Audiovisual Library News
May 2025

Highlighting AV and ECI Resources at the AV Library

New Streaming Videos
ECI Books
Safety Training Streaming Videos
Mental Health Month     

New Streaming Videos:

Practical Ethics: Addressing the Real-Life Challenges Confronting Healthcare Professionals - A Lecture.
Streaming. 340 min. 2016. Professional.
This video seminar presents ethical decision-making tools and explains how to apply them in practical situations. Highlighting several types of ethical dilemmas that can arise in healthcare, it reviews key cases and codes in the development of healthcare ethics. It also discusses the role of ethics committees, key theories, the four-quadrant approach, and the Bennett-Woods Eight Step Model of ethical decision making.

Patient Assessment
Streaming. 16 min. 2021. Professional.
This program discusses both visual and numerical pain assessment scales for patient care. It considers the purpose of and guidelines for establishing a pain management program. It presents examples of how personal beliefs about pain held by both the healthcare professional, and the patient can affect pain assessment.

Lupus - Second Opinion
Streaming. 27 min. 2016. Adult.
Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that is known as the “great imitator”, because many of its symptoms can mask themselves as other disorders. Autoimmune diseases are when your own immune system attacks your own tissues instead of being directed to outward dangers in the body. This program presents an interview with a patient, who thought her symptoms were the result of her busy college schedule, until a visit to her doctor.

ECI Books:

The DSHS AV Library contracts with HHSC Early Childhood Intervention to provide library services and maintain a collection of ECI resources. Here are some of the newest selections in this collection.

Familial Fitness: Disability, Adoption, and Family in Modern America. Sandra M. Sufian. 2022. (HV 875.55 S946 2022)
This book illustrates the historical dynamics of disability, adoption, and family. It explores disability and difference in the twentieth-century American family, particularly how notions and practices of adoption have (and haven't) accommodated disability, and how the language of risk enters into that complicated relationship. It reveals how the field of adoption moved from widely excluding children with disabilities in the early twentieth century to partially including them at its close.

How Can I Help? A Teacher's Guide To Early Childhood Behavioral Health. Ginger Welch. 2019. Book. (LB 1139.23 W439 2019 ECI)
Sometimes misbehavior isn’t what it seems. Many children come to care
with early signs of mental- or behavioral-health issues. Early childhood professionals are often the first to notice that something is different. This guide helps educators first identify issues and then create nurturing, safe, and successful learning environments to set up all children for success.

Trauma-Sensitive Care for Infants, Toddlers, and Two-Year-Olds. Barbara Sorrels. 2022. Book. (LC 4601 S714 2022 ECI)
Maltreatment during the first three years of life is of utmost concern. Not only are the numbers of harmed infants and toddlers staggering, maltreatment during this vulnerable period alters children's development in such a way that it robs them of reaching their full human potential. This book provides practical advice and strategies to nurture harmed children
and start them on the path to healing.

Safety Training Streaming Videos from Training Network Now/Streamery:

Hazard Recognition in Office Environments
Streaming. 19 min. 2025. Adult.
This program discusses the importance of hazard recognition, different types of hazards, and how to identify hazards in advance or in real time. It also provides practical guidance on how to investigate accidents and near misses. Topics covered include hazardous conditions and unsafe acts, identifying hazards in advance, and investigating accidents and near misses. 

Orientation to Safety for New Employees (English/Spanish)
Streaming. 35 min. 2021. Adult.
This program discusses the most common safety issues new hires may encounter while performing their jobs, and the safe work practices and job procedures that must be followed to prevent injuries and ensure that everyone arrives home safely at the end of each day. Topics include various types of personal protective equipment, preventing slips, trips and falls, ladder safety, safe lifting techniques, hazard communication, lockout/tagout, bloodborne pathogens, and incident reporting.

Physical Wellness: Feeling Your Best at Work and At Home (English/Spanish)
Streaming. 8 min. 2024. Adult. 
Everyone wants to feel good physically. It improves your quality of every aspect of your life. This video explains what steps you can take to feel better all the time, at work, and at home.

Mental Health Month

Coping with Emotions: Anger
DVD. 32 min. 2015. Adult. (DV1356)
Learning to cope with anger is vital in recovery. Unprocessed anger, which often leads to resentment, is a leading cause of relapse. Following a brief education on important aspects of anger and resentment, this presentation introduces viewers to a variety of practical anger management tools. Viewers also learn which of these tools can be used to calm rageful anger, clearing the way to use other tools to process and uncover its true source.

Feel Good: Natural Remedies for Depression - College and Youth Version
DVD and Streaming. 35 min. 2019. Senior High - Adult. (DV1458)
This program looks at natural remedies for depression. It features interviews with valuable tips from best-selling authors, medical professionals, and experts in nutrition, exercise, meditation.

