„Motor Nasch“ tells the story of the encounter between the 100 year old Alexandra Konstantinovna of Moscow, her daughters, her granddaughters and great-granddaughters - six women out of four generations. Their story covers the period, in which the Soviet Union was built and broke up: Alexandra…
Anti-racism - historical and personal issues. The speaker examines the historical and personal issues involved in social work, and discusses working with different groups of people: children, young people, elders etc. and also at teamwork and organisational change. This film is of historical interest…
The unitary approach in social work. The unitary approach – the need for an integrated framework for the different theories and approaches in social work. Three factors are important: an attempt to create a unified approach, to provide a strong theoretical approach and to integrate different…
Challenges stereotypes and assumptions. Accepting the unpredictable, and challenging stereotypes and assumptions are part of the feminist perspective. There is still an inbuilt bias towards male power. Women are still at a disadvantage; the jobs traditionally done by women, such as child care, and…
Health Care - Patient Experiences. Problems in detecting early cancer symptoms. 'World In Action' investigation into cancer diagnosis, which claims that people with cancer are dying unnecessarily because of lack of GP training in detecting the symptoms. Eight of the nine years of a doctor's…
Help for people with dementia and their carers in the community. This film is about creating ‘dementia friendly communities’. It poses the question ‘ how can communities help people with dementia?’ The narrator reminds us that community means ‘you and me’. What…
Update | July 2016 - now available in 4K This is 'summer' - part one of the film 'BRINDABELLAS | edge of light'. In 'summer' shimmering heat bakes the Brindabellas before the resulting transpiration eventually transforms into billowing mountain cloudscapes. 'BRINDABELLAS…
Classic documentary about an urban family with ten children. Classic candid camera study of a large family in a Canadian City. The camera crew lived with the family for about a fortnight just before the birth of their tenth child, while the mother was away, and the film ends with her bringing it back,…
A training package for working with community interpreters. A training package for helping professionals in social, health care or other agencies to work as effectively as possible with interpreters. It aims to increase awareness of the need for clear communication, to develop practical skills in…
How and how not to deal with the behaviour of an aggressive patient. Using role play, Malcolm Brown describes how a social worker deals, unsuccessfully and then successfully with the behaviour of an openly aggressive patient in hospital and a silently aggressive teenager. His approach invites the…
Series of four case studies involving stress made in 1991. A series of four case studies showing how stress can affect people's lives, particularly in relation to work. Psychologist Peter Holden introduces each study with an explanation of stress and its causes, and concludes with advice on coping…
In recent years climate science has come under increasing attack, so concerned geologist Simon Lamb grabbed his camera and set out to explore the inside story of climate research. For over three years he followed scientists from a wide range of disciplines at work in the Arctic, Antarctic, Southern Ocean,…
