Anxiety
This video is the seventh in a series of nine videos examining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy's "building patterns of commitment" competency with a client presenting with anxiety.
This video is the sixth in a series of nine videos examining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy's "defining valued directions" competency with a client presenting with anxiety.
This video is the third in a series of nine videos examining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy's "undermining cognitive fusion" competency with a client presenting with anxiety.
Behavioral Tech speaks to the effectiveness of exposure therapy in treating anxiety disorders.
The Anxiety Disorders Association of Manitoba presents tips for helping those with childhood anxiety.
In this film, the general practitioner is seeing a patient who has presented several times before with complaints of palpitations and shortness of breath.
Bipolar Disorder
In this film, a psychiatrist assesses a man who has been referred by his general practitioner. The patient demonstrates flight of ideas, pressure of speech, disinhibition, punning, grandiose delusions, and second person auditory hallucinations. His presentation is consistent with mania.
A condensed and more definitive version of the award-winning documentary "Up/Down."
Borderline Personality Disorder
"Back From the Edge" offers guidance on treating Borderline Personality Disorder. The video was created by the Borderline Personality Disorder Resource Center at NewYork-Presbyterian. Learn more at http://www.nyp.org/bpdresourcecenter
Marsha Linehan, creator of the highly-regarded Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), discusses Borderline Personality Disorder from the viewpoint of a clinician/researcher. This particular video is about the function of emotions.
Marsha Linehan, creator of the highly-regarded Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), discusses Borderline Personality Disorder from the viewpoint of a clinician and researcher. This video is about the first skills taught in DBT, which are mindfulness.
Marsha Linehan, creator of the highly-regarded Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), discusses Borderline Personality Disorder from the viewpoint of a clinician and researcher. In this video she talks through strategies for emotional regulation.
Children and Adolescents
Florida International University's Center for Children and Families (CCF) presents a video repository of educational videos for Effective Child Therapy.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZafDtpShhUyMqeBKm2SXsg/featured
Generation Next provides education and information about the prevention and management of mental illness in youth to professionals, young people and the wider community. Their objective is to raise community awareness of mental illness through increasing mental health literacy, reducing associated sigma and positively influencing individual and community behaviour to improve the mental health of young people.
DemonProduced by University of Florida Institute for Child Health Policy & Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health. Funded by NIAAA and NIH Grant
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is a psychiatric teaching hospital in Ontario, Canada. These videos are meant for educational purposes, and the scenarios are played by actors, and developed by CAMH staff.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is a psychiatric teaching hospital in Ontario, Canada. These videos are meant for educational purposes, and the scenarios are played by actors, and developed by CAMH staff.
Couples
This video is a role play about Emotionally Focused Therapy.
This video is a quick overview of Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy (IBCT), an evidence-based “talk therapy,” or counseling treatment, shown to be effective in improving relationships. IBCT is a newer approach to couples therapy that focuses on helping partners identify and accept each other’s differences and change difficult patterns in the relationship.
https://www.treatmentworksforvets.org/proven-treatment-for-relationship-distress/
Dr. Sue Johnson and Ed Tronick, two experts in bonding, look at key responses in love relationships and include a vignette showing Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) with a couple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyCHT9AbD_Y&feature=youtu.be
Depression
This video is the last in a series of nine videos examining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy's "bringing it all together" competency with a client presenting with depression.
This video is the fifth in a series of nine videos examining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy's "distinguishing conceptualized self from self as context" competency with a client presenting with depression.
This video is the fourth in a series of nine videos examining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy's "getting in contact with the present moment" competency with a client presenting with depression.
This video is the eighth in a series of nine videos examining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy's "therapeutic stance" competency with a client presenting with depression.
This video is a case study example for use in teaching, aiming to demonstrate some of the triggers, thoughts, feelings and responses linked with problematic low mood. This section here represents the first 14 minutes of an initial therapy session, but in order to try and outline the vicious cycle, it moves faster than an average session might. The video features an actor playing the character of Lucy, but the dialogue is not scripted, and as such represents a natural therapeutic exchange. The role play involves a qualified Clinical Psychologist, but would definitely not suggest that this is a perfect example of therapy.
