Video Catalog
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Professional Training

Act-1 Alcohol & Other Drugs: Drug-Exposed Infants
Video 437
Adults    16 minutes    1993
Designed to help child welfare and human service agencies better recognize and address AOD problems in order to protect children and strengthen and support families. A set of training videos for all levels of staff and caregivers to assure a consistent skill and knowledge level in addressing chemical dependency issues.

Act-1 Alcohol & Other Drugs: Substance Abuse & Sexual Abuse
Video 438
Adults    20 minutes    1993
Designed to help child welfare and human service agencies better recognize and address AOD problems in order to protect children and strengthen and support families. A set of training videos for all levels of staff and caregivers to assure a consistent skill and knowledge level in addressing chemical dependency issues.

Act-1 Alcohol & Other Drugs: The Multicultural Family
Video 439
Adults    25 minutes    1993
Designed to help child welfare and human service agencies better recognize and address AOD problems in order to protect children and strengthen and support families. A set of training videos for all levels of staff and caregivers to assure a consistent skill and knowledge level in addressing chemical dependency issues.

Act-1 Alcohol & Other Drugs: Understanding Alc & Other Drugs
Video 435
Adults    16 minutes    1993
Designed to help child welfare and human service agencies better recognize and address AOD problems in order to protect children and strengthen and support families. A set of training videos for all levels of staff and caregivers to assure a consistent skill and knowledge level in addressing chemical dependency issues.

Act-2 Alcohol & Other Drugs: HIV Positive Babies & AIDS Prevention
Video 440
Adults    21 minutes    1993
Designed to help child welfare and human service agencies better recognize and address AOD problems in order to protect children and strengthen and support families. A set of training videos for all levels of staff and caregivers to assure a consistent skill and knowledge level in addressing chemical dependency issues.

Act-2 Alcohol & Other Drugs: Prenatal Effects of Alcohol
Video 441
Adults    17 minutes    1993
Designed to help child welfare and human service agencies better recognize and address AOD problems in order to protect children and strengthen and support families. A set of training videos for all levels of staff and caregivers to assure a consistent skill and knowledge level in addressing chemical dependency issues.

Act-2 Alcohol & Other Drugs: The Challenge of Parenting
Video 442
Adults    21 minutes    1993
Designed to help child welfare and human service agencies better recognize and address AOD problems in order to protect children and strengthen and support families. A set of training videos for all levels of staff and caregivers to assure a consistent skill and knowledge level in addressing chemical dependency issues.

Adolescent Treatment Issues
Video 238
Adults    25 minutes    1992
What kinds of problems do adolescents bring with them when they enter treatment, and what techniques will best treat them? The video stresses the importance of understanding the specific needs that accompany adolescent development as the key to success in treatment. This understanding begins with accurate assessment and continues with aftercare monitoring. The video examines the family's role in treating substance abuse problems among adolescents. Family therapy and other treatment programs are also presented. Clinicians are encouraged to broaden their perspectives in particular topical areas through the user's guide.

After The Crisis: "Establishing Therapeutic Rapport" Part 1
Video 415
Adults    37 minutes    1993    Supplemental material available
In this video you'll come face to face with a dangerous confrontation between an acting-out individual and a staff member. You'll learn how to determine the best time to work with the individual after the crisis. You'll also learn how to identify the individual's feelings of frustration and regret without downplaying the seriousness of the situation.

After The Crisis: "Establishing Therapeutic Rapport" Part 2
Video 416
Adults    37 minutes     1993   Supplemental material available
In this video you'll come face to face with a dangerous confrontation between an acting-out individual and a staff member. You'll learn how to determine the best time to work with the individual after the crisis. You'll also learn how to identify the individual's feelings of frustration and regret without downplaying the seriousness of the situation.

Alcohol and Pregnancy: Taking A Drinking History/Counseling/Referral
Video 217
Adults    17 minutes    1985    Supplemental material available
Designed to stimulate group discussion and help health professionals become aware of their own feelings about alcohol and pregnancy. The brief interview segments are designed so that clinicians imagine themselves as interviewers, and approach the situations in their own styles.

Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention
Video 675
Adults    30 minutes    1990    Supplemental Materials Available
This video is part of a curriculum implementation project that was developed to teach alcohol screening and brief intervention techniques to nursing students and other health professionals. The video consists of a conceptual overview, an introduction to interviewing techniques and brief advice giving, filmed interviews with simulated patients, and information on how to identify and refer cases not suitable for brief interventions.

