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Videotapes from the library of the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health and the World Association for Infant Mental Health are available in VHS and some DVD's. See the order form for rates and instruction on how to order a video. Return the completed order form to:

MI-AIMH/WAIMH Video Library,
Center for Excellence,
13101 Allen Rd., Southgate , MI 48195 .

Jump to the following topic areas:

Child Development: Attachment
Child Development: Development
Child Development: High Risk Infants
Child Development: Loss
Child Development: Robertson
Child Development: Michael Trout
Child Development: Early On Personnel Development System
Clinical Issues: Working With Families
Clinical Issues: Teen Pregnancy
Developmental Disabilities
Individual Family Videos
Family Centered Home Health Services for Young Children
Training Caregivers
Temperament
Stanley Greenspan-Based Training
Advocacy

Borgess Interaction Assessment Training
Fathers
Trauma
Adoption
Policy
Conferences

 

** CHILD DEVELOPMENT **

Attachment

Attachment and the Growth of Love. 38 min. Research into the nature of infant-caregiver attachments provided both the methodology and data for future investigations of how early experiences affect personality development. This production includes biographical information about Mary Ainsworth, Bowlby's influence upon her work and the influence ethologists like Lorenz and Harlow had upon both of them. DVD #1480.

A Simple Gift: Comforting Your Baby. 10 min. Addresses the development of an infant's attachment relationship with parents in the first year of life. Video #320.

 

Development

Infancy: Beginnings in Cognition & Language. 29 min. Traces current theory on the sensory and perceptive capabilities used in early learning. The student will see how these senses and the motor activities are involved in the spiraling of infant cognition. Video #280 or 281.

Infancy: Early Relationships. 19 min. Much has been learned about the establishment of trust or mistrust, and how it depends upon the child's significant early relationships. Influencing these are differences in temperament and other influences, such as prenatal exposure to drugs. Video #290 or 291 or 292.

Infancy: Landmarks of Development. 22 min. Presents today's most current thinking and time proven truths on how infant development proceeds in an orderly fashion from brain development through physical growth, locomotion, and find motor skills. Video #270 or 271.

Infancy: Self & Social World. 15 min. This latest perspective portrays the remarkable early development of emotions and suitable adult responses to the strong emotions of crying and anger, the learning of self-regulation, significant interchange in queing and guiding early behavior. Video #300 or 301

A Better Beginning. 38 min. Identifies social and emotional components of failure-to-thrive by examining clues from two babies and their parents. Video #360.

Baby Basics. 110 min. 8 chapters: the newborn at birth, caring for yourself postpartum, your first days at home, daily care, feeding, health and safety, crying and sleeping, growth and development.

Babies like Attention. 13 min. Several mothers discuss using different forms of praise and encouragement with their infants. Video #330.

Begin with Love. 30 min. Narrated by Oprah Winfrey. Brain development depends on experience. Love and attention help babies learn better. Addresses routines, sleep, crying, cues of the baby. Video #350.

Beginnings: A Study of Parent-Infant Interaction. 60 min. Michael Trout and Mary Kay Peterson talk to families. MI Department of Mental Health. Video #365 or 366.

Building a Relationship with Family Members. 25 min. Home visitor explains how to build relationships. Video #380.

Building Children's Brains. 20 min. Research tells us that early brain development affects outcomes in early childhood! This CD will tell you everything you wanted to know about early brain development but were afraid to ask! Audio CD #391.

Development of Means for Achieving Desired Ends. Part I – 29 min. Part II – 29 min. Video #400 or 410.

Early Learning. 29 min. Jean Piaget's theory of development. Video #420.

Exploring First Feelings. 19 min. Emphasis is preventative and aims to promote the mental health of infants and young children. Enables viewer to help a baby begin to develop healthy relationships with others by recognizing the infant's first feelings and responding to the baby's cues. Video #630 or 631.

Focusing on the Baby's Action and Development. 16 min. This program deals with basic ways of observing & interpreting babies' actions. Video #430.

