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ABC News Primetime Live: July 19, 1995: The Importance of Reading to Your Child

This segment stresses the importance of reading to your child at a very young age, newborn.

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997: Creative Strategies for Permanency:
©1999 Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Length: 25 minutes.

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997: The Essential Voice of Child Advocates:
©1999 Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Length: 25:30.

A great tool to inform audiences about ASFA and inspire new and continuing work in child advocacy - presenting the voices of waiting children as well as those who speak for them.

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997: Fast Track to Permanency:
©1998 Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Length: 10 minutes.

An introductory video presenting the general concepts and congressional intent of ASFA with an emphasis on permanency and adoption.

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997: How Judges Can Make It Happen:
©1998 Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Length 23 minutes.

An educational video explaining the intent of ASFA and emphasizing the need for swifter decisions based on the best interests of children. This video also highlights alternative dispute resolution strategies as techniques to expedite cases.

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997: Why Legislators Must Make It Happen:
©1998 Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Length: 19 minutes.

A motivational video presenting a comprehensive overview of the intent of ASFA with emphasis on implementing complementary laws and policies at state and local levels to encourage more rapid permanency solutions.

Anger Outbursts
©2003 Northwest Media, Inc. Foster Parent College

Dr. Richard Delaney addresses some of the toughest child anger behavior problems. There is no simple solution to anger, but this easy-to-view interactive program will help parents identify problems and think about "out-of-the-box" solutions.

The Art of Resolving Conflicts in the Workplace
©1992. Length: 37 min.

This video dramatizes six techniques for dealing with hostility, resentment, manipulation, sexual harassment, non-performing co-workers, and conflicting job assignments. It shows how to resolve conflicts resulting from aggressive behavior, role confusion, stereotyping, and manipulation. Includes study guide.

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The Caring Helper: Skills for Caregiving in Grief and Loss

The Caring Helper videotape and workbook program teaches helping and self-care skills to volunteer and professional caregivers working with people who face life-threatening illness, dying, and bereavement. Interviews with bereaved family members illustrate the concepts in Dr. Larson's talks on helping skills and the grieving process. Experienced helpers demonstrate support group exercises and discuss the rewards and challenges of caregiving. (30 minutes)

Child Abuse-The Investigative Interview:
KidsRights Video

When it comes to talking to a child about their suspected case of abuse, the greatest of precautions must be taken. The way the questions are asked, the time at which certain elements of conversation are introduced, even the location of the interview itself - all can make a difference as to how through, clear and concise the victim's account will be.

Child Abuse: The Investigative Interview helps counselors, attorneys, and child advocates find a way to interview youngsters in a manner that's as effective and sensitive as possible. A well-done interview is highlighted, as is one that highlights some of the most subtle-but critical-mistakes an interviewer can make.

Child Abuse and Neglect: A Prevention and Reporting Guide

Child Abuse and Neglect for Caregivers Home daycare providers, daycare centers, home visitors, teachers and other caregivers are with children at times, more than their parents. But do they know when a child is subjected to abuse? What can they do? Child Abuse and Neglect for Caregivers is a prevention and reporting guide designed to answer these questions in the interest of the child. This program contains new applicable information and it is easy to follow. Viewers learn about -Abuse and Neglect Definitions -Examples of Abuse -What is suspicion? -Mandated Reporting -Guaranteed Confidentiality Laws -Being there for the child and more Also Available in Spanish Child Abuse and Neglect for Parents Give parents the tools they need to stem child abuse and neglect. In a modern, to-the-point way, young parents learn to deal with this devastating, yet prevalent problem, in the interest of the child. -What if I think I am being abusive to my child? -Could it be that someone else is abusing my child? -What do I do if I suspect my child is being abused? -Where do I get help? Also available in Spanish

Child Abuse Slides:
Institute for Human Services

The Children Are Watching

THE CHILDREN ARE WATCHING explores how parents, by their example, influence their children's behavior and life choices. This documentary films four families who are raising teenagers, and captured candid, often disturbing situations which reveal the direct connection between parents' behavior and the ways their kids are mirroring or reacting to that behavior. Length: 60 minutes. VHS format.

