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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.

Generally, people who feel good about themselves are happy.  They believe that they can take on any problems and solve it.  They expect to succeed, and others are drawn to them.  It's very difficult for a person to enjoy life when he or she feels unhappy and they can also feel worthless and unable to accomplish anything.  Fortunately, there are steps we can take to improve the way we think about ourselves.  In this video, you will learn what you can do to help boost your self-esteem, and make yourself a happy, productive person.
The learning objectives for this DVD include:

• Students will understand why everyone needs good self-esteem.
• Students will be able to identify the characteristics of a person who has good self-esteem.
• Students will learn what they can do to improve their self-esteem.

Many of us know someone who is not happy unless they can engineer the movements of everyone around them.  These people force friends and family members to do what they don't want to do, and this type of manipulation and control are the tools of tyranny.  Understand what's behind a person's need to bend others to his or her own will.  See what you can do to resist people who are intent upon making decisions that you should be making for yourself.  Learn how you can assert yourself when others try to thwart your autonomy.
The learning objectives for this DVD include:

• Students will learn what motivates people to manipulate other people.
• Students will learn how a manipulator operates.
• Students will learn strategies for resisting manipulators.

Sally and her friends may be kids...but kids have stress too!  Stressball Sally and Friends follow the school days of a young girl and her classmates as they deal with everyday situations that cause stress in their lives.  In each episode of this educational DVD, stress reduction tools are both taught and applied.  In episode one, Sally, Will, and Martha learn to relax with deep breathing exercises and the power of positive thought.  Extra bonus material includes additional support information presented by school counselors and co-creators of this video that help adults recognize the warning signs of stress in kids and provide useful tools to help.  This DVD is geared toward children pre-k to grade 6.