Gentle Touch®Infant Massage. 47 min. Describes benefits of baby massage and gives step by step instructions. Video #440.

Heredity & the Environment: Blueprints for a Baby. 29 min. Explores the various aspects of conception, the function of genes and chromosomes, and the process of cell division. Video #230.

Infant Health Care: A First Year Support Guide for New Parents. T. Berry Brazelton. Part of Johnson & Johnson Parenting Series. Designed to increase confidence and enhance the parenting experience during baby's first year. Video #460.

It Feels Good to Help Your Baby Learn. 15 min. Oriented toward the young, single mother. African-American narrator. Addresses doubts, ambivalence, brain development of the baby, crying. Video #470.

Learning to Talk. 26 min. Infant's early attempts to imitate sounds of others begins purposeful attempt to communicate with adults. Video #500 or 501.

Module 10: Using Floor Time for Interdependence and Autonomy. How to Read your Baby. Video #635,

Neonatal Assessment of the Substance Exposed Infant. 33 min. NIH video. Barry Lester and Brazelton Scales. Video #520.

Pregnancy & Birth: Caring and Preparing for the Life Within. 26 min. Presents a contemporary look at pregnancy and the birth process and how our advances in technology and knowledge affect and influence both. Video #250.

Psychological Birth of the Human Infant. 48 min. Produced by Margaret Mahler Foundation. Video #540.

Resistance to Change. 31 min. Eight types of resistors are discussed within the video with strategies provided to help each individual overcome his resistance to proposed change. This video is an effective training resource for students, school/agency personnel, and parents to assist in understanding the challenges of change and to help individuals overcome personal resistance issues. Chadem, 1993. Video #550.

Right from the Start. 55 min. Looks at relationship between parent and child which begins at birth. Video #560.

Sensational Baby - Part I: From the Beginning to Birth. 22 min. Deals with fetus' sensory abilities as it grows in the uterus and during labor and delivery. Video #570.

Styles of Parenting. 20 min. Focuses on attachment theory and how it develops, how it sometimes goes tragically awry, and how it can be repaired. Video #450.

The First Years Last Forever. 29 min. Research in brain development tells us of the vital importance of the relationship between caregiver and child in the critical first years of life. Addresses bonding and attachment, communication, health and nutrition, discipline, self-esteem, child care, and self-awareness. Video #600.

The Newborn, Development & Discovery. 29 min. Addresses the newborn baby and its developmental needs. We explore appearance and behavior, and the bonding that takes place between parents and child. Video #260.

Toot'n Tub: Object Concepts During Sensory Motor Stage. 20 min. Video #610.

Visual Pursuit & Object Permanence. 27 min. Video #620.

What Babies Want: An Exploration of the Consciousness of Infants. 58 min. Documentary of a new way of looking at the beginning of life; a quiet revolution on how we perceive our beginnings. Video #632.

 

High Risk Infants

Premie Development: An Overview. 14 min. The process of premie development is divided into three overlapping and interacting stages: the early premie (less than 30 weeks gestatopma; age), the developing premie (30 to 35 weeks gestational age), and the older premie (35 to 40 weeks gestational age). Preterm infants in each stage are discussed in terms oto their behavioral state, physiologic responses, motor responses, and attentional reactions. Video #924.

Psychosocial Intervention with High-Risk Infants and their Families, Module 1.38 min. Infant behavior. Assessment using Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (Brazelton) adapted to the preterm infant. Video #922.

Psychosocial Intervention with High-Risk Infants and their Families, Module 2.45 min. Parent/infant relations, family perspective, larger care giving environment. Includes interventions. Video #923.

 

Loss

Discussion with Parents of a Malformed Baby. 37 min. Intended for medical and other professionals; illustrates how children and families with a clear understanding of key concepts which guide early intervention service provision. Merrill-Palmer Institute. Video #940.

To Have and Not To Hold. 20 min. Parents speak about events surrounding their baby's early birth and stay in neonatal nursery. Video #950.