Conducting and Infant Mental Health Family Assessment

Discussion of the methods used to elicit material from families regarding the nature of their relationship with the baby and etiology of the breakdown in their bond with the baby. Vignettes of interviews with families are used to demonstrate how information is sometimes offered by way of parent-infant interaction, or by way of stories or behaviors that APPEAR unrelated to the questions at hand. Suggestions are offered about how to organize material for a report. The tape is intended principally for use in professional training. (Color, 58 minutes)

Confronting Child Sexual Abuse: A Video Training Series
By: Oprah Winfrey. 3 tapes. © 1993 CWLA

This video-based training program takes a candid, journalistic approach to the day-to-day realities of child sexual abuse casework. Realistic dramatizations and bold footage of actual social workers conducting investigations, making home and follow-up visits, and performing other responsibilities are used to underscore both the frustration and satisfaction to be found in child sexual abuse casework. Written, produced, and narrated by nationally-known television journalist Ellen Kingsley in conjunction with CWLA, this polished and professional two-part training series is comprised of three individual videotapes, which focus on the real-life issues, problems, and concerns faced by child welfare, social work, and child protection workers in handling child sexual abuse cases. They also explore those issues of case management unique to child sexual abuse--denial and resistance in counseling and meeting the special needs of sexually abused children and their families. Use with large or small training groups or even for individual viewing.

Cross Cultural Interviewing in Social Work Practice

The case of the Hmong: Program Three: Creating a Storycloth. Recorded 1991. (45 minutes)

Cultural Diversity in Mental Health Counseling
Weiling-Harris (35 minutes)

This video has been designed to stimulate discussion regarding cultural diversity issues that may arise in mental health counseling. It is not intended for didactic clinical instruction. This is not a "how to" instructional video that provides answers to questions related to cultural diversity in counseling. All of the scenarios are based on actual clinical experiences.

Culturally-Competent Counseling & Therapy: Part 1: Innovative Approaches to Counseling African Descent People
Thomas Parham and Adisa Ajamu (37.5 minutes)

African descent culture provides framework to discovering one's spiritual destiny. Interview segments illustrate student concerns in a graduate counseling program: 1) connecting the client to self, others, and history; 2) facilitating awareness of using energy flow to increase these connections; and 3) setting goals, finding a healing space, and developing a support network.

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A Damned Good Job:

This program follows social workers as they handle an anonymous, actual case of child sexual abuse. Examined are the details of establishing what happened, minimizing further trauma to the victim, confronting the offender and meeting with the extended families to effect a positive outcome. Length: Approximately 60 minutes

Depression & Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents

Insight Media

Designed for health and counseling professionals, this video teaches how to identify and help young people with depression or suicidal ideation. It uses role-played scenarios to demonstrate clinical skills in recognizing, assessing, and managing adolescent depression and suicidal behavior.

DisAbility Awareness 19 minutes
This is not a program ABOUT people with disabilities, it is about communicating with and relating to people. When you see someone who is paralyzed, unable to hear or speak, or unable to see, how do you react? Pity? Discomfort? Your reactions influence your ability to communicate

Disarming Violence: Violence in the Field
South Carolina Dept. of Human Services 23 Minutes

This video has received has been a Telly Award Finalist, ITVA Carolina Silver Reels
Award of Merit, and has received The Videographer Award of Excellence. This two-part educational video addresses the more common types of assaults on human service professionals. Developed in conjunction with the South Carolina Department of Social Services, it was designed with input from safety teams, direct-line workers and their supervisors. A 14-page discussion guide provides background information and suggested discussion questions.
Part one, Disarming Violence, a 15-minute overview, discusses techniques for handling angry clients or aggressive clients and suggests procedures for making your office safe. Violence in the Field, an eight-minute video, covers how to assess potentially volatile situations and safely withdraw if necessary.

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Early Experience and the Developing Brain
Wisconsin Council on Children and Families.
A three-hour video of Dr. Bruce Perry's presentation at the September 1997 conference on early childhood brain development.

