Videotape and Audiotape Library for Staff, Faculty, and Students

Location
Career Services Library
Willard Hall, Room 5
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday

The library is available for use by all university staff, faculty, students, and parents.

Video and audiotapes may be checked out for a period of one week with proper identification and a $15 refundable deposit. Tapes may be renewed for an additional week. Those who would like to check out a tape but feel uncomfortable doing so in person are encouraged to call the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program at 303-492-3020.

Categories
Addiction and Recovery
Aging
Anger and Conflict Management
Anxiety
Depression and Suicide
Eating Issues
Families
Grief, Loss, and Death
Health and Illness
Parenting
Personal Development
Professional Development
Racial Identity
Relationships and Sexuality
Sexual Orientation
Stress Management
Teenagers
Trauma: Physical and Sexual Abuse

ADDICTION AND RECOVERY

Videotapes

The Addicted Brain
This documentary takes viewers on a tour of the world's most prolific manufacturer of drugs - the human brain - and explores developments in the biochemistry of addiction. The biochemistry of the brain is responsible for joggers' highs, for the compulsion of some people to seek thrills, and for certain kinds of obsessive-compulsive behavior.

Addictions
A 3-hour PBS special with Bill Moyers on recent research regarding addictions and interviews with people who have suffered from addictions.

Alcohol and the Brain
This program examines how the use and abuse of alcohol affects the brain, resulting in behavior changes on both a short-term and long-term basis.

Back to Reality
These dramatizations provide clear information on addiction, enabling, denial, delusion, and intervention.

Clean and Sober
Actor Michael Keaton takes us with him on the 21-day emotional and physical roller-coaster ride of a detox center.

Enabling: Masking Reality
This video explains the enabling process and shows how normal, healthy social instincts get distorted by addiction, and how attempts to be helpful often enable addicts to pursue their addictions.

Intervention: Facing Reality
This video offers pre-intervention training for families and friends and guides viewers through the process of challenging the addictive person, using a professional intervention.

Marijuana and You
The physiological and psychological effects of marijuana on a person are devastating and often permanent. By understanding how marijuana affects you, you can make smarter choices.

Audiotapes

Alcohol Awareness Hour
Informational tapes on alcohol use, abuse, and recovery are presented by various speakers who have personal knowledge of alcohol addiction. 8 audiotapes

Freshstart: 21 Days to Stop Smoking
This program helps you kick the smoking habit day by day during the first three weeks of abstinence, the critical period for breaking tobacco addiction.

Many Roads, One Journey: Moving Beyond the 12 Steps
Charlotte Davis Kasl offers a flexible 16-step alternative to the traditional 12-step program that stresses the importance of social influences as well as personal awareness as we find our own voices and sources of strength and spirituality. 2 audiotapes

Overcoming Roadblocks in Recovery
A variety of speakers cover typical problems and positive responses experienced by people in treatment, including suggestions for coping with personal relationships during the recovery process. 6 audiotapes

Stage II Recovery: Life After Addiction
Earnie Larsen discusses how to create and work on a healthy recovery program, including recognizing personal habits, understanding the dynamics of change, and maintaining healthy relationships. 6 audiotapes

STOP: Strategies to Overcome Drinking Problems
This program teaches us helpful techniques to maintain motivation, control cravings, manage anxiety and stress, prevent relapse, and build confidence as we work through our addictions and enter the recovery process. 3 audiotapes

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AGING

Videotapes

Crones... Elder Quaker Women
This documentary of older Quaker women speaking unselfconsciously about their lives, their feelings about death and illness, and their associations with the word "crone" is especially worthwhile for any woman who is in the process of aging.

More Straight Talk on Menopause and Women's Health
A practical, take-charge guide for the second half of life, featuring Judith Reichman, MD.

Audiotapes

Aging
The UCLA School of Medicine provides a comprehensive personal health guide to the aging process. The topics include working with aging relatives, positive aging and health, Alzheimer's disease and the signs of senility, and aging with dignity.

