The Mifne Center introduced the concept of total integration of the autistic or special child into mainstream schools in Israel, and has accumulated many years of experience in the process.

Michael Trout examines perspectives of infant mental health and the bonds developed between babies and their mothers. Includes vignettes from both healthy and conflicted caregiver-infant dyads. Available in VHS format only.

This video describes the psychology and mindset of expecting mothers as they are on the verge of childbirth, and it discusses the impact of this on her relationships with her mate. Available in VHS format only.

This video offers methods of assessing and evaluating the relationship between babies and their parents. Available in VHS format only.

This videos compares family integration between regular and distressed families and shows how babies go through family integration. Available in VHS format only.

Examines the struggles engaged in by parents and siblings to integrate a handicapped or sick newborn into the family. Available in VHS format only.

This tape demonstrates strategies and principles for intervention that infant mental health clinicians use to support infant-parent relationships in infant-parent therapy. Available in VHS format only.

This 3-DVD set is made to enable teachers and other professional caregivers to understand and act on their responsibility as mandated reporters of child abuse. There is a strong emphasis placed on child sexual abuse, which is the most elusive and difficult type of abuse to identify.

The video includes a judge's perspective of family issues, important talks between collaborating professionals, and an adult's perspective of being abused, speaking from personal experience. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video is from a conference about child domestic abuse, and it presents issues along with solutions that enable viewer interaction and learning. Available in VHS format only.

This program features Nancy Boyd Webb, an authority on play therapy, who describes and demonstrates effective play therapy techniques. Available in VHS format only.

This book demonstrates through case example the application of specific play therapy techniques for helping children, ages 3-11 years, who have been traumatized.

Violence prevention begins with straight talk. Studies have repeatedly shown connections between chemical dependence and every form of violent behavior, from domestic abuse to murder. Available in VHS format only.

This program features Steven Campbell, a therapist, who has dealt with hostile and resistant youth for 25 years and has developed an effective anger-management strategy, which is communicated in this video. Available in VHS format only.

This thorough introduction to the concept of resiliency can help professionals identify and foster strengths in young people at risk. Available in VHS format only.

This video involves various child care experts who illustrate methods of creating a healing environment for infants that were born with drug-addicted and alcoholic parents. Rebuilding the emotional and psychological foundations for these infants is what the healing setting attempts to achieve.

This book explains the special needs of children that can occur when their parent faces a serious illness. The author, Kathleen McCue, describes how to help children surmount the mental and emotional stresses they experience no matter what the parent's medical outcome.

In this program, Dr. Russell A. Barkley identifies the origins of defiant behavior in young children, and he offers effective solutions in discipline and assessment to parents and professionals. Includes: VHS

In this video, Dr. Barkley brings applies is approach of child behavioral management and he discusses methods that parents can employ to more effectively handle their defiant children. Includes: VHS

This text is an extensive professional explanation of Doctor Barkley's 10-part training method, and it includes a thorough section about assessing behavior and child conditions with informative handouts for educators and parents.

This video contains a small conference of national subject-matter experts and in-depth conversations with young children about their ordeals with abuse and witnessing violence. The video illustrates the effects of violence on children who are younger than 8 years. Includes: VHS

This video gives advice for parents who are seeking to adopt babies. This video was produced from the perspective of an infant, and it is suitable for parents, educators, and child care professionals. Includes: VHS or DVD

This video reveals the experiences of children who endure losing parents, and it shows the perspectives of children who live in foster care. Includes: VHS

This documentary displays various interviews and conversations with teens about their upbringing and cultural experiences. It offers advice about how to interact and relate with them at a personal level. Includes: VHS

This comprehensive video and book set discusses Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and provides methods for assessing the needs of children who have autism, aspergers, and other disorders. Includes: 3 books and 3 VHS or DVD formats

This video provides an introduction to applied behavior analysis (ABA) for children with autism. It is part of the Bridges for Children with Autism series, which brings the first step to getting someone familiar to ABA. Includes: VHS

This book describes how therapists can both facilitate constructive play therapy and intervene in post-traumatic play to help children who have been traumatized by abuse or neglect achieve a positive resolution.

