| | Continued | GUIDE |
| | TITLE | GUIDANCE | LENGTH | INCLUDED | | VHS / | DVD | Intended Audience |
| | TEENAGE STRESS MANAGEMENT: LEARNING TO COPE PART 2 | 30 minutes | 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| | Grades |
| | Stress can leave teens anxious or it can prompt them to make a positive change. This documentary-style program combines vignettes with statements from experts |
| | to describe what stress is, what can happen when a person can't cope with it, and how a person uses his or her mind and body to control it. The program teaches |
| | students how to use the mind to manage stress. It illustrated how meditation, positive thinking, biofeedback, problem solving, assertive-ness training and time |
| | management can be applied to their own lives. It also explores the role the body plays in managing stress and shows how yoga, relaxation, breathing, exercise and |
| | nutrition can be applied to stress management. *Mental Strategies *Physical Strategies |
| | TEENAGE SUICIDE | 20 minutes | 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| | Grades |
| | America's Teenage Video Magazine (ATVM) is bringing the issue of teenage suicide out in the open by going straight to the source, the teenagers themselves. We |
| | meet real teenagers, who tell us about their experiences with suicide and what brought them to that point. ATVM is teenagers talking to teenagers. There is no |
| | question that the first step to preventing suicide is to talk about it. |
| | TEENAGERS & TOUGH DECISIONS PART 1 | 26 minutes | 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| | Grades |
| | Peer pressure, safe sex, teenage pregnancy and the problems of making and having money. |
| | TEENAGERS & TOUGH DECISIONS PART 2 | 32 minutes | 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| | Grades |
| | The working world, families and divorce, teenage stress, alcohol and drugs and life goals. |
| | THE UNSEEN POWER: PEER PRESSURE | 28 minutes | 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
| | Grades |
| | The driving force of early adolescence is the need to be accepted and respected by one's peers. Program shows young streetwise teens how peers help when |
| | they provide emotional support, but hurt when they encourage negative or risky behavior. Demonstrates how to negotiate between peer acceptance and |
| | individuality, teaches skills for saying no to negative behavior while keeping friends. |
| | TRAITS OF A HEALTHY FAMILY | 55 minutes | 9, 10, 11, 12, ADULT |
| | Grades |
| | This program - the video and the study guide - is designed for use by any individual or with any group that is interested in exploring, studying, or improving family life. |
| | It can be used successfully with any age group, high school through adult. In this program, Dolores Curran offers a view of healthy family life. Her conclusions are |
| | based on a survey of responses from over 500 professionals who work with families. Through her research, Curran has delineated 15 characteristics of a healthy |
| | family. The central theme of these traits is that the health of a family is based on the relationships among its members, not on the external measures of success that |
| | we have traditionally associated with the "good" family. |
| | TWICE PARDONED | 35 minutes | 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| | Grades |
| | Ex-con Harold Morris has spent more than a decade warning young people to avoid the snares that nearly destroyed his life. In this exciting film, which retraces his |
| | fall from all-star athlete to Death Row inmate, Harold talks about the perilous effects of peer pressure and how little mistakes can have big consequences. Given |
| | two life sentences for armed robbery and murder (crimes he did not commit), he spent 10 years behind bars before receiving miraculous parole and full pardon. |
| | Harold is author of the popular 1986 autobiography Twice Pardoned and its 1987 sequel, Beyond the Barriers. |
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