Describes a session the author had with a couple who have been stuck in an impasse for several months. This session demonstrates the four stages of therapy - engagement, assessment, insight, and reorientation, using confrontation to help the couple to understand how they contribute to their own misery and guiding them to help realize satisfaction.
Demonstrates the author's approach to therapy with men who have been abused or suffered trauma in the past. This work also includes her commentary, which provides insight into the life of a man who has experienced childhood trauma.
Existential-integrative therapy is one way to engage and coordinate a variety of intervention modes, such as the pharmacological, the behavioral, the cognitive, and the analytic, within an overarching existential or experiential context. This work demonstrates the existential-integrative model of therapy.
Discusses a present-focused therapy that first looks at a couple's past experiences for ways to improve their interpersonal exchanges. This work presents an approach that works from a perspective that motivates a couple to stay together and helps them to focus on this and break away from past patterns of thought and behavior.
Demonstrates the author's approach to working with clients with Borderline Personality Disorder. This video features a session the author had with a 40-year-old woman who reveals some potentially suicidal and homicidal thoughts.
Demonstrates the author's approach to treating depression. Emotion-focused therapy centers on helping the client to express emotions more easily and thus release unprocessed feelings and thoughts so that they may be dealt with openly. This two-session tape is an example of emotion-focused therapy featuring discussions with the author.
In "Couples Therapy for Extramarital Affairs", Dr. Don-David Lusterman demonstrates his empathic, psychoeducational approach to working with couples in which one partner has had an affair. Therapy begins with acknowledgement of the "victim" status of the partner who discovered the affair. Dr. Lusterman then works to restore trust and helps the ......
Collaborative Medical and Psychoeducational Interventions
Provides diagnostic and treatment information on a range of chronic health-related disorders that tend to be first diagnosed in childhood. This work addresses common ailments, such as intestinal and respiratory disorders, as well as less frequent disorders such as neurocutaneous syndromes and disorders arising from sex chromosome anomalies.
Although fear plays an important role in human development, adaptation, and, ultimately, survival, fear can be disabling when it manifests itself as a phobia or an anxiety disorder. Effective treatment for fear-based disorders depends upon the basic science that informs theories about the origins of fear and about how fear is learned. This book ......