 

Robertson Videos

Jane, Age 17 Months: In Foster Care for 10 Days. 37 min. B&W. The reactions of a young child in brief separation from the family. Video #1120 or 1121 or 1122.

 John, 17 Months: Nine Days in a Residential Nursery. 45 min. B&W. Documents responses of a 17-month-old child to nine days of residential nursery care while his mother is in the hospital for the birth of a second child. Video #1110.

Lucy, 21 Months: In Foster Care for 19 Days. 35 min. Lucy's parents put her in Foster Care during the birth of their second baby. Video shows Lucy's responses while there for 19 Days. Video #1100.

 

Michael Trout Videos (PAL and VHS available)

Breaking Peaces: Babies Have their Say About Domestic Violence. Attempts to represent what prenates, infants and toddlers would say – if they had a voice, and if we would actually listen – about experiencing domestic violence. Video #1030.

Conducting an Infant Mental Health Family Assessment. Part 1 – 28:50. Part II – 29:15. Methods used to elicit material from families regarding the nature of their relationship with the baby and the etiology of the breakdown in their bond with the baby. Video # 990 or 991 or 992.

Gentle Transitions: A Newborn Baby's Point of View about Adoption. 16 min. Offers suggestions on what we grown-ups should think about and do to make the adoption experiences work best for a baby. Video #1050.

Infant Mental Health: A Psychotherapeutic Model of Interventions. Part 1: Opportunities for Intervention. 23 min. Part 2: Principles of Intervention. 49 min. Part 3: Issues in Clinical Infant Mental Health . 23 min. 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 Main talk about what the work is like in their part of the world. Video #1020 or 1021.

Is Anyone in There? Adopting a Wounded Child. 13 min. Designed for the support of foster and adoptive parents, as well as for the training of professionals in child welfare. It acknowledges that caring for, and falling in love with a child who has been traumatized by abuse, loss or profound neglect bears little resemblance to the romantic stories about adoption, often told to unsuspecting parents. DVD #1041.

Multiple Transitions: A Young Child's Point of View on Foster Care & Adoption. 16 min. Employs the unique format used in the first film: there are no adults or even adult voices, to be seen or heard. The script attempts to distill what children would teach us, if they had the chance, about what being moved around feels like, how and why their behavior begins to change, and what happens to their availability for new attachment. The film ends with a few suggestions on how we might be able to do it better.Video #1060.

Nurturing the Families of Chronically Ill or Disabled Children. 86 min. Made specifically for health care providers and special education/early intervention programs attempting a family-centered renewal. This videotape focuses attention on the array of survival skills employed by families with a sick, dying, or disabled child in their midst, and suggests that most family behavior is reasonable, when considered from the family's point of view. Video #1040.

The Birth of a Sick or Handicapped Baby: Impact on the Family. Part I – 27:42. Part II – 29:03. Examines struggles engaged in by parents and siblings to integrate a handicapped or sick newborn into the family. Video #1010 or 1011 or 1012.

The Nature of Human Attachments in Infancy. 56 min. Historical overview of infant mental health, with current thoughts on the process by which human infants and their primary caretakers develop a bond. Video #970 or 971.

The Newborn, the Family and the Dance. Part I – 28:16. Part II – 29:10. Discusses ways in which real or imagined characteristics of the newborn affect integration into family and the nature of his relationships with primary caretakers. Video # 1000 or 1001 or 1002 or 1003.

The Psychological Dimensions of Pregnancy and Delivery. Part I – 28:21. Part II – 28:05. Describes intense but quite normal psychological work engaged in by a pregnant woman, how it changes her relationship with her mate, what difference this work makes for her future relationship with the baby, how it all comes together at labor and delivery to the benefit or detriment of the mother-infant bond, and how the father finds a place in this process and prepares for the newborn's arrival. Video #980 or 981.

 

** CLINICAL ISSUES **

 Working with Families

Assessment through Understanding: The Foundation of Intervention. 28 min. Focuses on developing an understanding of the child and his/her behavior as the basis for intervention in child care and offers two case study examples in a discussion on approaches to understanding behavior. Video #1470.

