FMS Productions

Accepting Responsibility
In A Finger-Pointing World
With Stanton Samenow, Ph.D.

In the highly-anticipated newest installment of Dr. Samenow's widely-used film collection, the renowned expert in criminal thinking explores the concept of justification thinking errors with a group of ex-offenders who are currently in recovery.

The series covers topics such as:
The habit of blaming others for our anger, learning empathy, handling situations contructively, hiding behind our justifications, how justifications block personal responsibility and ultimately positive change, accepting responsibility for our part in conflicts, and setting personal boundaries with old friends, places, substances, etc.

Click on each series part below to learn about the specific thinking errors and core subjects that each part features:

Accepting Responsibility Series Part I
Accepting Responsibility Series Part II
Accepting Responsibility Series Part III

Individual price: $425 / Series Price: $995
Series price includes: 3 full-length DVDs,
comprehensive Leader's Guide with full curriculum & Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy.
Available in DVD.

Good Intentions, Bad Choices:
Overcoming Errors in Thinking Series
With Stanton Samenow, Ph.D.

Research shows that most people who are released from jails and prisons have the most problems in the first year. Those problems are mainly in 3 areas:
(1) the pressure of not finding or not keeping a job
(2) personal conflicts with family and others, and
(3) the temptation, or actual use, of alcohol or other drugs

This series looks at the problems we have created for ourselves throughout our lives, and that we face immediately upon release. Does our response to difficulties make them better or worse? How do we trip ourselves up after release, and what can we do about it? Some thoughts lead us into trouble; we call them "errors in thinking." We make these errors not just when we are released -- we've been making them our whole lives!

Renowned expert in criminal thinking, Dr. Stanton Samenow, explores these concepts with a group of ex-offenders who are currently in recovery. Role-plays illustrate the errors in thinking common in re-entry, and inspire discussion for the group. Group members share spontaneous realizations of how their addiction and criminal real-world experiences have been consistently woven with the thinking errors discussed. Click on each series part below to learn about the specific errors and core subjects that each part features:

Good Intentions, Bad Choices Series Part I
Good Intentions, Bad Choices Series Part II
Good Intentions, Bad Choices Series Part III

Individual price: $425 / Series Price: $995
Series price includes: 3 full-length videos/DVDs,
comprehensive Leader's Guide with full curriculum & Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy.
Available in VHS and DVD.

Codependency Series
With Jim Shelton, MAC

Codependency is an increasingly over-used and under-defined word. In this new series, host Jim Shelton, MAC speaks with audience members in a drug and alcohol recovery program about the true nature of codependency -- what it is and what it isn't.

In Part One: What is Codependency?, a complete, working definition of codependency is built, common codependent characteristics are discussed, mental and physical effects of codependency are considered, and the link between codependency and substance abuse is explored.

In Part Two: Setting Personal Boundaries, Shelton goes into depth on the subject of boundary setting -- which, for a codependent, especially with a substance abuse background, is a large part of the solution. Through expertly facilitated role-play, the audience learns how to set limits and regain personal power in a healthy and effective way.

Individual price: $325 / Series Price: $625
Series price includes: 2 full-length videos/DVDs,
comprehensive Leader's Guide with full curriculum & Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy.
Available in VHS and DVD.

Resources For Change:
A Complete Re-Entry Program

A contemporary in-depth re-entry video/DVD and curriculum series that offers clients practical steps for using recovery and available resources to build a new way of life.

Each video/DVD sequentially focuses on a specific area critical in successful re-entry: (1) recovery, (2) housing, (3) preparing for the job market, and (4) working. The program aims to increase client self-confidence; with knowledge about available resources, clients will find that they have choices they never even knew about. Teach your clients how to let the system work for them, regain their personal power, and begin a proactive approach to re-shaping their lives.

