Indiana Association for Infant and Toddler Mental Health

Media List--2007

Adoption and Foster Care

Gentle Transitions: A Newborn Baby's Point of View About Adoption

Suggestions on what we grown-ups should think about — and do – to make the adoption experience work best for a baby. Presented as if written by an infant, this ten-minute video may be useful for birthparents, adoptive parents and adoption training. Covered are issues ranging from the importance of the adoptive family having a chance to be pregnant for their adopted baby to the importance of some sort of ritual to mark the transition from one family to the other. Explanations are offered from some of the adopted baby’s subsequent behavior and a plea is made (by the baby, of course) for us to remember that he is watching us.

Source: Michael Trout

Length: 16 min

Format: DVD

Multiple Transitions: A Young Child’s Point of View on Foster Care and Adoption

The script attempts to distill what children could teach us, if they had the chance, about what being moved around feel like, how and why their behavior begins to change, and what happens to their availability for new attachment.

Source: Michael Trout

Length: 12 min

Format: DVD

Child Abuse/Trauma

Breaking Peaces: Babies have their say about domestic violence (2002)

Represents what prenates, infants and toddlers would say — if they but had a voice, and if we would actually listen — about experiencing domestic violence. Formed around a poem, with some of the words spoken by young children, this video presumes that domestic violence is an intensely up-close-and-personal phenomenon for babies, and teaches that babies have little choice but to respond, in some way. They may pull back, they may attempt to control, they may become compliant, they may become rageful, they may become perpetrators, themselves. But they will respond.

Source: Michael Trout

Length: 17 min

Format: DVD

Helping Babies from the Bench (2007)

ZERO TO THREE produced this DVD to help judges make the best possible decisions regarding the lives of vulnerable infants and toddlers. By applying the science of early childhood development to decision making, judges can break the cycle of maltreatment that plagues families involved in the child welfare system.

Source: Zero to Three

Length:

Format: DVD

Helping Children Cope with Frightening Events

Disasters, whether caused by a natural occurrence such as an earthquake or hurricane or by terrorism, have a profound effect on young children. Whether the children were directly involved, have friends or family who were victims or survivors, or are simply aware of the event through media and conversation, they may react by feeling helpless, isolated and bewildered. Educators are in a prime position to help children cope IF they know the warning signs and what to do.

The program clearly defines and illustrates the most typical symptoms children exhibit, then it shows activities and steps educators can take to help children cope and overcome the trauma of the event. The critical areas covered by the video are:

Changes in children's behavior and what they mean

Successful ways to communicate

How to create a supportive classroom environment

Activities that will reinforce a sense of security and promote healing

Health and nutrition

Source: Educational Activities, Inc.

Length: 25 min

Format: DVD

Make a Difference! Report Child Abuse and Neglect

Child abuse and neglect are discussed with professionals who share information about what to do if abuse is suspected, the indicators of abuse/neglect, and the impact on society.

Source: Ball State University

Length: 28 min.

Format: DVD

Child Development

Social and Emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers DVD Series

Communication and Learning

Making Friends and Getting Along with Peers

Acquiring Self-Regulation

Set of three DVDs based on Neurons to Neighborhoods

Source: Ball State University

Length:

Format: DVD

Cooing, Crying and Cuddling: Infant Brain Development

Explores the fascinating process of brain development during the first 15 months of life. Understanding how to stimulate this process can help to "build a better brain."

Source: Ball State University

Length: 28 min

Format: DVD

Infant Mental Health

Conducting an Infant Mental Health Family Assessment

Discusses 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.

Source: Michael Trout

Length: 58 min

Format: VHS

Infant Mental Health: A Psychotherapeutic Model of Intervention

An extremely practical video dealing with:

• How do we do infant-parent psychotherapy?

• How do we know what to say, when to say it, and when to be quiet?

• What do we do about the powerful resistance of families who may both want to talk — and to avoid talking at all costs — about "the problem with baby"?

• What do we do about our own resistance?

• What does transference look like, when baby is the object?

• What are our responsibilities with respect to cultural, religious and other differences?

