Michael Trout examines perspectives of infant mental health and the bonds developed between babies and their mothers. Includes vignettes from both healthy and conflicted caregiver-infant dyads. Available in VHS format only.

This presentation includes all families in the Listen to Family Series with their family consultants. The consultants demonstrate strategies to engage families in conversations about their strengths as well as their problems. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This program specifically targets teachers to help them form positive attachments and offer concrete help to their students. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video examines the life and work of Mary Ainsworth. It also presents an introduction to attachment theory and to the methodology of observational research.

In this lecture, including interviews with parents who have children with disabilities, Michael Trout focuses on the resources and survival skills used by families. Available in VHS format only.

This tape demonstrates strategies and principles for intervention that infant mental health clinicians use to support infant-parent relationships in infant-parent therapy. Available in VHS format only.

Based on tai chi and yoga, this book offers a combination of gentle exercises and progressive relaxation and visualization techniques that can help young children “de-stress.”

The Developing Mind reveals the latest research about memory, feelings, neuropathology and intelligence. This book delivers an in-depth look at how the human mind and personality is developed.

This book shows how clinicians can improve their research with children by incorporating drawing into therapy sessions and recognizing the messages in the art.

This comprehensive, 925 page, Handbook provides a landmark review and synthesis of the current state of knowledge about attachment and loss in children and adults.This publication also provides an definitive overview of the work of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth.

This program presents an overview of the effects of childhood trauma on the individual and on society. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Dr. Bruce D. Perry investigates traumatic experiences that children endure, and he discusses methods of dealing with childhood trauma effectively and productively in order to provide support, care, and guidance for children who are at risk of having behavioral and emotional problems in the future.

Includes: Five VHS Tapes

The series explores the world of kids growing up on the mean streets of contemporary society. It is seen through their own experiences and expressed in their own words. Includes: 3 VHSs

This book involves assisting child care and human services professionals in providing assistance to and connecting with young children with special needs. The multidisciplinary compendium addresses important developmental and medical concerns as well as child advocacy and early intervention services.

This book presents a variety of play approaches that facilitate children's healing in a shorter time frame. Strategies are provided for addressing such difficulties as fears and phobias, grief, behavior problems, ADHD, and the effects of sexual abuse.

This book represents a breakthrough in teaching professionals the unique skills of interviewing children and adolescents during interpersonal crises.

This video demonstrates how early intervention at a preschool for young children with challenging needs can help parents learn positive strategies to break the cycle of oppositional behavior. Available on VHS and DVD.

This edition presents information about infant mental health theory from a clinical and educational viewpoint. Topics include developmental psychopathology, frequently encountered disorders of infancy, approaches to clinical assessment and intervention, and social policy applications. 600 pages

If not addressed, significant-event childhood trauma will negatively affect normal and healthy childhood development.

Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This program offers caregivers, teachers, and health-care providers suggestions for avoiding and dealing with damage to the brain from emotional trauma, with primary emphasis being placed on prevention and timely intervention. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this book Joy Osofky addresses the impact of severe stress on infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, the disruptions caused by trauma, and guidelines for healing.

Child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore the extent to which our childhood experiences shape the way we parent.

This program clearly defines the most typical symptoms children exhibit and shows activities and steps educators can take to help children cope. Available on VHS and DVD. Includes 40-pg. Leader’s Guide

This book discusses intervention techniques and therapeutic methods used to help children who have been through family loss, injury, trauma, and bad experiences. Illustrated are ways to help preschoolers through adolescents cope with different forms of bereavement, including death in the family, school, or community. Written by Nancy Boyd Webb

Written for educators and parents who believe that all children deserve the best education possible, this guide encourages and enables the viewer to identify gifted children as early as age 4 and to create a learning environment that supports all students.

Segments in this program include Determining the Trauma, Guidelines for Caregivers, Non-verbal Interaction, Significant Loss, Dissociating, Being an Example, and Acceptance.

Closed Captioned and available in DVD and VHS formats.

The attachment phenomenon has a profound impact on humans. Paradigms, feelings, relationships, and physical functions are impacted by attachment during a child's early years. This text discusses the importance of attachment and how disorders and dysfunctions can arise from detachment.

This video shows what children are attempting to communicate through their artwork, behavior, and speech. Designed for mediators, judges, support programs for divorcing couples, and for the parents themselves as they examine children's emotions of divorce. Includes: VHS

This video shows two caregivers each bathing a baby. Watch the communication that occurs between the two sets of partners and identify the behaviors that increase the infant's self-awareness and support the relationship to the adult. Choose from DVD and VHS formats.

This video involves various child care experts who illustrate methods of creating a healing environment for infants that were born with drug-addicted and alcoholic parents. Rebuilding the emotional and psychological foundations for these infants is what the healing setting attempts to achieve.

This book demonstrates through case example the application of specific play therapy techniques for helping children, ages 3-11 years, who have been traumatized.

This video set presents Dr T. Berry Brazelton and twelve young parents with their children, from before birth to age three years. Together they define and illustrate "touchpoints." Included 3 VHS tapes.

This tape includes unedited excerpts from conversations with 5 diverse families that demonstrate communication strategies helpful in joining with a family and building a collaborative partnership. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video is from a conference about child domestic abuse, and it presents issues along with solutions that enable viewer interaction and learning. Available in VHS format only.

Whatever the type, the family is the foundation for life. It is here that the child gains his sense of identity and belonging. As we see in this video it is in the family that the child is prepared for membership in society. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The video includes a judge's perspective of family issues, important talks between collaborating professionals, and an adult's perspective of being abused, speaking from personal experience. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video, play and family therapist Eliana Gil discusses the nature of trauma, how to recognize it clinically, and how to manage its powerful effects upon children's development with the help of artwork and play.

This program examines the reactions of children, ages three to eleven, to the deaths of close relatives. Children are greatly affected by such losses and their grief is expressed in a variety of different behaviors and emotional states. This program demonstrates the significance of giving bereaved children honest explanations, comfort, and support. Includes: VHS

This outstanding three-part video-based training program includes 1) The Violence That Children Can See, 2) The Power of Relationships - to help children feel safe, 3) The Need To Be Heard - how community violence can effect teachers an caregivers. Includes training manual. Available in English and Spanish.

This book presents new solutions to the old problem of violence in the lives of children. Various programs and new ways of intervening with children exposed to violence are discussed in this book.

In this video Dr Eliana Gil brings viewers into the therapeutic playroom, she describes how play activities fit into the reparative process, and provides helpful pointers for practice. Includes: VHS

This book describes how therapists can both facilitate constructive play therapy and intervene in post-traumatic play to help children who have been traumatized by abuse or neglect achieve a positive resolution.

This video reveals the experiences of children who endure losing parents, and it shows the perspectives of children who live in foster care. Includes: VHS

This video contains a small conference of national subject-matter experts and in-depth conversations with young children about their ordeals with abuse and witnessing violence. The video illustrates the effects of violence on children who are younger than 8 years. Includes: VHS

This video offers methods of assessing and evaluating the relationship between babies and their parents. Available in VHS format only.

The author recounts six cases of children who can not speak and offers suggestions on ways to seek answers from the children by observing what they do.

Written by Stanley Greenspan, this warmly supportive book explores how parents can help their children (toddlers to teens) feel secure and safe at home, in school, and in the world at large.

This book examines the origins, development, outcomes, and treatment of aggression and antisocial behavior in youth, a serious problem in contemporary society.

This book explores the complex and emotional issues of adoption.

This video is about the how child development is impacted by sensory issues, and it also discusses how certain sensory-rich settings can affect the growth of regular kids and children with disabilities.