Bereavement
Bereavement, Loss and Change Volume 1 & 2 with Colin Murray Parkes
Release Date:
2008
Audience:
Bereavement counsellors. Nursing staff and students. Medical students and other staff and students with a professional interest.
Duration:
Volume One - Total Running Time: 244 minutes
Disc One: Orientation and Nature of Grief: 66 minutes
Disc Two: Traumatic Bereavement and Personal Vulnerability: 93 minutes
Disc Three: Gender & Age and Cultural & Religious Influences: 48 minutes
Disc Four: Helping Bereaved People: 37 minutes
Volume Two - Total Running Time: 240 minutes
Disc Five: Special Problems, Loss of a Parent in Adult Life, Loss of a Partner or Spouse and Depression & Helplessness: 79 minutes
Disc Six: Anger, Aggression & Violent Deaths and Disasters: 69 minutes
Disc Seven: General, Sensory & Cognitive Losses and The Professional’s Losses: 92 minutes
Content
Masterclasses in Bereavement
Here is a subject of great interest to many professional disciplines within health, social services and beyond. Bereavement affects us all of course, but what is a normal reaction? When does it become pathological and what can done about it?
Dr. Colin Murray Parkes has spent a professional lifetime working in this area, undertaking research and teaching on the subject to a wide range of audiences. We thought very carefully about how best to present this series and in the end it was an easy decision.
For those who need it, there is the facility to obtain a certificate in continuing professional education at www.mhtvshop.co.uk
Style
Illustrated lecture. Dr. Parkes has great clarity of thought and his lectures are easy to follow, even for the newcomer.
Use
Additional Information
DVD only
Volumes 1 & 2
£250 excluding VAT and P&P
Volume 1 (Discs 1 - 4)
£140 excluding VAT and P&P
Volume 2 (Discs 5 - 7)
£140 excluding VAT and P&P
Bereavement in Obstetrics
Release Date:
1989 and 1993
Audience:
Nursing staff and students. Medical students and other staff and students with a professional interest.
Duration:
Loss Before Life: 15 minutes
Not Too Small to Mourn: 20 minutes
Content
Loss Before Life – an interview with a bereaved couple. Following a brief introduction this programme is a recording of an interview with a couple discussing their experiences and feelings following a miscarriage. Since first interview was made, the couple have endured two more miscarriages but now have a baby girl.
A follow-up interview with the family provides an opportunity to hear on their reflections about the miscarriages and the way it influences their feelings towards their baby.
Not Too Small to Mourn. Powerful silver-medal winner drama documentary of late in-utero death. Jo begins to feel there is something wrong; the story unfolds to show how the staff handle the situation. There are many practical guidelines that any department could adopt. Commentary highlights teaching points.
Style
Captions are used at the end of the programme outlining the nature of the bereavement reaction. In second programme the points are made along the way.
Use
Main use is in a library or home setting for private study. Both programmes are designed to run uninterrupted.
Additional Information
DVD only
£80 excluding VAT and P&P
Rough Times: A Musical about Bereavement
Release Date:
1997
Audience:
Medical and nursing students and psychotherapy and counselling courses.
Duration:
Main programme: 22 minutes
Discussion: 14 minutes
Content
The programme clarifies the normal emotional reactions to bereavement. It explains the range of normality and points to the roles of friends, relatives and professionals. It does not deal with pathological reactions.
The programme follows a family who experience the death of a child in a RTA. The processes of denial, anger and resolution are illustrated both in picture and song. Social and cultural factors are referred to, as are the different experiences of the family members. The professional comments are succinct and provide explanation. They have been carefully chosen for the intended audience.
Bonus material includes an interview with a psychotherapist and consultant psychiatrist discussing bereavement in clinical practice.
Style
A staged musical drama inter-cut with professional comment. Can run unsupervised or use in a lecture setting.
Use
In a library or lecture. School children have also found it interesting.
Additional Information
This is an experimental production but gets the message across and creates discussion.
£80 excluding VAT and P&P