Summary: Shows Marsha M. Linehan teaching patients the use of such skills as mindfulness, distress intolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotional regulation in order to manage extreme beliefs and behaviors. Viewers see segments of actual case sessions (with patients' identities protected) that vividly illustrate the nature of the disorder and intense discomfort these clients suffer
With: Understanding borderline personality disorder : the dialectical approach : program manual
Summary: A socio-drama that underlines the message that prevention begins at home and that parents have a role to play by helping children develop positive self-esteem, decision-making skills, and the ability to cope with peer pressure
Summary: After observing weeks of increasingly strange behaviour, Bill's father blows up at Bill. Bill's reaction throws the family into a world of crisis, involving police, ambulance, and involuntary hospital emergency psychiatric ward admission. A year later, the family undergoes a second, but voluntary admission. It ends with a message of hope that schizophrenia can be controlled and eventually cured
Summary: Through interviews with experts and commentary by people of all ages, this video shows the connection between your daily lifestyle habits and your personal potential for both a longer life and healthspan. Health habits are easy to start and maintain. This video is a practical guide that can help you and your family live longer, healthier, and more vital lives
Summary: Discusses mental and emotional health with particular reference to the problems encountered by the deaf. Topics include: recognizing signs of stress and depression, life change trauma, abuse, interpersonal conflict; when and where to seek help/therapy
Closed-captioned and signed with voice-over interpretation
Summary: Designed primarily for trauma survivors and their families and friends, this video uses highlights from two professional training tapes to give viewers an authentic perspective on traumatic memory formation and retrieval. Clinicians will save much valuable session time by supplying this program to their clients
Includes booklets: Multiple personality : a training model / Margo Rivera -- Multiple personality / Margo Rivera
Summary: This program focusses on the following topics: the continuum from normal experiences of dissociation to classical multiple personality disorder, how children use dissociation as a defense against abuse experiences too overwhelming to be integrated into a central consciousness, living as an adult with multiple identities, assessment and treatment of MPD and multiple personalities as social issues