The following titles are new to the DSHS Audiovisual Library in 2011. To order an item (Texas residents only), please contact us at: Texas Department of State Health Services, Audiovisual Library, 1100 W. 49th Street, Mail Code 1975, Austin, TX 78756-3199, Toll free: 1-888-963-7111 ext. 7260, (512) 776-7260, Fax: 512-776-7474, e-mail avlibrary@dshs.state.tx.us.
Advance Directive: Taking Control (closed captioned) - DV0627
DVD color 17 min. 2010 Adult
This program details the living will and the healthcare power of attorney. It discusses both medical and emotional choices to be made about future care. While emphasizing the benefits of an advance directive, including how easy it is to fill one out, the DVD talks about the peace of mind family members will get knowing that an advance directive has been created.
Back Safety: Safe in 8 (English/Spanish) - DV0630
DVD color Eng 8 min.; Span 8 min 2006 A
A healthy back is the basis of employees' activities at work or home. This program illustrates simple steps to make sure that this vital foundation is in perfect shape and free from any injury and damage. It discusses the concepts of staying within the safety zone, proper grasping and lifting, load awareness, reverse stretching and mechanical advantage. Bonus features include a leader’s guide, quiz and a customizable PowerPoint® presentation (DVD-ROM drive required for leader’s guide and PowerPoint).
Bloodborne Pathogens Protection in the Home Care Setting (English/Spanish)(closed captioned) - DV0655
DVD color 17 min. 2010 Adult, Professional
As a home healthcare provider, you can be exposed to blood and potentially infectious body fluids - regardless of your specific responsibilities. This program outlines the proper precautions that you should follow to ensure your safety on the job. This DVD covers OSHA 1910.1030. workplace transmission, standard precautions, HBV vaccination, work practice controls, housekeeping and laundry.
Bullying There’s Always a Way Out - DV0673
DVD color 30 min. 2011 Junior High – Senior High
Junior High and High School students present real-life scenarios of bullying, including bullying through the internet, texts and video. Difficult and distressing situations in a variety of settings are addressed, followed by both unproductive actions and resolutions that work. This program covers bullying from its painful beginning to its peaceful end.
Childhood Epilepsy: What You Need to Know - DV0679
DVD 81 min. 2008 Adult
This film provides an overview of childhood epilepsy, including different types of seizures; diagnostic procedures; treatment options; the impact of epilepsy on development and learning; safety; epilepsy in the family and community; stigma; and the benefits of encouraging a child's unique interests and talents.
Cocaine and Heroin: Still Here, Still Deadly - DV0652
DVD color 21 min. 2007 Senior High – Adult
This DVD recounts the stories of two teens who became cocaine and heroin addicts. Both teens describe how they became addicted, and how incredibly difficult it is to recover from their addictions. It includes strategies for recognizing the dangers of and avoiding these destructive drugs. A counselor in Dallas discusses a heroin derivative called cheese which led to a rash of overdoses by teens in Texas.
Combating the Obesity Epidemic: Treatment Options - DV0668
DVD color 59 min. 2008 Professional
Professor Jack H. Wilmore delivers a lecture on the primary approaches employed to address the obesity epidemic. Using a power point presentation, he looks at the results of several of the studies in the scientific literature on each of the treatment options and discusses the relative effectiveness of each alternative. He discusses exercise, physical activity, behavioral treatment, combination interventions, pharmacotherapy, and gastric bypass surgery. He details energy balance-related and genetic factors that can affect weight loss efforts.
Confined Space Entry: Safe in 8 (English/Spanish) - DV0629
DVD color Eng 8 min.; Span 8 min 2005 A
This DVD teaches viewers about common confined space hazards, personal protective equipment (PPE), and rescue. Bonus features include a leader’s guide, quiz and a customizable PowerPoint® presentation (DVD-ROM drive required for leader’s guide and PowerPoint).
Cutting: Addicted to Self Injury - DV0667
DVD color 11 min. 2006 Adult
Self-injury starts as a way of coping with emotional pain, but cutting, the habit of self-injury, is a sign of deep-seated anxiety. This DVD examines the behavior and explores how parents, friends, guidance counselors, and those who cut themselves can work together to stop it. It goes inside a support group for young women struggling with the habit, showing them engaging in group discussions, self-expression exercises, and role-play that helps them let go of negative emotions and confront their behavior.
