Just Listen - Mental Health

Synopsis: This moving series sets out to challenge the stigma faced by people who experience mental problems. Four people talk frankly about their experiences of mental distress, some of the problems they encountered as a result, and how they would like to see attitudes change.

Supplied with a CD containing printable support materials including suggestions for group discussions and transcripts of all four interviews.
Series: Just Listen, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 2006
Subjects: Social Studies; Social welfare; Mental Health and Counselling
Keywords: mental disorders; post-traumatic stress disorder; bipolar disorder; nervous breakdown

Title: Race and Religion: Ibraham and Clair
Synopsis: Ibraham’s story of personal tragedy dispels many of the myths that exist about refugees and asylum seekers.
Clair, a British Muslim, tells how lack of understanding leads to prejudice towards other religions, particularly Islam.
Duration: 12 mins
Title: Disability: Linda
Synopsis: How other people regard those with a disability. Linda is a wheelchair user and talks about how people treat her and other disabled people differently. We see examples from her perspective, giving viewers an insight into Linda’s world and the difficulties disabled people have to face.
Duration: 13 mins
Title: Gender and Sexuality: Alice and Mick
Synopsis: A transvestite and a gay man talk about prejudice they have encountered. Alice, a transvestite, describes how transgendered people have to live with abuse and ridicule. Mick is gay and has been attacked because of "what he is". He talks about the stress that hiding your true identity brings.
Duration: 10 mins

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Notes: A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.

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Notes: A selection of DVDs and videos on mental health topics arranged under the headings diagnoses & treatment, policy & practice, self-management & self-help, user and carer perspectives. Sale.

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