Summary: For adolescents making the transition to young adulthood, risk-taking activities are an essential part of the process. With this program, you can help your students to distinguish between positive risks-like trying out for a sport or learning to drive-and negative risks as well as to seriously consider the ramifications of substance abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, road rage, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: If a teenager is psychologically resilient, he or she has the ability to "bounce back" after something negative happens. This program explains how young adults can develop that resilience, increasing the likelihood that they'll recover from adolescent stresses and crises without developing deep or lasting psychological problems. A case study of a traumatized young woman who turned to drugs as a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: A student's first step to dealing constructively with stress is understanding it: what it is, how it works, and why it's such a powerful force in a teenager's life. Use this program to show your students how to take control of stress! It distinguishes between positive and negative stressors, describes how the body reacts to stressors, explores common causes of teen stress, and suggests ways to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Galen, Gillian
Summary: Keep calm, be skillful -- and take control! Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is one of the most popular and most effective treatments for mental health conditions that result from out-of-control emotions. Combining elements of Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Eastern mindfulness practice, DBT was initially used as a powerful treatment to address the suffering associated with borderline...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: What activities in the brain lay the foundation for social interaction? Does brain activity have anything to do with why some relationships flourish and others fail? This program looks at the science behind human connections, and the importance of those connections to emotional well-being. Viewers meet a young boy adopted from a Russian orphanage whose lack of nurturing in infancy now affects...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: What is the evolutionary advantage of negative emotions? And how can these emotions best be managed in daily life? This program investigates the strong feelings commonly regarded as obstacles to happiness-anger, fear, anxiety, and despair-to explain why they sometimes overwhelm the rational part of the brain. Among the cases profiled are a woman whose out-of-control temper jeopardizes her...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Woolley, Katie
Summary: Making sure a body is healthy through eating well and exercise is important, but making sure a mind is equally as healthy holds incredible importance for young people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Powerkids Press 2024