New: Learning through Observation. Five 10-minute video vignettes of real-life interactions between professionals and families in a variety of settings:   Home visit with a child with special needs and family; Drop off at a child care center; Supervision; Home visit with a Spanish-speaking family (Spanish); and Early Head Start home visit. VHS #1570.

Interdisciplinary Teamwork: A Team in Name Only and Becoming an Effective Team. 44 min. Training resource for professionals, parents and students. Effects of team process on young children with disabilities and their families. Video #1390.

On This Journey Together: Parent/Professional Partnerships. 25 min. Parents discuss the value and difficulties of working with professionals. Suggestions are offered to facilitate partnership. Video # 1410 or 1411.

Positive Pathways: Fostering Children's Emotional and Social Health to Minimize Challenging Behavior. 36 min. Part one explores brain function and how positive experiences and a strong attachment relationship with caregivers impacts a child's social and emotional development. Part two offers practical considerations for changing the physical. Video #1440.

Reflective Supervision: A Training Videotape. 56:10 min. Reflective supervision in infant mental health. Created by Zero to Three. Tape and Booklet. Video #1420.

Seeing is Believing. 49 min. Videotaping families and using guided self-observation to build on parenting strengths. Video #1471.

Starting Early: The Role of Mental Health Consultation in Child Care Settings. 19 min. Discusses what mental health consultants can do to support child care providers and improve outcomes for children. Video #1460.

Supporting Families: Current Practices in Early Intervention Services. 26 min. Provides professionals working with young children and families with a clear understanding of key concepts which guide early intervention service provision. Merrill-Palmer Institute. Video #1430.

Teaching Parents to Nurture. Video #1472.

The Power of Partnership: Working with Parents Regarding Children's Challenging Behavior. 22 min. Focuses on the importance of parent/provider partnerships and presents practical advice on when and how to discuss behavior issues with parents. Video #1450..

Teen Pregnancy

Growing into Parenthood. 29 min. Video #1200.

Teen Mother Peer Educators Talk to Professionals. Three part sequence highlighting the issue of enhancing communication between teens and professionals. Video #1170.

Teens Having Babies. 20 min. Shows teen couple having their baby in a supportive hospital setting. Video #1180.

When Teens Get Pregnant. 18 min. Young girls speaking openly about their families, school, peer pressure of having sex and the reality of sex as opposed to the fantasy. Explains what happens to each girl after delivery. Video #1190.

 

** Developmental Disabilities **

 On This Journey Together

In this series parents speak about their experiences in raising a child with developmental disabilities. The series was developed for parents, support groups and professionals in health care and human services fields. Co-produced by Family First in Columbus , Ohio , a project of the Arc of Ohio and the Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.

Building Brighter Futures. 23 min. Interviews with parents discussing the future for their children with special needs. Video #660.

Community Dispute Resolution Program. 12 min. Includes a section on using this service to obtain/resolve disputes regarding special education. Video #681.

Introduction to Developmental Disabilities. Video #640.

Observing Kassandra: A Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment of a Child with Severe Disabilities. 50 min. For early intervention professionals assessing children with special challenges, this video delivers an opportunity or hands-on practice in note-taking and observation. Viewers watch a taped play session of a preschooler with severe disabilities, then compare their notes with the completed summary sheets from the companion workbook. Video #1400.

Other Disability

 New: Helping Your Child to Have a Great Start. DVD #1540.

 

** Individual Family Videos **

 Convrsations with individual families explore the issues of raising a young child or children with special needs. Families are from diverse cultural, linguistic and economic backgrounds with children representing a wide range of disabilities. They are shown talking with experienced family therapists who demonstrate how to listen to a family's story and focus on family concerns, priorities and re-sources. Discussion guides included.

