LibGuides: Media Resources in Health Sciences: Selected DVDs

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This page shows off a selection of DVDs from our collection.

Note that some of the DVDs in this search accompany a book.

Mental Health

The Bonnie tapes: Conversations about one woman's struggle with schizophrenia and its impact on her family by Churchill, Jack & Husar, Linda & Blodgett, Andrea
Call Number: WM 203 B71835 2008 DVD-ROM
Publication Date: 2008
Bonnie and members of her family talk about her illness and its impact on all of them. they recall their helplesness and confusion when she became ill, and the emotions and reactions that followed.
Labelled: Mentally ill
Call Number: WM 140 L11654 2008 DVD-ROM
Publication Date: 2008
This documentary explores the lives of individuals who suffer with mental illness.
Beyond the blues: Child and youth depression by Barlett, Sharon & LeRose, Maria & Palmer, Maureen & Slinger, Helen
Call Number: WM 171 B573 2006 DVD-ROM
Publication Date: 2011
Through the personal stories of three young people, this compelling documentary traces the journey of depression, from early signs and symptoms, to assessment, diagnosis and treatment.

Addictions

The Stairs by Hugh Gibson

Call Number: WM 270 S782 2016 DVD-ROM

Publication Date: 2016

"Shot over the course of five years, Hugh Gibson's award-winning documentary examines the lives of habitual drug users at an urban health center staffed by both former and current users. The Stairs takes us inside the Regent Park Community Health Centre, focusing on three current staff members ... [The film] expands into a wide-ranging portrait of the conditions that can nurture addiction, most notably poverty and homelessness, as well as the social and legal structures that surround it."--Container.

Bevel up: Drugs, users and outreach nursing by BC Centre for Disease Control & National Film Board of Canada
Call Number: WM 270 B5719 2007 Guide
ISBN: 9780978266004
Publication Date: 2007
This film was created to share knowledge not found in nursing schools and teaching hospitals. It shows how Canadian registered nurses working with the BC Centre for Disease Control's Street Nurse Program provide health care to the people living in the alleys and hotels of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
No more bets, please! Overcoming problem gambling
Call Number: WM 190 N73956 2008 DVD-ROM
Publication Date: 2008
This film offers essential information on how problem-gambling starts, its damaging impact on individuals and families, and how it can successfully be treated.

Nursing

Nursing process and critical thinking by Kramer, Ruth & Bright, Cindy
Call Number: WY 100 N977348 2007 DVD-ROM
Publication Date: 2007
Presents beginning level concepts of critical thinking and their relationship to the nursing process. Delineates what critical thinking is and what it is not..
History of nursing: The early years by Lam, Ken
Call Number: WY 11 H67342 2008 DVD-ROM
Publication Date: 2008
This program traces the development of nursing across cultures from ancient times to the 19th century.
History of nursing: The development of a profession by Lam, Ken
Call Number: WY 11 H6734 2008 DVD-ROM
Publication Date: 2008
This DVD examines the evolution of nursing care into a profession. It considers the roles of nursing innovators and educators, the establishment of nursing schools, regulation and licensure, and modern issues in nursing"--Publisher's website
The nursing theorists: Portraits of excellence by Krivicich, Dan & Kramer, Ashley Seitz
Call Number: WZ 100 N974 DVD-ROM
Publication Date: 2008
A series covering the lives and work of 16 leaders in nursing theory.

Oncology

A lion in the house by Aquarius Health Care Videos
Call Number: QZ 275 L763 2006 DVD-ROM
ISBN: 9781933197265
Publication Date: 2006
An American film depicting five extraordinary young people and their loved ones, as they confront childhood cancer and the mark it leaves on a family.
Healing and cancer: The healing program by Healing and cancer foundation
Call Number: QZ 201 R981he 2000 DVD-ROM
Publication Date: 2000
The Healing Program is divided into 7 modules and is intended to be done at home by yourself, together with a loved one, or in a small group over an 8 week period (one module per week).

End-of-Life and Grieving

Heart of grieving by Peticolas, Michelle
Call Number: BF 575 G7 P487h 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Against the backdrop of San Francisco's Day of the Dead, the arduous, and at times ecstatic, process of grieving is shared in the stories of four people. From diagnosis to death to mourning, the film explores the heart and soul of grief.
Facing death with open eyes by Peticolas, Michelle
Call Number: BF 789 D4 F14146 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Stunned by the loss of her parents, the filmmaker turns the camera on herself and four wise souls to examine the personal and spiritual possibilities of facing death with open eyes.
Caring for the dying: The art of being present by Peticolas, Michelle
Call Number: BF 789 D4 P487c 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Facing her own sense of failure in caring for her dying parents, the filmmaker searches for people who might have found success. Through interviews, she discovers a recipe for forgiveness as well as success.

Indigenous Health Issues

Transforming Our Realities: The Determinants of Health and Indigenous Peoples by The Canadian Electronic Library

Call number: WA 300 DC2 N277 2015 DVD-ROM

Publication Date: 2017

Issued as part of the desLibris documents collection. The video consists of footage from the keynotes and panel discussions; the booklet is the proceedings report for the conference.

Family is Focus by the National Collaboration for Aboriginal Health

Call number: HQ519 F198 2015 DVD-ROM

Video proceeding from the HCCAH final national gathering in Vancouver, BC from February 18-20, 2014