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This book will give you a unique, practical collection of insights, techniques, activities and reproducible student worksheets to help persistently angry adolescents.  Using this resource, you will be able to quickly find strategies that best fit students with different kinds of anger problems.  These are categorized as five levels of anger intensity and strategies offered for each. In addition, 20 possible reasons are offered for anger in adolescents, and tips are given to share with parents.

Stress affects everyone, including you.  A small amount of stress can be good, especially if it serves as a motivating force.  However, the level of stress in a person's life can become unmanageable.  When you have many equally important responsibilities that require your attention simultaneously, you might not know what to do.  Understand the purpose of stress and learn how to handle it correctly.  Included are some effective strategies to help you cope with stress and provide you with better equipment to keep your cool the next time life threatens to stress you out!
The learning objectives for this DVD include

• Students will learn about the various types of stress that people experience.
• Students will learn about the body's reaction to stress.
• Students will learn strategies for handling stress.

When you are angry, your blood draws inward, causing your hands to turn cold and the card to turn black.  Give these cards to students to use throughout their day.  Have them place their thumb behind the card and watch for the color change to reveal how calm they can make themselves.  Four useful steps to anger control are provided on the back of each card.

Cards:  1

This innovative curriculum was developed for dealing with anger problems in students in grades 5-8.  It allows teachers the structure and flexibility to teach students new and creative ways to deal with their anger.  The units are filled with activities and games that will allow students to explore how they currently react to anger situations and to choose new and healthier ways to react.  The topics are divided into three sections;  Anger Educational Model, Anger Skills, and Interpersonal Skills.  This curriculum can be used in a step-by-step fashion beginning with unit one and ending with unit seven, or it can be used as completely independent studies on each unit topic.

Some girls can find it very difficult to forgive and forget when relationship hurts are deep and friendships fractured. Girl Grudges:  Learning How to Forgive and Live, was written by two experts with many years of experience, and has helped to address deep-seated conflicts that cause ongoing pain for everyone. This book offers a variety of practical and educational activities to help girls in middle and high school either one-on-one or in groups.  It is based on the ERA model (Educate, Relate, and Integrate) that first exposes girls to new information, and then helps them apply this to their own situations.  Finally, it encourages internalization of healthier relationship alternatives.

That's Enough is a fictional drama about the relationship between youth bullying and school shootings.  It examines what can happen when a high school student is mercilessly teased, socially excluded, and physically wounded.  It challenges middle and high school students to explore bullying at their schools and the cliques, struggles, and ostracizing that may result, and in some cases, has resulted shootings and youth suicides.  This video is directed by Jack Revheim, a seventeen-year old Central High School (St. Paul, MN) exchange student from Norway.  The screenplay is co-authored by Jack Revheim and Dr. Michael Obsatz, Associate Professor of Sociology, Macalester College, (St. Paul, MN), author of the award-winning book, Raising Nonviolent Children in a Violent World, and violence prevention educator.  Dr. Obsatz is also the executive producer.  The cast includes middle school students, high school and college students, as well as adults.  The video also includes a seven-minute interview with Dr. Obsatz about bullying issues and questions teachers can use for discusson.

Runtime:  20 mins

Anger is very often an emotion that is expressed in extremes, either by avoiding any show of anger or exploding in a rage and /or violence.  Both approaches usually have a detrimental effect on physical and emotional health.  This video explores how and why we experience anger, and then offers practical strategies for expressing anger in constructive, productive ways rather than unproductive and destructive ways.  This DVD features Dr. Charles D. Spielberger, Director of South Florida and Dr. Doyle Gentry, Clinical Psychologist specializing in the treatment of anger disorders.