Andrews Family: Parents Set Aside Differences; Work Together for the Sake of Their Child. 60 min. Mother, father, one child. The son is two-years-old and was born with multiple congenital malformations, including Dandy-Walker syndrome, cerebral palsy, hydrocephaly. Focuses on parent's commitment to their child and efforts to cooperate (although they are now separated), difficulties in getting respite care in a rural area, and the attitudes of the family and its town toward a child with severe disabilities. The family is working class, European-American. Video #790.

Bernardo Family: Parental Intuition Makes the Difference for Child with an Ambiguous Diagnosis. 60 min. Mother, father, two children, two- and four-year-old. The oldest boy has speech delays and possible diagnosis of A.D.D. Focuses on the parents' difficulties and stress in decision making when the diagnosis is uncertain or ambiguous, the parents' sensitivity toward their child's needs, parental differences over advice not to use native language (Spanish) in the home because of speech difficulties and financial concerns due to mother working only part-time in order to meet child's needs. Family is middle-income, Latino. Video #800.

Bond Family: Love Changes Everything: A Young Couple Forms a New Family. 60 min. Mother, father, and five children. Only the two-year-old son, born prematurely with hydrocephaly and development delays, is present. Focuses on the development of a couple bond, family-of-origin relationships and acceptance, medical and EI services and hopes for the future. The parents, young working couple, are middle income, African American. Video #810.

Colton Family: A Family Fighting for Its Vision of Carissa; Colton Family: One Year Later. 60 min. ea. Two-tape set. Two parents, three children. The one-year-old daughter has Down's syndrome; the boys are six and eleven. Focuses on the family hopes and vision for Carissa, the family's decision making and interactions, the needs of the older children, the role of brothers in caring for their little sister and strengths from religious faith and extended family. Family is middle-income, African-American. Video #730 and 740.

Dutton Family: Two Wise Women Demonstrate Strengths of Intergenerational Parenting Team; Dutton Family: One Year Later. 60 min. ea. Two-tape set. Mother and grandmother, and three children, two-, three-, and four-years-old. The three-year-old boy has cerebral palsy. Focuses on the strengths of shared caregiving, the family's hopes for the child, the tensions between mother and grandmother over discipline and family rules, the difficulties with getting EI services and making the transition from Part H to public schooling. The family is limited-income, African-American. Video #750 and 760.

Johnson Family: Love Across the Generations: Grandmothers Caring for Grandchildren. 60 min. Grandmother, great-grandmother and three children. The children are two, three and four, born to a drug-abusing mother who no longer lives at home. All three children have developmental delays; one had seizures. Their EI home visitor and a family neighbor/friend also join in the conversation. Focuses on family strengths, differences in child-rearing philosophy across generations, impact of drugs on family life and continuity, importance of extended family, friends, social services and spiritual values. The family is limited income, African American. Video #830.

 King Family: When Support Isn't Enough; King Family: One Year Later. 60 min. ea. Two-tape set. Mother, father and two children, a girl, two-and-a-half and a boy, four. The younger child has C-H-A-R-G-E, a syndrome with multiple birth defects affecting major organ systems. Focuses on parenting roles, stress on the parents and on their relationship from caring for a medically fragile child, the needs of the older sibling, interactions with medical and EI providers, conflicts over diagnosis and treatment and on financial and future concerns. The family is middle-income, European-American. Video #770 and 780.

Rivas Family: Hopes of a Strong Immigrant Family on Fragile Ground (in Spanish, with subtitles). 60 min. Mother, father, four children. The two boys, five and seven, have sex-linked mental retardation; the girls are 14 months and four years old. The parents are from rural EL Salvador . Focuses on the family's hopes for the children, the parents' understanding of the boys' disabilities and abilities, EI services, the parents' employment difficulties and support from extended family and church community. Family is limited-income, Latino. Video #840.

Thompson Family: Hanging in There: Two Generations with Altered Priorities. 60 min. A single father and his parents. The child, a boy of 18 months, has serious asthma. The father has returned to live with his parents, who share in care-giving for their grandson. Focuses on the boy's medical condition, attitudes of medical staff towards the family, financial difficulties, communication, and tensions over shared responsibilities and altered priorities of grandparents. The family is middle-class, European-American. Video #850.

