Basic parenting skills. (IM, 1990, video, 60 min.) In an entertaining manner, this program examines the "three R's of parenting"--routine, respect, and resourcefulness. The program also presents strategies for coping with the frustrations of being a new parent.
Child abuse. (FFHS, 1994, video, 19 min.) A therapist describes the common characteristics of offenders and a clinical social worker discusses the effects of physical and sexual abuse on a child.
Childhood: The Enchanted Years. (Perennial Education, 52 min.) Focuses on individual differences in growth during the first four years and features studies of Jerome Bruner, Burton White, Jerome Kagan, Wanda Bronson, and Jean Block.
Children of Perestroika. (FFHS, 1994, video, 60 min.) This sad and charming documentary featuring children from the Siberian city of Kemerovo shows how perestroika and glasnost have affected the children.
Early Misgivings: A Film on Child Abuse. (Cinema Guild, 29 min.) Problems, the root causes, and treatment of child abuse via interviews with parents, doctors, and professionals.
Early Relationships: Habits of the Heart. (IM, 1991, 60 min.) Looks at how infants participate in early social relationships, focusing on bonding and attachment, the Strange Situation, and individual differences.
Everybody rides the carousel, Part 1. (PF, 1976, approximately 20 min.) Covers Erikson's stages of trust versus mistrust, autonomy versus shame and doubt, and initiative versus guilt.
First feelings. (IM, 1992, video, 30 min.) This video features interviews with Jerome Kagan, Mary Ainsworth, and Alan Sroufe, and Bridges who explain their research on infant attachment. The video also considers how children are active participants in their own emotional development, such as attachment and temperament. Includes footage of Harlow's work.
Having a Mentally Handicapped Baby: A Crack in the Crystal. (FFHS, 1994, video, 50 min.) The agonies and joys, as well as the endless cycle of questions, that families face when confronted by mental handicap in their child.
In the Land of Giants. (IM, 1991, video, 57 min.) Urie Bronfenbrenner characterizes the family as "the most efficient means for making human beings human." This program examines models of behavior and codes of discipline used to mold children to a culturally desirable social image.
Jonah Has a Rainbow. (Centre Productions, 15 min.) Follows Jonah Gillian Bea from his premature birth until he is 2 years old.
Life's First Feelings. (WGBH, 1986, 60 min.) An American Film Festival winner and NOVA program that gives a glimpse into the world of infant personality traits, emotional reactions, and social interactions.
Mother love. (PSU, 1960, BW, approximately 30 min.) Although this film is quite old, it presents Harlow's classic research about rearing infant rhesus monkeys on artificial mothers made of wire mesh and terry cloth (about the importance of "contact comfort).
No more secrets. (FFHS, 1994, video, 24 min.) The stories of sexually abused children and of adults who were abused as children and how children can be encouraged to share their secret.
Nurturing. (Davidson, 1978, 17 min.) With Bettye Caldwell, Ph.D. Winner of several major awards, this film illustrates how thoughtful infant care practices can result in emotional and intellectual growth for babies in their first two years. Dr. Caldwell discusses with parents and caregivers the need to consider when they are trying to meet both the realities of their adult world and their babies' needs.
Play: A Vygotskian Approach. (Davidson, 1996, 26 min.) With Deborah Leong, Ph.D., and Elena Bodrova, Ph.D. This video offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on dramatic play. Using enchanting sequences of 4-year-olds playing house, doctor's office, rescue squadron, and trick or treating, the theoretical positions of Lev Vygotsky and other prominent theorists have taken in systematically studying play are illustrated
Rock-a-Bye-Baby. (TLF, 1971, 28 min.) The work of Spitz and Bowlby demonstrates the concept of critical period and the behavior of mother-deprived institutionalized children.
Sickle Cell Anemia. (FML, 1982, 22 min.) Deals with this disease on both a scientific and a human level by focusing on one affected family.