Cyber Bullying Real Life Teens – DV0632
DVD color 18 min. 2008 SrH
Cyber-bulling is any form of harassment that occurs via the Internet. This program explains why teens cyber-bully, what can be done about it and how bullies can be stopped. It deals with forums, chat rooms, and help for victims of bullying.
Delivery Self Attachment (open captioned)(English/Spanish) – DV0635 (New in DVD)
DVD color 11 min. 2008 Adult, Professional
This DVD depicts newborns placed on the mother's abdomen crawling up to self-attach to the breast. Footage is from a study published in The Lancet, which looks at how the use of labor medications and separation of mother and baby affect initial breastfeeding. Dr. Lennart Righard provides a 5 minute introduction.
Dementia and Nutrition: Helping Prevent Nutritional and Fluid Deficiencies – DV0640
DVD color 25 min. 2008 Adult
Long term care staff will learn how to prevent nutritional and fluid deficiencies, how dementia changes residents' ability to nourish themselves, and how to help residents get the nutrition, hydration and fluids that they need.
Dementia and Your Care Giving Decisions – DV0642
DVD color 27 min. 2010 Adult
Long term care staff will learn about some of the common forms of dementia and the Global Deterioration Scale, or GDS, which assesses the progression of dementia. Staff will learn about their role in providing care and the effects that dementia can have on care giving. The importance of structured programs is emphasized.
Dementia Care: Aggressive Behaviors - DV0645
DVD color 37 min. 2004 Adult, Professional
This DVD identifies many of the root causes of aggression, while giving practical ways caregivers can help to reduce aggressive behavior. It covers the signs of agitation, aggression triggers (and how staff may unwittingly contribute to them), the importance of allowing residents to communicate, and techniques to maintain safety when an aggressive episode occurs. It teaches caregivers to remain respectful of residents' personal space when providing assistance.
Diabetes Skin and Foot Care: In Step 4th ed. - DV0625
DVD color 13 min. 2008 Adult
This program provides patient education for diabetics on the care of their skin and feet. It suggests a daily routine to check for redness, flaking, callouses, or cuts that won't heal. It includes guidance on shoe selection and other tips to help people prevent problems before they occur. The monofilament test to detect neuropathy is also covered.
Diagnóstico: Epilepsia ¿Y Ahora Qué?(Spanish) – DV0680
DVD 93 min. 2010 Adult
This DVD was filmed entirely in Spanish. It provides an overview of childhood epilepsy, including different types of seizures; diagnostic procedures; treatment options; the impact of epilepsy on development and learning; safety; epilepsy in the family and community; stigma; and the benefits of encouraging a child's unique interests and talents. It also contains a bonus section of person on the street interviews and an appendix that illustrates and explains First Aid for seizures.
Don’t Stress About It: Stress Management for Teens - DV0661
DVD color 45 min. 2005 Junior High – Senior High
This stress management program provides youth with the tools necessary to identify and manage the stresses of everyday life including disruptions at home, problems at school, community violence, difficulties with friends and more.
Easing the Adjustment to a Nursing Home: Strategies for Families -DV0646
DVD color 12 min. 2010 Adult
This DVD provides strategies to make the adjustment to a nursing home or assisted living facility easier for the resident and the family members.
Eating and Feeding Issues in Older Adults with Dementia - DV0647
DVD color 39 min. 2009 Adult, Professional
Older adults with dementia often have an added risk of poor nutrition and hydration, due to cognitive loss. The Edinburgh Feeding and Dementia Scale equips caregivers to observe the older adult for eating or feeding difficulties, and target specific interventions that increase nutritional intake. It includes suggestions on when and how often to do an assessment to ensure accuracy. Caregivers will also find helpful insights on how an older adult's ability to eat is affected by late-stage Alzheimer's disease.
End of Life Care in Dementia - DV0649
DVD color 29 min. 2008 Adult
Caregivers will learn how to tailor care to the changing needs of the resident, establish communication about care preferences, support the family members, other residents, and fellow staff, as well as, what to do immediately after a resident death. This program encourages flexible care plans, and discussion of issues related to pain management, active dying symptoms, and comfort levels.