American Cities Against Drugs
Video 505
Adults    52 minutes    1995    
Highlights of the American Cities Against Drugs Mayoral Conference held in Atlanta, GA in 1995.

Art of Prevention
Video 120
Adults    14 minutes    1993
Showcases arts-centered approaches (dance, drama, visual arts, music, language arts and media arts) designed to complement your school's drug prevention curriculum. It describes how the arts - a powerful teaching tool - can be used to enhance your students' understanding of drug prevention. Designed for use by all teachers, not just art teachers.

Art Of Setting Limits, The
Video 422
Adults    50 minutes    1991    Supplemental material available
You'll witness the build-up of heated, potentially dangerous confrontations taking place in various settings. Defusion, de-escalation and limit-setting are demonstrated.

Asking About Alcohol in the Pre-Natal Interview
Video 220
Adults    5 minutes    1989    
Many physicians find it difficult to obtain a valid pre-natal alcohol history. Direct questions about alcohol consumption do not always provide reliable answers. In this video, Dr. Chris Loock uses questions about tolerance rather than consumption to collect an alcohol history.

Assessing Client Needs Using the Addiction Severity Index (ASI), Part 1
Video 445
Adults    64 minutes    c. N/A    Supplemental Materials Available
This video focuses on transferring recent NIDA research on treatment effectiveness to the clinical setting. The ASI covers some critical areas in a client's life; family history, legal status, employment & support status, drug/alcohol use, etc.

Assessing Drug Abuse Within and Across Communities
Video 525
Adults    120 minutes    1999    
This video introduces the Practical Theorist 3 on community epidemiology. Practical Theorist 3 focuses on Community Epidemiology Surveillance Networks (CESN). The primary objective of the CESN's are to identify drug abuse patterns in defined geographical areas, identify changes in drug abuse patterns over defined periods of time, and disseminate the information to community agencies and organizations.

Assessment
Video 244
Adults    22 minutes    1992    Supplemental material available
What is the assessment process, and why is it so important to understand? This video gives an overview of the assessment process and makes clinicians more comfortable conducting assessments and selecting diagnostic tools during their clients' treatment. Adult and adolescent tools examined include the Addiction Severity Index; the Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers; the Adolescent Problem Severity Index; and the Personal Experience Inventory. The user's guide gives general information on assessment, as well as information on a host of specific tools.

Assessment and the Early Years
Video 13
Adults    21 minutes    1990    
Examines the role of diagnosis and assessment in caring for the F.A.S. or F.A.E. child.

Breaking Up Fights
Video 424
Adults    40 minutes    1990
This video shows you how to prevent fights from occurring by identifying the warning signals that are apparent before individuals become disruptive. You'll learn how verbal intervention techniques are usually effective just before a conflict becomes physical and how the preliminary exchanges before a fight provide you with clear signals to intervene.

Building Healthy Youth: Strategies & Services
Video 321
Adults    120 minutes    1998
Second in series of six programs. Science based substance abuse prevention strategies help identify tools and models. Janine Peterson is the moderator. She is a consultant with more than 20 years of experience in health care and substance abuse in Pennsylvania.

Challenge To Care, A
Video 299
Adults    43 minutes    1991
A staff training program for professionals working with childbearing women and their children.

Children of Alcoholics: How Schools Can Help
Video 80
Adults    56 minutes    1992    Supplemental material available
This staff development video, for educational personnel, examines the needs of children of alcoholics in grades 4-8 and offers strategies for helping them with pre-high school youth. The video contains three segments: What Educators Need to Know About COA's; COA's Roles and Rules; and What Educators Can Do to Help COA's.

Classroom Connections: Making a Difference
Video 145
Adults    24 minutes    1995    Supplemental material available
This tape is designed to assist middle school educators in building resilience skills in students. The tape gives a brief overview of children of alcoholics and the concept of resilience and then provides five exercises: "How much do you know about alcohol and alcoholism," "express yourself," "amoebae tag," "what are they really saying," and "asking for help."

Clinical Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, The
Video 228
Adults    31 minutes    1994    
Details clinical features and manifestations, special techniques, measurements, and pattern recognition.

Coming Together On Prevention
Video 500
Adults    27 minutes    1994    
Presents 3 prevention models based on NIDA sponsored research. "Reconnecting Youth" is a school-based program aimed at high-risk students'; "Strengthening Families" provides parenting skills to substance abusing parents and drug resistance skills to their children; "Project STAR" is a multifaceted community-based prevention program.

