Movies as Therapeutic Intervention
"You Choose The Movie"
Instructor: Don Hadlock, LMFT
Welcome to the class.
Some movies we recommend
Altered States, American Beauty, Field of Dreams, Forrest Gump, It's a Wonderful Life,
Jacob's Ladder, Joe vs the Volcano, Legend of Bagger Vance, Life is Beautiful, Matrix,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ordinary People, Shawshank Redemption,
Sixth Sense, Sling Blade, Princess Bride, To Kill a Mockingbird,
Twelve Monkeys, Waking Life, Wizard of Oz.
A therapeutic story
Movies can be a way to help clients find some distance from their life situation so they can look at it more objectively. The movie can place the client in an observer position where they can have awareness about a life situation similar to theirs without feeling the "stuckness" of their own life situation.. The movie can provide a metaphor for a life situation, and the client can sometimes manipulate and resolve the metaphor easier than she/he can their own life situation. I believe in the power of movies to adjunct our therapy in a way that provides our clients with a fresh view, a compassionate view, and a resolving view of their own life.
- We recommend you bookmark this page and push 'reload' or 'refresh' on your browser each time you return to it in order to update any changes.
- Watch the movie of your choice.
- Refer a client to this movie and process it with him/her.
- Enter your responses in the boxes below.
- Print a copy of the class objectives. Keep this copy with your CEU certificate of completion.
- Fill out the evaluation form.
- We will send you your CEU certificate.
After watching the movie, respond to the following questions.
Type in your response, tab to next box.
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