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Status:Available Medical Aspects of Co-Dependency

Published: 1986

Covers the physical & emotional effects that a chemically dependent person has on family, friends, and co-workers. Addresses family roles, sexuality, medical diseases, and what happens to the family system when even one member seeks help. Great informatio.. Details >>

Status:Available Picking Up the Pieces

 

Shows how each family member is affected when one member is an alcoholic... Details >>

Status:Available Trust in Yourself: ACoA

 

Shows five adults who grew up in alcoholic homes struggling to overcome their own hurt and confusion... Details >>

Status:Available Joey and Me

Published: 1976

Animated film about the friendship between two boys, one of whom has an alcoholic mother. Emotional ending provides fuel for discussion... Details >>

Status:Available Adult Children of Alcoholics: Masks of Denial

 

Uses a psyco-drama format to dramatize the problems of adults who grew up in an alcoholic family... Details >>

Status:Available Living A Lie: The Alcoholic Family

Published: 1999

Teen COAs go on a retreat to further their acceptance process. Covered are family roles, concept of a 'perfect' family, and characteristics of healthy families... Details >>

Status:Available Enabling: Masking Reality

Published: 1988

Dramatization of family & workplace enabling of an addict. We see how a doctor, wife, daughter, sister and co-worker interact with Ben in ways that allow him to keep using alcohol & cocaine. Is to be followed by video #33, Intervention: Facing Reality... Details >>

Status:Available Children of Alcoholics

Published: 1989

Vignettes show the points of view of a 12 year old and a 17 year old growing up in an alcoholic family... Details >>

Status:Available Scared, Sad and Mad

 

Animated film teaches young children that alcoholism is a disease, that it is not their fault, and that help is available... Details >>

Status:Available When Your Parent Drinks Too Much

Published: 1987

Alan Thicke hosts this program which features kids discussing family problems in a support group, and vignettes of home life. Encourages children to seek help and reminds them that they cannot cure or control their parents' illness... Details >>

Status:Available Together: Families in Recovery

Published: 1980

For the whole family of the addicted person, this video shows possible warning signs of relapse and helps the family cope with problems experienced in the early stages of recovery... Details >>

Status:Available It's Not My Problem

 

An introduction to co-dependency and family systems, with emphasis on the families of newly recovering addicts... Details >>

Status:Available Co-Dependents in the Shadows

Published: 1989

Analysis of the behavior of a person who is living with an alcoholic. Helps co-dependents come to terms with the family's illness... Details >>

Status:Available Elephant in the Living Room

 

Dramatization of the denial and secrecy that pervades life in an alcohol home and other type of dysfunctional family... Details >>

Status:Available Twee, Fiddle, & Huff

 

Whimsical animated video that teaches children healthy ways to cope with family problems such as alcohol and other drug dependence... Details >>

Status:Available Kids at Risk: Blaming Kitty

 

Teaches children decision-making skills to cope with family members who have alcohol and other drug dependence... Details >>

Status:Available Soft is the Heart of a Child

 

Classic video from the 1970s depicting the effects of an alcoholic father on his three small children... Details >>

Status:Available All Bottled Up

 

Animated stories about children of alcoholics encourage teens to tell a friend or any adult they trust if they have an alcoholic parent, and not to keep feelings ALL BOTTLED UP... Details >>

Status:Available Guidelines

Published: 1976

Father Martin provides eight guidelines which families of alcoholics can follow. Gives powerful insight on what tools an average person can use to get an alcoholic loved-one help... Details >>

Status:Available Poor Jennifer: She's Always Losing Her Hat

 

This video is about a child who grows up in an alcoholic home. It gives reinforcement to children of alcoholics that it is not their fault... Details >>

Status:Available Alateen Tells it Like it Is

Published: 1987

This video, created with artwork by a teenage girl, features a young narrator and two other teenagers who share what growing up in an alcoholic home is like, how they found Alateen, and why they stayed... Details >>

Status:Available Al-Anon Speaks for Itself

Published: 1986

Offering a glimpse of the help and hope available in the Al-Anon fellowship, this docu-drama captures the essence of its program; members sharing their stories, going to a meeting, getting better, getting to know the program, and getting on with life... Details >>