Ethics In Action
Corey, Corey, and Haynes (60 minutes)

Basic elements of ethical decision making (part one)

How counselor values influence the helping relationship with clients (part two)

The importance of defining appropriate boundaries in work with clients (part three)

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Faces of Change: Social Work in the New Millennium

This 27-minute video provides an informative introduction to the diverse world of social work practice. You will find this video useful in numerous settings: in introductory social work and social welfare courses, for student recruitment, as part of admissions or orientation programs, for career guidance and counseling programs in community colleges, high schools, and middle schools, and in public outreach efforts. (27 minutes)

A Family Preservation Approach To: Assessing and Using Family Strengths, Tape #3

Instructional video. (63 minutes)

Family Preservation Approach to: Teaching Families New Skills (tape 5)
(Instructional video services) Patricia Sandau-Backler. Length: 1:26

The Forrester Family: A Video Case Study (video and instructor's guide)
Oklahoma Dept. of Human Services 99 Minutes

This video illustrates a child welfare caseworker's activities in a family situation involving the abuse of a 9-year old boy. The five segments of the video dramatize the caseworker's interactions with the mother from their initial contact at intake through the development of a case plan to reunify the family. Based on a case study originally published in the Field Guide to Child Welfare, this video has a wide range of potential applications as a training tool for learners at all levels.

FRONTLINE Failure to Protect: A National Dialogue

Public Televisions highest rated public affairs series, FRONTLINE has been nationally recognized with Emmys, Peabody Awards, and duPont-Columbia Awards. FRONTLINE investigates a broad spectrum of important events and the year's most critical issues. This major PBS documentary series probes into the heart of the issues behind the latest headlines, often with exclusive reports and offers an unparalleled collection of studies in American and world history, the environment, government and politics, military and business affairs and a wide variety of social issues including adoption, divorce, drug abuse, healthcare, and racism, to mention only a few.

In 2001, the state of Maine gave FRONTLINE unprecedented access to observe the daily lives of its child protection caseworkers. Follow caseworkers as they interact with families and each other, dealing with the excruciating dilemmas and heartbreaking choices that confront them every day. Length: 120 minutes

FRONTLINE Failure to Protect: The Taking of Logan Marr

In January 2001, five-year-old Logan Marr was found dead in the basement of her foster mother's home in Chelsea, Maine. The foster mother, Sally Schofield, was a highly respected former caseworker for Maine's Department of Human Services. FRONTLINE examines the girl's short, troubled life. Length: 60 minutes.

FRONTLINE: Inside the Teenage Brain

It's the mystery of mysteries - especially to parents. Now the experts are exploring the recesses of the brain and finding explanations for why adolescents behave the way they do and how the new discoveries can change the way we teach, or perhaps even understand, our teenagers. Length: 60 minutes. Available in DVD and VHS

FRONTLINE: Medicating Kids

Today, millions of American children are being prescribed powerful behavior modification drugs such as Ritalin, Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft. But are these medications really necessary - and safe - for young children, or merely a harried nation's quick fix for annoying yet age appropriate behavior? FRONTLINE investigates the growing use of psyhcoactive drugs by children. Length: 60 minutes.

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Groups and Groups dynamics
©1991 Insight Media. Length: 30 min

This video describes categories of groups and explains how they function, how they differ from other social entities, and how membership is determined. It looks at intra-group relationships, examining conformity and individualism, and studies interaction between groups.

Group Influence
©2001 Insight Media. Length: 30 min

This video examines how groups can influence people's behavior. It discusses individuality, group think, and deindividuation, and considers some of the dangers of group behavior.

Guidelines for Counseling Asian-American Clients
Microtraining (1 hour and 25 minutes)

The nation's most cited multicultural authority presents specifics of working with Asian-American clients. Sue is an engaging lecturer known for his leadership and workshop skills. Students will gain and benefit from this clear video.

Asian-American stereotypes & myths.
Cultural issues as they manifest themselves in behavior disorders.
Culture-specific strategies for counseling Asians in the U.S. and Canada.
Case vignettes to illustrate cultural/family issues in the U.S. and Canada

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Helping People at Risk of Suicide
©2000 Insight Media. Length: 100 min.

This program teaches skills for assessing suicidal risk and managing situations where clients or hospitalized patients are at risk of self-harm. The video is divided into four sections — assessment, crisis management, problem solving, and crisis prevention — and features scenarios that illustrate basic skills.