In this video Dr Eliana Gil brings viewers into the therapeutic playroom, she describes how play activities fit into the reparative process, and provides helpful pointers for practice. Includes: VHS

In this video, play and family therapist Eliana Gil discusses the nature of trauma, how to recognize it clinically, and how to manage its powerful effects upon children's development with the help of artwork and play.

This book presents new solutions to the old problem of violence in the lives of children. Various programs and new ways of intervening with children exposed to violence are discussed in this book.

This book reviews the methods for creating effective collaboration in school to solve complex issues.

This outstanding three-part video-based training program includes 1) The Violence That Children Can See, 2) The Power of Relationships - to help children feel safe, 3) The Need To Be Heard - how community violence can effect teachers an caregivers. Includes training manual. Available in English and Spanish.

This program examines the reactions of children, ages three to eleven, to the deaths of close relatives. Children are greatly affected by such losses and their grief is expressed in a variety of different behaviors and emotional states. This program demonstrates the significance of giving bereaved children honest explanations, comfort, and support. Includes: VHS

This video shows what children are attempting to communicate through their artwork, behavior, and speech. Designed for mediators, judges, support programs for divorcing couples, and for the parents themselves as they examine children's emotions of divorce. Includes: VHS

This book offers families who have children that are defiant and difficult to manage. It offers suggestions and tips for resolving difficult behavior in an 8-part program.

This text delivers a highly useful eighteen-part program that helps parents deal with their defiant teens, and it offers techniques that create stronger family bonds and relationships.

This book is about incorporating contemporary concepts and theories of child development to the practice of assessment and intervention, and the author is Douglas Davies, a renowned infant mental health expert.

The attachment phenomenon has a profound impact on humans. Paradigms, feelings, relationships, and physical functions are impacted by attachment during a child's early years. This text discusses the importance of attachment and how disorders and dysfunctions can arise from detachment.

Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder, authors of this book, provide a step-by-step approach to developmental challenges faced by young children and their families based on the unique profile of each child.

This video follows three very young children and their families through three months of therapy at the C.M. Hincks Centre, Child Mental Health Institute in Toronto. Includes: VHS

This video features an author who won the Pulitzer Prize, showing the lives of 8 children who communicate their struggles through hand-drawn illustrations. Includes: VHS

Sensory defensiveness can be characterized as a sensitivity or an adverse reaction to a stimulus that ordinarily is not considered offensive or unusual. This condition can develop from injury, trauma, or an illness, and a person can also be born with it. Includes: VHS

This audio cassette tape provides an introduction to sensory defensiveness. The information is presented by Patricia Wilbarger, M.Ed., OTR, FAOTA and Julia Wilbarger, MS, OTR. Includes: 1 audio tape

Sensory defensiveness is a delicate condition that can be present at birth or acquired through physical and/or emotional trauma, e.g. head injury or nervous system infection. Tactile defensiveness is only one manifestation of a nervous system modulation problem currently described as sensory defensiveness.

This edition presents information about infant mental health theory from a clinical and educational viewpoint. Topics include developmental psychopathology, frequently encountered disorders of infancy, approaches to clinical assessment and intervention, and social policy applications. 600 pages

This book shows how clinicians can improve their research with children by incorporating drawing into therapy sessions and recognizing the messages in the art.

This video demonstrates how early intervention at a preschool for young children with challenging needs can help parents learn positive strategies to break the cycle of oppositional behavior. Available on VHS and DVD.

The primary focus of this book is the role and tasks of the professional who works most closely with parents and their infants who are at risk for continuing developmental problems or disabilities related to pre-term birth or other medical complications.

This documentary examines how parents by their own example influence their children’s behavior and life choices. Includes: VHS

This book represents a breakthrough in teaching professionals the unique skills of interviewing children and adolescents during interpersonal crises.