Community Policing: Partnerships That Work
Video 586
Adults    180 minutes    1999    
Overview of effective current public safety programs and community partnerships, and current strategies which combat crime and social decline which focus on the underlying causes of these problems.

Confessions of a Residence Advisor
Video 273
College    30 minutes   1989
Aimed towards Residence Advisors, this video seeks to educate about making mistakes, alcohol confrontations, and the expectations of R.A. life.

Connections (A & B)
Video 589
Adults    1995    1993
Introduction, 22 minutes
Growing Up Isn't Easy, 15 minutes
Michael's Journey, 22 minutes
Curriculum designed to help middle school (grades 5-8) teachers foster resilience in kids, especially those at risk for alcohol, tobacco or other drug use due to substance abuse or adversity at home.

Counseling Children of Alcoholics: Fostering Resiliency
Video 191
Adults    68 minutes    1994    Supplemental material available
Focuses on information for school counselors, social workers, psychologists, and nurses about resiliency and protective factors for children living in chemically dependent families. Two 34 minute segments.

Creating Lasting Connections: Part I, Part II
Video 506
Adult    144 minutes    1995    
Part I: Building Community, Family and Youth Resiliency (Overview)
Part II: Producing Measurable Outcomes in Prevention (Design)
Award-winning prevention program developed by COPES. By working through church communities in rural, suburban and inner city settings, this drug resistance program assists families with children 12-14 years of age who are considered at risk.

Crime Today: Problems, Perspectives, & Community Policing Solutions
Video 504
Adults    180 minutes    1998    
Addresses problems that face small town and rural police departments, including juvenile drug use, drinking and driving, and domestic violence.

CSAP Communications Grantees: Breaking New Ground
Video 146
Adults    34 minutes    1993    
This videotape features the products developed by CSAP grantees under the CSAP Communications Cooperative Agreement Awards. Each of the grantees used health communications strategies and techniques to develop culturally appropriate substance abuse prevent

Dealing With Physically Assaultive Behaviors in Foster Care
Video 734
Adults    120 minutes    2002
Echo Glen Clinician, Greg Hunter, hosts a training for foster parents as well as colleagues in the field on dealing with sexually aggressive behaviors in foster care.. The objectives of his training include talking about the ideology of sexual abuse, clarifying the role of foster care parents and workers in the lives of foster children, and giving tips on how to provide safety to these children.

Dealing With Physically Assaultive Behaviors in Foster Care
Video 735
Adults    120 minutes    2002
Timothy Mack provides a training on dealing with physically assaultive behaviors in foster care. He touches on three main points: youth when they get angry, verbal diffusion, and aggression replacement training (ART).

Developing Capable People Promotional Video
Video 733
Adults    30 minutes    Supplemental material available
Steven Glen speaks about the Developing Capable People Program.

Developing An Effective Crisis Response Team
Video 425
Adults    20 minutes    1995    Supplemental material available
This video will show the essential elements for creating a team within your facility. It demonstrates the components that make up a successful team and helps you integrate the team approach into your violence response procedures.

Developing Youth Outreach Programs
Video 279
College    40 minutes   1995
Targeted at peer educators, this video provides helpful teaching techniques and essential methods to help the viewer prepare an outreach presentation.

Do Ask, Do Tell: Sexual Minority Training
Video 460
Adults    15 minutes    1999    
Video demonstrates techniques for talking with clients about their sexual orientation.

Documentation: Your Best Defense
Video 423
Adults    40 minutes    1992    Supplemental material available
Documentation of incidents is an important component of any facility's crisis response procedures. Staff may be called upon months, or even years, after the incident to recall details that may have lasted only seconds and may have seemed insignificant at the time. In addition to providing staff with measurable improvement in incident report writing skills, the video demonstrates how proper documentation may help stop litigation in the early stages.

Double Trouble
Video 514
Adults    60 minutes    1990    Supplemental material available
Addresses the topic of dual disorders (chemical dependency and psychiatric illness). Assessment and treatment of four of the most common combinations of dual disorders are illustrated in dramatic fashion. This video can be used with patients in both mental health or chemical dependency treatment programs.

Drug Abuse and the Brain
Video 257
Adults    26 minutes    1993    Supplemental material available
Intended primarily for drug abuse counselors, this video provides a detailed look at the biological basis of drug addiction. Through animation and interviews with experts in the field, viewers will come to understand how the brain's reward system operates

Dual Diagnosis
Video 509
Adults    27 minutes    1993    Supplemental material available
Experts believe that between one-third and one-half of all addicts suffer from serious psychiatric disorders. This videotape focuses on the problem of mental illness in drug-abusing and drug-addicted populations and examines various approaches useful for treating dually-diagnosed clients.

