Video Intervention Therapy

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.

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.

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