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ANGER AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

Videotapes

Dealing with Anger
When people let their emotions carry them into anger, they face the dangers of losing friendships, losing jobs, or precipitating violence. Learn how to release primary emotional energy in a healthy way. This video uses teenager examples for illustration.

Audiotapes

Anger Workout
Dr. Weisinger provides a cognitive approach to anger management, helping us identify and change negative thought patterns and learn various emotional control techniques. 2 audiotapes

The Dance of Anger
Harriet Goldhor Lerner presents a multigenerational, systems perspective on how anger is expressed in our behavioral patterns and relationships. She shows us how to turn anger into a constructive force for reshaping our lives and our relationships. 2 audiotapes

Dealing with Conflict and Confrontation
How to keep your cool, stand your ground, and reach a positive resolution. Helga Rhode presents a complete system of skills and techniques, based on detailed studies and proven psychological principles.

Fear of Fighting
Elaine Yarbrough explores the fear of conflict, which can lead to avoidance or aggression, and offers ways to overcome that fear to reach the creative potential of conflict. She describes how attitudes from our past can block constructive conflict, how to clarify issues in a dispute, and how to make wise, workable agreements. 2 audiotapes

Learning to Live without Violence
For men who are currently concerned about their use of violence or men who are not yet violent but are fearful that they may become so, these tapes explain how to effectively control and channel anger and discuss the issues of drug and alcohol use, alienation, jealousy, and how to "let go" of a relationship if necessary. Contains a detailed description of how men can start their own support group. 2 audiotapes

Of Course You're Angry
Learn to recognize and acknowledge anger in ways that facilitate growth. Instruction is provided on how to change negative self talk into positive messages. 2 audiotapes

21 Ways to Defuse Anger and Calm People Down
Learn peacekeeping skills you'll use to prevent blowups, mediate disputes, and foster teamwork.

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ANXIETY

Videotapes

Faces of Anxiety
Personal interviews and cameo appearances depict the broad spectrum of anxiety disorders and those who suffer the illness, including some who self-medicate with alcohol. The video demonstrates how people's lives improved with various treatment strategies.

The Panic Prison
Dramatic personal descriptions illustrate how panic attacks terrorize people into a no-win game of avoidance. Client-therapist interactions demonstrate various treatment methods and include a view of a support group in progress.

Panic: Unlocking the Mystery
This video features interviews with four health professionals and spontaneous descriptions and testimonials of six recovered panic sufferers.

Panic Disorder: Stories of Hope
Four people describe their experience of panic attacks, their subsequent avoidance of certain situations, and their process of recovery from panic disorder

Audiotapes

Driven to Distraction
A guide to recognizing and coping with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) from childhood through adulthood. Explains when and how medication can be helpful, and provides advice on effective behavior-modification techniques. Written by two doctors who have ADD.

Overcoming Anxiety: A Program for Self Management
This program uses a cognitive-behavioral approach to deal with the immediate difficulties caused by anxiety and to develop strategies for long-term coping. 4 audiotapes

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DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE

Videotapes

Coping with Depression
This video is for anyone struggling with depression and for family members, friends, and health care professionals. It encourages a program of simple, self-help techniques and shows you how you can incorporate into your life the strategies that keep depressive episodes at bay.

Depression: The Storm Within
Mild depressions strike all of us. This video provides a good overview of how and when the "blues" become a serious clinical depression by examining the symptoms, some coping strategies, and the treatment alternatives available.

Audiotapes

Here Comes the Sun: Dealing with Depression
This tape discusses the different types of depression and their symptoms. Also presented are some ideas for managing and overcoming depressive episodes.

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EATING ISSUES

Videotapes

Body Politics
This program takes a provocative look at women's efforts to change societal attitudes about the "ideal" female form.

I Hate My Body
This video discusses the effects of media pressure to achieve the look of models or movie stars. Anorexia, bulimia, and even suicide can be the result.

Nothing to Lose
In a performance piece focused on fat oppression, a diverse cast of fat and feisty women tell the truth about their lives... what it means to be fat and female in America today.

