Human Growth and Development
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1) Close to Home: Portrait of Addiction. Curriculum Media Group, 1998. 60 min.
“In this program nine men and women—all recovering from drug and/or alcohol addiction—tell their stories. The recovering addicts run the gamut: a former narcotics agent, now recovering from a cocaine habit; a mother of three who is a marketing specialist; a former addict and founder of Stand Up Harlem, a community of HIV-positive addicts and recovering addicts; a journalist and former addict who actually served as the researcher for Moyers on the series. This candid testimony from people who have been there leaves little doubt that addiction can happen to anyone and so can recovery.”
Reference Number: 00376
2) Close to Home: Politics of Addiction. Curriculum Media Group, 1998. 60 min.
“The story of how our society meets the challenge of translating what scientists, doctors, counselors, and recovering addicts have learned into rational public policy is complex and sometimes contradictory. This program looks at Arizona’s recent struggle to find an alternative to current policies. Proposition 2000 proposed a reassessment of the status of nonviolent drug addicts now serving time, and emphasized treatment over incarceration. The movement was supported by an alliance from across the political spectrum. On the Washing scene, members of Congress, doctors, and policy activists have joined in a movement with recovering people that is pushing for new public policy.”
Reference Number: 00377
3) Close to Home: The Next Generation. Curriculum Media Group, 1998. 60 min.
“Experts are increasingly focusing on prevention efforts based on community and family. This documentary looks at two of those efforts. One works with parents addicted to heroin by teaching them how to repair the damage to family wrought by drug abuse, and in spite of it, how to raise strong, resilient children. In a second program, vigilant counselors in Dade County schools watch for kids at risk of becoming drug addicts, and offer immediate counseling for those who are already involved with drugs. Nicotine addiction is addressed by a program that provides classes designed to prevent students from smoking, and another that helps them stop if they’ve already begun to smoke. School officials, counselors, and students are interviewed.”
Reference Number: 00378
4) Close to Home: The Hijacked Brain. Curriculum Media Group, 1998. 60 min.
“Aided by powerful new diagnostic tools, scientists are making dramatic discoveries about how addiction affects the brain. In this program, Moyers goes into the laboratory to follow researchers engaged in charting an “image of desire in the brain.” We actually see images of a cocaine user’s brain as the drug takes effect, and a doctor explains how these scans reveal addiction as a chronic relapsing brain disease. Moyers observes a genetic researcher as he monitors a variety of factors that may determine who is likely to develop alcoholism.”
Reference Number: 00379
5) Close to Home: Changing Lives. Curriculum Media Group, 1998. 60 min.
“While addiction may cause similar changes in the brain of different people, recovery is a very individual solution. Changing behavior is the aim of treatment, but no single treatment program will work for all addicts. This program visits the Ridgeview institute near Atlanta to interview recovering addicts and sit in on a group therapy session. The program also visits Project Safe, an innovative treatment program that reaches out to disadvantaged mothers who are at serious risk of becoming addicts.”
Reference Number: 00380
6) Coping Part One: Coping with Self. Los Angeles, California: Franciscan Communications and Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1987. 60 min.
“Beginning with stresses surrounding birth, therapist Clayton Barbeau humorously describes how coping with ourselves depends on our abilities to react creatively to stress. His audience is already chuckling and captivated as he then explains how stress on individuals can bring about either good or bad results. With funny but true-to-life examples, Clayton contrasts external stress over which we have little control and internal stress which we generate ourselves. We must learn to live in the present moment if we want to cope in a healthy way.”
Reference Number: 00381
7) Coping Part Two: Coping with Others. Los Angeles, California: Franciscan Communications and Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1987. 60 min.
“Using a variety of anecdotes from his family experiences and the lives of his counseling clients, therapist Clayton Barbeau keeps his audience chucking as he shares insights about coping with others. He insists we must stop disowning ourselves in order to cope effectively. Successful coping in a relationship results when each person decides to take responsibility for making the relationship work. Clayton insists boundaries are necessary for healthy coping in relationships. He demonstrates, again with humorous examples, how dishonest questions and indirect questions lead to coping failures.”
Reference Number: 00382
8) Coping Part Three: Coping with Loss. Los Angeles, California: Franciscan Communications and Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1987. 60 min.
“No human being escapes coping with loss in life. According to therapist Clayton Barbeau, failing to cope with loss, both great and small, is to wound ourselves. Using humorous and dramatic stories from real life situation, Clayton leads his audience to examine healthy coping from death of a loved one to simple losses in daily living. Clayton insists we must be patient with ourselves when faced with serious loss. He shares the wisdom he gained watching himself cope with the unexpected death of his wife of 26 years. The successful life, he says, is a constant process of both loss and gain.”
Reference Number: 00383
9) Coping Part Four: Coping with Feelings. Los Angeles, California: Franciscan Communications and Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1987. 60 min.
“Therapist Clayton Barbeau offers a lively and insightful presentation on just how to cope creatively with personal feelings like anger, fear, disappointment and depression. He delights his audience by dramatizing humorous stories from his clients’ lives and from the lives of members of his own family. Clayton notes that each of us has a dominant feeling that influences our world view. We can better cope with our feelings if we are careful to discern their origins. Healthy coping with feelings gives us a sense of personal freedom and power which leads to joy.”
Reference Number: 00384
10) Happiness is an Inside Job (Segments 1-4). Allen, Texas: Tabor Publications, 1991. 120 min.
