On March 20, we added 10 new videos to APA PsycTherapy, our streaming video database designed to meet the teaching and training needs of psychotherapy students and practitioners. Each APA PsycTherapy video is recorded during an unscripted session to provide an authentic example of psychotherapy conducted by an expert clinician.
A few of the videos are highlighted below, followed by a list of remaining new sessions rounding out this release. If you’re a subscriber, use the linked video titles to view the content on APA PsycTherapy!
- Emotion and Culture in Psychotherapy: This video features Shigeru Iwakabe, PhD demonstrating his culturally respectful, integrative approach to working with clients. The moving therapy demonstration is framed by an interview conducted by Cheri Marmarosh in which Dr. Iwakabe discusses how he blends emotion-focused and accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy to provide space for the client to express emotion within their cultural parameters.
- Sex Addiction: Geoffrey Goodman, PhD, ABPP demonstrates his integrative psychodynamic approach to working with clients presenting with this compulsive behavior. The demonstration in this program features an actor portraying a client who is addicted to pornography. Dr. Goodman’s nonjudgmental, supportive approach helps the client understand her triggers for this behavior and identify a path toward stopping it. The therapy demonstration is framed by an interview with Dr. Katherine Helms in which Dr. Goodman discusses his approach to this presenting issue.
- Common Factors Therapy in Practice: Common factors therapy initially derived from the idea that the techniques and goals that therapists have in common—such as building an alliance with the client, identifying client motivations, and evoking change—might be what makes therapy effective. Common factors therapy works from a strong evidence base to provide not only a metatheory for why so many approaches work, but also a practical therapy approach in and of itself. This video features Russell J. Bailey, PhD and Benjamin M. Ogles, PhD discussing and demonstrating the approach as its codevelopers.
- Embracing Motherhood: A Patient’s Journey of Growth, Resilience, and Unconditional Love: Using a supportive approach informed by decades of research-based practice in perinatal mental health, Diane G. Sanford, PhD works with a female patient in a full session. The patient shares how a remarkably positive labor and delivery began to heal the emotional wounds she felt at her family’s rejection of her after she revealed the unexpected pregnancy, and how the support of the baby’s father allowed her to transition to being a stay-at-home mother.
Additional videos in this release:
- Dr. Shigeru Iwakabe
- Dr. Geoff Goodman
- Dr. Russell Bailey: Managing Anxiety: A Common Factors Therapeutic Approach
- Dr. Diane Sanford: Supportive Therapy After a Mom’s Postpartum Depression
APA PsycTherapy currently includes 969 videos in service of 170+ therapeutic approaches and 360+ behavioral health topics. With 15-25 new videos added every year, APA PsycTherapy continues to grow, showcasing recent demonstrations and emerging best practices of clinical psychology.
Related Resources
- Interested in learning more about this accessibility-certified database of recorded psychotherapy sessions? Visit the APA PsycTherapy information page or view brief tutorials on our YouTube playlist for APA PsycTherapy.
- An APA PsycTherapy subscription includes a PDF copy of the revised APA PsycTherapy® Teaching Guide, which features a series of step-by-step exercises for using APA PsycTherapy with students, in clinical supervision settings, in psychotherapy researcher training, and more.