Social services and child abuse. (FFHS, 1994, video, 28 min.) This specially adapted Phil Donahue program examines reports of agencies unable or unwilling to prevent vicious and sometimes fatal child abuse.
Prodigies: Great expectations. (FFHS, 1994, video, 52 min.) The problems and privileges of brilliant children.
Toddler. (IM, 1992, video, 30 min.) The fine line between a toddler's need for others and need for autonomy is explored in this program. The video contrasts the development of a securely attached toddler with that of a child whose mother is in prison.
Why God, Why Me? (FML, 1988, 27 min.) A multiple award-winning program about childhood sexual abuse that shows how survivors can establish new, loving relationships.
Adoption and Assisted Reproduction: A Look at the Children. (FFHS, 1994, video, 26 min.) New biological options and shifting social mores have redefined traditional concepts about parenting and the average American family. This program looks at some examples and examines the effects of these choices on children.
Dramatic Play. (Parents Magazine, 19 min.) Preschool children engage in dramatic play. Also demonstrates techniques for teachers.
Family Influences. (IM, 1992, 30 min.) Defines parenting styles and their influence on children. Also deals with family background influences, birth order controversies, nontraditional families, and the effects of divorce.
Family Life and the Active Child. (IM, 1992, 30 min.) Examines the family as a context for development, looking at structure and dynamics. Compares a Russian and an American family.
Family Stress: The Child's Perspective. (IM 1992, 30 min.) Examines social and economic forces that influence family life, especially concerning divorce.
In the Land of Giants. (IM, 1992, video, 57 min.) Urie Bronfenbrenner characterizes the family as "the most efficient means for making human beings human." This program examines models of behavior and codes of discipline used to mold children to a culturally desirable social image.
Play and Imagination. (IM, 1992, video, 30 min.) By tracing the developmental course of play and imagination from infancy through adolescence, this program shows how play enhances social-emotional and cognitive skills. Footage of Mexican and American mothers playing with their children illuminates cultural differences in play. The program also considers the roles of toys and television in shaping imagination.
Preschool Social Development. (IM, 1992, video, 30 min.) This program examines how children between the ages of three and six develop a sense of self, gaining greater self-control and self-reliance.
Separation and Divorce. (CRM, 20 min.) Describes reasons underlying divorce in middle age and the effects of divorce on children.
Sex Role Acquisition. (CRM, 20 min.) Shows how sex role stereeotypes are learned from books, television, toys, and the reactions of peers and adults. The last part explores ways to reduce these stereotypes.
Sex Roles: Charting the Complexity of Development. (IM, 1991, video, 60 min.) Beginning with a look at the cultural ramification of sex roles and the myths associated with them, this program examines three theories of socialization: Freudian, social-learning, and cognitive-developmental. It analyzes how each theory views the nature-versus-nurture controversy. It explores the impact of sex-role stereotypes on the developing child.
Techniques of Play Therapy: A Clinical Demonstration. (IM, 1994, 40 min.) Illustrates the use of play therapy to engage, assess, and communicate with children.
The Changing Family. (WHBQ, 50 min.) Examines the changes in the typical American family over the last 50 years.
The Emerging Personality. (IM, 1994, video, 30 min.) This program surveys the components of personality and the influences that shape it. Four major theories of personality development are discussed: Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic model, Erik Erikson's psychosocial model, the social-learning model, and Margaret Mahler's separation-individual model.
The Idea of Gender. (IM, 1995, 60 min.) James Sheehan lectures on the evolution of gender in Europe and America over the past 200 years.
The Influence of the Family. (IM, 1991, 60 min.) Explores complex family interactions, focusing on family structures, the circumplex model, discipline, birth order, and age span.
Understanding Aggression. (Prentice-Hall Media, 29 min.) Examines and explains aggression from a learning theory perspective.
What Right Has a Child? (CRM, 15 min.) Describes and discusses 10 principles of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Children and children's reactions to these principles.
