Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
PTSD
Release Date:
Re-edited in 1995 (original release 1991)
Audience:
Professionally interested staff (wide appeal)
Duration:
Part One: 18 minutes
Part Two: 12 minutes
Content
Part One takes a railway accident as the main example, but also includes other disasters, both man-made and natural.
Part Two reviews the impact on staff and the treatment options. The programme illustrates the nature of the problem and the principles of management.
Style
Using a documentary style, interviews with experts and survivors are inter-cut with appropriate live footage. Also included is a section on battle stress using examples from recent conflicts. The main teaching points are highlighted using graphics and captions.
Use
Wide and diverse uses from courses on PTSD to student use in a library.
Additional Information
Contributors: Senior Chaplain Ian Ainsworth-Smith, Vice Adm. Sir Jeremy Black, Surg. Cdr Morgan O’Connell, Senior Nurse Beryl Pym, Vice Adm. Sir John Woodward.
The producer thanks the following for their permission to use copyright material: Movietone News, Thames Television, The Imperial War Museum, The Services Sound and Vision Corporation.
Direct access to the chapter headings greatly enhances the usefulness in live teaching.
£80 excluding VAT and P&P