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Blow-Ups and Rages: Learning to Manage Your Anger
-For Grades 7 & Up
-DVD + Printable Teaching GuideAnger is a natural response to many of life’s most troubling situations, but all too often explosions of teen anger can be harmful and hurtful. Hostility and anger can devastate a teen’s life, destroy relationships, cloud effective thinking, impact school performance, affect physical health and ruin future career plans.
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Coping With Disruptive Life Changes
-For Grades 7 & Up
-DVD + Printable Teaching GuideThis program showcases the real stories of several teens who coped with major disruptions in their lives.
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In Search of Character: COURAGE
From: IN SEARCH OF CHARACTER – Video Series
-For grades 7-12
-Produced in association with CHARACTER COUNTS!
-Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Free online video streaming included!It takes a lot of courage to stand up for what’s right when we stand alone. Or to do what’s right despite disapproval and negative peer pressure.
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LET’S TALK ABOUT: POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)
-For Grades 7 & Up
-DVD + Printable Teaching Guide
-Free online video streaming included!This program helps viewers to recognize the warning signs and symptoms of PTSD, understand the available treatment options and how to support the treatment and healing process. Students will learn that experiencing any life-threatening event can cause PTSD and that it can develop over time in firefighters, soldiers, and other first responders.
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LifeSteps: Bouncing Back
From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series
-For grades 7-12
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Includes Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Free online video streaming included!Resiliency is perhaps the most important skill teenagers need to bounce back from the common disappointments of adolescence. In this program, they learn essential resiliency skills: developing realistic expectations, identifying obstacles, persisting and maintaining a sense of self-worth and optimism. More complex issues such as depression and suicidal thoughts are also discussed.
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LifeSteps: Taking Charge
From: LIFESTEPS – Video Series
-For grades 7-12
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Includes Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Free online video streaming included!To become independent, teens must incorporate a range of social and emotional skills. This program focuses on the emotional side of responsibility as students explore the key elements of self-control: coping with stress, avoiding impulsive behavior, delaying gratification, and managing anger.
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Self-Management: Decisions, Decisions
-For Grades 7-12
-DVD + Printable Teaching GuideA sure sign of maturity is the ability to make wise decisions and personal choices while taking into account the possible consequences. This program demonstrates a four-step process that helps students put their decision into words, understand the part their values play in decision-making, evaluate their options and the possible consequences, and finally, make an informed, well-thought-out decision.
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Stopping the Pain: Teenage Self-Injury
-For Grades 7 & Up
-DVD + Printable Teaching GuideThe number of adolescents who participate in acts of self-injury is growing exponentially. The forms and severity of self-injury can vary, although the most commonly-seen behaviors are cutting, burning, and head-banging. At the core of the behavior is the overwhelming need for relief from extreme tension or anxiety . . .
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Study Skills for People Who Hate to Study
-For Grades 7-12
-DVD + Printable Teaching GuideDesigned to help students get organized, this program helps set goals and priorities, and allows students to stay in charge of their schoolwork. Viewers learn about the processes in the brain that help us plan, organize, concentrate, and focus. The program identifies the three main obstacles to effective study — Disorganization, Procrastination, and Distraction—and demonstrates tips and strategies to allow viewers to develop their own unique style of overcoming these obstacles.
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TEENS 101: BROKEN FAMILIES – LYDIA’S STORY
From: TEENS 101 – Video Series
-For grades 8-12
–Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Free online video streaming included!
-Released in 2017Lydia’s life as a child was filled with family dysfunction, drugs, abuse and the death of her mother. She ended up in the foster care system before the age of 10 and would endure moving between 36 different foster homes. Lydia was left with a lack of identity, belonging, and self-worth. The longing of her family and her loneliness created a cycle of destruction or “acting out.” Nothing or no one could fill the void she felt. Somehow, she found an incredible strength to turn her life around. Living out of a car, she put herself through school and became determined to have her own family, providing a loving home for her two children, something she never had.
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The Power of Choice: COPING WITH PRESSURES
From: THE POWER OF CHOICE – Video Series
-For grades 9-12
-Featuring Michael Pritchard
-Video with Printable Teacher’s Guide
-Available on DVD or Online Digital Video StreamingComedian/youth counselor Michael Pritchard talks with high school students across America about the pressures they face, from academic competition to peer acceptance to parental expectations. In small group dialogues, they grapple with ways of keeping pressure in perspective and handling it in a positive, healthful manner.
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