Teens interview teens about how to deal with death and dying. Coping methods include writing, photography, talking, drawing, counselling and support groups.
An overview of newborn's basic needs. Covers breast feeding, formula feeding, bathing, umbilical cord care, and health and safety such as car seats and bumper pads.
Three key strengths - physical, mental and emotional - are important to a healthy self-esteem. This video follows teens as they participate in a special strength-building program of challenging activities and workshops. Advice on setting goals, coping with mistakes, negative thinking, bullying, choosing friends, dealing with emotions, problem-solving
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
Social and independent living skills : medication management module supplement : skill area : taking long-acting medication by injection : skill area 5
Social and independent living skills : medication management module supplement : skill area : taking long-acting medication by injection : skill area 5
Clinical Research Center for Schizophrenia & Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Social and Independent Living Skills Program. Rehabilitation Medicine Serice. Brentwood Division, West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center
Audience: Mental health workers, policy makers, community agencies, family groups
Summary: Portrays the lives of people with long term mental illness. They have formed a theatre group to educate the public and to act as a support group. Situations enacted include: hospitalization, job searching, loneliness, housing, and stigma.The program challenges professionals and the mental health system to be more responsive to the needs of the seriously mentally ill in their own communities
With user's guide by Linda Hillhouse Donelson (filed under accompanying material for Video No. 6)
Audience: Family groups, mental health professionals, policy makers
Summary: Dramatization of the live of long term mentally ill people as they attempt to function in their communities. Portrayed by a theatre group comprising people with mental illness, situations include: frustrations with jail and social security situations, hospital readmission, helping in a crises hostel, developing life skills, and dealing with stigma