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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
Continuing Education courses for Mental Health Practititioners: "Cinema Therapy - Using the Power of Movies In the Therapeutic Process"
"Boundaries and the Movies: Learning about
Therapeutic Boundaries Through the Movies" 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 continuing education on-line courses: Cinema Therapy - Using the Power of Movies In the Therapeutic Process, which guides the reader through the basic principles of Cinema Therapy. Therapeutic Ethics and the Movies - What Films Can Teach Psychotherapists About Ethics and Boundaries in Therapy, which covers 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.
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