teaching tools for Mental health nursing course

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Looking for movies or documentaries that would be good to use in teaching a Practical nursing course. I would like something that protrays some disorders or discusses several and maybe therapies. It would need to be less than 2 hours.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

I like to use videos to illustrate mental illness disorders, because frankly just reading about the disorders do not always tell the entire story. I start out my course showing "Back from Madness" a struggle for sanity. Its from HBO and its around 50 minutes. It tells the story of 4 individuals with different disorders, manic-depressive, Schizophrenia, Obsessive Compulsive, and suicidal Depression, and show these people manage their diseases over 1 - 2 years. I also show a video about multiple personalities, from PBS which shows 3 people who continue to struggle daily with the outcomes of abuse as children, one hour in length. There are so many, I am really interested in what other instructors are using. Good luck in your course.

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thanks for the suggestions. I'm going to check these out.

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Where did you get your copies of these? I looked at the HBO and PBS website and couldn't see where you might be able to order.

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Education.

Not sure if you are interested in popular movies, but the soloist and A Beautiful Mind are good.

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thanks for the other suggestions

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Sorry about the late reply, but holidays have interferred. I found Back from Madness from the Films for the humanities and sciences. I get a catalog from these folks, but it is still an HBO film. I can't remember where I got the multiple personalities film, I believe that a faculty or student might have given it to me. All I remember is that they said it was from a PBS show. Good luck

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thanks again

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