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Interviewing for Child Sexual Abuse, A Forensic Guide
Produced by Guilford Publications, Inc. Length: 30 minutes

Professionals called upon to interview children about alleged sexual abuse must possess a solid understanding of both legal and clinical issues. What are the most appropriate techniques for eliciting reliable accounts from children? How should the interview be structured to avoid legal challenges? From child abuse evaluation expert Kathleen Faller, this video is ideal viewing for mental health and child protection professionals, lawyers, judges, and law enforcement personnel. Simulated and actual interview vignettes guide viewers through sensitively gathering general and abuse-focused information. Faller shows how to gauge children's ability to report events accurately, which kinds of questions to ask and which to avoid, how to use anatomical drawings and dolls appropriately,and how to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary evaluation team. The companion manual features supplemental information, role-play scenarios and skills exercises, findings on children's memory and suggestibility, resource listings, and references for further reading.

Introduction to Meditation, Family Group Conferencing, & Concurrent Planning: Pathways to Permanence
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Length: 30 minutes

This is the Foundation's most recently released video providing a general overview and introduction to the effective permanency planning techniques of successful mediation programs.

Investigative Interviewing Techniques in Child Sexual Abuse Cases: Anne
Packed with invaluable strategies to successfully investigate & validate child sexual abuse complaints.
Length: 40 minutes © 1993, Chesapeake Institute.

Is Anyone in There?: Adopting a Wounded Child
Companion video to "Multiple Transitions: A Young Child's Point of View on Foster Care and Adoption." This video is designed for the support of foster and adoptive parents, as well as for the training of professionals in child welfare. It acknowledges that caring for, and falling in love with a child who has been traumatized by abuse, loss or profound neglect bears little resemblance to the romantic stories about adoption often told to unsuspecting parents. Video is accompanied by a booklet offering a brief look at attachment disorders and listing references and available resources.
Length: 11 minutes Copyright 2004

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Kinship Care: Teens and Young Adults Speak Out
A panel of teenagers and young adults respond to a series of questions about living or having lived in kinship care. The panelists discuss:
-How they felt about living with their relatives, and not with their parents.
-The challenges and adjustments to accepting their relatives in a parental role.
-How their parents' incarceration, substance abuse and absence effected them; and how they displayed those feelings.
-What explanations were given to them, and how did they react to the reasons for why they were in kinship care.
-What interactions and supports from their birth parents and relatives helped them to adjust to kinship care.
-What were the challenges to re-uniting with their birth parents and separating from their relative.
Video comes with discussion points, topics and questions.
Length: 24 minutes

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LaFromboise: Counseling and Therapy with Native American Indians
Microtraining (68 minutes)

Assumptions Native American Indians hold about counseling and therapy.
Cultural factors which must be considered in treatment strategies.
The Network treatment plan, valuable in all multicultural counseling and therapy.
Provides many specifics important in all multicultural helping

Listening to Families: Building a Family Partnership

DVD 50 minutes; Child Development Media, Inc.

American Assoication for Marriage and Family Therapy

Lying
©2004 Northwest Media, Inc. Foster Parents College

Lying is the most common child behavior problem reported by foster parents. In this program parents learn to understand and deal with this frustrating problem by looking at four types of lying behavior: lying to get out of trouble, lying to gain attention, pathological lying, and lying to get others in trouble.

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Managing the Defiant Child A Guide to Parent Training
©1997 A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. Length: 35 min.

Childhood defiance - the most common complaint of parents seeking professional help for their children - exerts a tremendous amount of wear-and-tear on families. This video brings to life a proven approaches to behavior management, and shows clinicians, school practitioners, parents, students, and teachers how enhanced parenting skills can dramatically improve the parent-child relationship.

Managing Oppositional Youth
©1997 The University of Georgia The Distance Learning Link. Length: 53 min.

Reviewing many of the causes of oppositional, strong-willed behavior, this video outlines effective, practical strategies for managing hard-to-manage children and teens. It includes expert commentary to help viewers better understand how to improve outcomes at home and at school, as well as how to handle difficult parent-child and teacher-student interactions.

