Free LEAP Videos

Struggling with a loved one who refuses treatment? Discover the LEAP (Listen, Empathize, Agree, Partner®) approach developed by Dr. Xavier Amador. This video guides you through the key steps to building trust and cooperation, even when faced with resistance. Learn how to effectively communicate and support your loved one using proven strategies.

Dr. Amador offers a LAI to a young man with serious mental illness who is unaware he is ill–has anosognosia.

While studying to become a clinical psychologist, Dr. Xavier Amador had a life-altering experience when his older brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia. In an effort to understand and help his brother, he and his colleagues at Colombia University uncovered a new way to approach patients previously thought to be in denial.

Watch Dr. Amador use LEAP to offer a Long Acting Injectable (LAI) antipsychotic medication. Based on an actual offer of an LAI to one of his patients, Dr. Amador offers a LAI to a young man with serious mental illness who is unaware he is ill–has anosognosia. Dr. Amador contrasts the usual educational approach, to making the offer successfully using LEAP. Very hands-on, helpful, and detailed.

Navigate conflict when pills are thrown away. See how to use LEAP in this situation in order to build trust and respect.

Dr. Xavier Amador, founder of The LEAP Institute, delivering a keynote speech to the annual convention of the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare. In it he discusses how to use LEAP to help people with mental illness.

A phone call when the appointment for an antipsychotic long-acting Injection is missed. Using LEAP reflective Listening, Empathy, Agreement and delay of hurtful opinions to create trust and willingness to make the appointment. The father mentioned does not have a HIPPA release.

Dr. Xavier Amador, founder of The LEAP Institute giving a public talk on how to help people with mental illness who don’t realize they are sick. Sponsored by the NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Cambridge Chapter. The lecture was given on the evening of October 2, 2012 at the Cambridge Public Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This uplifting 22 minute video shows interviews with patients living with schizophrenia, and mental health professionals who treat them. It shows how people diagnosed with schizophrenia can live normal lives.

This video is a trailer for the Learn to LEAP video featuring Dr. Xavier Amador, world-famous expert on schizophrenia.

► You can learn from the LEAP DVD http://bit.ly/1x0RJ24 or Book http://bit.ly/1Bcp8Y9.

Dr. Amador talks about the difference between negative and positive symptoms in schizophrenia, and how being aware of, and treating, negative symptoms can give people with schizophrenia a better quality of life, can help them rise beyond the “glass ceiling” where patients often stall in their struggle to regain normal lives.

An excerpt from an educational video about schizophrenia featuring renowned psychologist Xavier Amador. Dr. Amador shares his personal experience of being a caregiver to his brother and shares his thoughts on helping patients achieve better outcomes. Written and produced by Kristin Pelletier, Blue Truck Productions.

Dr. Xavier Amador, internationally renowned clinical psychologist and author of “I Am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help!®” joins Kay Warren  for the Hope for Mental Health Community.

Schizophrenia in the Family. How do we cope? How can we help? We each have adult sons with schizophrenia and have written acclaimed books about it. We say it like it is, to help families, practitioners and those with SMI (serious mental illness) feel less alone…and learn. Randye Kaye, Mindy Greiling, Miriam Feldman…and guests.

In the first part of this video series, Lindsay Galvin Rauch, Owner of Event Design Group, interviews Xavier Amador, PhD, Cofounder and CEO, The Henry Amador Center on Anosognosia and the LEAP Institute, on defining and diagnosing anosognosia as it relates to severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia.

In Part 2 of this video series, Lindsay Galvin Rauch, Owner of Event Design Group, and Xavier Amador, PhD, Cofounder and CEO, The Henry Amador Center on Anosognosia and the LEAP Institute, discuss how anosognosia impacts treatment noncompliance and the impact on family dynamics.

How to help someone with mental illness accept treatment and services (Anosognosia)

Dr. Xavier Amador’s Keynote address at the 2022 National AOT Symposium & Learning Collaborative. **NOTE: due to technical issues with the audio, enabling subtitles for the first 7 minutes of this video may be helpful.

In this presentation, Dr. Xavier Amador describes how common anosognosia is, its impact on people with mental illness and their families, and most importantly, how we can help the person accept treatment.

Vous avez du mal avec un proche qui refuse le traitement ? Découvrez l’approche LEAP (Écouter, Empathiser, Accepter, Partager) développée par le Dr Xavier Amador. Cette courte vidéo explicative vous guide à travers les étapes clés pour instaurer la confiance et la coopération, même face à la résistance. Apprenez à communiquer efficacement et à soutenir votre proche en utilisant des stratégies éprouvées.

Dr. Xavier Amador shares tips and guidance for family members with mentally ill loved ones who don’t believe they’re sick and refuse to get help. Learn how to support a loved one with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or addiction and get them to accept the treatment they need—even if they don’t believe they have a problem.