Autorentext

George Downing, Ph.D., worked for years as a psychologist in Child Psychiatry, Salpetriere Hospital, Paris. He has taught Video Intervention Therapy for clinical teams at the New School for Social Research, New York; the University of Heidelberg, the University of Saarbruken, and Ludwig Maxmillian University, Munich, Germany; the University of Basel, Switzerland; the Universities of Milan and Bologna, Italy; and the University of Girona, Spain.

Klappentext

This book offers a comprehensive guide to using video intervention in psychotherapy or mental health coaching. A video is made of a patient interacting with someone else. The patient and the therapist then explore it together, profiting from its rich information.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. How and When to Begin with Video Sessions 2. When a Patient is Reluctant to Work with a Video 3. How the Therapist Prepares For the Session 4. Procedure Step One: Starting the Session 5. Procedure Step Two: Showing Positive Patterns 6. Procedure Step Three: Making the Transition 7. Procedure Step Three: The Outer Movie 8. Procedure Step Three: The Inner Movie 9. Procedure Step Three: Mentalization 10. Procedure Step Three: Working with the Relational Effects of Trauma 11. Procedure Step Four: Planning for Change 12. Getting Started 13. Other Video Intervention Methods 14. Observing Videos: The Body Alone 15. Observing Videos: The Language Exchange 16 - Observing Videos: Spoken Mentalization