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Status:Available What Do I Say to My Kids? (DVD)
Published: 2005
Based on her acclaimed book Straight Talk, author Claudia Black, Ph.D. provides strategies and guidance for parents speaking to children about their own addiction... Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 09/09/2010) Stages of Family Recovery
Published: 2005
For families, the pain of living with a loved one's addiction can lead to shame, secrecy, and isolation. This is an encouraging, empowering video that lets families know they're not alone- and that recovery is possible. Teens, parents, and grandparents sh.. Details >>
Status:Available Conquering Cocaine: Cessation- Early Stages of Recovery
Published: 1986
The early stage of withdrawal from cocaine is described by medical experts & recovering addicts, including detox and counseling. Emphasizes that recovery is a life-long process, and that being part of an aftercare or self-help group will help ensure sobri.. Details >>
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 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:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 12/31/1969) When Your Parent Drinks Too Much
Alan Thicke hosts this program which features kids discussing family problems in a support group and vignettes at home. Encourages children to seek help and reminds them that they cannot cure or control their parents' illness... Details >>
Status:Available Intervention Pros and Cons: Part 1
Published: 1989
A training seminar taped at the Freedom Center in Pittsburgh PA on Vernon Johnson's intervention techniques. Emphasizes that interventions are surprises & forced crises, not punishments, and that they always work because they heal families. Good informat.. 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 Back to Reality
Published: 1988
Hugh Downs presents information on addition, enabling, and intervention. Vignettes depict workplace and family situation. Helps family & friends see that they aren't alone in their feelings and enabling behaviors... 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 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 Dependencia De la Droga: Las Muestras De la Detección temprana
Published: 1984
**Drug Dependency: The Early Warning Signs** Provide drug abusers as well as their friends, family, and employers with a recognition guide of symptoms of possible drug abuse... Details >>
Status:Available Back to Reality
Hugh Downs presents information on addition, enabling, and intervention. Vignettes depict workplace and family situation. Helps family & friends see that they aren't alone in their feelings and enabling behaviors... 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 Family Violence in America
Links substance abuse to domestic violence and explains the cycles of violence. Reveals myths related to domestic violence,including that the victim "deserves" it. Discusses related legal matters: viewers hear from victims, as well as legal officials and.. Details >>
Status:Available Sons & Daughters: Parents and Problems
Addresses common conflicts between parents and adolescents. Helps them to communicate... Details >>
Status:Available Family Issues for the Chemically Dependent
Family issues clients commonly face after treatment such as: gaining trust, communication, setting boundaries, coping, forgiving, etc... Details >>
Status:Available Living Sober: Coping with Family and Interpersonal Conflict
Published: 1994
Uses dramatizations, brief interviews w/ recovering addicts, and clinical insight to address the navigation of family and interpersonal relationships during recovery... 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 The Party's Over
Published: 1990
Shows three real-life interventions, recreated by the actual families involved. Deals w/ roles that family, friends & co-workers play, methods used by professionals in the intervention, and the impact confrontation mixed w/ love has upon the addict. Power.. 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 Close to Home- Moyers on Addiction: The Next Generation
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 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 The Power of No: The Wizard Returns
Published: 1995
The Wizard of No helps Alice understand that her father suffers from alcoholism, and that saying no to alcohol herself is not the same as rejecting her friends... Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 04/06/2010) Beat the Street: Clean & Sober in the City: Recovering Relationships
Published: 1996
Part 1 of 5 Credible urban role models discuss ways to recognize & avoid relapse traps. Addressed are ways to cope w/ an unsupportive family, avoiding rescuing others, sober sex, dealing w/ guilt and the stress of parenting in recovery. Both men's & wom.. 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 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 Alcohol, Children and The Family
Concentrates on the many ways in which alcohol destroys and negatively affects the family. Views from professionals on the subject... Details >>
Status:Available Circle of Recovery
A portrait of a group of 7 African-American men healing themselves. "When I speak of the healing of the community, I speak of a whole people, not just ourselves, because when we heal, the children heal, the family heals, the mother, the grandfather, the.. Details >>
Status:Available Enabling
Father Joseph Martin explains how people enable addicts to stay actively involved in their addiction by protecting them from the consequences... 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
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 My Father's Son
Published: 1970
Dramatic portrayal of the way vulnerability to addiction, alcoholism in particular, is genetic. When a father finds his son's drugs in the basement, he remembers his painful upbringing w/ an alcoholic father & co-dependent mother. He tries to prevent his.. Details >>
Status:Available Shattered Spirits
Movie taped from television. Shows family interaction in the disease process. Also touches on intervention and treatment for the entire family... 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 Close to Home: Moyers on Addiction (Complete Collection)
Published: 1998
Bill Moyers' 5-part series on addiction. 1. Portrait of Addiction 2. The Hijacked Brain 3. Changing Lives (about successful treatment programs) 4. The Next Generation (about how children are affected by addiction) 5. The Politics of Addiction Excel.. 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 Meth: What's Cooking in Your Neighborhood?
Published: 2002
Provides useful information on what methamphetamine is, what it does, and why it seems appealing and is dangerous. Covers how meth is made and how communities can prevent its use. Study guide included... Details >>
Status:Available Why Can't We Be a Family Again?
Published: 2002
This documentary follows the lives of a teenager & his younger brother as they cope with their mother's battle w/ addiction. She continues to relapse despite rehab attempts, and soon her legal parental rights are threatened. Through it all, the brothers s.. Details >>
Status:Available When a Man Loves a Woman
Published: 2000
Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia star. The story of a once-stable marriage rocked by the wife's increasing dependence on alcohol... Details >>
Status:Unavailable (Estimated Availability: 04/06/2010) What Families Can Do To Prevent and Intervene With Alcohol and Drug Problems
Published: 2001
Discusses and illuminates key issues related to the 2001 Recovery Month observance (September). This session discusses how families can overcome denial of a drug or alcohol problem or intervene in a loved one’s addiction. .. Details >>
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 Tabaco 101: El Fumar Es Un Asunto De Toda La Familia- DVD
Published: 2004
**Smoking is a Family Matter** In both English & Spanish; a brief plea to quit smoking. La primera cosa que debe saber acerca de fumar es que causa la muerte. La segunda cosa que debe saber acerca de fumar es que puede dejar de hacerlo. No es nada facil,.. Details >>
Status:Available Tobacco 101: Smoking is a Family Matter- DVD
Published: 2004
In both English & Spanish; a brief plea to quit smoking. Smoking kills, but you can quit smoking. It isn't easy, but you can do it!.. Details >>
Status:Available Tobacco 101: Smoking is a Family Matter- DVD
Published: 2004
In both English & Spanish; a brief plea to quit smoking. Smoking kills, but you can quit smoking. It isn't easy, but you can do it!.. 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 Addiction (DVD)
Published: 2007
*DVD* HBO's critically acclaimed documentary is aimed at helping Americans understand that addiction is a brain disease. Four 30-minute discs and 5 hours of extra materials feature stories from addicts and loved ones as well as authorities on addiction.. Details >>