Ethical Issues in Nursing Introduction (closed captioned) - DV0654
DVD color 23 min. 2006 Professional
This program provides an introduction to the fundamental ethical terms and concepts that students and nurses need to know. Through scenarios and expert interviews, the program clearly defines justice, fidelity, autonomy, and moral distress. It explores the vital role that personal values play in ethical situations. It also discusses the importance of nurse self-regard and the key steps to sound ethical decision making.
Family Guide to Long Term Care - DV0633
3 DVDs color 184 min. 2005 Adult
This program explains when a loved one needs long term care. It helps viewers understand the many care options available. It also covers legal issues, living wills, durable power of attorney, financial planning and long-term care insurance.
Fire Safety in Home Health: Ten Burning Questions (English/Spanish) (closed captioned) - DV0653
DVD color 25 min. 2008 Adult, Professional
This program emphasizes the basic facts about fire, steps to take to assess fire hazards in patients' homes, and ways to teach families how to prevent, control and escape home fires. It explains the PASS method for the proper use of fire extinguishers. It also explains the RACE method for protecting lives and property after a fire has started. Bonus features include a leader’s guide, quiz and a customizable PowerPoint® presentation (DVD-ROM drive required for leader’s guide and PowerPoint).
First Aid Safety – DV0639
DVD color 15 min. 2008 Adult
This DVD is intended for adults in an occupational setting. It demonstrates to employees that knowledge of basic first aid can often limit the severity of any type of injury, or even prevent a death. It illustrates first aid for objects in the eye, burns, cuts, blisters, chemical burns, strained muscles, falls, fractures, shock, heat-related illnesses, choking, use of Automated External Defibrillation (AED), and briefly summarizes CPR.
Forklift Powered Industrial Truck Safety: A Refresher Program – DV0636
DVD color 19 min. 2006 Adult
This DVD renews employees' knowledge of OSHA's forklift regulation while teaching about the seven classes of industrial trucks, equipment checkout, the stability triangle, equipment maintenance, lifting loads and loading docks.
Fuerza Positivia: Còmo Satisfacer Las Necesidades Especiales De Person Con Lesiòn Cerebral (closed captioned) - DV0620
DVD color 97 min. 2008 Adult
This DVD is comprised of ten modules that illustrate the neuro-anatomy of a brain injury and the everyday difficulties experienced by survivors of brain injury. It offers useful tips for effective communication and for directing individuals, families and loved ones to needed supports and services. It includes interviews with survivors and a special section on the needs of veterans with brain injury.
Fun with Chemistry - DV0683
DVD 180 min. 2002 Professional
This program provides a basic understanding of chemistry. Experiments cover all nine of the DOT hazard classes, demonstrating how chemicals within these classes, either by themselves or in reaction with other chemicals, can harm people or the environment
Concepts such as pH, BLEVE and flammability range are visually demonstrated.
Heart Failure Managing Day to Day (closed captioned)- DV0660
DVD color 18 min. 2011 Adult
This program helps patients understand that by becoming active participants in their heart failure management, they can feel better and do more. It recommends patients take their medications, reduce sodium intake, quit smoking, and stay active. It emphasizes monitoring for heart failure symptoms daily, recognizing flare-ups, getting emotional support, and planning for the future by filling out an advance directive.
I Spot Something Hot!(English/Spanish)- DV0677
DVD 25 min. 2010 Kindergarten - Adult
These programs help teach preschoolers and their families about fire and burn safety. Parents and their children can watch the segments with Rover the Home Safety Hound and Freddie Flashlight together. The DVD contains the following segments: I Spot Something Hot (8:30) Animated characters Rover and Freddie teach children to stay away from things in the home that can be hot and hurt; I Spot Something Hot Song Track (1:20); Family Fire Drill (3:00) a family learns to make home escape maps and perform family fire drills; Cause for Alarm Will Smoke Detectors Wake Your Kids (5:40) NBC's TODAY Show segment about kids sleeping through smoke alarms, and how parents should plan for it; Can You Stop Children from Playing with fire (5:56) NBC's TODAY Show segment showing why parents should lock up matches and lighters. The TODAY show segments should not be shown to children.