Employee Assistance: A Management Intervention Program
Video 37
Adults    21 minutes    1992    
Teaches successful management intervention techniques that have been applied in corporations throughout the country.

Empowering the Inner Child
Video 91
Adults    30 minutes    1991    
Encourages viewers to seek the "magical time of childhood," perhaps for the first time. A family therapist and client discuss how to take those first rewarding steps to empowerment.

Everybody's Business 2: Building Bridges
Video 579
Adults    300 minutes    1995    Supplemental material available
This is a 12-15 hour staff development program that offers promising approaches to the prevention of adolescent health and behavior problems. Based on up-to-date research, Building Bridges provides solid, workable strategies to help you use peer helping, peer tutoring, and service learning programs as positive tools for prevention.

Fabulous FAS Quiz Show, The
Video 196
Grades 6-9    15 minutes    1994    Supplemental material available
A Fetal Alcohol Syndrome prevention video and interactive teachers' guide for middle school.

Faces of Addiction: Fighting Substance Abuse In Your Community (A & B)
Video 284
Teens    35 minutes    1997    Supplemental material available
Tapes contains 3 videos:
"Addicted": Hard-hitting stories uncover the faces of addiction amidst facts and figures about disease, violence, and death caused by substance abuse.
"Flashback": If you met Patty when she entered high school, you would never have recognized her as a potential addict.
"27th & Prospect:" In a darkened "cemetery" at a vacant lot in one of Kansas City's most dilapidated areas, we meet ordinary citizens who have made an extraordinary change.

Family Homework Assignment
Video 507
Adults    66 minutes    1994    
This video focuses on gang activity, youth violence and substance abuse in Snohomish County, and begins with a half hour panel discussion with local school and law enforcement leaders. The panel is followed by two videos aimed at teens, "If You Change Your Mind" and "The Performance Edge." The program encourages parents to talk with their kids about these issues.

Florida's Challenge: A Guide to Educating Substance-Exposed Children
Video 152
Adults    17 minutes    1994    Supplemental material available.
Substance-exposed children may need help to function in a traditional school classroom. This videotape addresses the medical aspects, the home and community environment, the school and classroom environment, and behaviors and interventions.

From Argument to Agreement: Negotiating Your Way Through Conflict
Video 419
Adults    20 minutes    1996    Supplemental material available
When conflicts occur, you need to resolve them as soon as possible, before they escalate and permanently damage relationships. This video shows that everyone has individual patterns for dealing with conflict. By being aware of your own patterns, as well as those of the other party, you can adjust your approach and have a better chance of working toward collaborative agreement.

Ganging Up On Gangs
Video 587
Adults    90 minutes    1998    
Discussion with anti-gang leaders from across the nation. The video educates viewers about: 1) how to identify the presence of gangs in a community; 2) the reasons people join gangs; and 3) current gang trends. Advice is offered to parents, educators, community leaders, and local law enforcement on techniques for dealing with gangs.

Handle With Care
Video 241
Adults    50 minutes    1996    
A video that portrays the impact of child abuse and neglect on individual lives and on society.

High School Curriculum Animated PSA's
Video 223
Teens    5 minutes    1993    
Animated Public Service Announcements, created by teens for teens, depict the dangers of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use during pregnancy.

High School Curriculum Inservice Video
Video 222
Adults    22 minutes    1993    
Curriculum, ideas, suggestions, and demonstrations for teaching about the effects of using alcohol, tobacco and other drugs during pregnancy.

How To Excel At Verbal Intervention
Video 421
Adults    50 minutes    1994    Supplemental material available
This video shows you how to develop specific verbal intervention techniques and then organize them quickly to fit any confrontational situation. You'll learn how to develop a verbal intervention "toolbox" that will be at your disposal any time an individual becomes noncompliant or confrontational.

I Am Someone Special
Video 72
Adults    7 minutes    1988    
Provides an overview of Project Charlie, a curriculum and training for grades K-6 that emphasizes positive reinforcement through affirmation and encouragement.

Identifying Alcohol Abusers
Video 697
Adults    69 minutes    1990
This video contains six client screening interviews. These trigger tapes allow the learner to observe screening techniques using selected items from the AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test).

