Counseling and Therapy in Video

“The content here is astonishingly deep, broad, and expert, as well as unique, and you are not going to find anything even remotely similar online. The quality of the videos is excellent. . . . A highly effective tool that rates a strong ten.”—Library Journal

Overview

Counseling and Therapy in Video is a landmark collection in the Alexander Street Press series of Critical Video Editions™. It contains more than 400 hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. Designed to be an affordable training and research tool in the helping professions, this collection provides an invaluable firsthand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice.

Value

Counseling and Therapy in Video represents an enormous value: now libraries of every size and budget can offer hundreds of video titles at a fraction of what it would cost to buy each title individually—without worrying about permissions or copyright infringement. All educational uses, including in-class viewing, are covered.

Technical features

Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing™ and extensive controlled vocabularies enable the collection’s uniquely powerful cross-search capabilities. Additional features—from playlist and clip-making tools to visual tables of contents, synchronized transcripts for every video, and per-second permanent URLs—make it easier to access, cite, and share video footage than ever before.

What’s in it?

The 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 counseling and therapy programs across the curriculum—in psychology, social work, education, nursing, divinity studies, health, and medicine.

How will you use it?

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 the face-to-face counseling encounter. Video lets users observe the intricacies of behavior, tone, facial expression, and body language that define successful and unsuccessful counseling experiences. And yet, due to the physical and logistical constraints of DVDs and VHS tapes, video is infrequently 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 the contents—by therapy type, diagnoses, symptoms, client/therapist characteristics, and more—and then create and share personalized clips and playlists. Class assignments and published papers take on an entirely new dimension.

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.
• Compare and contrast the methods of cognitive-behavioral therapists with those practicing clientcentered therapy by showing me examples of how each treats clients with ADD.
• Find examples of dealing 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 easy-to-search and easy-to-browse topical subject areas and therapeutic methods: 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 is an online collection available to academic, public, and school libraries via annual subscription or outright 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. For more information, or to request a free trial or price quote, email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.