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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
InJoy's comprehensive Understanding Birth provides real-world video examples for all of your teaching points. The all-new third edition ensures you are presenting the most recent evidence-based information in a way that appeals to today's parents. Topics include: pregnancy, labor, Brandy's birth story, comfort techniques, medical procedures, cesarean birth, newborns, abusive head trauma, SIDS, and postpartum.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
InJoy's comprehensive Understanding Birth provides real-world video examples for all of your teaching points. The all-new third edition ensures you are presenting the most recent evidence-based information in a way that appeals to today's parents. Topics include: pregnancy, labor, Brandy's birth story, comfort techniques, medical procedures, cesarean birth, newborns, abusive head trauma, SIDS, and postpartum.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Teach expectant parents how to keep themselves and their babies healthy as they take the remarkable journey through pregnancy. Presenting the latest research-based recommendations, Understanding Pregnancy models healthy habits and partner involvement, while stressing the importance of good prenatal health. 3D animation brings fetal development to life and motivates moms to take good care of themselves throughout pregnancy. Content Includes: fetal...
Series
Pub. Date
[2005], c2000
Language
English
Description
The news of a loved one's impending death is often accompanied by an initial reaction of fear. In this program, introduced by NewsHour's Ray Suarez and facilitated by Frank Ostaseski, founder of San Francisco's Zen Hospice Project, seven everyday people reflect on their experiences with loss, grief, and healing. Discussing what they fear, how they would say good-bye, and other deeply personal topics, some discover the transformation and healing that...
Series
Pub. Date
[2005], c2000
Language
English
Description
More and more Americans are looking for opportunities to exert some measure of control over where and how they die. In this program, veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers unravels the complexities underlying the many choices at the end of life, including the bitter debate over physician-assisted suicide. Three patients, their families, and their doctors discuss some of the hardest decisions, including how to pay for care, what constitutes humane treatment,...
Pub. Date
[2005], c2000
Language
English
Description
Thanks to recent advances in medicine, longevity is on the rise. But will America's youth-oriented society finally develop the maturity to respect its elders? And will the Medicare and Social Security infrastructures be able to meet the needs of the Baby Boomers? In this program, experts including medical ethicist David Solomon, the directors of the Aging with Dignity Institute and the Forever Learning Institute, and the author of Another Country..Navigating...
Pub. Date
[2010], c2007
Language
English
Description
This program explores the different ways that disabilities can impact a teen's life and how the general student population can support people with disabilities. Subjects covered include what a disability is; how to understand a disabled student; why those with disabilities are called "special"; showing respect and helping people with disabilities; and special education. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including...
Pub. Date
[2006], c1999
Language
English
Description
It has been estimated that 1.5 million elder Americans suffer neglect, mistreatment, and even financial exploitation at the hands of their own families. In this program, ABC News correspondents Diane Sawyer and Marti Emerald probe what is quickly becoming the fastest-growing family crime in the U.S. Together they investigate several cases of elder abuse and examine the efforts of crusaders such as the members of the ground-breaking Fiduciary Abuse...
Series
Pub. Date
[2005], c2002
Language
English
Description
Aging well might be an ambiguous phrase but it does have meaning, especially for people over 60. This program tells the stories of five vibrantly alive seniors who have successfully navigated through momentous life changes. Their examples highlight important precepts for staying mentally healthy, showing how mental health is a key to successful aging. In interviews and in footage of these men and women engaged in various activities, the program provides...
Pub. Date
[2005], c2001
Language
English
Description
Franca and Peter Napoli said a long goodbye to their 4-year-old daughter Christina, who died of a brain tumor. Linda and Glen Woods lost two sons, one in a car accident, one to suicide. And Margaret and former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau's son Michel drowned. In this powerful program, three couples describe the ordeal of losing a child and their search for meaning in the face of tragedy that can become an all-consuming grief. It is a search...
Pub. Date
[2005], c1998
Language
English
Description
This informative program explores the choices open to terminally ill patients and their families, presenting the options available for comfortable end-of-life care that attends to physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Medical experts and caregivers discuss the difficult choices that arise, including the moral and legal controversies and medical options available when a cure is no longer an option. Important information about living wills and health...
Series
Language
English
Description
This program features Stephanie Mann and Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith. Stephanie Mann is a community activist who launched a "neighborhood watch" program in her hometown in California. As a result, crime was cut by more than 50%. She has since gone on to help others organize similar groups. Dr. Prothrow-Stith became interested in preventing violence while working as a resident at a hospital in Boston, where she began to see youth violence as a disease....
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Today, more military members are lost to suicide than on the battlefield. After serving their country overseas, many veterans in their darkest moments turn to the unique services of the Veterans Crisis Line to help with traumas like post-traumatic stress, depression, homelessness and drug dependence. The 40-minute documentary is an intimate look at the vital work of several responders who provide life-saving intervention and desperately needed referrals...
16) Growing Old
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Language
English
Description
Most people are unwilling to confront aging-even many seniors live in denial of it. Some fear losing their independence and autonomy, while others simply can't accept the graying of their hair. This program explores the varied landscape of aging in America, presenting the realities-physical, medical, emotional, and economic-of growing old in a youth-obsessed society. Whether they are well off in retirement, financially marginalized, in good health,...
Pub. Date
[2010], c2007
Language
English
Description
This program discusses why a teen might choose to turn to a gang and how gang involvement typically leads to personal risk and imprisonment. Subjects covered include what a gang is; problems a teen can have with gang involvement; different groups that can provide support; support or protection that is positive; why teens join gangs; violence; and racism and gangs. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the...
Pub. Date
[2010], c2004
Language
English
Description
Funerals are the most common death rituals in the world, but there are other ceremonies that involve the dead, often with very different purposes. For the Aghori mystics of India, the corpse isn't something to be avoided, but rather embraced. This program examines the ways in which cultures both foreign and familiar confront the ultimate taboo. From the practice of exhuming the bones of ancestors in Taiwan to that of embalming the deceased in the...
Pub. Date
[2005], c2000
Language
English
Description
Faced with complex regimens of medication and diminished tolerances for alcohol, many elderly Americans run the risk of falling into the trap of substance abuse. In this program from The Doctor Is In, senior citizens discuss how they deal with these challenges, while Dr. James Campbell, director of the geriatric center at MetroHealth Medical Center, and Carol Colleran Egan, director of older adult services for Hanley-Hazelden Center, present some...
Pub. Date
[2010], c2008
Language
English
Description
This program challenges the preconception that being physically disabled necessarily means a lack of desire for physical intimacy. Through candid interviews with people who have substantial physical disabilities-cases involving paraplegia, quadriplegia, kyphoscoliosis, neuromuscular disorders, and other conditions-the video expresses their needs as human beings, examines constraints placed upon them by their conditions as well as by the medical and...
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