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Short-term psychodynamic therapy with a female graduate student struggling with substance abuse
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Freedheim, Donald K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Academic achievement.
- Drug abuse.
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy.
- Educational Status.
- Substance-Related Disorders.
- Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic.
- Medical Subjects:
- Educational Status.
- Substance-Related Disorders.
- Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films
- Educational films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (44 min., 01 sec.))
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] American Psychological Association 2015
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Dr. Donald K. Freedheim conducts a session with a young White graduate student who is struggling with academic issues and substance abuse. At the beginning of the session, he asks her about her recent progress and she shares her feelings of panic related to not using substances to cope with the stress of school, including those used to treat her diagnosis of ADD, as well as her decision to drop out of school and focus on becoming healthy again. For this session, Dr. Freedheim asks the client to focus on what she experienced before her diagnosis of ADD at the age of 17. Together, they explore her experiences in childhood as a gifted child, and in adolescence, including feelings of depression, not fitting in, her rebelliousness, and a suicide attempt as a teenager. They also discuss her parent's differing views on her upbringing, as well as her current relationship with her father. Dr. Freedheim asks about future plans, and the client shares that she has few plans other than becoming healthy. She shares current coping strategies, which include an interest in New Age medicine, specifically shamanism and meditation. They discuss the client's experiences of extreme highs and lows, as well as her self-handicapping tendencies. At the end of the session, Dr. Freedheim suggests they continue working together if talking has been helpful for the client
- Notes:
- Vendor provided data
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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