A Shadow of Herself
This PBS documentary provides insight into why a girl would endure starving herself or bingeing and purging. Several teenage girls discuss their struggles with eating disorders and the problems and dangers of these conditions.

Throwing Our Weight Around
Produced from a feminist perspective, this documentary examines the physiological ills of chronic dieting as it explores how our culture views the issues of fat, beauty, and health.

Audiotapes

Body Image Therapy: A Program for Self-Directed Change
These tapes discuss various concepts of body image and body image development and present methods for changing and enhancing our own body images. 4 audiotapes

Fat is a Family Affair
The recovery process from eating disorders is presented from the viewpoint of Overeaters Anonymous. The tapes offer specific help for getting our emotional needs met through self fulfillment instead of food.

Food for Thought
Recorded meditations offer a healing message for recovery from eating disorders as well as from emotional and physical abuse. The tape promotes the concept of health in our daily lives.

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FAMILIES

Videotapes

Shame
Claudia Black explains why shame develops, how to deal with shame, and why overwhelming shame in childhood may create problems in adulthood.

Audiotapes

Bradshaw on the Family
John Bradshaw focuses on the dynamics of the family and how to change damaging inherited "rules" and how to create new messages of growth and support for all family members.

Don't Trust, Don't Talk, Don't Feel
Claudia Black explores the major issues affecting those who have grown up in alcoholic families. Information parallels her well known book, It Will Never Happen To Me. 4 audiotapes

The Drama of the Gifted Child
Shows how parents form and deform the lives of their children, and how these young children recognize their parents' needs and adapt to them. A profound bestseller.

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GRIEF, LOSS, AND DEATH

Videotapes

Encounters with Grief
This film presents the power, process, and individuality of grief, featuring four people's experience of loss.

To Touch A Grieving Heart
As a grief counselor, Kathleen Braza has walked the journey of grief with many bereaved people. Her sensitive and practical insights are captured in this enlightening and highly acclaimed program, helping each of us understand the process of grief, and how we might touch grieving hearts in healthy ways.

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HEALTH AND ILLNESS

Videotapes

Chronic Illness: The Constant Companion
Personal stories and experiences of chronic illness provide directions on how to live with "dis-ease." Topics included are methods for coping, managing changing relationships, adjusting to a new lifestyle, working with your doctor, and managing emotional stress.

8 Weeks to Optimum Health
Dr. Andrew Weil presents a proven program for taking full advantage of your body's natural healing power. He explores diet, anti-oxidant supplements, and the benefits of walking and stretching. He also discusses breathing exercises that impart energy and relaxation, ways to overcome sleeping problems, and more.

Survivors: Living With Spinal Cord Injury
Survivors is about growing old with a disability. It examines often unasked questions about quality of life for people with long-term disabilities. Survivors is a soaring affirmation that a tough break isn't the same thing as a ruined life.

Audiotapes

AIDS
Samuel Perry outlines the history and pathophysiology of AIDS, sums up the organic mental disorders that can be caused by HIV, and offers a cogent examination of the issues that surround counseling for HIV-related psychosocial disorders and the treatment of persons with AIDS.

Life by Design
Covers making lifestyle choices that contribute to better physical and emotional health. Dr. Rick Brinkman shares specific attitudes and habits that contribute to overall wellness, as well as those that diminish it.

Sexuality and Menopause
Philip Sarrel outlines the physiological aspects of menopause, while Lorna Sarrel focuses on the social and sexual aspects of this developmental change. 2 audiotapes

Treating Type A Behavior and Your Heart
Meyers Friedman and Diane Ulner present a program for radically reducing the risk of heart attack through changing behavior patterns.

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PARENTING

Videotapes

An American Stepfamily
This program examines the problems of conflicting loyalties and rivalries, dealing with former spouses and the three categories of kids - his, hers, and theirs.

The Dynamics of Blended Families (20/20 Segment)
A look at families in the 90s and their unique struggles with step parenting.