This video is from Oxford University Press and features Dr. Myrna Weissman giving an introduction to interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT), and talks about how it was developed. IPT was initially developed as a treatment for major depression, and has proven highly effective as a therapy for a number of other disorders.
In this film, the general practitioner (GP) is seeing a patient who has a depressive disorder. The patient describes symptoms including low mood, tearfulness, reduced energy, reduced motivation, early morning wakening, loss of appetite, weight loss, poor concentration, reduced enjoyment and reduced interest in self-care. The GP explores the effect of the symptoms on other people in the patient's life, explores the past history of low mood, and makes an assessment of suicide risk. The GP then gives the patient an explanation of depression.
Eating Disorders
This is a quick overview from The Eating Disorders Association of Queensland about how Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can be effective in working with clients with eating disorders.
As part of the Marginalized Voices Project, Norman Kim, PhD, of Reasons Eating Disorder Center, spoke with activists Pia Guerrero, Lakesha Lafayett, Gloria Lucas and Dagan VanDemark about culturally sensitive treatment for eating disorders.
Loved ones play an important role in eating disorders recovery and navigating the process can sometimes be a challenge. But you are not alone and NEDA has a multitude of resources tailored to the unique needs of those in support roles. This video contains easy tips on how help a loved one who is struggling with an eating disorder. Visit nationaleatingdisorders.org for more resources and information.
This is the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA)'s YouTube Channel. NEDA supports individuals and families affected by eating disorders, and serves as a catalyst for prevention, cures and access to quality care.
Eating disorders affect people of all ages, sizes, backgrounds, ethnicities, gender identities and sexualities. Unfortunately that diversity is rarely reflected in the way eating disorders are discussed and treated. Through a partnership between the National Eating Disorders Association and Reasons Eating Disorder Center, the Marginalized Voices campaign is confronting the prevailing myths about who struggles with eating disorders, underscoring that everyone’s experience is valid and deserving of care and recovery. By sharing this video and talking about the issues, we can start a conversation about the many faces of eating disorders.
Family Systems
Family Matters is a series of half hour TV shows jointly produced by the Bowen Center for the University of the District of Columbia since 2006. The format is a one-on-one interview designed to bring out the best and most in-depth observations from professional people with experience in Bowen family systems theory who have spent their professional lives learning about the issues that matter to families. The purpose of the program is to support the mission of the Bowen Center to assist families in solving major life problems through understanding and improving human relationships and to support the adult programming strategy of UDC-TV.
The Psychology In Seattle Podcast made a quick video about Bowenian Therapy with Dr. Kirk Honda.
This video is provided by the Dallas Theological Seminary from a Masters Series demonstration with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, showing how to escape from bickering with Michael White, Narrative Therapy expert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QsVpEn9ziM&feature=youtu.be
Part II: Family Consultation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR7pwi3gHlM&feature=youtu.be
Part III: Concluding Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3VkoiIOIX8&feature=youtu.be
General Application
This video is the first in a series of nine videos examining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
As a service to both members and non-members,The Association Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) maintains a growing library of videos from several different series for purchase.
Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes explains how Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and get unstuck from negative thinking, anxiety, depression and anger.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
This is a YouTube channel from Cognitive Behavioral Therapist Kate d'Ath with resources focused on treatment for OCD.
Parenting
Essentials for Parenting Toddlers and Preschoolers is a free resource developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that gives parents ways to interact more positively with their child. It also provides answers to common parenting challenges so parents can be more confident and enjoy helping their children grow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1_FBqnyLjno
UC Davis Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Training Center presents a description and real life example of PCIT with a high risk family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ldvqei7pl4&feature=youtu.be
This video is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Parent Management Training (PMT) videos, this one focused on communicating with your child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mEqaNDwaKfk
This video is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Parent Management Training (PMT) videos, this one focused on creating structure and rules for your child. Discover how family routines help with structure and how that can help improve your child's behavior during the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JPEm7khwoKk
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the steps to giving directions and find out what to do when your child does not listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zUSosdCjefo
Part II: A mother finds that her son does not follow her directions and figures out what is causing the problem. Watch as she learns how to give directions that can be followed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jyo2m6cEitg
This video is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Parent Management Training (PMT) videos, this one focused on communicating with your child during play time. A father lets stress from work interfere with his play time with his daughter. Watch as he learns how to get his daughter interested in play time again.
