It can be very challenging for mental health nurses to care for persons with dementias like Alzheimer’s disease. In this pair of vignettes, a novice tries to comfort and re-orient an older man with dementia in a nursing home. Then we witness how a more experienced nurse is able to help the older man feel much less anxious about his current situation. A second set of vignettes demonstrates some of the skills and techniques needed when caring for a person with severe anxiety.
Subjects: Psychology
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Accident
Dominique show is a globally renowned world-beat musician, whose career was abruptly cut short by a car accident that resulted in a devastating spinal cord injury. It meant he could no longer walk, dance, or do so many of the things he had once taken for granted. Today however, he believes it was God calling him to another life. The harmonious result was an album of gospel music that blends African musical tradition with his new-found faith. He continues to believe that he will walk again, and the support of his wife has helped him find a revitalized vision for the future.
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Client Experiencing Mania
Our next example demonstrates a nurses who is finding it quite challenging to care for a client who is suffering from a condition called manic depression. The novice nurse is really struggling as she tries to maintain control over a home visit she is making to her client. In the second scenario the expert nurse also finds it difficult to maintain control over the visit, but manages to do so in a much more skillful and confident manner. The expert nurse also makes an important follow-up telephone call after her visit.
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Torture
Ezat Mossallanejad spoke out against human rights violations in his native Iran and was tortured many times for his outspokenness. He was in exile for many years under threat of death, but never lost faith in the rightness of his cause or the basic goodness of other people. He says the torturers wanted to take away his humanity, but today his work as a policy analyst and advocate at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture is proof that they did not succeed.
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Sue Sharpe on Just like a Girl
In the first part of this program Sue Sharpe explains how and why her work came to be focused on working class girls, her shift from quantitative to qualitative methods and her use of content analysis. In the second part, she discusses the correspondence she found between the images of femininity portrayed in popular culture and the aspirations of the majority of girls she interviewed to leave school as soon as possible, get an office job and settle down to have children. She also talks about her follow-up study 20 years later, where she found a much more cynical attitude to marriage and family but little change in girls’ educational and career aspirations.
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Classic Studies in Psychology 1
A compelling set of short videos illustrating five of psychology’s most important studies; The Strange Situation, Bandura on Social Learning, Elizabeth Loftus on Eyewitness Testimony, Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience and The Stanford Prison Experiment. Also included on the DVD are lesson plans and activities, PowerPoint’s and follow-up references and resources. This is ideal for introduction to this field of study or open days.
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PE Skills Classification, Coaching and Practice
A syllabus specific program on key concepts, filmed at a leading PE college. This video offers practical examples from a variety of sports and focuses on Skill & Ability, Skills Classification, Training & Practice, and features exam advice & guidance.
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PE Theories of Learning
This 25 minute syllabus specific program uses a number of practical examples to explore four key psychological theories and their application to learning sporting skills; Social Learning Theory, Operant Conditioning, Cognitive Theory, Schema and Skills Transition and gives exam advice and guidance.
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Jock Young on The Drugtakers
The Drugtakers is one of the clearest and most dramatic examples of deviance amplification. In this program Jock Young discusses what is meant by a ‘sociological approach’ to drug use, the importance of looking at societal reaction and some of the benefits and difficulties of using ethnographic methods.
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Michelle Stanworth on Gender and Schooling
In the 1970’s the majority of secondary school students were being educated in mixed comprehensives, with girls and boys getting much the same education. But were they? Michelle Stanworth set out to explore this question and her study became a benchmark for feminist approaches to the sociology of education.