Free to Be ... You and Me
There may never have been another kids' album which so thoroughly charmed both kids and adults. One kid said, "Listening to this record is like listening to my heart laughing." In this video adaptation, Marlo Thomas, Roberta Flack, Michael Jackson, Cicely Tyson, Alan Alda, Carol Channing and others communicate anti-sexist material in a delightful, creative, appealing, and exuberant way.

Pain Games
These vignettes demonstrate some common and often painful post-separation and divorce interactions, focusing on parenting the children of divorce. While these dramatizations can be helpful in recognizing divorce dilemmas, no specific information is offered.

Audiotapes

Enchanting Children
Focusing on parenting skills, these tapes cover developmental stages, discipline, sibling rivalry, and communicating to children through metaphorical stories to enhance the quality of family experience. 8 audiotapes

Reviving Ophelia
Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? Through the voices of adolescent girls, we see that escalating levels of sexism and violence cause girls to stifle their creative spirit and natural impulses, which destroys their self esteem. This audiotape offers strategies to help parents instill their daughters with a strong belief in their abilities and their value.

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Videotapes

Building Sound Self Esteem
Live action examples with high school teachers and students. Shows how students can tap their inner resources, learn they are responsible for their own well-being, and have the power to improve their lives.

Self Esteem and Peak Performance
High self esteem means seeing why things will work, not why they won't. It means solving problems instead of placing blame. In this video, Jack Canfield will give you specific skills to help you build your self-image and enjoy peak performance.

Taking Charge of Your Life
Linda Moore offers tools for people to gain self esteem, build confidence, and set limits in relationships. The video presents skill-building strategies for boundary setting, giving and receiving positive and negative feedback, and self-affirmation, and helps viewers better understand the feelings of anger, pain, fear, shame, and anxiety.

Audiotapes

How to Build High Self Esteem
This comprehensive program helps us explore our attitudes, identify self-defeating behaviors, and set a course of action to help us become our personal and professional best. 6 audiotapes

How to Speak Up, Set Limits, and Say No
Learn exact words and phrases to use in the tough interpersonal situations you face everyday. Identify when you let others go too far, set limits in relationships, determine what to do if someone takes credit for your work, and learn to speak up when ignored. 4 audiotapes

Making Yourself Heard: A Guide to Assertive Relationships
Robert Alberti, the author of Your Perfect Right: A Guide to Assertive Living, presents an instructional program that fully prepares us to develop an assertive personality without becoming overwhelming or aggressive. 3 audiotapes

Personal Enrichment through Imagery
Arnold Lazarus' program provides an effective tool for mobilizing our inherent capacity for using imagery to promote positive change. The training helps adults imagine ways to relieve unproductive stress generated by specific problems. 3 audiotapes

Self-Discipline and Emotional Control
We can change our negative behaviors using this powerful system based on rational-emotive therapy. Tom Miller provides strategies that help us handle crises and reduce stress, provides methods for reducing compulsive behavior, and suggests techniques to remain in control so we feel less pressured. 4 audiotapes

Self Esteem for Women
In this compassionate new audio program, Julie White unravels the painful tangle of low self-esteem. She explores its root causes and offers practical suggestions for building a more positive self-image from the inside out.

The Wild Woman Archetype
Within every woman there is a wild creature, a powerful force full of passion and creativity. Drawing from her work as a Jungian analyst, Clarissa Pinkola Estes (author of Women Who Run With the Wolves) weaves together stories, myths, and folktales to illustrate how women can reclaim this vital and instinctual part of the self. 2 audiotapes

Women and Self Esteem
A variety of lectures and songs by Harriet Goldhor Lerner, Marianne Ault-Riche, Holly Near, and others covers such topics as authenticity, self-regard, maintaining self within marriage, lesbian issues, African-American women, and older women. 2 audiotapes

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Videotapes

The Art of Resolving Conflicts in the Workplace
Larry Schwimmer presents six easily learned techniques for smoothing office conflicts and dealing with hostile or uncooperative coworkers. These simple, direct, and usable techniques quickly ease tensions, clear the air, and bring good business back into the forefront.