Suicide Warning Signs
Streaming. 7 min. 2019. Senior High – Adult.
Suicide is a leading cause of death among teens and is often linked to depression or other mood disorders and mental illnesses. While it can be hard to predict who might attempt suicide, but if you think a friend or family member might be at risk, there are signs to watch for. It's important to understand the actions and patterns that warn of suicide and when to step in and offer a helping hand.

Understanding Social Anxiety
DVD. 13 min. 2021. Senior High – Adult. (DV1438)
Social anxiety is the negative emotions and fear of ordinary social interactions. It affects about 40% of all the teens in the US. This video gives a personal look at social anxiety as a group of diverse teens present their stories and coping strategies. A psychologist gives a professional insight the effects and where to get help.

To borrow any books or videos listed above, please email avlibrary@dshs.texas.gov.

Click on the streaming links to register to receive access information for each online video service. Only one registration per streaming service is required.

Visit the library catalog at www.texashealthlibrary.com for a complete list of titles available from the library.

If you would like to subscribe, please send an email to avlibrary@dshs.texas.gov with Subscribe in the subject line.

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Highlighting AV and ECI Resources at the AV Library

New Streaming Videos
ECI Books 
Safety Training Streaming Videos
Stress Awareness Month

New Streaming Videos:

Collaboration and Teamwork in Healthcare
Streaming. 2020. Professional.
Breaking Bad News, Part 1A (2 min.) Features a scenario that highlight an example in which the health care providers are not appropriately prepared for the family meeting. It addresses that poor delivery of care information to the patient, client, and family can create grief and conflict.

The Family Meeting Preparation, Part 1B (2 min.) Features a scenario that highlights how a pre-brief effectively assists the health care team in communicating with patient, client, and family. It addresses how the team can deliver information/concerns and collectively prepare a cohesive plan.

The Family Meeting, Part 1C (5 min.) Features a scenario that highlights a good family meeting with effective communication amongst the team and
in-depth information. The family is fully engaged and can ask questions to clarify, and the prognosis is fully explained to the family.

Team Huddle, Part 2 (4 min.) Features a scenario that highlights the importance of process and communication in the form of efficient 3 to 4-minute team huddles. Team huddles help staff to check in with one another on patient and operational issues such as staff absences/turnovers, clinic announcements/emergencies or other patient care flow and safety issues.

Team Safety Debrief, Part 3 (5 min.) Features a scenario that highlights an example in which different team members bring perceptions on a long-term care resident fall. The team safety debrief meeting is led by the manager. This clip highlights elements such as role clarity, communication, team functioning, and collaborative leadership.

HIPAA for Medical Assistants: An Overview
Streaming. 13 min. 2021. Professional.
This program defines HIPAA and provide an overview of its guidelines and requirements. It explains the role of the HIPAA Advisory Team, as well as the role of the individual healthcare worker in ensuring compliance with HIPAA reforms. It discusses healthcare access, portability, and reliability; and explains the five rules of administrative simplification.

ECI Books:

The DSHS AV Library contracts with HHSC Early Childhood Intervention to provide library services and maintain a collection of ECI resources.
Here are some of the newest selections in this collection.

Essential FASD Supports: Understanding and Supporting People with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
Nathan Sheets. 2023. (WQ 211 S541 2023 ECI)
This book offers a reinterpretation of "challenging behaviors" and other common struggles that people with FASDs experience while living in a world that does not understand them. It helps parents and professionals think about practical supports for everyday life and long-term progress. Additionally, readers will learn what we should avoid if we want to effectively support people with FASDs. This book provides a proactive framework to support people with FASDs so they can use their strengths to make progress and thrive. It will benefit parents, caregivers, foster providers, therapists, teachers, and anyone else who supports someone with an FASD.

The Wellbeing of Children Under Three, 2nd ed.
Helen Bradford. 2021. (WS 103 B799 2021 ECI)
Focusing on the home-setting partnership with parents, work attitudes, adult-child interaction and quality learning environments, this book explores the role that adults play in holistically supporting children's individual personal, social and emotional needs. This new edition also includes new material on practitioner mental health and the Leuven scales as a measure of wellbeing.

When Children Feel Pain: From Everyday Aches to Chronic Conditions.
Rachel Peachman. 2022. (WL 704 P355 2022 ECI)
Childhood pain is a widespread problem, yet it often goes untreated. The result can be long-term ill health. Drawing on the latest research, two voices on pediatric pain show parents, teachers, and medical practitioners how to help when they are needed most, attuning adults to practical strategies that make real difference in kids' lives.

