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New APA PsycTherapy Content Features Teletherapy Videos

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Six (6) new teletherapy demonstrations were recently added to APA PsycTherapy, our streaming video database designed to meet the teaching and training needs of psychotherapy students and practitioners.

Each video was recorded during an unscripted online session to provide an authentic example of telepsychology conducted by an expert therapist.

This latest release includes demonstrations of the following approaches: culturally informed psychodynamic therapy, integrated family therapy, constructivist therapy, and cognitive therapy with skillful integration of multiple interventions and exercises within a single session.

  • Using a Constructivist Therapeutic Approach With a New Father With Marital Problems (Therapist: Robert A. Neimeyer)
  • Cognitive Therapy Technique Demonstrations for Anger and Anxiety Management (Therapist: Steven D. Hollon)
  • Cognitive Therapy Demonstration for Testing Self-Schemas in Relationships (Therapist: Steven D. Hollon)
  • Integrative Family Therapy With a Couple Affected by Incarceration (Therapist: Corrine Datchi)
  • Psychodynamic Therapy With a Chinese American Woman (Therapist: Pratyusha Tummala-Narra)
  • Psychodynamic Therapy With a Survivor of Sexual Assault (Therapist: Pratyusha Tummala-Narra)

There are currently 17 videos featuring teletherapy sessions. You can retrieve them by searching any field for teletherapy or “online therapy” (include the quotation marks to find exact-phrase matches), or by searching for online therapy as an index/subject term.

Screenshot of APA PsycNet showing the use of quotation marks to find an exact-phrase match for the search term “online therapy” in Any Field.

APA PsycTherapy currently includes 570+ videos covering more than 200 topics and over 100 psychotherapy approaches, with 15-25 new videos added each year. More than 200 of these videos are also segmented into annotated chapters to help viewers easily find, save, and share specific content of interest.

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.

Training Alert: APA PsycInfo Spring Webinars for Students, Faculty, and Researchers

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Interested in strengthening your APA database searching skills? Join us for the next round of APA PsycInfo® webinars designed for students, faculty, and anyone else who wants to learn more about how to search APA PsycInfo more effectively!

The 30-minute APA PsycInfo – Basic Search session includes live search demos and provides search tips and strategies to help you locate more relevant results in less time.

The 30-minute APA PsycInfo – Advanced Search session explores a few of the added-value fields in APA PsycInfo and using them to uncover much more than journal articles. Search demos will demonstrate how to identify what research is happening at which institutions; finding new journals in which to publish your work; information about tests used in related research; and potential funding opportunities for your project.

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New Thesaurus Terms for Searching APA PsycInfo (Winter 2022)

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APA PsycInfo: The premier abstracting and indexing resource for behavioral and social science research

In January, APA added 44 new terms to its Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms® to provide more effective searching on current topics, including sport and exercise psychology, psychological testing, mental health, and COVID-19. This update, which includes 27 new cross-referenced terms and 22 revised scope notes, brings the total number of index terms in the Thesaurus to more than 10,000.

In order to provide current and accurate search terminology for emerging research, the winter update will be followed by two additional Thesaurus updates in 2022 — one in the spring (May) and another in the fall. New terms from the winter and spring updates will be applied to current content only, but the majority of postable terms new for 2022 will be back-mapped to older records following the fall release.

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APA PsycTherapy Receives Accessibility Certification

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Certified Accessbile WCAG 2.1 AA 2021 davidberman.com

APA Publishing is proud to announce that our streaming video database APA PsycTherapy® recently received certification for full compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), version 2.1, Level AA. The accessibility evaluation was performed by David Berman Communications, a thought leader in the field of online accessibility.

Featuring prominent therapists demonstrating psychotherapy techniques during unscripted client sessions, APA PsycTherapy is a uniquely powerful instruction tool. Covering 150+ therapy approaches and more than 300 topics, the database currently exceeds 570 videos with a minimum of 20-25 videos added each year.

David Berman Communications referred to APA PsycTherapy as “an exemplary model of inclusive design” and also noted,

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