Into the Other Lane: Driving and Dementia - DV0669
DVD color 56 min. 2010 Adult
This two-part program presents a compassionate, yet realistic, portrait of the many issues faced by persons with dementia and their caregivers when a decision has to be made about giving up driving. In the first part of the program, viewers see the real-life stories of five people with dementia who can no longer drive. In the second part, experts offer advice on how to talk to family members about not driving.
It’s Your Back Don’t Break It: Back Safety for Home Care Workers (English/Spanish)(closed captioned) - DV0656
DVD color 20 min. 2008 Adult, Professional
Designed specifically for home care workers, this program explains how to lift and move patients safely. It also describes how employees can protect their backs with good posture, diet and exercise. Bonus features include a leader’s guide, quiz and a customizable PowerPoint presentation (DVD-ROM drive required for leader’s guide and PowerPoint).
Late-Life Depression – DV0631
DVD color 28 min. 2003 Adult
Three senior citizens describe how they coped with depression. Medical commentary is provided by psychiatrists. They all agree that late-life depression is a treatable disease, not an inevitable part of aging.
Life goes on: The Joys and Sorrow of Organ Donation - DV0662
DVD color 28 min. 2005 Adult
The limited supply of human organs makes donation a priceless gift. Jan and Richard Rodgers never thought seriously about the issue of organ donation, not until their fourteen-year-old son died in a tragic accident. Witness how the hardest decision these parents ever made became the gift of life that restored another family.
Making a Difference: Meeting the Special Needs of Individuals with Brain Injury (closed captioned) - DV0620
DVD color 97 min. 2008 Adult
This DVD is comprised of ten modules that illustrate the neuro-anatomy of a brain injury and the everyday difficulties experienced by survivors of brain injury. It offers useful tips for effective communication and for directing individuals, families and loved ones to needed supports and services. It includes interviews with survivors and a special section on the needs of veterans with brain injury.
Managing Stress: Five Strategies for How to Handle Stress - DV0663
DVD color 15 min. 2009 Adult
Viewers will learn how to tackle stress in five easy steps. They will be able to identify the source of stress, eliminate or avoid stress whenever possible, rethink unavoidable stress and learn how to cope with it. They will also be urged to seek support.
Marvel and Friends Staying Clean and Healthy - DV0651
DVD color 14 min. 2005 Kindergarten - Elementary
This program teaches young children that they need to wash their hands even when they don’t look dirty, how to keep their bodies clean and how cleanliness relates to personal health. Friendly, animated characters introduce various hygiene skills. Peer actors model skills for washing hands, taking a shower, washing hair, brushing teeth and more in step-by-step presentations.
Measuring Vital Signs - DV0628
DVD color 28 min. 2009 Professional
This program instructs in the measurement of vital signs including temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure and pain. It identifies the three stages of measuring vital signs: preparation, the procedure itself, and completing care.
Minding the Baby (closed captioned) - DV0670
DVD color 15 min. 2005 Adult
This animated program was produced in England. It shows the fears, joys, and misunderstandings of five couples as they plan, expect, and start to live with their babies. The program illustrates practical ways to improve communication and negotiating skills between couples. It also shows the benefits of looking after the adult relationship as well as taking care of the baby.
My Plate, My Health (closed captioned) - DV0682
DVD 23 min 2011 Senior High
The U.S. government has issued a new set of Dietary Guidelines as well as a brand-new visual icon, MyPlate, which replaces the old MyPyramid. This DVD helps viewers recognize how to develop a healthy lifestyle that combines sensible eating with regular exercise.
One Foot at a Time - DV0665
DVD color 18 min. 2011 Adult
This DVD explains the newborn screening process. Viewers learn the benefits of screening, how tests are conducted, and what to do if the results of the screen are positive for any one of a variety of genetic disorders. This program profiles families whose lives have been affected by newborn screening. Also available in Spanish (DV0666).
OSHA Lab Standard Refresher Program - DV0624
DVD color 14 min. 2007 Adult
Viewers will renew their knowledge of OSHA's regulations regarding chemical hazards in the laboratory. They will also learn about physical and health hazards, common types of hazardous chemicals, and container labels.
Pain Management: The Fifth Vital Sign - DV0658
DVD color 16 min. 2000 Professional
Viewers will learn how to conduct an initial assessment and regular re-assessment of pain, utilize age-appropriate pain scales, provide patient and family education regarding their roles in pain management and recognize barriers to effective pain management. They will also be able to identify methods of pain control to relieve and prevent pain.