Safety Training Streaming Videos from AP Safety Training:

Lockout/Tagout for Authorized Workers
Streaming. 13 min. 2023. Adult. (English/Spanish)
The only employees who may perform lockout/tagout operations are authorized employees, and they are the focus of this program. During interviews and instruction, viewers will see how important it is for authorized employees to perform a lockout/tagout correctly and safely. Topics include: The definition of lockout/tagout, the three types of workers listed in OSHA's standard and their differences, the responsibilities of the authorized employee, how to perform a lockout and drain all energy, how to verify a lockout, and what to do when returning equipment to service. Lockout/Tagout

Traffic Control: The Basics
Streaming. 9 min. 2023. Adult.
Controlling traffic safely is a serious job. Flagging operations must be done properly to keep motorists and the flagging crew safe. This program details ways to plan traffic control in advance, the different types of work zones and their guidelines, setting up flagger stations, and the situations that may require the use of single and double flaggers.

Understanding and Preventing Sexual Harassment: 15-Minute Training for Employees
Streaming. 15 min. 2023. Adult. (English/Spanish)
This 15-minute program, when combined with its quiz and a discussion of your organization’s anti-harassment policy, can be part of a comprehensive training program to prevent sexual harassment. This program features a variety of scenarios where workers exhibit unwelcome behavior to show viewers what types of behavior constitute sexual harassment and how they should respond to such conduct. Topics include why sexual harassment is illegal and legal precedents related to sexual harassment, what constitutes a hostile workplace, the meaning of quid pro quo, frequently asked questions regarding sexual harassment, how to respond when witnessing or experiencing harassing behavior, and the potential disciplinary actions for policy violations. 

Stress Awareness Month:

Keep Your Anxiety and Stress in Check
Streaming. 7 min.  2019. Adult.
The "fight-​or-​flight" response is your body's built-in response to stress. When faced with a challenging or threatening situation, your body produces adrenaline, which increases your heart and breathing rate and improves your response time. Many things, called stressors, can trigger this response. A stressor can be a physical danger, a high-pressure activity, or even performing in public. In most cases, your body relaxes, and the adrenalin fades once the situation is resolved. When your "fight-​or-​flight" response continues, though, or is triggered by a concern or preoccupation with something that might happen, it becomes anxiety, a state of worry that has negative effects on your health. How you choose to manage stress cope with anxiety can have long-term effects on your well-being, so it's important to understand the difference and how to deal with them.

Manage Overload and Relieve Stress: Skills for Me
DVD and Streaming. 10 min. 2022. Adult. (DV1499)
Featured psychologists deliver practical techniques and advice for dealing with interpersonal situations. "Manage Overload and Relieve Stress" assists people struggling with issues of stress, anxiety and overload that affect them at work and at home. Viewers will learn to manage stress and overload.

A Nurse's Guide to Stress Management, Episode 5: Workplace Strategies for Stress Management
Streaming. 8 min. 2023. Adult – Professional.
While nurses can't control many aspects of their work, they can control how they respond to stressors in the workplace. This program discusses teamwork, communication, time management, assertiveness, and resilience by featuring interviews with professional nurses. They discuss how they can help with managing stress in the healthcare workplace.

To borrow any books or videos listed above, please email avlibrary@dshs.texas.gov.

Click on the streaming links to register to receive access information for each online video service. Only one registration per streaming service is required.

Visit the library catalog at www.texashealthlibrary.com for a complete list of titles available from the library.

If you would like to subscribe, please send an email to avlibrary@dshs.texas.gov with Subscribe in the subject line.

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Highlighting AV and ECI Resources at the AV Library

New Streaming Videos
ECI Books
Safety Training Streaming Videos
Brain Injury Awareness Month

New Streaming Videos

Nursing Professionalism: The Code of Ethics
Streaming. 13 min. 2023. Professional.
This program examines aspects of the code of ethics in the nursing profession. It discusses the document that is at the foundation of the nursing profession - the code of ethics. It considers an obligation to patients, confidentiality, autonomy, collaboration, continuing education, and ethical dilemmas. It looks at the core values that guide nurses.               

Promoting Independence for Persons with Dementia
Streaming. 19 min. 2018. Professional.
After viewing the program, nursing assistants will be able to assist with activities of daily living (ADLs) while promoting resident independence and dignity. They will be able to recognize care strategies for dressing, grooming, toileting, bathing, and eating for people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. 

Social Emotional Learning: My Well-Being - Are You Depressed? What You Can Do
Streaming. 19 min. 2022. Junior High – Senior High.
This video explains how to understand the difference between being sad and being depressed. What exactly is depression? What causes it? What should you do if you experience symptoms of depression? How do you support loved ones or friends who are experiencing depression?                  

