Video and Multimedia

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Video Resources

What Caring for Child with RAD Was Like for State Rep., Wife

Learning Objective: 12.1 Differentiate between Reactive Attachment Disorder and Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder in terms of their key features, causes, and treatment.

Description: This 7 1/2-minute ABC News video describes the experience of taking in a sexually abused child with RAD.

Questions to Consider

  1. What did the family expect going into this situation?
  2. What were the early signs of RAD that the family witnessed? What then happened?
  3. How was their experience similar to other families’ experiences?
     

Note: This is the second part of the story. To see the first half of this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbQp9HOItvo

The PTSD Brains of Children and Soldiers

Learning Objective: 12.1 Describe the key features of PTSD in children and adolescents and show how the signs and symptoms of this disorder vary as a function of children’s age and exposure to trauma.

Description: This 2-minute video describes research comparing changes in brain functioning in children and soldiers who have experienced trauma.

Questions to Consider

  1. How are trauma and long-term psychological problems related?
  2. What patterns of brain functioning did the researchers find?
  3. What are the implications of these results?
     

What Recovery Looks Like for a Sexual Abuse Survivor in Jamaica

Learning Objective: 12.3 List and give examples of the four main types of child maltreatment. Describe the potential consequences of child maltreatment and evidence-based treatments.

Description: In this 3 1/2-minute video from UNICEF, a young woman describes the aftermath of being raped as a child.

Questions to Consider

  1. What was the immediate consequence of her sexual abuse?
  2. What has happened to her since then? How has she recovered?
  3. What is she doing now?
  4. What does her experience in Jamaica tell us about sexual abuse recovery everywhere?
     

What I’ve Been Through is Not Who I Am

Learning Objective: 12.3 List and give examples of the four main types of child maltreatment. Describe the potential consequences of child maltreatment and evidence-based treatments.

Description: This 20-minute documentary from ECPAT (an organization dedicated to ending sexual exploitation), discusses the commercial sexual exploitation of children.

Questions to Consider

  1. Describe what happened to Katrina.
  2. How did she move from victim to survivor?
  3. Why is legislative reform necessary to help in the treatment of this form of child sexual abuse?
     

Audio Resources

Syria’s War Leaves Its Scars on the Children

Learning Objective: 12.1 Describe the key features of PTSD in children and adolescents and show how the signs and symptoms of this disorder vary as a function of children’s age and exposure to trauma.

Description: This 6-minute story discusses the consequences of trauma from the Syrian war on children.

Questions to Consider

  1. What symptoms of PTSD do the children in the story demonstrate?
  2. What may be the consequences of the war on children in the long-term?
  3. How can this school help the children?
     

When the Legal System Disappoints a Victim of Child Sex Abuse

Learning Objective: 12.3 List and give examples of the four main types of child maltreatment. Describe the potential consequences of child maltreatment and evidence-based treatments.

Description: This 5-minute clip describes how difficult it can be to prosecute child sexual abuse cases.

Questions to Consider

  1. Why is it so difficult to study how child sexual abuse cases are handled?
  2. What inspired Tennessee Watson to investigate this?

This is discussed in more depth in a 51-minute program: https://soundcloud.com/thisisreveal/dropped-and-dismissed-child-sex-abuse-lost-in-the-system