Learn ways to use consequences and discipline to improve your child's behavior from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bsCMWwyaWTk
Part II: It's all fun and games until the sippy cup hits the floor...for the hundredth time. Join a mother as she learns ways to handle her daughter's misbehavior.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show how time out works and see how to make it successful for your child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=teJ1cO4769U
Part II: Time-out never seems to work for one mother, until she finds out that her daughter is getting up during time-out. Watch as the mom learns how to use time-out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0VfjtaN2NUc
Dr. Jack Gladstein, professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of the Pediatric Headache Clinic at UMCH, shares his definition of positive discipline, age’s effect on discipline methods, and strategies to help children behave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXohHKfMlQ8&feature=youtu.be&list=PLCgtJxzC5vXb2W_81eAjzI_my_aAuDJIN
Psychotic Disorders
This is a Howcast video with Dr. Jeanie Tse giving a general overview about how to use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for clients with Schizophrenia.
Over the past few years there has been an increasing amount of radio programmes, videos and short films on hearing voices and related issues available online. This collection includes a few of those that you may find interesting or useful.
This video shows four real patient-professional interactions involving patients exhibiting symptoms of Schizophrenia. Some diagnostic criteria is pointed out.
In this film, an on-call psychiatrist is assessing a young man who has been referred urgently by his general practitioner (GP). The psychiatrist takes a history in which she elicits persecutory delusions, third person auditory hallucinations, running commentary, thought insertion, and somatic hallucinations. She then makes a risk assessment, takes a drug history and assesses risk. The patient is clearly suffering from a psychotic disorder and the most likely diagnosis is schizophrenia. Differential diagnoses would include a drug-induced psychosis. Please note that this video has been made by the University of Nottingham for teaching purposes. The psychiatrist is a real psychiatrist but the patient is played by an actor.
Self-Harm
This video from The Western Australian Clinical Training Network demonstrates an adolescent psychiatric risk assessment, focussing on risk of suicide and self harm and assessment of mental state.
Dealing with self harm behaviors can be a difficult situation for both parents and their children. Kristin Bieber, Ph.D., at Boys Town Center for Behavioral Health, offers tips and strategies for parents who are dealing with self harm behaviors.
In this film, you see a psychiatrist who works in the liaison psychiatry department seeing a patient who has recently been treated in the emergency department for wrist lacerations...This patient displays features of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder of the Borderline type. Please note that this video has been made by the University of Nottingham for teaching purposes. The psychiatrist is a real psychiatrist but the patient is played by an actor.
Sleep Disorders
This video features a licensed mental health counselor and psychotherapist explaining how sleeping disorders caused by anxiety can either be deficient sleep or excess sleep, as some wake up hours too early, while others sleep far too much. She explains briefly how to identify sleep disorders that are caused by anxiety.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) is explained by Dr. Sean Drummond, including a case demonstration.
Somatization
In this film, you see a general practitioner (GP) talking to a patient who has repeatedly presented to the surgery for abdominal problems for which no organic cause has been found. Please note that this video has been made by the University of Nottingham for teaching purposes. The psychiatrist is a real psychiatrist but the patient is played by an actor.
This video from Kelty Mental Health shows the journey of a child and a youth who have experienced somatization. They talk about their confusion at the beginning, how they came to an understanding of their symptoms and the work of getting better. They also talk about how their lives changed in positive ways as a result. Their parents are also interviewed and tell the story from their perspective.
Social Anxiety Disorder
This is a case study clinical example for use in teaching, aiming to demonstrate some of the triggers, thoughts, feelings and responses linked with problematic social anxiety using a CBT model. This section here represents the first 12 minutes of an initial therapy session, but in order to try and outline the vicious cycle, it moves faster than an average session might. The video features an actor (Malak El-Gonemy) playing the character of Hannah, but the dialogue is not scripted, and as such represents a natural therapeutic exchange. The video shows a licensed Clinical Psychologist. This video was produced as a collaboration between the University of Leeds and Leeds Trinity University (Ricardo Barker).