ECI Books

The DSHS AV Library contracts with HHSC Early Childhood Intervention to provide library services and maintain a collection of ECI resources. Here are some of the newest selections in this collection.

Essentials of Practice-Based Coaching: Supporting Effective Practices in Early Childhood. Patricia Snyder. 2022. (LB 1775.6 S675 2022 ECI)
This research‐to‐practice resource gives readers an overview of the Practice‐Based Coaching framework and a complete guide to implementing its three key components: shared goals and action planning, focused observation, and reflection and feedback.

Finding Your Way with Your Baby: The Emotional Life of Parents and Babies, 2nd ed. Dilys Daws. 2022. (WS 105.5 E5 D272 2015 ECI)
This book explores the emotional experience of the baby in the first year and that of the mother, father, and other significant adults. The authors engage with the difficult emotional experiences that are often glossed over in parenting books - such as bonding, ambivalence about the baby, depression, and the emotional turmoil of being a new parent. Acknowledgement and understanding of this darker side of family life offer a sense of relief that can allow parents to harness the power of knowing, owning, and sharing feelings to transform situations and break negative cycles and old ways of relating. With real-life examples, it is a helpful resource for parents, as well as professionals interested in ideas from psychoanalytic clinical practice including health visitors, midwives, social workers, general practitioners, pediatricians and childcare workers.

Layla's Life, My Words: An Insight into The World of a Child with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Shushma Jain. 2021. (WQ 211 J25 2021 ECI)
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is on the increase and can be 'hidden'. All educators need to be aware of the syndrome and how it affects children. We then need to understand how to work effectively with children with FASD to ensure that they flourish.

Safety Training Streaming Videos from Training Network Now/Streamery

Accident Investigation
Streaming. 13 min. 2015. Adult.
This training program provides employees with the information that they need to understand the goals of an accident investigation, the process itself, and how they can participate in the process to help make their workplace safer. Topics include investigations and root cause analysis, the role procedures play in preventing accidents, and the importance of training.

Health & Safety Factors in Welding Operations
Streaming. 15 min. 2015. Adult.
This training program focuses on the general safety and health hazards associated with welding and cutting, and how your employees can avoid injury when performing these operations. Topics covered include proper personal protective equipment and control measures that can reduce hazards. Available in English or Spanish.

Landscape Safety Orientation
Streaming. 16 min. 2020. Adult.
Landscaping equipment can be dangerous when not handled properly. Trimmers, mowers, and other sharp utensils are just a part of the job, and they can cause serious injury in the hands of an untrained worker. Program not only covers general safety when using common equipment, tool safety and proper body mechanics, it also addresses basic safety protocols for handling chemicals used in landscaping businesses. Available in English or Spanish.

Brain Injury Awareness Month

Change of Mind
DVD. 54 min. 2016. Adult. (DD0785)
After a diving accident and decompression sickness, Nash Wagstaffe experienced extreme mood swings and loss of concentration. Joblessness, homelessness, and crime followed. In prison, he learned his brain was deprived of oxygen in the accident and severely damaged. This program examines the societal impact of brain injury and the state of existing services for victims. It explores the hope offered by research into neural plasticity and attempts by visionary judges, prison staff, and parole officers to develop appropriate sentencing in the criminal justice system.

Concussions and Sports Injuries
Streaming. 5 min. 2020. Adult.
Concussions and injuries are a common occurrence for players of contact sports. This video explains that breaks, strains, and overuse injuries all commonly occur in student-athletes. It's important to understand the risks, how to prevent injuries, and most importantly how to recognize and treat them when they occur.

Making a Difference: Meeting the Special Needs of Individuals with Brain Injury
DVD. 97 min. 2008. Adult-Professional. (DV620)
This DVD is comprised of ten modules that illustrate the neuroanatomy of a brain injury and the everyday difficulties experienced by survivors of brain injury. It offers useful tips for effective communication and for directing individuals, families and loved ones to needed supports and services. It includes interviews with survivors and a special section on the needs of veterans with brain injury.

Pathophysiology:  Neurological System: Acute Brain Injuries
DVD. 28 min. 2016. Adult-Professional. (DV1214)
This program focuses on acute injuries to the brain. Beginning with a brief discussion of increased intracranial pressure and cerebral edema, both of which are common in brain pathologies, it describes traumatic brain injuries, concussions, skull fractures, and stroke.

To borrow any books or videos listed above, please email avlibrary@dshs.texas.gov.

Click on the streaming links to register to receive access information for each online video service. Only one registration per streaming service is required.

Visit the library catalog at www.texashealthlibrary.com for a complete list of titles available from the library.

If you would like to subscribe, please send an email to avlibrary@dshs.texas.gov with Subscribe in the subject line.

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