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A Cry for Help teaches young people to recognize the signs of depression and suicide in their peers.  In the wake of a suicide, family members and friends wonder what they could have done to help, and how they could have prevented this tragedy.  This video talks about how to intervene and get help when a friend is contemplating suicide.  A Cry for Help features Sue Eastgard, President of The American Association of Suicidology, and groups of teens.  This video is designed for a teen audience, grades 7-12.

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.

Parents, classes, work and extra-curricular activities can all become stressful aspects of any teen's life.  Constant demands on someone's time can lead to feelings of frustration and futility.   Stress is a part of everyday life, but when it gets unmanageable it can lead to burnout.  Recognize and understand the symptoms associated with burnout.  Find out ways you can manage your stress before it gets out of control and results in burnout.

Every day, in schools and in other institutions, aggressive, harassing acts are carried out with frightening regularity.  The oppression and intimidation caused by bullies can make it almost impossible to concentrate upon an education or a career.  Cycles of violence can be broken by confronting and eradicating environments in which bullies thrive.  By using education, empowerment, commitment, and unity, socially maladjusted individuals can be convinced to stop their abuse.

• Learning objectives in this video include:
• Learning the definition of bullying
• Looking at the various types of behavior that constitute bullying
• Considering the typical characteristics of a bully
• Learning the common characteristics of the bully's target
• Learning some strategies for dealing with bullies
• Exploring the emotional effects that are experienced by the target of a bully

We have all been affected by stress, both emotionally and physically.  If stress is not managed correctly, it can result in substance abuse, violence, or even the possibility of suicide.   This video program answers the question, 'How can a person cope with stress?'
Learning objectives for this DVD include:

• Learn what stress is and how the body reacts to it
• Understand the link between illness and prolonged stress, as well as some of the social consequences of a stressful life
• Be introduced to steps that can be taken that will help them to cope with stress

Social anxiety is America's third-largest psychiatric disorder.  It usually develops during the mid-teen years, and almost always before the age of twenty-five.  Understand what triggers the development of anxiety and learn how it can sometimes evolve into a full-blown panic disorder, which is characterized by recurrent attacks of terror or fear.  The consequences of social anxiety are examined and effective treatments are discussed.

The objectives for this DVD include:

• Students will learn what social anxiety is.  They'll understand how it can compromise the quality of life.
• Students will examine factors that can trigger social anxiety in a person.
• Students will learn about the treatments that are available for social anxiety.

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.

Mary's grief over the loss of her child is threatening to send her over the edge, and her sister Joanne, fearing for her sister's sanity, has brought herself to remote King's Island, Maine.  Mary's insistence that she has heard an eerie, childlike wailing in the woods fuels Joanne's anxiety.  Now Mary's disappearing at midnight in search of the source of the heartrending moans.  But it's not just her sister's encroaching madness that is chilling Joanne's blood!  ₝it's her own, because suddenly and impossibly, she also hears the crying child.

Three years ago, magazine editor Denise Brodey's precocious four-year-old son, Toby, was diagnosed with a combination of sensory integration dysfunction and childhood depression.  Struggling to make sense of her new, often chaotic, often lonely world, the thing she found most comforting was talking with other, hopeful, and insightful parents of kids with special needs, and learning how they coped with the feelings they encountered throughout the day.  In The Elephant in the Playroom, parents from across the country write in an honest and intimate way about the joyful highs and disordered lows of raising children who are "not quite normal".  Laying bare the emotional, medical, and social challenges they face, these stories address issues ranging from if and when to medicate a child, to how to get a child who is overly sensitive to the texture of food to eat lunch.  Eloquent and honest, the voices in this collection will provide solace and support for the millions of parents whose kids struggle with ADD, ADHD, sensory disorders, childhood depression, Asperger's syndrome, and autism, as well as the many kids who fall between diagnoses.