Individual price: $395 / Series Price: $1295
Series price includes: 4 full-length videos/DVDs,
175 pg. Leader's Guide with full curriculum & Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy.
Available in VHS and DVD.

Preview an excerpt from the series online!
Click here for Quick Time format
Click here for Windows Media format

Call for free full-length previews!

Commitment to Change
with Stanton Samenow, Ph.D.

Volume I Errors in Thinking
Interacting with convicted felons in a state correctional facility, Dr. Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D, skillfully allows these men and women to take center stage and become the heart of this dynamic program. Thinking errors are revealed in vivid and dramatic encounters between inmates. Step by step, the program leads students to practical, concrete ways to become aware of their own thinking and its consequences and day by day, work toward the goal of responsible lives. Three
full-length programs.

Volume II Tactics: Habits That Block Change
Correcting errors in thinking is basic. The other half is the BEHAVIOR that results from these thoughts. Tactics are habitual ways of acting that keep people stuck in destructive lives. Tactics are ways to take control and build walls to shut out those who would help us. They block the most crucial step in change: Looking at ourselves. When clients become aware of Tactics and how they use them, change becomes possible. For staff, the leader's guide provides a fuller understanding of these tactics and opens the way for greater effectiveness. Three full-length programs.

Volume III The Power of Consequences
This volume teaches viewers how to use the Power of Consequences as compelling motivation to stick with the difficult, day-by-day work of changing lifelong patterns. The group looks at the consequences of their past actions and comes to realize that before they acted there was, indeed, a moment of decision. In the end, viewers learn to draw upon mental images of impending consequences when faced with temptation, instead of shutting them out. Such skills are profound, and life-changing, especially for those incarcerated and/or with chemical dependencies. Three full-length programs. Also features Edward Allen Roberts, MA.

Each three-part volume is $995 and includes
the following materials:
Leader's Guide, Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy, and Overhead Transparencies.
All volumes available in Spanish.
Available in VHS and DVD.

Click here to learn more about host Stanton Samenow, PhD
Click here to learn more about Edward Allen Roberts, MA

Anger: Creating New Choices Series

In this powerful, 3 part program, ex-offenders and people in recovery look at the cost of anger and aggression in their own lives - and learn how to create new choices. They discover that destructive actions don't "just happen" in an instant; they grow out of a pattern of thoughts, beliefs and feelings. Along with awareness of body reactions, each of these become valuable early warning signs. Viewers learn an array of effective alternatives and practical skills which make it possible to stop aggression before it's too late; to have the power to do something different. Exploding in anger need not be an automatic response...it is possible to create new choices, and a different kind of life. Features James Beard.

Individual price: $425 Series price: $995
Series price includes Leader's Guide with Overhead Transparencies and Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy.
Available in Spanish.

Surviving Recovery Series

Part One Finding Motivation
In recovery, we are asked to do one of the hardest things a human being can be asked to do, in the least capable state possible. People aren't built to walk away from pleasure, so how can one find the motivation to stay clean? Find motivation to change, in those you affect by your use. Use your guilt over hurting others as motivation to change, instead of as an impetus to use.

Part Two Coping with Triggers
Why do many people use drugs and alcohol even when they know better? Because with prolonged and extensive use, our brains become conditioned to use. Many different triggers - people, places and things, can cause a user's brain to crave, or "drool" for drugs. But knowing that that's how the body/brain system works, can save a recovering person from being ambushed by craving when it happens out of the blue.

Part Three Handling Conflict
This section discusses handling conflict with self and others, and helps the group to troubleshoot when they come face to face with it in roleplay. Success in recovery depends on the ability to keep cool when conflicts arise--like when a part of us wants to use, or when someone else pushes our buttons. The group finds that conflict is inevitable, and that knowing this is half the battle.

Series price: $895 Individual price: $350
Series price includes Leader's Guide and Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy.
Series available in Spanish.