Multiple Transitions: A Young Child's Point of View on Foster Care and Adoption
Written and produced by Michael Trout, Director.© The Infant - Parent Institute, 1997

Young children who have lost someone very important to them often "speak" about that loss thorough their behavior, rather than with words. The Interactive and affective "language" of young children is a worthy language, deserving of our attention and respect. This video is an effort to put into words that which is already being "said" by young children whose mothers or fathers have disappeared, temporarily or permanently.

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N.A.S.W. Are Ethics and Contemporary Social Work Compatible?
Length: 170 minutes, National Association of Social Workers

N.A.S.W. The Client Record
Director: C. Whittington NASW Press, 15 Minutes

This training video shows you the risks you take when you fail to keep complete and accurate records and how to avoid those risks. You’ll learn now to create records that demonstrate appropriate treatment, conform to ethical standards, allow communications between care providers, and demonstrate responsibility for the client.

N.A.S.W. Social Workers and the Challenge of Violence Worldwide (Part 1)
NASW Press, 1 Hour: Charles Kuralt

Beloved broadcaster Charles Kuralt hosts these two exciting videotapes that explore the phenomenon of violence worldwide. In his inimitable style, Kuralt leads riveting discussions that explore violence, its causes, and its solutions and what communities in the United States and around the world are doing to stop it.
The videotapes feature individuals who are working to stop violence in their communities, including preventing gang violence in Los Angeles, promoting initiatives to stop domestic violence in Massachusetts and in rural India, and relieving trauma among refugees of war-torn countries.

N.A.S.W. Social Workers and the Challenge of Violence Worldwide (Part 2)
NASW Press, 58 Minutes: Charles Kuralt (see description above)

The Nature of Human Attachments

Historical overview of infant mental health, with current thoughts on the process by which human infants and their primary caretakers develop a bond; what difference it makes to the infant’s mental, motor, physical and emotional development, and how we may notice when such a bond is absent or conflicted. Suitable for use with "lay" groups (parents, educators, etc.) as well as for use as an introduction to more in-depth training of clinicians, the tape includes narrative and vignettes from both healthy and conflicted caregiver-infant dyads. (Color, 56 minutes)

The Newborn, The Family, and The Dance

Discussion with tape clips from both normal and troubled families, of the ways in which real or imagined characteristics of the newborn affect the way in which he is integrated into the family, and the nature of his relationships with primary caretakers. The TWO-WAY character of infant-parent interactions and of the evolving relationship, and the problems of FIT, are highlighted. Newborn responses to some parts of the Brazleton (neonatal behavioral assessment scale) will be demonstrated. The tape is useful with childbirth preparation classes, parent and pre-parent groups, and physician in-services, as well as in professional training curricula for infant mental health clinicians. (Color, 58 minutes)

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Volume III "Your Plan of Action: How to Stay Safe When Intervening Alone"
Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc. © 1999 Length: 28 Minutes

Addressing the justifiable fear many human service professionals face regarding intervention without a team to assist, this video teaches how to outline a plan of action for maintaining personal safety. It considers risks for those who make home visits, those who work alone in group homes or other residential settings, and those who might be caught off guard when alone in a facility.

Normal Development in the First Ten Years of Life
Geri Fox, M.D. 7 tapes

Consisting of excerpts from the complete version, covering ages two weeks to ten years very briefly, with a short introduction. 31 video clips.

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Pain Beneath the Rage and My Home, My Castle and My Home, My Castle:
©1990 Child Welfare League of America. Length: 52 minutes.

Pain Beneath the Rage is one of the two in the series that focus on issues of adolescents in the foster care system. It features Stacey, who has run away from home because of sexual abuse by her mother's boyfriend.

My Home, My Castle is the second of the series to address adolescents by featuring Kevin, a 17 year old biracial youth who has experienced multiple placements. The video addresses issues related to attachment and bonding, drug involvement, and foster parent adoption.

Professional Choices: Ethics at Work:
National Association of Social Workers. Length: 40 minutes.