Getting Things Done
These classic time management strategies can help us save valuable chunks of time and put them to good use. Ed Bliss presents specific ways to reclaim at least one hour each day. 2 videotapes

Audiotapes

Assertive Communications Skills for Professionals
Explores how to communicate powerfully, in a style that's comfortable for you. Presenter Carol Price brings you dozens of specific techniques to help you handle even the most difficult communication situations with confidence, openness, and competence.

The Best of CareerTrack
These audiotapes feature highlights from several seminars on professional development. Some topics covered are self-empowerment, assertiveness training, team building, and communication skills. 2 audiotapes

Best Practices of Successful Women Managers
Through case studies, real-life examples, and thoughtful exercises, you'll learn to use the "Dolphin Approach" to create a balanced management style that reflects your personal values, plays up your natural capabilities, and earns you the respect, confidence, and loyalty of your people.

The CareerTrack Collection
These additional highlights from professional development seminars include enhancing self esteem, achieving peak performance, setting and achieving goals, learning negotiation strategies, and developing active listening skills and other communication techniques. 6 audiotapes

Controlling Interruptions
How to free up an hour a day
Verne Harnish. 2 audiotapes

Creating Teamwork
Proven techniques for increasing the output quality and creativity of your staff.
Lee Shelton. 4 audiotapes

Discovering Your Life's Purpose
Marcia Perkins-Reed helps us identify our own life's purpose by leading us through the ten critical clues to discovering our passion and then offers insights on how to fulfill this purpose. She closes with a meditation designed to encourage us to both do what we love and love what we do.

How to Create Your Own Career
This approach to career development taps the wisdom of the unconscious as expressed in dreams, symbols, intuitions, and personal myths. It is designed for anyone who has to make important life decisions...whether choosing a field, changing careers, or reentering the job market. The tape presents a 10-step process for identifying and achieving career objectives by employing the principles of creativity.

How to Deal with Difficult People
Understand why difficult people behave the way they do and gain skills for dealing with the most common difficult people in a confident, productive way. 4 audiotapes

How to Delegate Work and Ensure It's Done Right
Dick Lohr. 4 audiotapes

How to Get Results with People
How to build your leadership power and visibility on the job
Jeff Salzmann. 3 audiotapes

How to Give Exceptional Customer Service

Interpersonal Communication Skills
Provides training to minimize conflict and build collaboration in today's team-oriented workplace. In this audiotape series you'll gain easy-to-use techniques that make you more effective with other people-immediately and permanently.

Making Your Career and Life Work
Life can be fun and work can be rewarding, but only if we are willing to take charge of both. By listening to the tapes and doing the exercises in the accompanying workbook, we will learn to identify our options, weigh the pros and cons, define direction, develop goals and objectives, and take the actions necessary to move forward.

Management and Supervisory Skills for Women
Develop a strong self-concept and learn skills and techniques essential to your success as a manager. 6 audiotapes

Overcoming Procrastination
Almost everyone procrastinates from time to time to escape unpleasant or seemingly overwhelming tasks. This program provides proven, powerful techniques to start any project with energy and enthusiasm. 2 audiotapes

Power Communications Skills
Dr. Susan Baile. 4 audiotapes

Promoting Yourself in the Workplace
The skills, insights, and techniques you learn from Jeff Magee in this audiotape can help you gain the recognition and rewards you deserve, without resorting to shameless self-promotion.

Salary Negotiation
How to make $1000 a minute
Jack Chapman. 2 audiotapes

The Science of Self-Confidence
Brian Tracy. 1 audiotape

Speaking without Fear or Nervousness
How to be effective whenever you make presentations, lead meetings, or join group discussions. This audiotape series will help you face your anxieties, replace self-defeating thoughts with positive ones, and deal with your physical symptoms.

