Counseling Video/DVD List by Therapist
Beck, Aaron
T55.05
Part 3
Three Approaches to Psychotherapy III
Beck describes his approach to cognitive therapy in
an actual therapy session with a patient named Richard.
1 DVD recording (46 minutes)
Ellis,Albert
R38
Rational Emotive Therapy
Dr. Ellis discusses the evolution of Rational Emotive
Therapy and shows it in practice at a public workshop and in
unstaged counseling sessions.
1 VHS recording (30 minutes)
T54.9
Part 3
Rational-emotive therapy as practiced by Albert Ellis. Ellis
describes his approach and is filmed in an actual therapy
session and gives an evaluation of her therapy.
1 VHS recording (32 minutes)
Glasser, William
B69
Vol. 14
Brief Therapy Inside Out
In Volume 14 Glasser discusses enabling therapeutic choices:
The process of change in reality therapy.
1 VHS recording (95 minutes)
Haley, Jay
B68.55
Brief Strategic Therapy with Couples
Therapist and master teacher Jay Haley supervises the live
training of therapists using techniques with marriages in
distress.
1 DVD recording (50 minutes)
J39
Jay Haley on Directive Therapy
Haley lectures a training group on his approach to family
therapy.
1 VHS recording (40 minutes)
P63.6
A Positive Approach with a Psychotic Couple
Haley supervises a therapist who is working with a psychotic
married couple. Haley suggests that the therapist treat the
couple as if nothing were wrong except the social situation.
The consultation shows a way to make a new start with a
chronic case.
1 VHS recording (45 minutes)
C63.6
Compulsory Therapy
Haley supervises family therapy involving a case of violence.
The video shows Haley planning the interviews with the
therapist, his directives in the live supervision, and the
debriefing group discussions.
1 VHS recording (36 minutes)
F36.2
Family Therapy at a Distance
Haley supervises a therapist learning to deal with a depressed
man working through family issues.
1 VHS recording (55 minutes)
A71
Approaching a Crisis
When a husband in family therapy threatens suicide, the
therapist must choose whether to behave according to
professional procedures or to become personally involved.
“Based on material from Jay Haley’s Ordeal Therapy…..”
“These cases…are not improvised. Actors study a videotape
filmed of the actual family and duplicate what is said and done.”
1 VHS recording (51 minutes)
J42
The Jealous Husband
Training film explores different aspects of extramarital affairs,
focusing on how to help the couple put the affair behind them.
“These cases…are not improvised. Actors study a videotape
filmed of the actual family and duplicate what is said and done.”
1 VHS recording (40 minutes)
U52
Unbalancing a Couple
Haley presents the idea that couples follow rules of
relationships which organize the ways they act with each
other, and demonstrate a practical model for brief therapy
that formulates problems so that they are solvable.
“Based on material from Jay Haley’s Learning and Teaching
Therapy.”
“These cases…are not improvised. Actors study a videotape
filmed of the actual family and duplicate what is said and done.”
1 VHS recording (28 minutes)
J39.2
Jay Haley on Strategic Therapy 1978
Haley discusses the “strategic therapy” method of changing
undesired behavior in the context of family relationships.
1 VHS recording (47 minutes)
W53.8
Whither Family Therapy?: A Jay Haley Version
Discusses the birth and evolution of family therapy, blending
the systems and views of Gregory Bateson with the ideas of
Haley’s development of brief directive therapy.
“This film is based on seminars, workshops, lectures,
supervision sessions, and interviews done in different places
around the world in the last 40 years.”
1 VHS recording (49 minutes)
Lazarus, Arnold
M89
Multimodal Therapy
Begins with a brief discussion of multimodal therapy, a
cognitive-behavioral therapy which assesses seven
“modalities” including behavior, affects, sensations, images,
cognitions, interpersonal relationships, and biological
functioning in an effort to help people make positive changes.
Lazarus demonstrates an actual therapy session and then
discusses the demonstration and theory with Kjos and Carlson.