Eye of the Storm. (ABC, 25 min.) Shows a third-grade teacher's procedure for helping her children understand prejudice. Presents in a dramatic fashion the process by which children learn to discriminate and their reactions to being discriminated against.
Family Influences. (IM, 1992, 30 min.) This program illustrates how family background influences the way people view themselves and others. It defines four types of parents--authoritative, permissive, authoritarian, and uninvolved--and compares the characteristics of children raised by each. How parents can promote a sense of responsibility in children is discussed, and the role of siblings in a child's development is explored. The program examines the role of older siblings and presents opposing views on the influence of birth order on personality. It also considers nontraditional families and discusses recent findings on the effects of divorce on children.
Friendship, Gender, and Moralilty. (IM, 1992, 30 min.) Explores the functions of friendship in moral development and gender differences.
Gender Socialization. (IM, 1993, 60 min.) This video looks at interactions between gender, race, and class and their effects on self-esteem, emotions, behavior, and world view.
Helping your Child Succeed. (IM, 1990, 50 min.) This presents six steps for anticipating and preventing problems and demonstrates how to use these steps to help children succeed. It shows how to instill self-esteem in a child, give effective praise, teach problem-solving techniques, and prepare a child to resist peer pressure.
Here Comes the Judge. (TLF, 26 min.) Reveals the relationship between cognitive and moral development as children and adults confront moral dilemmas.
Home and Away. (TLF, 26 min.) Shows how different children react to school and explores how children adapt to the new experience and their relationships with teachers. Suggests ways in which certain children may be helped to handle moral dilemmas.
Me and my Friends. (IM, 1992, 30 min.) Noted psychologists consider how children during the middle years prove their competence and how they develop durable, vital friendships. The program discusses children's perceptions of competence and identifies two patterns of how children deal with failure: the helpless pattern and the mastery pattern. What makes a child popular in his or her peer group and why certain children are rejected is examined.
Peer Culture. (IM, 1992, 30 min.) Examines conflicts as children move into greater involvement with their peers. Features Los abandonados in an analysis of the peer group as a microsociety.
Peers in Development. (IM, 1991, 60 min.) Probing the importance of peer relationships in social and emotional development, this program examines the growth of peer relationships from the social interest of infants through the groupings of adolescence. It considers the importance of play in cognitive development, as explained by Piaget and Vygotsky, and describes Parten's six categories of social participation. Commentary from children of different ages provides insights into how the idea of friendship changes with age.
Productivity and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Pygmalion Effect. (CRM, 31 min.) Revised film that shows the role of expectation on classroom performance.
Self-esteem in School Age Children. (IM, 1990, 25 min.) Self-esteem affects mental health, motivation, and behavior. This video explores the components of the self: self-concept, self-control, and self-esteem. It outlines five criteria for self-perception and relates the way an individual ranks these five criteria to the individual's feelings of self-worth. It concludes with an exploration of how adults can enhance self-esteem in children.
Single Parenting. (IM, 1988, 20 min.) This program teaches single parents how to respond effectively to the difficulties of raising children alone. It details a four-step plan for raising children after a divorce. Vignettes illustrate ways to minimize the adverse effects on a child of the loss of a parent. The video also suggests ways to handle discipline, financial problems, and family crises.
Teaching Responsible Behavior. (IM, 1992, 54 min.) This video shows parents how to correct children's misbehavior and get them to accept responsibility. It teaches how to reinforce positive changes in behavior and how to help children set and achieve realistic goals.
The Conscience of a Child. (NET Film Service, 27 min.) Demonstrates moral development from a learning theory perspective.
The Umbrella. (CRM, 35 min.) A 9-year-old son of autocratic parents steals an umbrella. Film reveals the connections between parenting styles and children's behavior.
What right has a child? (CRM, no date information available, approximately 15 min.) Describes UN Declaration on Children's Rights and children's reaction to it.
