Research Guides: Social Work: Videos, Transcripts & Case Studies

Streaming Video

Streaming video - Finding and Using Guide

Behavioral and Mental Health Online This link opens in a new window
Behavioral and Mental Health Online provides video and text covering clinical mental health demonstrations, actual therapy sessions, compelling documentaries on the human condition, psychotherapy transcripts, as well client narratives and reference works. Includes >1000 Symptom Media videos, a few Psychotherapy.net videos, and many other publishers.
Social Work Online This link opens in a new window
Access guaranteed through May 2027
Social Work Online pairs recently published social work textbooks along with compelling documentaries clinical demonstration videos, and engaging lectures that illustrate the complex and challenging realities social work students will face as practitioners.
Counseling and Therapy in Video This link opens in a new window
Counseling and Therapy in Video provides an online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Videos include counseling sessions and demonstrations, consultations, lectures, presentations, and interviews. Includes some Psychotherapy.net videos.
Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Ethnographic Video Online is an online resource for the study of human culture, behavior and society around the world. It contains streaming a few films and documentaries related to Social Work.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
See, in particular, the following subjects: Counseling & Social Work, Criminal Justice & Law, Family & Consumer Sciences, Guidance & Counseling, Health & Medicine, Psychology, Sociology
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions, and it includes videos from the Symptom Media online mental health education and Psychotherapy.net training film libraries. Some of these videos may need to be requested through the form on the item page in Kanopy.
PBS Video Collection This link opens in a new window
PBS Video Collection assembles documentary films and series from the history of PBS into one online interface. Includes some films related to Social Work.
Sage Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
The Sage Videos section of Sage Research Methods Online includes instructional video about quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods that are useful for the social and behavioral sciences.

More Streaming Video Databases
The full list of streaming video databases to which the library subscribes.

Transcripts and Case Studies

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts: Volume I This link opens in a new window
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts Volume I is a collection of transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives on mental illness and its treatment. It also contains session transcripts, pages of client narratives, and pages of secondary reference material.
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts: Volume II This link opens in a new window
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Volume II follows the progress and setbacks of clients over the course of multiple therapy sessions. All content was recorded in 2012 or later.
Sage Research Methods Cases This link opens in a new window
Sage Research Methods Cases provides access to a collection of case studies from across the social and behavioral sciences.