Williams Family: Strength and Vulnerability in a Family with Many Concerns. 60 min. Young mother, her mother, two children, four and almost three, and mother's niece, seven months. The three-year-old son has been diagnosed with neurofibromatosis. The focus is on family strength and vulnerabilities, multiple caregiving demands brought on by the mother's worsening sickle cell anemia, the three-year-old's special needs and EI services, custody issues with niece, strengths and support of African-American family, community and church, the mother's hopes for future for herself and her children. Family is limited income, African-American. Video #860.

 

** Family Centered Home Health Services for Young Children **

 Four-tape series with Training Guides. This video series was designed for home health staff and other personnel working with young children with special health needs. The series addresses issues in the areas of developmental needs, family concerns, and care coordination. Each video includes strategies for home health personnel and others working with families who have children with special health needs. Individual guides for each video include program objectives, a synopsis of the video content, supplementary information, related objectives, and references. Closed Captioned. Produced by Judith L. Pokorni, Ph.D., of the Georgetown University Child Development Center .

Building Family-Centered Care Coordination. 23 min. Describes the role of care coordination in serving young children with ongoing health needs. Video #920.

Discoveries of Infancy: Cognitive Development and Learning. 32 min. Infants begin learning through simple sensorimotor experiences and move toward figuring things out in their heads. This video explores the constant quest for knowledge of infants and toddler. Available in Spanish. Program for Infant/Toddler Caregivers. Video #1330.

Parents & Professionals: Partners in Co-Service Coordination. 20 min. Presents a model of service coordination for families with an infant or toddler with special needs. The model is CO-SERVICE COORDINATION where parents and professionals work together as partners to find, access, arrange and monitor services that the families need. Highlights the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Part H requirements for service coordination. The model is based on the premise that parents know their child's strengths, needs, likes and dislikes; how the child learns and what works best for their family. Video #880.

Responding to Families. 24 min. Families receiving home health services describe some of the stress they experience from lack of privacy, disruption of normal family living, inconsistent nursing personnel, etc. Also, family members and home health personnel discuss important considerations for caregivers. Video #890.

 

Early On Personnel Development System

Building a Family Partnership. 50 min. Viewers Guide. Contains unedited excerpts from conversations with 5 diverse families. Highlights generic communication strategies helpful in joining with a family and building a collaborative partnership. All income levels. Video #710.

Exploring Family Strengths. 30 min. Viewers Guide. Highly focused presentation of the rationale, examples and strategies for engaging families in conversations about their strengths as well as their problems. Video #700.

 

** Training Caregivers **

 Essential Connections: Ten Keys to Culturally Sensitive Child Care. 36 min. Culture is the fundamental building block of identity. When young children are cared for by their parents and other family members, the process of cultural learning occurs naturally. Early child care then respects time-honored cultural rules and helps children develop a secure sense of self. Video #1360.

First Moves: Welcoming a Child to a New Care-giving Setting. 27 min. Concepts developed from research and field experience are presented to help ease a child into a new child care setting by using time, space and indirect contact and by reading the child's cues. The influence of the child's developmental level and the crucial role of the parent in the separation process are discussed. Video #1290 or 1291 (Spanish).

Getting in Tune: Creating Nurturing Relationships with Infants & Toddlers. 24 min. Presents the importance of responsive care-giving and explores a process for getting in tune with infants and toddlers in a child care setting. The process consists of studying child development and temperamental differences in infants and toddlers; learning about the children's families and their cultures; developing self-awareness; and mastering the responsive process of watch, ask, and adapt. Jeree Pawl, Ph.D., and Magda Gerber, M.A., are featured. Video #1310 or 1311 (Spanish).

