In this video, Dr. Anne Dobmeyer demonstrates her work as a behavioural health consultant with a patient who is experiencing difficulties with managing diabetes, and shows also how a psychologist and primary care physician work together to provide seamless, team-based care.
Dr. William Ming Liu presents his worldview model of psychotherapy, which focuses on the client's personal history and the messages they have received about social class. Dr. Liu interviews the client, a young female from an immigrant family, at length about her earlier experiences with class and how they influenced her social perspective ......
Divorce is stressful for partners, children, and other family members, causing problematic thoughts and behaviours. It is not uncommon for one or both partners to come into therapy seeking help. Dr. Jay Lebow's approach requires first generating a comprehensive picture of what is occurring in the entire family and only then developing a plan for ......
A book which discusses the author's work with a young woman whose parents emigrated from the Philippines. It shows how the author helps the client deal with acculturation issues, particularly how to balance her parent's cultural expectations with the American culture within which she has grown up.
This innovative book focuses on helping high-risk adolescents and their families rapidly resolve long-standing difficulties. Matthew D. Selekman spells out a range of solution-focused strategies and other techniques, illustrating their implementation with vivid case examples. His approach augments individual and family sessions with collaborative ......
Working With Headaches presents an example of Dr. Donald B. Penzien's multidisciplinary, cognitive-behavioral approach to treating clients who suffer from headaches. In addition to talking directly with the client, the approach emphasizes working closely with the client's physicians to make sure that the client receives the best medical treatment.
In Working With Gay Male Clients, Douglas C. Haldeman demonstrates his eclectic, relationship-focused approach to therapy with gay men. In working with clients from this population, therapists must be aware of what it means to be part of a stigmatised sexual minority group. In this session, Dr. Haldeman works with a young man who, although he ......
Investigates the role of emotion in the development and maintenance of psychological problems, and in effecting psychological change. The authors examine emotion as it is conceptualized and used in three of the most widely practiced approaches today - psychodynamic, cognitive behaviour, and emotion-focused psychotherapy.
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies see emotion as a gateway to meaning, and emotion often provides the initial motivation leading to therapeutic change. In this program, Dr. Norka T. Malberg discusses the mainstream psychodynamic and psychoanalytic model of emotion as well as that of mentalization-based therapy, a recent approach within ......