This video presents interviews with a number of social work practitioners, educators, and administrators as they discuss the subject of ethical social work practice. The participants speak candidly about topics that arise for the practitioner, the client, or both, and the video presents case scenarios that highlight the "fine line" between sound ethical practice and professional misconduct. Each segment covers frequently encountered ethical issues related to confidentiality, boundary issues, indiscretion, and client self-determination. Steps guide the viewer on making sound ethical decisions and handling ethical problems. The video includes an introduction by Ann Abbott, past president, NASW, who describes the underlying values and principles of the social work profession, and a discussion of the NASW Code of Ethics.

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Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Metis Child:
From the National Film Board of Canada. Length: 29:10.

In his short life, Richard Cardinal learned much about indifference. His diary speaks hauntingly of the misery and longing of a young buy who spent thirteen years being shunted through a seemingly endless series of foster homes and shelters. Richard wrote of how he tried to cut himself off emotionally, to feel nothing because to do so was to feel only pain. The effort was too great to sustain. When his resources ran out, Richard Cardinal, aged 17, hanged himself. Much as he was neglected in life, the young Metis did not go unnoticed in death. The circumstances of his life and suicide were at once so extraordinary yet so sadly commonplace that they precipitated changes to Alberta's Child Welfare Act.

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Scared Silent:
Institute for Human Services.

The Secret Life of the Brain: The Adult Brain: To Think by Feeling
Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes.

The brain is the seat of both intellect and emotion, and this episode chronicles the critical balance between these processes and explores what happens when the balance is lost. Scientists draw insight from the stories of a stroke victim and a sufferer of post-traumatic stress disorder, and break new ground in the struggle to understand and treat depression.

The Secret Life of the Brain: The Aging Brain: Through Many Lives
Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes.

For years, science has suggested that we lose vast numbers of brain cells as we grow older; now it turns out that this is not true -- in fact, healthy brains continue to produce new neurons well into the 70s. Drawing on the most recent neuroscience discoveries, this episode presents a new view of how the brain ages, focusing in part on the remarkable strides being made in understanding stroke, Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease.

The Secret Life of the Brain: The Baby's Brain: Wider than the sky
Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes.

Less than a month after conception, brain cells are developing at the astonishing rate of 500,000 per minute. The brain will ultimately comprise billions of cells linked by trillions of connections, the most complex thing in the universe. How does it organize itself? What are the roles of genetics and environment in brain development? The first hour traces the formation of the infant brain through the age of one, the period during which it is most open to molding through external influence and experience.

The Secret Life of the Brain: The Child's Brain: Syllable from Sound
Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes.

The explosion of language in young children provides one of the most dramatic illustrations of the young brain at work. How do we learn to talk? How do we learn to read? Unlike adults, in whose brains most linguistic activity is restricted to the left hemisphere, very young children respond to language with the entire brain. But what happens when the brain is physically compromised? And what are the physical roots of language disorders such as dyslexia?

The Secret Life of the Brain: The Teenage Brain: A World of Their Own
Produced by David Grubin, PBS Home Video, Length: 60 minutes.

This episode offers potential comfort to parents who believe teenagers are different from the rest of humanity by demonstrating that it's literally true. During puberty the brain is a work in progress, teeming with hormones, while the areas that direct reasoning and impulse control are still in development. Adolescence is also a period during which people are especially susceptible to schizophrenia and addiction, two areas currently under intensive study and benefiting from increased understanding of brain function.

Silent Epidemic: Teen Suicide

Part talk show and part docu-drama, this program focuses on the epidemic of teenage suicide and depression. The 30-minute program profiles teens who have attempted suicide and their progression in coping with depression. Grammy-award winning recording artist CeCe Winans hosts a studio audience segment in which teens and suicide experts discuss warning signs, causes and prevention of teen suicide. Length: 30 minutes.

Steps to Stability: Moving Children to a New Home

This video presents practical information on helping children in the child welfare system transition from one setting to another. Youth and families speak about their personal experiences in achieving permanence and stability, and experts in the field add tools and techniques for parents, social workers, child advocates and mental health professionals.

Subtle Boundary Dilemmas: Ethical Decision Making for Helping Professionals

Sheila McGuire (23 minutes)

This interactive video is designed to trigger discussions on the complexities of professional boundary setting. Three scenarios and five vignettes of client/provider interactions illustrate the fluid nature of boundary maintenance. These examples help viewers focus on the context of the situation, rather than the content, in determining appropriate boundaries and provide a concrete approach for ethical decision making.

