Video Catalog

• 2AM Feeding Mothers and fathers talk about their experiences in becoming parents, including breastfeeding, fatigue, crying, colic, post-partum, sexuality, fathering, single parenthood, role identification, and returning to the workplace.

• Abortion Denied Shattering Young Women's Lives: Because parental consent and/or notification laws for abortion discourage teens from seeking the help that they need, several leading medical and adolescent health organizations actively oppose them. This video demonstrates convincingly that the parental consent and/or notification laws are a mistake.

• Baby Talk This video is a reassuring source of practical information and answers many questions that confront all new parents. Jean Smart (from "Designing Women") and her husband narrate this program.

• Born Dying This program examines the ethical issues surrounding the birth of a multiply handicapped baby. A number of concerned individuals who have an interest in the parents' decision to treat or not treat offer them advice.

• Bulimia: The Binge-Purge Obsession Dr. Anita Siegman talks with a group of young women about the dangers of dieting, particularly when it involves binge-purge behavior. Interwoven with Dr. Siegman's talk are interviews with young women who have been caught up in the nightmare of bulimia; they relate the terrible effects it has had on their lives.

• Cancelled Lives: Letters from the Inside A compelling portrait of the experiences of young boys and girls who are first experiencing life in juvenile facilities as well as the experiences of men and women who are serving hard time.

• Classroom AIDS This video demonstrates that it is possbile for schools and parents to overcome the fears and problems of educating a child with HIV in a normal classroom by a process of education and cooperation.

• Giving Your Child a Smile This video was produced to show to parents, families, and friends of a child with cleft lip and palate as soon as possible after birth to reassure them that this deformity need not be an impediment to the child's health and happiness. Reassurance is given with "before" and "after" pictures.

• Healing Our Children This three part video provides information on the symptomatology, assessment, and treatment of children who have experienced intra-familial traumatization. Each segment includes information to support therapists and clinicians with the experience and commentary of experts from several mental health disciplines.

• How to Start A Family Day Care Shot on location in licensed family day care homes, the video uses real life experiences to illustrate the many aspects of planning and operating a home day care. Topics covered include Starting Out, Rules and Regulations, Health and Safety, Space Utilization, Nutrition, Written Policies, and Business Operations.

• An Intimate Parent-Child Talk Through a series of role-play situations a father and son explore various issues facing young people, including sexuality, peer pressure, teen pregnancy, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, alcoholism and drugs.

• Kids Talking to Kids Optimistic and encouraging in tone, the video shows what children of alcoholics can do to improve their situation and learn to cope with their parents' alcohol abuse. It features five teen "experts" who speak candidly about their personal experiences living with an alcoholic parent.

• Newborn Care This video is written by a physician who experienced many frustrations and challenges following the birth of her children and found that answers to practical problems were difficult to find or contradictory--thus, this guide for solving the many challenges of the new parent.

• No More Crying This video demonstrates some simple, yet highly effective behavioral interventions to reduce child distress during venipuncture.

• No Rewind Designed to heighten teenage awareness, this multiculutural documentary focuses on education and communication as essential to bringing about the behavioral changes that can prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.
  
  
• Not Always Who They Seem This video series tackles the so-called issue of "juvenile delinquency" and traces its connection to early childhood trauma. Thought-provoking interviews with young adults whose teen years were filled with violence, addiction, homelessness, prostitution, depression, and rage challenge audiences to take another look at troubled teens -to see them not as "lost causes," but as young people who experienced traumatic events in childhood and found no appropriate outlet or expression for their pain and loss.

• One Step Ahead This video teaches parents safety awareness--the need to be constantly vigilant and never complacent about child safety, even after they have "baby-proofed" their home. Parents share their experiences and health professionals highlight dangerous situations. (Open Captioned Version Available)

• Rational-Emotive Therapy with Children and Adolescents This video describes the latest RET methods of assessment and treatment for younger clients including keys for maximum effectiveness.

• Remodeling the Scars This video encourages burn patients to wear compression garments to prevent excessive scarring and contractures. It explains why it is imporant to wear them, how they are fitted, how to put them on, how it feels to wear them, and how to take care of them.

• Running Home A timely drama about four troubled teens who consider running away on Christmas Eve to escape the harsh reality of their unhappy family situations. The story is told in flashback by Speed, the only one of the four who actually decides to leave home. The video takes the viewer inside each teen's home and explores the range of abusive behavior he or she must endure. There are no happy endings; the video is a candid, honest depiction of problems facing today's young people.

• Safe and Sound: Choosing Quality Child Care This video, narrated by Meredith Baxter, is designed to give parents the skills they need to locate and evaluate a high quality child care program for their child. It contains sections on finding childcare, personal interaction, education, health and safety, communications and consistency, in-home care, and cost.

• Something to Cry About Guaranteed to get you laughing, this video is a one person teenage rant and romp through the generation gap, middle class neuroses, political correctness, responsibility, attitude, and the mayhem of hormonal imbalance.

• Story of Hope Four alcoholic adults in recovery and four children of alcoholics, aged 7-13 years, share their experiences of family life before and after getting help. It stresses the importance of counseling and education in breaking the intergeneration cycle of addiction.

• Where Beans Grow This poignant story of a young 14-year-old girl who is struggling to come to terms with the reality of having a manic-depressive father. The small town ridicule to which the family is subjected places increasing pressure on a developing adolescent. Beautifully photographed and edited, this film is good for showing to all adolescents who must contend with dysfunctional families and to those who don't understand the trials of their lives.

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