Success Self-Programming
Powerful techniques that create success
Lee Milteer. 2 audiotapes

Time Management
For secretaries and administrative assistants
Debra Smith. 2 audiotapes

You Can Negotiate Anything
Herb Cohen. 2 audiotapes

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RACIAL IDENTITY

Videotapes

Domino: Interracial People and the Search for Identity
This program explores the stories of six interracial people and their quest to forge their own identities.

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RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITY

Videotapes

Caring for Ourselves: Hope for Healthy Relationships
Melody Beattie talks about finding a balance between caring for ourselves and others as the key to healthy relationships. Learn to offer yourself the same compassion you offer others.

Co-Dependency: The Joy of Recovery
This informative video describes the different aspects of co-dependency: the shame, denial, self-blame, and over-responsibility often associated with having an alcoholic in the family. Learn how you can develop a sense of self-worth and break free from the addiction of co-dependency, so that your life can improve whether or not the alcoholic finds sobriety.

Couple Skills: Making Your Relationship Work
This video features a typical couple and their therapy sessions in which they learn new skills such as active listening, appropriate self-expression, and asking for what they want.

Fighting for Your Marriage
This program for strengthening marital relationships illustrates techniques that teach couples to transform destructive arguing into constructive conflict management. It helps couples build basic relationship skills, such as how to talk, listen, and communicate about problems constructively. Presented are ground rules for fighting, and before and after analyses of actual couples' arguments. 2 videotapes

Surviving Divorce
Learn the tools you need to work through the grief of your divorce and build a new life for yourself. John Bradshaw provides practical advice on nurturing yourself, coping with obsession, dealing with rage, shame, loss, getting help, and much more.

Audiotapes

Adult Single Relationships
Getting in, getting hurt, getting out, getting well, and getting on
Earnie Larsen. 6 audiotapes

After the Affair
Infidelity may be the deathblow to a relationship or it can be a wake-up call, challenging couples to confront the issues that led to the affair. This audiotape helps couples heal the pain and rebuild trust when one has been unfaithful, and guides them to build a healthier, more intimate relationship.

Beyond Co-Dependency
Melody Beattie suggests new, positive patterns for relationships and helps us to permit ourselves to learn and change as we recover. This tape deals with shame and fear, recovery and relapse, and new loving relationships.

Co-Dependent No More
Melody Beattie explains co-dependency, leaving addictive relationships, learning to love yourself, stopping the pain, and gaining control of your life.

The Dance of Intimacy
Using personal stories and case histories, Harriet Goldhor Lerner discusses how intimate relationships operate, how good relationships thrive and endure, and how difficult ones can be healed. 2 audiotapes

Healthy Relationships
These tapes, by a variety of speakers, cover co-dependency, sexuality, and rules for partnerships, intimacy, and the stages of growth in adult relationships. 4 audiotapes

How to Have Healthy, Happy Relationships
Simply stated, healthy relationships make life good. This inspiring presentation by behavioral psychologist Denise Dudley provides the know-how to find, build, and maintain harmonious relationships. 3 audiotapes

Intimacy and Healthy Relationships
This lecture and discussion helps to identify what's "normal," what's healthy, and what's dysfunctional in our past and present intimate relationships.

Is It Love or Is It Addiction?
Brenda Schaeffer teaches us to recognize the unhealthy, addictive elements in relationships, and to understand how and why we fall into such traps. She suggests working the 12 steps to increase our chances of achieving fulfillment in love.

Love, Sexuality, and Men
This tape explores the importance of respect, commitment, and trust in relationships. By becoming aware of the privileges which have traditionally been given to men and by opening to feminine principles, relationships can become more deep and satisfying.

Spirituality, Sexuality, and Relationships
Jack Kornfield presents a thought-provoking look at our attitudes toward sexuality and encourages us to deeply explore the physical, emotional, psychological, and interpersonal aspects of sexuality as it pertains to spirituality. Although he speaks from a Buddhist perspective, his common-sense approach is accessible to all.