A rich array of clinical examples are brought together: from Dr. Cramer’s infant psychiatry service in Switzerland, from a psychologist in Africa, and another from the roughest sections of Newark. We watch a clinician with newborns and parents in an affluent Chicago suburb, and hear "clinicians-in-the-trenches" in rural Maine talk about what the work is like in their part of the world.

Source: Michael Trout

Length: 95 min

Format: VHS

Parenting

A Fair chance: parents with developmental disabilities

This video examines the homes and lives of six parents who have various types of developmental disabilities. It examines what helps these parents succeed and which factors seem to contribute to the loss of their child. Also included is a frank discussion among university professors, social workers, and parenting educators about the prejudices parents with development disabilities face, effective support services, and the lack of standardized services.

Source: Program Development Associates

Length: 53 min

Format: VHS

"I love you like crazy" Being a Parent with Mental Illness
"I love you like crazy" introduces eight courageous parents who have experienced mental illness while raising a family. Most of these parents have faced enormous obstacles from homelessness, addictions, legal difficulties and hospitalizations yet have maintained a positive and loving relationship with their children. Excerpts of this tape were shown at the 1999 White House Conference on Mental Illness.

Source: Mental Illness Education Project Video

Length: 30 min

Format: VHS

Parenting Young Children by John Christophersen

In Parenting Young Children, Dr. Christophersen demonstrates his approach to teaching parenting skills within the context of therapy. Dr. Christophersen works with a young single mother and her toddler son, first assessing their relationship and then teaching good child-parent interaction through modeling and instruction.

Source: APA

Length 100 min

Format: DVD

Learning & Growing Together With Families Video Package (2001)
This video and book package will help you learn specific ways to build strong, collaborative relationships with families and with your colleagues. Designed for home visitors, Early Head Start staff, early intervention specialists, child care providers, and others who work with the families of young children, it builds upon the core concepts and skills of self-awareneess, sensitive observation, careful reading of cues, and flexible response.

In the 25-minute video you will see practitioners working with families in ways that promote the development of effective partnerships. The accompanying video guide leads you in improving your observation skills and in reflecting on how the concepts presented in the video relate to your own work. Also includes the book Partnering With Parents to Support Young Children's Development, by Jeree Pawl and Amy Dombro.

Source: ZERO TO THREE 

Length; 25 min

Format: VHS

Learning Through Observation Video Package 
This 60-minute video provides supervisors, trainers, and directors with non-narrated footage of real-life interactions between staff of infant-family programs and families in situations including home visits in the context of Early Head Start, family support, and early intervention; and drop-offs and pick-ups at child care.

Source: ZERO TO THREE

Length: 60 min

Format: VHS

Relationship

The Story of Mothers and Daughters (1997)

Winner of numerous awards, this moving documentary explores the special bond between mothers and daughters by letting dozens of ordinary women share their insights, emotions, and experiences. Their stories form a diverse tapestry of age and race, anger and understanding, sorrow and joy. Like the timeless cycle of motherhood itself, the program is arranged into basic sections: birth, growing up, separation, woman to woman, and death and renewal.

Source: Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Length 46 min

Format: DVD

The Story of Fathers and Sons (1999)

One father loses his two-month-old son; another father must watch his son grow up through prison bars; one son wants to be the father he never had; and another son sheds tears of joy to be an old man alongside his dad. This documentary explores one of the core human relationships in dozens of variations. The program’s structure reflects the cycle of fatherhood and the path to maturity: birth, growing up, boys to men, and man to man. Among the many poignant stories told firsthand are those of actor Edward James Olmos and basketball star Shaquille O’Neal.

Source: Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Length 46 min

Format: DVD

Special Needs

Autumn's Story
This acclaimed Discovery Health Channel film documents the miracle of birth and the terrifying aftermath of a mother and baby's struggle to survive in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The pregnancy, birth and NICU are depicted through the eyes of the mother as she plummets into postpartum depression, panic, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Real-time footage allows the viewer to witness a real-life drama unfolding

Source: Mother of 7, Inc

Length: 45 min

Format: DVD