It's Not Just Routine: Feeding, Diapering, and Napping Infants and Toddlers. 28 min. Caregiving routines are presented from the infant's perspective. Also demonstrated are appropriate health, safety and environmental practices for each routine (feeding, diapering, and napping). Video #1320 or 1321 (Spanish).

Protective Urges: Working with the Feelings of Parents and Caregivers. 27 min. In infant care-giving caregivers have to provide emotional support to both the child and the parent. Parents speak candidly about their concerns, and caregivers discuss ways to provide assistance. Video #1370 (Spanish).

Respectfully Yours: Magda Gerber's Approach to Professional Infant/Toddler Care. 58 min. J. Ronald Lally, Ed.D., interviews Magda Gerber, M.A. on a variety of topics. Scenes from care-giving settings illustrate points that Magda makes during the interview. This video is divided into three segments of approximately 20 minutes each. Video #1270.

Space to Grow: Creating a Child Care Environment for Infants and Toddlers. 22 min. The powerful influence of environments on infants and toddlers is described. Very young infants are limited in their ability to move away from an environment or to change one to their liking. The video demonstrates eight qualities for caregivers to consider when they are planning an environment for the care of infants and toddlers: health, safety, comfort, convenience, child size, flexibility, movement, and choice. Video #1280 or 1281 (Spanish).

The Ages of Infancy: Caring for Young, Mobile, and Older Infants. 26 min. Infancy is divided into three different stages of development: the young, the mobile, and the older infant or toddler. Each stage is characterized by its own crucial developmental issue. For the young infant, security is the focus; for the mobile infant, it is exploration; for the older infant, it is the quest for identity. Specific guidelines and suggestions for care-giving are offered. Video #1350 or 1351 (Spanish).

Together in Care: Meeting the Intimacy Needs of Infants & Toddlers in Groups.30 min. During infancy children need deep connections with each person who cares for them, whether those persons are family members or caregivers. All the learning and loving that follows in children's lives builds on those early attachments with special people. This video presents three child care program policies that will lead to this special kind of care. Video #1300 or 1301 (Spanish).

 

** Temperament **

Using Temperament Concepts to Prevent Behavior Problems 1. 22 min. Describes and illustrates the nine temperate concepts: Thresholds, intensity, adaptability, persistence, mood, rhythmicity and distractibility. Video #1220.

Using Temperament Concepts to Prevent Behavior Problems 2: Understanding the High-Intensity Slow-Adapting Child. Describes the high intensity, slow-adapting child: refusal to obey adult requests; hitting, biting and fighting with other children; difficulty getting to sleep and waking up; and returning to forbidden activities. Video #1230.

Using Temperament Concepts to Prevent Behavior Problems 3: Understand the High-Activity Slow-Adapting Child with Low Rhythmicity. 20 min. Describes high activity, slow adapting child: difficulties at mealtimes and bedtime; "running wild"; bossing other children; and resisting toilet training. Video #1240.

Using Temperament Concepts to Prevent Behavior Problems 4: Understanding the Withdrawing Child with High Sensitivity or High Intensity. 22 min. Describes the sensitive, intense, withdrawing child: difficulty separating from parents; rejection of new foods, clothing or people; difficulty making new friends; and strong reactions to routine medical procedures. Video #1250.

Flexible, Fearful, or Feisty: The Different Temperaments of Infants and Toddlers. 29 min. Explores various temperamental styles of infants and toddlers identified in research studies by Stella Chess M.D., and Alexander Thomas, M.D. Nine identified traits can be grouped into three temperamental styles: flexible, fearful, or feisty. Techniques are described for dealing with Children of different temperaments in infant/toddler groups. Alicia Lieberman, Ph.D. is featured. Video #1340 or 1341 or 1342 (Spanish).

 

** Stanley Greenspan-Based Training **

 Floor Time: Tuning into Each Child. 35 min. Parent education and early childhood staff development. Describes the relationship between emotional development and learning. Demonstrates ways to use floor time to best advantage. 35 min. Video plus training materials. Video #1150.

 

** Advocacy **

 Gubernatorial Forum on Early Childhood Education and Care. Created for research and library purposes. Video #1490.