Personal Protective Equipment: A Refresher Program – DV0637
DVD color 17 min. 2006 Adult
This DVD will refresh employees' knowledge of OSHA's PPE regulation to reinforce mindfulness of hazards in work areas, familiarity with PPE available, and how to select the appropriate equipment for the job.
Preventing Contamination in the Laboratory - DV0678
DVD 11 min. 2010 Professional
This program on preventing contamination emphasizes the need to recognize situations that could lead to contamination, and discusses what can be done to prevent contamination from occurring. Topics covered in this program include how contamination occurs, general preventative measures, engineering controls, safe work practices, and personal protective equipment.
Privacy and Security: The New HIPAA Rule - DV0657
DVD color 15 min. 2008 Professional
This DVD reviews the main points of existing and new regulations and identifies who must comply with them. It discusses the legalities and their everyday application in healthcare and defines Protected Health Information (PHI). It identifies strategies for compliance. It also highlights the many patient rights under HIPAA.
Resident Abuse: Prevention and Protection – DV0641
DVD color 25 min. 2010 Adult
Long term care staff will learn what constitutes abuse, how to identify risk factors that can increase the likelihood of abuse, how to distinguish different types of abuse and how to report abuse.
Ride Safe, Ride Smart - DV0676
DVD 9 min. 2010 Senior High - Adult
This safety program profiles two families; one who rides for recreation only, the other who uses their ATVs first for working on the farm, then as camping and trail riding machines. Both sets of parents lead by example, emphasizing riding an ATV that is right for your age, wearing proper protective gear and respecting the environment. They also recommend taking an ATV Rider Course.
Safety Orientation Updated – DV0638
DVD color 13 min. 2007 Adult
This comprehensive DVD covers hazard evaluation, safe housekeeping, tool use and maintenance, fire prevention and safety, and use of personal protective equipment (PPE).
Sex Facts: Teens and STDs - DV0675
DVD 30 min. 2011 Senior High
Viewers watch as high school students deal with having an STD. Real-life scenarios present male and female points of view through the initial discovery, the subsequent fear and embarrassment, the doctor's check-up, and the sexual partner confrontation. Realistic STD prevention methods are presented, while differences between birth control and STD inhibitors are identified.
Sexting: Sex Plus Text Equals Trouble - DV0674
DVD 30 min. 2011 Junior High – Senior High
Sexting is a combination of sex and text messaging. Junior High and High School students demonstrate the threat of texted sexually explicit or suggestive photographs, messages and videos. Real life scenarios are presented along with the resulting consequences affecting a teenager's personal, social and future life. Follow students through a variety of sexting situations stemming from careless fun to cyberbullying along with their painful effects.
Sexual Abuse: It’s Not Your Fault - DV0672
DVD color 12 min. 2011 Intermediate
Elementary aged students present real-life scenarios of sexual abuse as well as the resulting emotional impact. Watch as children take an uncomfortable situation and address the problem to make it stop. Follow the children from the beginning to end to identify what sexual harassment is, how to handle this serious issue and establish available age-appropriate solutions.
Sexual Harassment: It’s Your Body: You’re in Charge - DV0650
DVD color 20 min. 2006 Kindergarten - Primary
This program helps children differentiate between good and bad touches. They learn to say no to a touch that makes them feel uncomfortable and to speak up if they experience a bad touch. Young viewers will learn to trust their feelings about touches, learn what parts of their bodies are private and differentiate between good and bad secrets.
Start Safe: A Fire and Burn Safety Program for Preschoolers and Their Families (English/Spanish) - K0011
Kit - 1 DVD and 1 CD 105 min. 2010 Kindergarten - Adult
This kit consists of resources to introduce and support this fire safety program for the preschool classroom. It consists of 1 DVD, 1CD, a 16 page educator guide, mini-story books, fire and burn safety booklets for parents, posters and safety tips for parents sheets. The DVD includes the I Spot Something Hot animated feature in English and Spanish.
Stress, Weight Control, and Emotional Eating - DV0664
DVD color 16 min. 2009 Adult
Over eating can cause stress while stress can cause over eating. It's a vicious cycle that if left unchecked, can lead to all kinds of health problems including insulin resistance, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. This program follows four people as they learn seven strategies for overcoming emotional eating.