1 VHS recording (118 minutes)
A88
Assessment / Therapy Connection: Depression as the
Presenting complaint: A Multimodal Approach
Dr. Lazarus explains the principles of multimodal therapy
and performs an assessment of a female client who suffers
from chronic depression. His commentary is interspersed
with segments from dramatized interviews designed to reveal
the client’s personality in terms of behavior, affect, sensation,
imagery, cognition, interpersonal factors, and drugs/biological
factors.
1 VHS recording (30 minutes)
T55
Part 3
Three Approaches to Psychotherapy II
In Volume 3, Arnold Lazarus demonstrates Multimodal Therapy.
1 VHS recording (45 minutes)
Minuchin, Salvador
C35.55
The Caretaker
Dr. Minuchin consults with a homeless family and its many
helpers, who deal separately with physical disability, drug
abuse, and foster care.
1 DVD recording (34 minutes)
I75
Inviting the Family Dance: Salvador Minuchin
This documentary explores Salvador Minuchin’s life and
work, tracing a line from his childhood in Argentina, through his
quest to establish family therapy, to recent developments
inspired by his thinking. Historical archive footage of his early
work as well as recent therapeutic work show how he provoked
“the helpfulness of the family.”
2 DVD recording (134 minutes)
S37
Salvador Minuchin: Unfolding the Laundry
Salvador Minuchin’s simplicity and sense of humor lure the
dual-career family with five step-children into desiring the
necessary change as he follows the family’s lead in defining
the problem.
1 VHS recording (147 minutes)
S41.92
Searching for Colors: The Shit Painter
Dr. Salvador Minuchin supervises therapist Wai-Yung Lee in
working with the family of a young man who smears feces.
1 DVD recording (90 minutes)
O40
The Oedipal Son
This DVD illustrates how Dr. Minuchin creates intensity in his
direct work with the parents and a young man who has been
hospitalized after attempting to harm himself. Minuchin
uses intensity in his supervisory work with his student to
challenge the student to become more intense himself in his
therapeutic encounters with the family.
1 DVD recording (36 minutes)
H40.55
Hearing Voices
Minuchin works with a family of a woman who has been
frequently hospitalized for psychotic symptoms.
1 DVD recording (49 minutes)
T54.9
Part 1
Three Approaches to Psychotherapy I
Part One demonstrates client-centered therapy as practiced
by Carl Rogers.
3 VHS recording (part one - 48 minutes)
T55
Three Approaches to Psychotherapy II
Part One demonstrates Carl Roger’s approach to client
centered therapy.
3 VHS recordings (45 minutes each)
M35.5
The Major Theories of Family Therapy
Presents an overview of five major theories of family therapy:
intergenerational, structural, strategic, systemic, and
communication / experiential. Addresses the theories and
works of Murray Bowen, Jay Haley, Cloe Madanes,
Salvador Minuchin, Mara Selvini Palazzoli, Carl Whitaker and
Virginia Satir.
5 VHS recordings (60 minutes each)
S38.35
Satire Family Therapy
Explores one of the major theories in family therapy, Satir
therapy, with family therapist Jean McLendon, who studied
under Virginia Satir. In a brief interview session, Jean
McLendon works with an African-American woman and her
son, helping both mother and son deal with significant losses
in their lives.
1 VHS recording (110 minutes)
T43
Vol. 1-5
Teaching Tapes
Four of these tapes show live interviews with families who
are dealing with various issues: blending, abuse within the
family, and drug use by a family member. Virginia Satir
presents her ideas of effecting change in the family.
V. 1: Blended Family with a Troubled Boy
V. 2: A Family at the Point of Growth
V. 3: A Step Along the Way
V. 4: Of Rocks and Flowers
V. 5: The Essence of Change
5 VHS recordings (60 minutes each)
Stuart, Richard
B42.93
Behavioral Couples Therapy
Behavioral therapy encourages social skills training. Dr. Stuart
uses a structured interview to assess a couple’s strengths and
weaknesses and provides behavioral assignments to help
build better relationships.
1 VHS recording (time not given)
Whitaker, Carl
E85.7
Experiential Family Therapy
Two interviews with a family give examples of Carl Whitaker’s
therapeutic orientation and the therapist’s battle for structure.
2 VHS recordings (time not given)