““Something in me is sure that all of us were created to be happy. I believe that God made us to be happy in this world and forever in the next. And so, as I see it, this follows logically: If a person is chronically unhappy, there is something wrong. Something is missing. Obviously, it may not be that person’s fault or choice. Still, I would maintain, something is missing. Anyway, pleas be patient with me as I try to explain my thinking. To the extent that we think our happiness will come form outside things or even other persons, our dreams are destined for death. The true formula is, H=IJ, Happiness is an inside job.”
Reference Number: 00385
11) Happiness is an Inside Job (Segments 5-8). Allen, Texas: Tabor Publications, 1991. 120 min.
Reference Number: 00386
12) Happiness is an Inside Job (Segments 9-12). Allen, Texas: Tabor Publications, 1991. 120 min.
Reference Number: 00387
13) The Human Animal: #1 Sex and Love.
Reference Number: 00388
14) The Human Animal: #2 Nature or Nurture.
Reference Number: 00389
15) The Human Animal: #3 Violence.
Reference Number: 00390
16) The Human Animal: #4 Men and Women.
Reference Number: 00391
17) The Human Animal: #5 The Family.
Reference Number: 00392
18) Lovenotes. Manitowac, Wisconsin: Silver Lake College Publications, 1989. Video: 48 min. Cassette: 30 min. 72 page instructional manual.
“Even before a babe is born…somewhere in the fourth of fifth month of pregnancy…the child can hear sounds from the outside world. By using the voice as the natural instrument, along with folksongs, musical instruments, rhythm, and movement, the Lovenotes program: Offers parents a special, intimate way to relax and experience together the world of the life they have created. Establishes loving communications and a strong bond between the baby and family before the child is born. Promotes the emotional well-being of parents and child by calming the infant before and after birth. Aids childbirth by teaching parents how to use music to relax during labor and delivery. Enhances the whole family’s appreciation of music.”
Reference Number: 00393
19) Surviving: Anger. Los Angeles, California: Franciscan Communications and Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1987. 32 min.
“In this program, Clayton Barbeau talks about the different causes of anger and the various guises that anger often takes. He also pointed out that we face anger from both ourselves and others, and that any number of experience can trigger it. With the help of anecdotes based in personal experience, Mr. Barbeau shows how important it is to understand the source and destructiveness of one’s anger and to face up to it. He proposes strategies for analyzing and dealing with one’s own anger and with the anger of others.”
Reference Number: 00394
20) Surviving: Broken Relationships. Los Angeles, California: Franciscan Communications and Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1987. 21 min.
“In this program, Clayton Barbeau talks about the anger and pain that follow a broken relationship. Mr. Barbeau assures you that the feelings you experience at this time are natural. He helps you to understand and work with them. You are encouraged to be gentle with yourself and not to hide from those who care about you. Above all, don’t rush into a new relationship too soon. Broken hearts do mend, Mr. Barbeau assures you; and when they, do the are often more loving and compassionate that those that have not suffered.”
Reference Number: 00395
21) Surviving: Depression. Los Angeles, California: Franciscan Communications and Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1987. 23 min.
“In this program, Clayton Barbeau helps you come to terms with the signs of depression: from changes in eating and sleeping habits to inattentiveness, a sense of alienation, and even thoughts of suicide. Then come the tactics of survival, all enriched by Mr. Barbeau’s use of personal stories and true-to-life examples. His final message: “Don’t do anything drastic! You are in a dead space in you life. But you will go through it…to new life.””
Reference Number: 00396
22) Surviving: Difficult People. Los Angeles, California: Franciscan Communications and Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1987. 40 min.
“In this program Clayton Barbeau gives special attention to the problem individuals who can make day to day living difficult at work or at home. Mr. Barbeau suggests ways to approach people who tend to bully or to criticize constantly, or those who demand inordinate attention or wish to be decisions or simply won’t communicate. Mr. Barbeau states that it is very important to realize that person’s behavior.”
Reference Number: 00397
23) Surviving: Failure Rejection. Los Angeles, California: Franciscan Communications and Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1987. 34 min.
“In this program, Clayton Barbeau explains how important it is for every person to value themselves, because surviving rejection or failure has a lot to do with self-acceptance. It also means realizing that it is human, and sometimes even a good thing, to fail or to experience hurt. Using some well chosen anecdotes, Mr. Barbeau reveals how paralyzing the fear of failure can be, and he points out that all real growth in life and in intimacy and love involves risk, even in the face of rejection or failure.”
Reference Number: 00398
24) Surviving: Life Transitions. Los Angeles, California: Franciscan Communications and Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1987. 26 min.
“In this program Clayton Barbeau talks about the many experiences of change that make up daily living. Your ways of thinking, feeling, being are constantly changing; and there are such challenges as building a new relationship, integrating a new baby into the family, or beginning a new job. Such changes can be very threatening because of fear of the unknown and a kind of “limbo” experience to be lived through as a bridge to the new. Mr. Barbeau guides you through the process of change and offers stories and strategies for healthy personal growth.”
Reference Number: 00399
25) Surviving: Loneliness. Los Angeles, California: Franciscan Communications and Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1987. 24 min.
“In this program Clayton Barbeau examines loneliness as a part of everyone’s life, especially in today’s competitive society. Pointing out that loneliness often results from our looking to someone else to make us whole, Mr. Barbeau relates the stories of 3 different “lonely” people and the steps they took to help themselves. He offers many concrete strategies to counteract loneliness, and urges you to “Do all you can to be a whole person because intimacy is possible only between whole persons.”
Reference Number: 00400
26) Why am I Afraid to Tell you Who I Am?. Allen, Texas: Tabor Publishing, 1987. 30 min.
This video describes forty of the most common games people play—games that threaten open communications. It will provide a point of departure that will lead to growth, integrity, and love. It is versatile enough to be used with you high-school curriculum or as part of your adult education program.”
Reference Number: 00401