On July 31, we added nearly 14 hours of content (11 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.
This latest release features several guest experts appearing for the first time in APA Videos programming. Videos demonstrating evidence-based psychodynamic psychotherapy, the clinical application of empathy, and accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP) are highlighted below, followed by a list of remaining sessions rounding out this update. If you’re a subscriber, use the linked video titles to view the content on APA PsycTherapy!
- Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: This video features Patricia Coughlin, PhD working with a client who presents with a dilemma involving career choice. The goal of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) is to help clients move past their defenses to get at and process their true feelings. ISTDP is an evidence-based approach successfully used for common presenting issues such as anxiety and depression as well for other issues, including some considered the realm of physical medicine such as pain, digestive issues, and neurological disorders. As the session proceeds, Dr. Coughlin identifies the defenses that are keeping the client from engaging with her life. This therapy demonstration is framed by an interview conducted by Dr. Jeffrey Magnavita, during which they emphasize the need for extensive training to use this approach.
- Empathy in Therapy: Most clinicians and researchers agree that empathy is a critical component of the therapeutic alliance and a key contributor to therapeutic change. But there is little agreement about what empathy is, how it works, or how best to bring it into clinical practice. In this session, Douglas Flemons, PhD steps into the breach, clarifying and demonstrating that, rather than being a feeling the therapist shares with or has for the client, empathy is an embodied understanding one actively pursues, develops, and refines in conversation with the client.
- Issues of Agency: Agency is a felt sense of being able to act on one’s own behalf in the world in important relationships and through one’s actions, a sense of mattering and of having an impact on one’s life. A lack of agency may present as generalized passivity, a tendency to defer to others, an inability to follow through on goals, or to see oneself mostly as an object of fate. In this demonstration, Eileen M. Russell, PhD uses accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP) to offer space for the client’s emotions as she reflects upon and experiences her past and current relationship with her mother and father.
Additional videos in this release:
- Dr. Mick Cooper
- Dr. Patricia Coughlin
- Dr. Douglas Flemons
- Dr. Eileen M. Russell
- Dr. Diane Sanford and Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett: Perinatal Mental Health
APA PsycTherapy currently includes 980 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.