From Vision to Action: A Grassroots Guide to Advocacy. 50 min. Video #1495.

 

** Borgess Interaction Assessment Training **

Borgess Interaction Assessment Training. Video #1500 or 1501 or 1502.

 

** Fathers **

New: “Hello Dad”:   Infant Communication for Fathers. This film teaches fathers to recognize the earliest signs of infant communication. It enriches time as a father and helps give baby the best possible start in life. DVD #1530.

 

** Trauma **

New: Trauma, Brain & Relationship:   Helping Children Heal. An exceptional opportunity to help children heal during the first five years of life when the child's brain remains extraordinarily plastic and amendable to recovery from trauma. DVD #1520.

 

** Adoption **

New: First Person Plural. In 1966, Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by an American family and was sent from Korea to her new home. Growing up in California , the memory of her birth family was nearly obliterated until recurring dreams led Borshay Liem to discover the truth:   her Korean mother was very much alive. Bravely uniting her biological and adoptive families, filmmaker Borshay Liem's heartfelt journey makes FIRST PERSON PLURAL a poignant essay on family, loss, and the reconciling of two identities. VHS #1510.

 

** Policy **

New: Michigan Council for Maternal and Child Health:   20 th Anniversary 2003. VHS #1560.

 

** Conferences **

MI-AIMH Conferences

20 th Anniversary Panel. 1996. Cassette #201.

A Unified View of Different Approaches to Infant-parent Psychotherapy. Daniel Stern. 1995. Video #90 or 91.

Baby Signs: Opening a Window into the Infant Mind. 92 min. Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn. 1997. Video #40.

Barriers to Father Involvement & What We Can Do About It. 1999. Ross Parkes. Video #120.

Changing the Way We Think About Change. 59 min. Larry Edelman. 1994. Video #190.

Child Development Project. 1981. Video #10.

Helping Adolescent Mothers: What Works & Why. 74 min. Judith Musick. 1992. Video #180.

How to Develop Culturally and Linguistically Competent Services. Gloria Johnson-Powell. 1994. Video #100.

Infant/Caregiver Relationships: Broadening Our Perspectives. 1997. Audio tapes of conference plenary addresses and workshops. Cassette # 202 or 203.

Infant/Mother Attachment Theory: From Research to Practice. Mary Jo Ward. 1994. Video #110.

Minding the Baby's Mind: The Power of Human Connections. 1998. Cassette # 204 or 205.

Prelingual Language Development and It's Relationship to Maternal – Infant Attachment. 2000. Colleen Noble. Video # 70.

Sharing Perspectives, Building Relationships. 130 min. B. Warren , J. Chichester, M. Moore, M. Scoblic, B. Tableman. Video #60.

Strong Families, Strong Children: Lessons from Longitudinal Research. 63 min. Martha Farrell Erickson. 1991. Video #20.

The Impact of Substance Abuse and Trauma on Attachment. Margo Kaplan-Sanoff. 1994. Video #170.

The Promise of Fatherhood: Fathers in their Relationships with Infants, Toddlers, and Service Providers. 90 min. Phillip B. Davis, Ph.D. 1991. Video #140.

The Toddler Phase: A Developmental Step in Mothering. 1990. Erma Furman. Video #50.

Zacjaroaj's Mother: A Parent Talks from Personal Experience. 54 min. presentation. 30 min. Q&A. Fern Kupfer. 1991. Video # 150 or 160.

WAIMH Conferences

His Name is Today. RIGA , LATVIA , 1994. Award winning film combines scientific presentations from the conference with footage of cultural exchanges and images of the streets, orphanges and day care centers of Riga , to provide powerful insights into the issues of mental health for the international community. Ten audio tapes of conference presentations. Cassette #1080 or 1081.

Zero to Three Conference

New: Infant Mental Health:   How to Talk so They will Listen:   Using an Infant Mental Health Framework to Train Across Disciplines.   DVD #1550.

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