Full Description
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.
Downing clearly elaborates each step of such an intervention. Numerous possible techniques are described. If and when to bring in more such sessions is explained. How in couple or family therapy to use such work is covered as well.
The book is designed so that any therapist or mental health coach can begin with video intervention at once. This is invaluable reading for anyone wanting to start in and to build up increasing expertise with this significant contribution to therapeutic work.
Contents
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