Identifying Drug Abusers
Video 698
Adults    37 minutes    1990    Supplemental material available
This video contains four client screening interviews. These trigger tapes allow the learner to observe screening techniques using selected item from the POSIT (Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers) and the DAST (Drug Abuse Screening Test) with a variety of patients.

I Thought I Would Quit . . . The Marilyn Kirkby Story
Video 598
Teens    10 minutes    1993
Educational tool for teachers. This video and its teacher's guide are based on the principle that young people will not want to smoke or chew tobacco if they see tobacco used as a social disadvantage. "The Marilyn Kirkby Story" demonstrates that using tobacco will cause them to be less attractive, less popular, and less independent.

Is Your Baby Comfy?
Video 226
Teens/Adults    20 minutes    1990    
Gives specific instructions for new caregivers of alcohol and/or drug-exposed infants.

Job Stress 1: Handling Workplace Pressure
Video 546
Adults    24 minutes    1994    Supplemental material available
Every job, paid or unpaid, is stressful - at least part of the time. Identify key sources of on-the-job stress. Assess stress signals. Focus on current job stress "hot spots." Target coping strategies. And practice quick "Take Five!" skills for managing job stress.

Job Stress 2: Clarifying Roles and Expectations
Video 547
Adults    24 minutes    1994    Supplemental material available
For many people, the expectations of their supervisor and their colleagues, as well as their internal expectations of themselves, are unclear and conflicting. Examine the contradictory expectations that may be causing stress. Learn six skills for clarifying roles and expectations on the job. Make a concrete plan for action.

Job Stress 3: Controlling the Workload
Video 548
Adults    24 minutes    1994    Supplemental material available
Too much work, too little control, too many deadlines, and too many conflicting demands can make the workplace stressful. Evaluate how the sheer volume of work may cause stress. Learn how to take charge by prioritizing tasks and managing time.

Job Stress 4: Managing People Pressures
Video 549
Adults    24 minutes    1994    Supplemental material available
Working with people can be rewarding. However, conflicts with colleagues, supervisors, subordinates, customers, or suppliers can also be stressful. Assess the cause of "people pressures" at work. Develop skills for reducing stress while getting positive "people" support, so necessary for long term job satisfaction.

Job Stress 5: Surviving the Changing Workplace
Video 550
Adults    24 minutes    1994    Supplemental material available
Change on the job can be stressful. Recognize how every type of change, even the positive, can cause stress. Examine three areas of change on the job - the workplace, the work, and the worker - and develop flexibility skills for coping.

Job Stress 6: Balancing Work and Home
Video 551
Adults    24 minutes    1994    Supplemental material available
Finding a healthy balance between the commitment to work, to home, to others, and to self is a critical challenge. When balance is lost for too long a period, stress is bound to increase. Evaluate ways in which life requires balance. Recognize stress-producing imbalance problems. Learn skills for rebalancing the worlds of work and of home as needed.

Keep Off the Grass: Hidden Dangers of Marijuana Use
Video 580
Teens/Adults    27 minutes    1977    Supplemental material available
Designed for classroom use, this video teaches students about marijuana - its biological, social, and legal risks - and clears away the confusing misconceptions that surround this drug. Includes video, Teacher's Resource Book, and Student Worksheets.

Keeping Kids Drug Free: Effective Prevention Programs
Video 568
Adults    120 minutes     1999   Supplemental material available
CADCA, CSAP and CAPT bring you an exciting opportunity to learn more about effective approaches for working with youth. Among the many prevention programs that target high-risk youth populations, seven programs funded by CSAP have been termed "scientifically defensible" based on rigorous evaluation and positive outcomes.

Let's Connect
Video 97
Teens/Adults    12 minutes    1992    
Let's Connect is based on evidence that shows meetings with parents, as a part of an education and prevention program in a school, are an important and effective way to address communication issues, including the problem of alcohol use. This video is designed to stimulate discussion among students, parents, and adult leaders.

Let's Help Youth Stay Drug Free, Part II, Building Healthy Youth: Strategies and Services
Video 590
Adults    116 minutes    1999    
Part II of this series helps to identify useful tools and models for helping to keep youth away from alcohol and drugs. The video promotes the use of science-based prevention programs for youth and provides specific examples of effective programs for youth. A panel of experts discusses the strategies they have used.

Let's Help Youth Stay Drug Free, Part V, Social Problems and Substance Abuse: Organizing for Effective Solutions
Video 591
Adults    120 minutes    1999    
Research has shown that violence, AIDS, teen pregnancy, poverty, youth crime, and substance abuse are interrelated. This video explores these issues and looks at the strategies some communities have used to prevent social problems.