This is a clinical case study example for use in teaching, aiming to demonstrate how the downward arrow technique and thought challenging might be used in CBT for social anxiety disorder. The character of Hannah is played by an actor (Malak El-Gonemy), but the scene is not scripted, and as such it represents a natural therapeutic exchange. The video was filmed and produced by Ishan Siddiqui and Christopher Werrett.
This is a clinical case study example for use in teaching, aiming to demonstrate how a behavioral experiment might be used in CBT for social anxiety disorder. The character of Hannah is played by an actor (Malak El-Gonemy), but the scene is not scripted, and as such it represents a natural therapeutic exchange. The video was filmed and produced by Ishan Siddiqui and Christopher Werrett.
Substance Use Disorders/Addiction
This video is from the Royal College of Psychiatrists in which a trainee psychiatrist is tasked with taking a history from a patient with alcohol dependency.
This webcast from the American Psychological Association involves an overview of the guideline recommendations for the management of substance use disorders and how they were developed, including discussion of some of the gaps in the evidence base and selected clinical challenges.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYxLF9QrWA&feature=youtu.be
This introductory webcast from the American Psychological Association presents an overview of basic concepts of substance use and substance use disorders (SUDs), review diagnostic criteria as defined in the DSM-IV, DSM-5 and the ICD-10, and discuss comorbidity between SUDs and other psychological disorders. Major etiological theories highlighting both intra-individual factors (e.g., genetics, personality) and environmental factors will be highlighted with particular attention to the role of development in the onset and course of SUDs (esp. “maturing out” and “natural recovery”). Attention is also paid to current concepts of “addiction” and its neurobiological foundations and their implications for treatment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAm2uKIOS0k&feature=youtu.be
This webcast from the American Psychological Association enables psychologists in a variety of settings to address and manage client substance misuse and problems with addictive behaviors more efficiently and effectively using SBIRT, Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqFLLGCEGHQ&feature=youtu.be
This recorded webcast from the American Psychological Association covers the most common addiction treatment modalities and content, with specific focus on identifying empirically-based principles of treatment and coordinating care with addiction treatment providers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ww3VkJYPWY&feature=youtu.be
This is a recorded discussion from the American Psychological Association that focuses on some of the psychological, biological, and environmental factors that have been linked to the development of substance use disorders, and seeks to understand the challenges of living with addiction. Also considered, the process of recovery and some of the factors that may help facilitate successful resolution of substance misuse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3hVCJWCR8w&feature=youtu.be
Suicidality
This video is from the Family Action Network and features a talk from Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP, the creator of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and suicidality expert. This talk is entitled "Balancing Acceptance and Change: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and the Future of Skills Training".
This video shows how mindfulness practice can be an important tool in dealing with crises. When going through difficulties, mindfulness meditation is an effective tool to come the mind and body. Marsha Linehan shows us how dialectical behavior therapy works as a form of mindfulness and psychotherapy.
Trauma
This video is the second in a series of nine videos, examining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy's "developing acceptance and willingness" competency with a client discussing her trauma history.
This video offers an explanation of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD. CPT is a leading, effective evidence-base therapy for those suffering from PTSD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOZEMdwU9Ec&feature=youtu.be
This is a series of videos and resources related to healing trauma through Narrative Practice, included in a free course from the Dulwich Centre.
https://dulwichcentre.com.au/courses/what-is-narrative-practice-a-free-course/
The National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder explains what evidence based treatment is.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) has produced dozens of webinar series, comprised of virtual presentations by expert researchers and practitioners, on various topics in the field of child traumatic stress. Most webinars are from 60 to 90 minutes in length and are available for continuing education credit. Must register for the network to access, but registration is free.
The National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) gives a quick overview of the use of Prolonged Exposure Therapy for those with PTSD.
This is a Dateline NBC piece featuring Dr. Edna Foa and the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety (CTSA) using Prolonged Exposure Therapy to treat PTSD.
Video Databases
The Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has a large YouTube Channel.
Hundreds of FREE short videos and certification courses on mental health, substance use, and suicide prevention topics.
Over 300 videos of therapists in session, explaining, and reflecting on a wide variety of presenting problems and treatment modalities.