Stroke Recovery: Taking Back Our Lives - DV0681
DVD 60 min. 2010 Adult
This DVD features the experiences and advice of stroke survivors, caregivers, family, friends, doctors, and other health professionals. Practical and inspiring, the message throughout the film is one of hope, with many of the film's subjects reiterating that improvement and recovery are ongoing processes.
Surviving Disaster: How Texans Prepare (English/Spanish) (closed captioned) – DV0617
DVD color Eng 53 min., Span 53 min. 2011 Adult
This program describes how to prepare for a disaster and shows stories of disaster survivors. Business owners, families, government officials and communities share their stories of preparation and rebuilding in the face of wildfires, flooding, tornadoes and hurricanes.
Techniques in Bathing (Revised) - DV0626
DVD color 31 min. 2010 Professional
This program demonstrates how to provide a tub bath and how to assist with a shower and shampoo and perineal care. It identifies each of the three stages of the procedure: preparation, the procedure itself, and completing care.
Telling Amy’s Story (closed captioned)(Spanish Language captions) - DV0622
DVD color 75 min. 2010 Adult
Actress and advocate Mariska Hargitay and Detective Deirdri Fishel present an emotional story about America's pervasive and largely unreported epidemic, domestic violence. Telling Amy’s Story is based on a timeline of events leading up to a domestic violence homicide that occurred in central Pennsylvania in 2001.
Understanding Diabetes - DV0648
DVD color 20 min. 2006 Adult
This DVD will equip caregivers to understand what diabetes is, and how they can assist residents to manage their diabetes and reduce further complications. It covers Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes, and Pre-Diabetes. It gives suggestions on assisting with insulin, including, maintaining adequate supplies, disposing of insulin needles safely, and proper storage of insulin. Caregivers will also learn the importance of monitoring the condition of a diabetic resident's skin and feet, making sure medications are taken as prescribed, and reporting any other sudden or unusual changes.
We’re Growing Up - DV0644
DVD color 12 min. 2010 Elementary - Intermediate
This program is intended for a combined audience of 4th to 7th grade boys and girls. The narrator talks about human growth patterns from a baby’s rapid growth in the womb to adolescence. The program reviews male and female anatomy and sexual development.
We’re Just Around the Corner - DV0643
DVD color 15 min. 2011 Intermediate – Junior High
This program is intended for a combined audience of 5th through 8th grade boys and girls. It presents information on the physical and emotional changes of puberty, the maturation of the male and female reproductive systems, conception, pregnancy, and fetal development. It also covers the importance of reliable information as vital to good decision making and the importance of good hygiene and healthy habits.
What is Heart Failure (closed captioned) - DV0659
DVD color 19 min. 2011 Adult
This DVD covers risk factors, symptoms, medications, sodium and fluid guidelines, balancing activity and rest, and daily monitoring of symptoms. Colorful animation shows viewers what happens to the heart and how heart failure affects the body. Types of medications are explained along with cautions about side effects, and the importance of taking medications exactly as prescribed.
WIC and Social Media - DV0618
DVD color 10 min. 2010 Adult
This program without dialog explains the advantages of using social media to reach the tech savvy millennial mom generation. This DVD can be played on a computer or a DVD.
WIC and Social Media - DV0619
DVD color 10 min. 2010 Adult
This program without dialog explains the advantages of using social media to reach the tech savvy millennial mom generation. This DVD can only be played on a computer. It will not play with a DVD player.
Workplace Safety 101: A Guide for New Employees - DV0623
DVD color 35 min. 2009 Adult
This DVD gives new hires the tools to develop solid safety habits and hazard perception skills from the start with training on workplace violence, slips, trips and falls, lifting techniques, housekeeping, lockout/tagout, hazard communication, personal protective equipment, machine guards, first aid and bloodborne pathogens.
Your Body Your Health and Drugs - DV0671
DVD color 30 min. 2011 Elementary
Medicine can be a tricky thing for children to understand. It can be taken to make yourself feel better, but be extremely harmful when taken the incorrect way. Elementary aged kids present a real-life scenario of a child prescribing her medicine to another child. The situation is identified as dangerous and the kids work out a better, safer solution by calling an adult.
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