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MENTAL ILLNESS AFTER THE TEARS: TEENS TALK ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS IN THEIR FAMILIES (20 minutes) Along with a moderator, teens share what it is like having a family member with a mental illness.
CREATING WELLNESS (50 minutes) Mary Ellen Copeland, consumer and psychotherapist, discusses successful strategies in overcoming mental illness. Segments include support systems, medication, and maintaining hope.
DIALOGUE FOR RECOVERY (25 minutes) Six consumers discuss their recovery and highlight the importance of medications and the good relationship they had with their doctor.
DRUG-INDUCED MOVEMENT DISORDERS IN THE LONG-TERM CARE ENVIRONMENT (12 minutes) Helps with the identification of movement disorder side effects of antipsychotic medications in the elderly. Includes examples of tardive dyskinesia, akathisia, and parkinsonism.
FAMILIES COPING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS (43 minutes) Ten people share what they have learned over the years dealing with a family member with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Their practical suggestions cover issues regarding the first diagnosis, managing a person’s money, handling the holidays, creating a life of your own, and much more.
HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH SOMEONE WHO HAS ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE (30 minutes) Provides insight into various ways caregivers must change their behaviors and expectations in order to relate to a person with Alzheimer’s Disease.
I LOVE YOU LIKE CRAZY (27-minute video with study guide) Eight parents who have mental illness discuss the challenges they face as parents.
INVISIBLE WORKFORCE (19 minutes) Employers, job developers, and individuals with mental illness share their experiences in achieving success in the workplace.
MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE FAMILY (26 minutes) Bonnie and her family discuss the events that led to her being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. They discuss the emotions they felt including shame, anger, and guilt.
MENTAL ILLNESS: AWARENESS AND HOPE (16 minutes) Discusses mental illness as a disease that can be diagnosed and treated. Those with a mental illness and their parents speak openly about the illness.
MOVIN’ ON: Stories from the Recovery Road (30 minutes) Focuses on three individuals from Wisconsin who have overcome their mental disorders and are now leading fulfilling lives.
MY MOM STILL LOVES ME (20 minutes) and GOOD WEATHER OR NOT (book) Children often don't understand the disease of mental illness so they blame themselves. This video and book help children better understand mental illness and their feelings about it. Guidebook is also included. (For children aged 6-10)
MY SISTER IS MENTALLY ILL (22 minutes) Contains conversations about one woman’s struggle with schizophrenia and its impact on her family. Also talks about the affect mental illness have on siblings and discuss what siblings find hard to talk about and why.
PATHWAYS TO UNDERSTANDING: MINISTRY AND MENTAL ILLNESS (60 minutes) Interviews with clergy, consumers, and their family members provide sensitivity to the needs of those dealing with a mental illness.
PREVENTING RELAPSE (23 minutes) Includes workbook. Addiction and psychiatric relapse are examined with special emphasis on triggers and warning signs.
RECOVERING FROM MENTAL ILLNESS (27 minutes) A young adult with paranoid schizophrenia talks about what it’s like to hear voices, expectations of family members, the importance of support, and maintaining hope through recovery.
UNCERTAIN JOURNEY: FAMILIES COPING WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS (video & guide 45 minutes) Produced by Duke University Medical Center, the video describes the effects of serious mental illness from the perspective of three families.
UNDERSTANDING AND COMMUNICATING WITH A PERSON WHO HAS DELUSIONS (60 minutes) Mary Moller, R.N., shares interventions which can be used in working with people experiencing delusions - personal beliefs based on incorrect inferences about reality. Individuals who experience delusions offer valuable insights into symptom management.
UNDERSTANDING AND COMMUNICATING WITH A PERSON WHO IS HALLUCINATING (63 minutes) Explanation of how the brain functions, describes what happens during a hallucination, and offers techniques for helping a person through this experience.
UNDERSTANDING BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER (37 minutes) Borderline Personality Disorder is identified along with the special challenges of working with this population. Marsha Linehan explains how use of the dialectical approach can be helpful. Scenes from actual counseling sessions are included.
WHEN MENTAL ILLNESS INVADES THE FAMILY: DEVELOPING PRACTICAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS (60 minutes) Provides 15 ideas for better communication with persons with a mental illness. The suggestions are divided into three segments to facilitate group discussion.
WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS: REALITY OF SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS (20 minutes) Clients, family members, and psychiatrists discuss mental illness in a clear and compassionate format.
48 HOURS: MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES (60 minutes) Program aired on television and focuses on a woman who is in a treatment program for multiple personality disorder believed to be the result of abuse as a child.
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