Let's Help Youth Stay Drug-Free, Part VI, Media and Culture: Empowering Youth for Prevention
Video 592
Adults    120 minutes    1999    
Youth are often influenced by the powerful messages found on television programs, and in movies, advertising, and music. These messages often relate to substance abuse and other risky behaviors; however, media can also convey positive, healthy messages. This video presents an overview of some of the research done on the effects of media on youth.

Manage It! Job Stress
Video 556
Adults    24 minutes    1992    Supplemental material available
Stress can turn any job into drudgery. A fulfilling work experience can help employees become more efficient and more effective. Assess job stress by identifying drainers and energizers in the workplace. Learn new skills for coping with the pressures of work setting and for re-energizing your creative vision.

Measures of Effectiveness: Evaluating Your Prevention Program
Video 606
Adults     110 minutes    2000
Training session where speakers provide tips on evaluating coalitions and their drug prevention efforts.

Media Sharp: Analyzing Tobacco and Alcohol Messages
Video 600
Teens     7 minutes    1999     Supplemental material available
The video, designed for use in the classroom, aims to help you enhance the ability of youth to assess media messages about alcohol and tobacco; increase youth's understanding of the potential influence of such messages on behavior; and to heighten youth's ability to resist the influence of such media messages on their behavior.

Meeting the Challenge
Video 203
Adults    20 minutes    1991    cc
Designed for alcohol and drug service providers working with Deaf/Hearing Impaired people in recovery.

Nassau BOCES: Project Support
Video 320
Adults    35 minutes    1997
Based on current research in the field of education, examines substance abuse prevention, and drop out prevention, and a mentoring program for middle schoolers.

New Beginning, A
Video 225
Teens/Adults    20 minutes    1992    
Identifies specific behaviors and caregiving techniques for infants exposed to crack cocaine and other drugs.

NIDA Town Meeting: Treatment Initiatives and Innovations
Video 469
Adults    90 minutes    1999    
Video tape of a nationwide broadcast from May 1999 demonstrates how understanding addiction has allowed science to develop effective treatments (medical and behavioral) that focus on all aspects of an individual's life.

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention: "The Preventative Techniques" Part 1
Video 417
Adults    26 minutes    1993
This program explains and demonstrates proven techniques for de-escalating verbally disruptive individuals before they become assaultive. You'll see how escalating behavior unfolds, learn recognizable behavior patterns and ways to respond to them. You'll also learn the five steps of empathic listening and how to manager the stages of verbal escalation.

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention: "Therapeutic Physical Intervention" Part 2
Video 418
Adults    30 minutes    1993    Supplemental material available
When an individual's behavior escalates beyond the point where verbal intervention is effective, you must have the skills available to maintain your own personal safety and the safety of all involved. This video demonstrates simple and effective personal safety techniques as well as safe, therapeutic restraint and transport skills.

Odyssey 2007: Reducing the Nation's Drug Use
Video 571
Adults    90 minutes    1999    Supplemental material available
A panel discussion with some of the nation's top prevention and treatment professionals focuses on the 1999 National Drug Control Strategy. The goal of the strategy is to reduce the nation's drug use by one half by 2007. Treatment as a means of use reduction is extensively explored.

Olympic Spirit: Building Resiliency In Youth
Video 513
K-12    16 minutes    1995
This videotape is designed to provide teachers of K-12 with a creative and engaging approach to supplementing classroom drug and violence prevention lessons. Themes for this project are drawn from the Olympic Games, as well as the Paralympic Games and Special Olympics World Games, and center around the Olympic ideals of cooperation and teamwork, citizenship, fair play, and goal setting.

Opening Doors: Techniques for Talking with SE Asian Clients about AOD
Video 304
Adults    60 minutes    1997
Some segments of this video are done in the native language of the clients to show the subtleties of discussing these issues. There are opportunities to stop the tape and discuss questions related to the interview scenes.

Parenting is Prevention: Building Healthy Communities, Part IV
Video 401
Adults    90 minutes    1999    
This video explores the role of parents in creating safer environments for prevention to benefit all young people. This program features experts who work in community environments (e.g., workplace, school, recreation, and faith-based programs), as well as parent activists who have banded together to build healthier and safer communities.