Women Who Love Too Much
Tape excerpts from Robin Norwood's well-known book discuss women who sacrifice themselves in unhealthy relationships and stay in dissatisfying partnerships, "wishing and hoping he'll change."

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SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Videotapes

Not all Parents Are Straight
This documentary examines the dynamics of the parent-child relationship within several households where children are being raised by lesbian and gay parents. Through open and honest interviews with the children and their parents, the film explores the love, conflicts, custody problems, and discrimination experienced by these families.

Out at Work
A documentary about critical issues facing lesbians and gay men on the job, and their efforts to resist and avoid discrimination. (This film was at one time banned by PBS.)

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STRESS MANAGEMENT

Videotapes

An Introduction to Insight Meditation
Christopher Titmuss presents a lucid introduction to the basic concepts of insight meditation, a method for calming mind and body. He includes a guided meditation and discusses the relationship between meditation and daily mindfulness or awareness.

Stress Management
This brief and simple presentation on stress provides specific techniques for identifying and managing daily stressors.

Stress Management for Professionals
Learn how to make stress a positive force in our lives. In this five-part lecture, Roger Mellott helps us understand where our stress comes from and discusses how to control stress using straightforward, effective strategies. 3 videotapes

Yoga: The Art of Living
Renee Taylor provides a beginner's introduction to the Hatha Yoga classic movements, incorporating methods of relaxation as well as special breathing techniques. The practice of yoga is recommended for building health, endurance, and stress-control.

Audiotapes

Quieting Reflex Training for Adults
A brief, six-second mechanism for recognizing and responding to stressors, this initially conscious technique becomes an automatic "reflex" with practice. Techniques include deep breathing, smooth and skeletal muscle relaxation, and self-monitoring. 4 audiotapes

Stress Management for Professionals
These tapes discuss how to improve performance and feel better on the job. Topics covered include recognizing attitudes that trigger stress, handling stressful conflicts with difficult people, and developing new skills for coping with stress.

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TEENAGERS

Videotapes

Depression and Suicide
Comedian and youth counselor Michael Pritchard talks with high school students about recognizing the warning signs of depression and suicide, finding appropriate help, and offering personal support. While the video is geared toward teenagers, it is helpful for all who experience depressive episodes.

I Can't Cope
This video discusses the pressures in the lives of teenagers that can feel unbearable: grades, homework, parents, college plans, and the future.

The Power of Choice
Personal stories are featured in this video to encourage teens to explore their vision of themselves and to understand how this vision affects their choice making.

Why Suicide?
This video presents a moving, powerful, and informative discussion by four teenagers who have attempted suicide.

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TRAUMA: PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE

Videotapes

Domestic Violence: Faces of Fear
This program examines the cross-cultural phenomenon of domestic violence and looks at how the medical community, law enforcement agencies, and corporate America are helping.

To a Safer Place
This documentary poignantly demonstrates how sexual and physical abuse affects both the victim and the family. One survivor's struggle to come to terms with the aftermath of abuse is movingly portrayed.

When a Kiss is Not Just a Kiss: Sex without Consent
This program, presented to a live audience of college students, offers an interactive spontaneous dialogue where questions and answers reveal the truth about sex without consent.

Women Recovering from Incestuous Assault
Four women discuss their experiences of childhood incest and their resulting struggles with fear, rage, grief, and depression, family denial and disbelief, difficulties with intimacy and relationships, and drug and alcohol abuse. Each explores the process of recovery, the development of insight, and the growth of compassion for herself.

Audiotapes

Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
Laura Davis offers practical advice and encouragement to all partners trying to support a loved one on the path to recovery from childhood sexual abuse, providing strategies for improving intimacy while tending to their own needs along the way. 2 audiotapes

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Laura Davis and Ellen Bass weave personal experience, professional knowledge, and poignant stories and reflections from survivors to tell us how we can come to terms with our past while moving powerfully into the future. 2 audiotapes

Healing Your Sexual Self
Healing from sexual abuse can be difficult and usually takes time. While the emotional wounds are often deep and painful, recovery is possible and can be a joyful experience.

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