Status:Available Alateen Tells It Like It Is

 

This video, created with artwork by a teenage girl, features a young narrator and two other teenagers who share what growing up in an alcoholic home is like, how they found Alateen, and why they stayed... Details >>

Status:Available Al-Anon Speaks for Itself

 

Offering a glimpse of the help and hope available in the Al-Anon fellowship, this docu-drama captures the essence of its program- members sharing their stories, going to a meeting, getting better, getting to know the program, and getting on with life... Details >>

Status:Available Bottled Up

 

PBS special about a teenage girl living with an alcoholic mother... Details >>

Status:Available Family Disease

 

David Bender of the Council on Drug & Alcohol Abuse explains in detail the concept of family disease... Details >>

Status:Available The Family Trap

 

Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse provides a revealing look into the survival roles adopted by family members of an addicted person. Discusses the pressures that contribute to family illness, & how identification, intervention, & counseling can help... Details >>

Status:Available Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: The Next Generation

by PBS

Published: 1998

Focuses on prevention efforts based on community & family. Shows parents addicted to heroin being taught how to repair the damage to the family and how to raise strong, resilient children. The second part goes into the schools and looks for kids at risk.. Details >>

Status:Available Lots of Kids Like Us

Published: 1998

Two young men discover they once attended camp together at a very important time in their lives. This touching video can help reach children of alcohol and let them know they are not at fault, that they are not alone, and they can get help... Details >>

Status:Available Recovery and the Family

 

Father Joseph Martin explains the impact recovery of an alcoholic/addict has on the family and how to cope with the changes that occur... Details >>

Status:Available Soft is the Heart of a Child

 

Depicts the devastating effect an alcoholic has on the family; shows how the kids react, especially at school; describes how an understanding school counselor effectively intervenes... Details >>

Status:Available Mom! Louie's Looking at Me Again!

 

Themes relating to children of alcoholics' experiences growing up in dysfunctional family of origin. This video does an exceptional job of portraying the anger, pain, bewilderment of addicted families. Very humorous presentation... Details >>

Status:Available Reflections from the Heart of a Child

 

Vividly portrays the impact of chemical dependency on the family as three young lives are ravaged by a father's alcoholism and a mother's inability to cope... Details >>

Status:Available Child's View

by Claudia Black

Published: 1990

Black reads from her book "My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease," and discusses with a group of kids topics like blackouts, denial & pretending, promise breaking, and being scared, sad, mad & embarassed because of their parents' addictions. Book is also.. Details >>

Status:Available Poor Jennifer. She's Always Losing Her Hat

Published: 1991

Designed to educate adults about the issues of children of alcoholics. Explores the cycles of shame and silence. Viewer's guide included... Details >>

Status:Available Teaching Children Affected by Substance Abuse

Published: 1994

6 practices are described: Creating a Nurturing Classroom, Encouraging Cooperative Learning, Facilitating Transitions, Help Manage Behavior, Assessing for Progress, and Building School-Home Connections. Ideas and activities included, as is a Teacher Guide.. Details >>

Status:Available Risk & Reality: Teaching Preschool Children Affected By Substance Abuse

 

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Status:Available Nation's Challenge: A Guide for Educators of Children Affected by AOD- Part 1

 

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Status:Available Nation's Challenge: A Guide for Educators of Children Affected by AOD- Part 2

 

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Status:Available Lost Childhood: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Family

Published: 2004

In this moving film, you’ll visit a summer camp program for children of alcoholics and hear youngsters tell their experiences in their own words. Then 15 years later, meet some of these same children as adults who received the tools they needed to grow up.. Details >>

Status:Available Troop 1500: Girl Scouts Beyond Bars (DVD)

Published: 2005

**DVD** Focuses on 10 of the 48 girls in Troop 1500 as they make their monthly trip to the Gatesville Hilltop Prison, about 90 miles northeast of Austin. The girls were trained in media production & then interviewed their mothers about whey they ended up.. Details >>

Status:Available End Broken Promises, Mend Broken Hearts

Published: 2003

For educators, parents, clergy, & criminal justice, treatment & medical professionals who want info on the needs of children w/ chemically dependent parents. Features noted authorities Claudia Black and Jerry Moe... Details >>