Alcohol: The Medical Consequences Series

A 2 part series. Part One focuses on alcohol's effects on the pharynx, throat, stomach, pancreas, and liver. Dr. Keppler explains that alcohol's unique tendency to remain in the body considerably longer than other drugs bathes these organs in toxic material for extended periods. A bonus Q&A segment follows. Part Two discusses alcohol's target organ: the brain. Viewers learn how alcohol affects the chemistry, biology, and structure of the brain. Additional topics include effects on skeletal, heart, and hormonal systems. A bonus Q&A segment follows. Featuring Dr. John Keppler

Intended Audience: Teen / Adult
Individual price: $395 Series price: $695 TRT: 61 minutes
Series price includes Leader's Guide and Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy.
Available in Spanish.

Alcohol & Drugs, Body & Mind:
The Medical Consequences

What happens to our bodies when we abuse alcohol and drugs? What is the effect on our brain chemistry? How do drugs actually produce the effect of feeling high, and what is the price we pay? Issues related to tolerance, dependence and craving are discussed, and illustrated visually through the use of brain scans and various other graphics. Viewers come to a much fuller understanding of the medical consequences of alcohol and drug abuse at the end of this serious, yet lively, presentation featuring Dr. John Keppler.

Intended Audience: Teen / Adult
Cost: $395 TRT: 43 minutes
Includes Leader's Guide with full curriculum and Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy.
Available in Spanish.
Available in VHS and DVD.

Preview an excerpt of the program online!
Click here for Quick Time format
Click here for Windows Media format

Call for a free full-length preview!

Success Stories II

How do you get out of prison - and not come back? These are the real stories of five men and two men who have learned the hard way; each has years of experience with the revolving door of addiction and crime. Each has learned what it takes to live clean and free. Their stories reveal hard-won lessons that can help others to succeed.

This comprehensive program includes 3 videos:
Part I Release Day 48 min.
Part II Family Issues 33 min.
Part III Work, Anger and Self-Esteem 37 min.

Series price: $895 Individual price: $395
Series price includes Leader's Guide with full curriculum and Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy.
Available in Spanish.





