Basic Concepts II:  Challenging Issues in Developmental Disabilities

Eight Videotapes Addressing Controversial Issues

  • Self-Determination: Enabling People to Make Choices
    Teaches how to make choice more than just a slogan by involving people with developmental disabilities in day-to-day, short-term, and longer-term decisions.
  • Diagnosing Challenging Behavior I: Medical and Environmental Causes
    Teaches a scientific approach toward identifying the underlying reasons for challenging behavior. Teaches how to detect patterns of behavior to arrive at sensible treatment interventions.
  • Diagnosing Challenging Behavior II: Functional Assessment
    Teaches how to recognize indicators of the four most common reasons for challenging behavior. Includes suggestions for individualized treatment strategies to address these underlying reasons.
  • Human Sexuality I: Rights
    Confronts sexual mythology. Explains the rights to develop and relate as a sexual being, to privacy, to be informed about matters of sexuality, to choose marital status, to have children or not, to have access to related services, and to make decisions affecting your own life.
  • Human Sexuality II: Developing a Mentor/Friend Relationship
    Learn to be supportive, helpful, and a resource to others in the development of a healthy sexual identity. Demonstrates how to make use of informal teaching opportunities about human sexuality.
  • Aging I: Meeting Basic Needs
    Covers the changes that accompany older age and discusses basic needs of economic security, access to adequate health services, access to needed teaching, and access to other needed services, including advocacy and guardianship.
  • Aging II: Living with Dignity
    Discusses supporting eldery people with developmental disabilities to maintain a sense of self-worth through self-determination, maintaining a productive and meaningful life, maintaining a healthy social network, and being proactive about aging.
  • Teaching Anger Management
    Learn how and why anger management training works to reduce both mild and serious aggressions, and how to develop, maintain and support an anger management program.

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  • Written materials, including competence tests and study guides, come with each videotape.

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