Parenting is Prevention: Building on the Past for a Healthy Future, Part III
Video 400
Adults    90 minutes    1999    
Provides a unique look at how families and prevention have evolved since World War II, and will examine the lessons we have learned and provide a broader, more informed perspective on prevention. Features experts with many years of prevention experience who share creative ideas about the future of prevention. Target audiences include prevention practitioners, educators, community coalitions, parent resource organizations and networks, and officials at the Federal, State, and local levels.

Patient Placement Criteria, Part 1
Video 427
Adults    90 minutes    1997    
In this three hour training film, Dr. David Mee Lee, a Board Certified Psychiatrist, explains the underlying concepts of ASAM Criteria and why it was done this way. This video also helps you to understand and use the concepts.

Patient Placement Criteria, Part 2
Video 428
Adults    90 minutes    1997    
In this three hour training film, Dr. David Mee Lee, a Board Certified Psychiatrist, explains the underlying concepts of ASAM Criteria and why it was done this way. This video also helps you to understand and use the concepts.

Physician Does Make a Difference, The
Video 119
Adults    22 minutes    1991    Supplemental material available
Discusses how physicians can intervene before patients show the symptoms of full blown chemical dependency.

Prevention Story, The: Programs That Make a Difference, Part I
Video 212
Adults    18 minutes    1993    Supplemental material available
The task of developing sound communications/prevention materials can be overwhelming. This video highlights the first three stages of health communications process planning and strategy selection, selecting channels and materials, developing and pre-testing messages. It uses engaging graphics, colorful footage, and interviews to help program planners understand how to develop messages and materials to integrate communications into their overall prevention efforts.

Prevention Story, The: Programs That Make A Difference, Part II
Video 319
Adults    16 minutes    1997
SAMSHA produced video outlines strategies for prevention.

Relapse Prevention
Video 270
Adults    24 minutes    1992    Supplemental material available
What do we really know about relapse, and how can we help clients avoid it? This video addresses these questions by providing information on the phenomenon of relapse and its often chronic appearance in the lives of substance abusers.

Revia (Naltrexone HCL) as Part of a Comprehensive Treatment Program for Alcohol Dependency
Video 312
Adults    60 minutes    c. N/A
This video is a training on "Naltrexone as an Adjunct to Alcoholism Treatment" and is intended for chemical dependency counselors or their agencies who are considering the use of Naltrexone in alcoholism treatment.

Risk and Reality: Teaching Preschool Children Affected By Drug Abuse
Video 189
Adults    30 minutes    1994
Addresses the following techniques: creating a nurturing classroom; encouraging cooperative play; minimizing distractions; facilitating transitions; helping children manage their behavior; conducting ongoing assessment; and building strong family links.

Roll Call: Rave - Enforcement Tools for the New Drug Culture
Video 710
Adults    8 minutes    2002
This video is designed to help law enforcement recognize the signs and symptoms of popular RAVE party drugs such as Ecstasy and Ketamine. It describes the physical symptoms of drug impairment and suggestions for officers in the battle against drug-impaired driving.

Roll Call-Reducing Youth Access to Alcohol (Underage Drinking Laws)
Video 654
Teens/Adults    11 minutes    2001
The purpose of this video is to give patrol officers in the field the necessary tools to help combat underage drinking.

Safe Spaces: D/A Prevention Ed for Special Needs/Drug Exposed K-2
Video 96
Adults    27 minutes    1992    Supplemental material available
Staff development video for educators and trainers working with young special needs and drug exposed children.

Speaking Out About Healthcare and Recovery - Recovery Month 2002
Video 716
Adults     57 minutes     2002
This webcast will examine efforts to improve training for healthcare professionals in the identification substance addiction. It will also highlight exemplary efforts, model programs, and effective strategies that better prepare healthcare professionals to address the needs of addicted and recovering individuals.

Stitch in Time, A
Video 71
Adults    15 minutes    1992    
An informative discussion exploring California's state prevention curriculum.

Supervising the Drug-Free Workplace
Video 124
Adults    18 minutes    1990    
Designed to help supervisors identify drug problems in their employees and help comply with the Federal Drug Free Workplace Act.

Teaching Children Affected by Substance Abuse
Video 578
Adults    30 minutes    1996    Supplemental material available
Aimed at elementary school teachers, the video and accompanying guide describe six practices: creating a nurturing classroom environment; encouraging cooperative learning; facilitating transitions and minimizing distractions; helping students manage their behavior, assessing for educational progress; and building home-school connections.

Teens Taking Action: A Guide to Conducting Tobacco Compliance Checks
Video 140
Teens/Adults    22 minutes    1998    Supplemental material available
This video and its companion guide are intended to be used to train teen inspectors on how to conduct tobacco sale compliance checks. These materials were developed as resources for state and local agencies who are responsible for monitoring sales to minors, as mandated by the Synar Regulation.