		*Bestselling Titles*


		Accepting Responsibility In A Finger-Pointing World With Stanton Samenow, Ph.D. In the highly-anticipated newest installment of Dr. Samenow's widely-used film collection, the renowned expert in criminal thinking explores the concept of justification thinking errors with a group of ex-offenders who are currently in recovery. The series covers topics such as: The habit of blaming others for our anger, learning empathy, handling situations contructively, hiding behind our justifications, how justifications block personal responsibility and ultimately positive change, accepting responsibility for our part in conflicts, and setting personal boundaries with old friends, places, substances, etc. Click on each series part below to learn about the specific thinking errors and core subjects that each part features: Accepting Responsibility Series Part I Accepting Responsibility Series Part II Accepting Responsibility Series Part III Individual price: $425 / Series Price: $995 Series price includes: 3 full-length DVDs, comprehensive Leader's Guide with full curriculum & Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy. Available in DVD. Good Intentions, Bad Choices: Overcoming Errors in Thinking Series With Stanton Samenow, Ph.D. Research shows that most people who are released from jails and prisons have the most problems in the first year. Those problems are mainly in 3 areas: (1) the pressure of not finding or not keeping a job (2) personal conflicts with family and others, and (3) the temptation, or actual use, of alcohol or other drugs This series looks at the problems we have created for ourselves throughout our lives, and that we face immediately upon release. Does our response to difficulties make them better or worse? How do we trip ourselves up after release, and what can we do about it? Some thoughts lead us into trouble; we call them "errors in thinking." We make these errors not just when we are released -- we've been making them our whole lives! Renowned expert in criminal thinking, Dr. Stanton Samenow, explores these concepts with a group of ex-offenders who are currently in recovery. Role-plays illustrate the errors in thinking common in re-entry, and inspire discussion for the group. Group members share spontaneous realizations of how their addiction and criminal real-world experiences have been consistently woven with the thinking errors discussed. Click on each series part below to learn about the specific errors and core subjects that each part features: Good Intentions, Bad Choices Series Part I Good Intentions, Bad Choices Series Part II Good Intentions, Bad Choices Series Part III Individual price: $425 / Series Price: $995 Series price includes: 3 full-length videos/DVDs, comprehensive Leader's Guide with full curriculum & Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy. Available in VHS and DVD. Codependency Series With Jim Shelton, MAC Codependency is an increasingly over-used and under-defined word. In this new series, host Jim Shelton, MAC speaks with audience members in a drug and alcohol recovery program about the true nature of codependency -- what it is and what it isn't. In Part One: What is Codependency?, a complete, working definition of codependency is built, common codependent characteristics are discussed, mental and physical effects of codependency are considered, and the link between codependency and substance abuse is explored. In Part Two: Setting Personal Boundaries, Shelton goes into depth on the subject of boundary setting -- which, for a codependent, especially with a substance abuse background, is a large part of the solution. Through expertly facilitated role-play, the audience learns how to set limits and regain personal power in a healthy and effective way. Individual price: $325 / Series Price: $625 Series price includes: 2 full-length videos/DVDs, comprehensive Leader's Guide with full curriculum & Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy. Available in VHS and DVD. Resources For Change: A Complete Re-Entry Program A contemporary in-depth re-entry video/DVD and curriculum series that offers clients practical steps for using recovery and available resources to build a new way of life. Each video/DVD sequentially focuses on a specific area critical in successful re-entry: (1) recovery, (2) housing, (3) preparing for the job market, and (4) working. The program aims to increase client self-confidence; with knowledge about available resources, clients will find that they have choices they never even knew about. Teach your clients how to let the system work for them, regain their personal power, and begin a proactive approach to re-shaping their lives. Individual price: $395 / Series Price: $1295 Series price includes: 4 full-length videos/DVDs, 175 pg. Leader's Guide with full curriculum & Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy. Available in VHS and DVD. Preview an excerpt from the series online! Click here for Quick Time format Click here for Windows Media format Call for free full-length previews! Commitment to Change with Stanton Samenow, Ph.D. *Volume I Errors in Thinking* Interacting with convicted felons in a state correctional facility, Dr. Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D, skillfully allows these men and women to take center stage and become the heart of this dynamic program. Thinking errors are revealed in vivid and dramatic encounters between inmates. Step by step, the program leads students to practical, concrete ways to become aware of their own thinking and its consequences and day by day, work toward the goal of responsible lives. Three full-length programs. *Volume II Tactics: Habits That Block Change* Correcting errors in thinking is basic. The other half is the BEHAVIOR that results from these thoughts. Tactics are habitual ways of acting that keep people stuck in destructive lives. Tactics are ways to take control and build walls to shut out those who would help us. They block the most crucial step in change: Looking at ourselves. When clients become aware of Tactics and how they use them, change becomes possible. For staff, the leader's guide provides a fuller understanding of these tactics and opens the way for greater effectiveness. Three full-length programs. Volume III The Power of Consequences This volume teaches viewers how to use the Power of Consequences as compelling motivation to stick with the difficult, day-by-day work of changing lifelong patterns. The group looks at the consequences of their past actions and comes to realize that before they acted there was, indeed, a moment of decision. In the end, viewers learn to draw upon mental images of impending consequences when faced with temptation, instead of shutting them out. Such skills are profound, and life-changing, especially for those incarcerated and/or with chemical dependencies. Three full-length programs. Also features Edward Allen Roberts, MA. Each three-part volume is $995 and includes the following materials: Leader's Guide, Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy, and Overhead Transparencies. *All volumes available in Spanish. Available in VHS and DVD.* Click here to learn more about host Stanton Samenow, PhD Click here to learn more about Edward Allen Roberts, MA Anger: Creating New Choices Series In this powerful, 3 part program, ex-offenders and people in recovery look at the cost of anger and aggression in their own lives - and learn how to create new choices. They discover that destructive actions don't "just happen" in an instant; they grow out of a pattern of thoughts, beliefs and feelings. Along with awareness of body reactions, each of these become valuable early warning signs. Viewers learn an array of effective alternatives and practical skills which make it possible to stop aggression before it's too late; to have the power to do something different. Exploding in anger need not be an automatic response...it is possible to create new choices, and a different kind of life. Features James Beard. *Individual price: $425 Series price: $995* Series price includes Leader's Guide with Overhead Transparencies and Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy. *Available in Spanish.* Surviving Recovery Series *Part One Finding Motivation* In recovery, we are asked to do one of the hardest things a human being can be asked to do, in the least capable state possible. People aren't built to walk away from pleasure, so how can one find the motivation to stay clean? Find motivation to change, in those you affect by your use. Use your guilt over hurting others as motivation to change, instead of as an impetus to use. *Part Two Coping with Triggers* Why do many people use drugs and alcohol even when they know better? Because with prolonged and extensive use, our brains become conditioned to use. Many different triggers - people, places and things, can cause a user's brain to crave, or "drool" for drugs. But knowing that that's how the body/brain system works, can save a recovering person from being ambushed by craving when it happens out of the blue. Part Three Handling Conflict This section discusses handling conflict with self and others, and helps the group to troubleshoot when they come face to face with it in roleplay. Success in recovery depends on the ability to keep cool when conflicts arise--like when a part of us wants to use, or when someone else pushes our buttons. The group finds that conflict is inevitable, and that knowing this is half the battle. Series price: $895 Individual price: $350 Series price includes Leader's Guide and Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy. *Series available in Spanish.* Alcohol: The Medical Consequences Series A 2 part series. Part One focuses on alcohol's effects on the pharynx, throat, stomach, pancreas, and liver. Dr. Keppler explains that alcohol's unique tendency to remain in the body considerably longer than other drugs bathes these organs in toxic material for extended periods. A bonus Q&A segment follows. Part Two discusses alcohol's target organ: the brain. Viewers learn how alcohol affects the chemistry, biology, and structure of the brain. Additional topics include effects on skeletal, heart, and hormonal systems. A bonus Q&A segment follows. Featuring Dr. John Keppler Intended Audience: Teen / Adult Individual price: $395 Series price: $695 TRT: 61 minutes Series price includes Leader's Guide and Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy. *Available in Spanish.* Alcohol & Drugs, Body & Mind: The Medical Consequences What happens to our bodies when we abuse alcohol and drugs? What is the effect on our brain chemistry? How do drugs actually produce the effect of feeling high, and what is the price we pay? Issues related to tolerance, dependence and craving are discussed, and illustrated visually through the use of brain scans and various other graphics. Viewers come to a much fuller understanding of the medical consequences of alcohol and drug abuse at the end of this serious, yet lively, presentation featuring Dr. John Keppler. Intended Audience: Teen / Adult Cost: $395 TRT: 43 minutes Includes Leader's Guide with full curriculum and Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy. *Available in Spanish. Available in VHS and DVD.* Preview an excerpt of the program online! Click here for Quick Time format Click here for Windows Media format Call for a free full-length preview! Success Stories II How do you get out of prison - and not come back? These are the real stories of five men and two men who have learned the hard way; each has years of experience with the revolving door of addiction and crime. Each has learned what it takes to live clean and free. Their stories reveal hard-won lessons that can help others to succeed. This comprehensive program includes 3 videos: Part I Release Day 48 min. Part II Family Issues 33 min. Part III Work, Anger and Self-Esteem 37 min. Series price: $895 Individual price: $395 Series price includes Leader's Guide with full curriculum and Client Workbook with worksheets you can copy. *Available in Spanish*.


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