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New Acquisitions - September 2007

Addiction 2007

Contents: Disc 1. Saturday night in a Dallas ER. A mother's desperation. The science of relapse. The adolescent addict. Brain imaging. Opiate addiction: a new medication. Topiramate: a clinical trial for alcoholism. Steamfitters Local Union 638. Insurance woes -- Disc 2. The supplementary series. What is addiction? Understanding relapse. The search for treatment: a challenging journey. The adolescent addict: multi-systemic therapy: a new outpatient approach. Phoenix academy: a profile of residential treatment -- Disc 3. The supplementary series. An interview with Nora Volkow, M.D. An interview with Mark Willenbring, M.D. An interview with Michael Dennis, Ph.D. An interview with Kathleen Brady, M.D., Ph.D. -- Disc 4. The supplementary series. Getting an addict into treatment: the CRAFT approach. Treating stimulant addiction: the CBT approach. Opiate addiction: understanding replacement therapy. South Boston drug court. A mother's desperation Event Note: Originally broadcast on HBO in March, 2007 Added Title: Addiction, the supplementary seriesStrives to break through the myths and explain what addiction really is, what causes it, and how to get the best available treatments.

4 videodiscs (388 min.) :

MEDIA 10-931 v.-2

Counseling Latina/o children and adolescents brief interventions 2004

Performer Note: Enedina García-Vázquez, Luis A. Vázquez, Mary Bradford IveyActors representing students, counselors and parents perform a series of vignettes of school counseling sessions that demonstrate how and how not to counsel students and parents in dealing with ethnically sensitive topics such as racial harassment, translating during a counseling session, and machismo.

1 videodisc (60 min.) :

MEDIA 10-929

The fountainhead 2006

Performer Note: Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith, Robert Douglas, Henry Hull, Ray CollinsAn uncompromising architect refuses to change his designs, and when he discovers the plans for one of his buildings has been changed, he blows up the structure and attempts to defend his actions.

1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) :

MEDIA 10-933

Ivanovo detstvo Ivan's childhood 2007

Performer Note: Nikolai Burliaev, Valentin Zubkov, E. ZharikovAn evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of a boy's war-torn youth. 12-year old Ivan works as a spy at the World War II eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Soviet officers try to take care of this boy-child.

1 videodisc (95 min.) :

MEDIA 10-932

Life 2004

Contents: 1. The Millennium Goals : dream or reality? -- 2. The Real Leap Forward : scaling up poverty reduction in China-- 3. Listen to the Kids! -- 4.Helping Ourselves! -- 5. Reaching Out to the Grassroots -- 6. Staying Alive! -- 7. When the Cows Come Home -- 8. The Coffee-Go-Round -- 9. Aiming High -- 10. Whose Agenda Is It Anyway? -- 11. Geraldo's Brazil -- 12. Yemeni Futures -- 13. Crisis Control -- 14. Educating Yaprak -- 15. Brazil's Land Revolution -- 16. How Green Is My Valley? -- 17. Warming Up in Mongolia -- 18. This Hard Ground -- 19. Blue Danube? -- 20. Between War and Peace -- 21-22. Reel to Real -- 23. Return to Srebrenica -- 24. In The Wake of War -- 25. Returning Dreams -- 26. The Hospice -- 27. Slum FuturesA 27-part series about global efforts to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals. In September 2000 world leaders attending the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York took stock of the gross inequalities in human development worldwide, and declared "their collective responsibility to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity at the global level." They set out a series of eight goals for halving extreme poverty in the world by 2015, to be known as the Millennium Development Goals. TVE's new series of Life explores what the goals are, why they matter -- and what now are the prospects for achieving the by 2015, in the current geo-political climate and a post 9/11 world.

27 videocassettes (27 min. each) :

MEDIA 2-7755 v.1-.27

The true story of Sacco & Vanzetti 2006?

Re-examines the 1921 case of Sacco and Vanzetti, the anarchists who were tried for murder and executed in Massachusetts. Discusses whether they were the victims of prejudice and a corrupt judicial system.

1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) :

MEDIA 10-934

Understanding group psychotherapy featuring Irvin D. Yalom, M.D 2006

Contents: v.1. Outpatients -- v.2. Inpatients -- v.3. An interviewVolume 1: Dr. Yalom brings the group from content to process, establishes group norms, establishes a supportive group environment, and builds trust among group members. Between sessions, he comments on the situations depicted and the techniques used. The patients are actors but the situation and dialog are drawn from Dr. Yalom's experience with real patients. Volume 2: Dr. Yalom demonstrates his here and now approach in a therapy group in an acute inpatient psychiatric ward of a general hospital. He helps patients break through their isolation and avoid practices that might lead to the failure of the group session. The patients are actors but the situations and dialog are drawn from Dr. Yalom's experience with real patients. With commentary by Dr. Yalom. Volume 3: Dr. Yalom discusses group and existential psychotherapy, his work on bereavement, and early influences on his professional life.

3 v. in 5 videodiscs (260 min.) :

MEDIA. 10-930 v.1-.3