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Articles published by Mining the Gold in Movies for Healing and Transformation: Birgit has published a number of cinema therapy movie reviews in her regular column by that name in The Therapist, the magazine of The California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. 28 Days
Additional articles published by Birgit: 'Reel' Reality Is Essence of Cinema Therapy,The Advocate, the monthly newsletter of the American Mental Health Counselors Association, a nonprofit association based in Alexandria, Virginia, July 2006. Cinema Alchemy - Using the Power of Film for Healing and Transformation, Harbin Hot Springs Quarterly, Summer 2004, and the Inland Empire Chapter of CAMFT News, July 2004. Cinema Therapy: Using the Power of Movies for the Therapeutic Process: versions of this article have appeared in:
Releasing Negative Beliefs Through the Transformational Power of Film: The East Bay Therapist, July/August 2004 (newsletter of East Bay Chapter — California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists) and in News and Views - newsletter of Orange County CAMFT, Sept. 2004. The Transformational Power of Film: versions of this article have appeared in:
Using Movies to Transform Grief: this article is based on a chapter from a new book, E-Motion Picture Magic, published in November 2004 by Glenbridge Publishing.
Birgit Wolz wrote and co-wrote the following continuing education online courses: Cinema Therapy - Using the Power of Movies In the Therapeutic Process, which guides the reader through the basic principles of Cinema Therapy. Cinema Therapy with Children and Adolescents - This course teaches Cinema Therapy with young clients. It includes numerous movie suggestions, which are categorized according to age and issues. It serves therapists, teachers, and parents. Positive Psychology and the Movies: Transformational Effects of Movies through Positive Cinema Therapy - This course teaches how to develop clinical interventions by using films effectively in combination with positive psychotherapy. It serves for mental health practitioners and anybody who is interested in personal growth and emotional healing. Therapeutic Ethics in the Movies - What Films Can Teach Psychotherapists About Ethics and Boundaries in Therapy, which covers: confidentiality, self-disclosure, touch, dual relationships and out-of-office experiences (i.e., home visits, in-vivo exposures, attending a wedding, incidental encounters, etc.) Boundaries and the Movies - Learning about Therapeutic Boundaries through the Movies, which covers informed consent, gifts, home office, clothing, language, humor and silence, proximity and distance between therapist and client, and, finally, sexual relations between therapist and client. DSM: Diagnoses Seen in Movies - Using Movies to Understand Common DSM Diagnoses.
An overview over all Cinema Therapy Continuing Education courses can be found here Cinema Therapy Certificate programs are described here
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