Finding Videos
You can find videos in the following databases.
- Library Catalog Use the limiter Videos to find videos
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Educational videos on a variety of topics including humanities, social sciences, business, economics, science, mathematics, health, medicine, technical education, family and consumer sciences, careers and job search, guidance and counseling and archival films and newsreels. (NVCC, VCCS)
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Academic videos from many disciplines, including history, health, psychology, music, business, art, science, law, literature and education. (VIVA)
Selected Videos from NOVA Databases
To find additional videos, search the library catalog.
- Cultural Awareness in Healthcare (2017)This three-program series addresses the important need for cultural awareness in the provision of healthcare in the 21st century, showing how cultural diversity impacts mutual understanding on many levels and in a variety of aspects of daily life. Both verbal and non-verbal communication differences are addressed. The discussion covers the cultural demographics of the United States and the demographic differences between the general population and healthcare providers.
- Cultural Competence in the Helping Professions What is cultural competence? What is multicultural counseling and therapy? Is there any difference between counseling a White client as opposed to a Black one? What do we mean by multiculturalism? Does it include gender, sexual orientation, class, religion and other sociodemographic groups?
- Cultural Diversity in Health Care This program provides nurses and other health professionals with practical and effective methods of recognizing, respecting, and meeting cultural needs.
- Cultural Humility: An Overview This instructional video, from the "Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development" series produced by the American Academy of Pediatrics, is a discussion about the importance of cultural humility in providing services to teenagers.
- Developing Cultural Humility and Multicultural Orientation Concepts discussed and demonstrated in this video are: Broaching the topic; microaggressions; counselor privilege, dynamic sizing; process-orientation, and culture of feedback.
- Minority Health Healthy living presents special challenges for members of minorities living in lower-income neighborhoods—particularly senior citizens. This program examines those challenges, and the health problems that can result, by focusing on African-Americans and Latinos.
- Neonates and Infants: Age-Specific Care Includes sections on cultural competencies in working with the parents and families.
- Race and Psychiatry This program looks at the issues of racism in mental health care, and at some black self-help groups that offer alternatives to the conventional psychiatric practices that have failed to meet the needs of the black community.
- Cultural Awareness for Medical Assistants (2021)The U.S. is a culturally diverse country with new immigrants arriving daily and those already here raising families. Unfamiliar languages, beliefs, cultural practices, eating habits, etc., can all present potential obstacles to the medical assistant providing care. This three-part series provides an understanding of the challenges of providing care to a culturally diverse patient population and describes strategies to address these needs.