson, Allen Ivey, Insoo Kim Berg, and many others, demonstrating their methods in true-to-life situations. Spanning dozens of therapeutic methods, diagnoses, and cultural groups, this collection is essential for psychologists, counselors, social workers, and students. Queries such as the following will return numerous, high-utility results:

     • Show me clips where a client diagnosed with depression uses the word drink

     • Show me group therapy sessions that confront obsessive-compulsive disorder

     • Find all uses of the word numb in accounts and descriptions of loss or grief

     • Compare and contrast the methods of cognitive-behavioral therapists with those practicing
       client-centered therapy by showing me examples of how each treat clients with ADD

     • Show me examples of how to deal with suicidal patients from a variety of ethnic, cultural, 
       and racial groups

     • How does race inform the interactions between white counselors and black clients? Between
       black therapists and white patients? Between Asian therapists and Latino clients?
 

TOPICAL COVERAGE

The material is clustered around topical subject areas and therapeutic methods, all of which can easily be searched: Addiction, Alcoholism, Brief Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Group Therapy, Children and Adolescent Therapy, Couples and Family Therapy, Culture and Diversity, Domestic Violence, Existential/Humanistic Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transsexual Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Supervision/Consultation, Career Counseling, and more.

PUBLICATION DETAILS

Counseling and Therapy in Video will be available in 2009 through annual subscription or the one-time purchase of perpetual rights, with prices scaled to institutional size and budget. All Alexander Street Critical Video Editions™ work on both PCs and Macs, and require no additional software or downloads. Continuing Education (CE) Credits are available for many of the materials. Please email sales@alexanderstreet.com for more information or to request a trial.