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VHS / DVD Intended Audience

TEENAGE STRESS MANAGEMENT: LEARNING TO COPE PART 2 30 minutes 9, 10, 11, 12

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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