Three Steps to Drug Free Schools
Video 75
Adults    51 minutes    1991    Supplemental material available
A three part staff development video for K-8 educational personnel and others involved in school based K-8 substance abuse prevention programs.

Training Tape for Caretakers of Drug Babies
Video 63
Adults    17 minutes    1989    
A necessary tool to have on hand to learn more about the problems and special needs of foster parents and homes.

Tulip Doesn't Feel Safe
Video 202
Grades K-3    13 minutes    1993    Supplemental material available
(Animated) Tulip and her friend Pickle learn about two methods children can use in unsafe or violent circumstances. They learn to trust their feelings, identify their options, and make decisions that will keep them safe.

Twelve Steps
Video 64
Adults    36 minutes    1986    
An informative video which encourages participation in the many support groups that embrace the Twelve Step Program.

Understanding the Science & Chemistry of Addiction
Video 498
Adults    120 minutes    1998
Recent scientific advances in the area of addiction are discussed by a panel of experts. The practical implications of these advances on prevention and treatment are also explored.

Uppers, Downers, All Arounders, The Drugs, Part 2
Video 246
Teens/Adults    30 minutes    1993
This video seeks to identify the most commonly used psychoactive drugs, classifies them by effect and shows how they are absorbed, metabolized and used or abused.

Video Guide to Evaluating Drug and Alcohol Prevention Videos
Video 112
Adults    15 minutes    1993    Supplemental material available
When used with the supplemental material, this video provides complete guidelines for evaluating the effectiveness of drug and alcohol prevention videos.

Women's Choices, Women's Voices
Video 286
Adults    28 minutes    1996
Explores healthy alternatives on dealing with stress.

Working With At-Risk Pregnant Women
Video 192
Adults    32 minutes    1994    Supplemental material available
A training program for volunteers working with at-risk pregnant women.

Workplace 1: Building a Positive, Productive Environment
Video 558
Adults    24 minutes    1997    Supplemental material available
In this video, viewers come to understand why negative attitudes develop in the workplace. They learn the importance of demonstrating personal leadership in building and maintaining a positive work environment. Each person also acquires specific skills for resolving complaints, developing a winning attitude, and making their work environment more enjoyable and productive for themselves and their co-workers.

Workplace 2: Negotiating Conflict
Video 559
Adults    24 minutes    1997    Supplemental material available
Helps viewers understand why conflict occurs and how effective listening and communication skills are the key to achieving win-win solutions. Viewers learn how to solve standoffs and how to take personal responsibility for resolving differences without calling in management to mediate.

Workplace 3: Preventing Sexual Harassment
Video 560
Adults    24 minutes    1997    Supplemental material available
Examines the myths associated with sexual harassment. This video explains how the law defines sexual harassment, including quid pro quo and hostile environment situations. Learn how to recognize physical, verbal, and visual forms of sexual harassment.

Workplace 4: Addressing Diversity
Video 561
Adults    24 minutes    1997    Supplemental material available
This video helps employees understand what diversity is. Viewers also learn about the consequences of stereotyping, what to do if you suspect there is a diversity problem, and six techniques to encourage understanding and acceptance within the workplace.

Workplace 5: Working With Difficult People
Video 562
Adults    24 minutes    1997    Supplemental material available
This video examines some of the reasons why people can be difficult to work with. Viewers learn four skills for coping with difficult people and how to take responsibility for solving their interpersonal problems now and in the future.

Workplace 6: Meeting the Challenge of Change
Video 563
Adults    24 minutes    1997    Supplemental material available
In this video, viewers learn how change affects workplace relationships and how co-workers respond differently to change. They then explore ways to accept change and view it as an opportunity instead of a threat. Five strategies for coping with change equip employees with the skills they need to redefine roles, expectations, and relationships - and come out ahead.

You Can Mediate: How To Help Others Resolve Disputes
Video 420
Adults    20 minutes    1996    Supplemental material available
In this video, you'll learn the skills necessary to mediate conflicts between other people, whether they are individuals in your charge, co-workers, or administrators. Through a variety of "real life" scenarios, this program takes you through a 3-step mediation process.

Youth Under Siege: America's Deadly Drug Trends
Video 585
Adults    90 minutes    1999    
Panel discussion with substance abuse professionals from across the nation about current drug use trends among the nation's youth.