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Testifying about Child Sexual Abuse: A Courtroom Guide
Produced by Guilford Publications, Inc. Length: 35 minutes.

Professionals evaluating children for alleged sexual abuse must be aware that they may ultimately be called upon to present their findings in court. This invaluable video helps viewers understand their role in legal proceedings; prepare and deliver testimony effectively; and minimize the stress involved for children. Ideal viewing for mental health and child protection professionals as well as lawyers, judges and law enforcement personnel, the program is enhanced by vignettes from simulated courtroom sessions and in-depth commentary from legal experts. Viewers learn to anticipate the challenges of the adversarial courtroom environment, maximize the legal admissibility of the information they present, and familiarize children with courtroom procedures. The companion manual features supplemental information, role-play scenarios and skills exercises, findings on children's memory and suggestibility, resource listings, and references for further reading.

Removing a child from his parents and home is very serious. Strong evidence indicates that children experience extreme trauma during removal, which affects their lives forever. Unexpected separation from a parent can feel like a life-or-death matter to a child, even when the child is coming from an abusive home. This program explores the many factors to be considered by social workers and police officers involved in child removal situations. Viewers will gain insight into how the experience might feel to a child, and how best to approach the removal in a manner that is least traumatic for the child and his family. Questions explored include, is removal really necessary? Is the child in immediate danger? Will the physical and emotional well-being of the child be compromised by the removal? Upon deciding that removal is necessary, there are questions, such as, where will the child be taken? What rights do the parents have? How should the child's questions be answered? These and many other concerns are discussed in the program with the thoroughness and sensitivity.

Through the Eyes of the Child:
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Length: 20 minutes.

An introductory video presenting the issues related to the foster care system and special needs adoption with an emphasis from the perspective of the children within that system.

Time to Talk: Social Work Month:
Length: 59 minutes.

This engaging 30-minute documentary features leading-edge mental health professionals who introduce revolutionary new discoveries that help identify, prevent and heal trauma in children.

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Understanding the Indian Child Welfare Act (1995):

This video uses a straightforward presentation highlighting and illustrating the provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act. This video is excellent as a learning tool and for reference material. Length 17 minutes.

UW Neurologists on Brain Development (1998)

Television shows with eight nationally recognized research scientists from UW discussing the latest research findings. Length 1 hour 45 minutes.

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Why Am I Here?: Engaging the Reluctant Client

Why Am I Here? features two 20-minute vignettes in which social work students interview reluctant clients and then debrief with a supervisor. Based on actual process recordings of student sessions, the vignettes realistically protray the experience of social work interns working with new clients who resist their interventions. The ensuing supervisory sessions present key practice issues and their connections to general theories of clinical social work. In the classroom Why Am I Here? is a useful catalyst for classroom discussion on the many dimensions of the interviewing process.
The video includes closed captions. Includes guide. Length: 44 minutes. © 2002, New York University.

Why Can't Michael Pay Attention?
Join the parents of six-year-old Michael as they seek to understand his impulsivity hyperactivity, and inattention. After a multifaceted assessment, Michael is diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). Michael's parents learn techniques such as consistent schedules, docking systems, star charts, and self-monitoring to help organize home life. Michael's parents face the pros and cons of medication. Gold Award, 1997 Charleston International Film Festival. Length: 21 minutes. © 1998, The Learning Seed.

A World of Diversity
Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. Length: 28:30. Video 1-Expanding Your Cultural Awareness.

For entering students, the freshman experience can be overwhelming. In addition to adjusting to new academic and social demands, many students lack experience in living in a multicultural environment. Filmed at Pennsylvania State University and reviewed by African-American, Asian-American, Latino-American and other multicultural scholars for authenticity of language and accuracy of content, the A World of Diversity Videos will help students learn basic skills for interacting effectively with students from different cultural backgrounds.

A World of Diversity
Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. Length: 27 minutes.

Video 2-Developing Your Diversity Skills. - see above (Video 1)

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