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Runtime: 22 mins

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!

Runtime:  26 mins

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.

Runtime:  26 mins

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.

Runtime: 26 mins

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?

Runtime:  15 mins

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.

Runtime:  22 mins

This second part of a two-part series helps young people understand suicide, identify warning signs and implement prevention.  An ethnically diverse group of suicide survivors and family members of suicide victims participate in an open forum discussion, creating an environment where all involved can talk about their experiences and how suicide has affected their lives.  Individual experts in teen suicide are also interviewed, complementing the discussion and providing concrete facts on suicide detection, action and prevention.  A host serves to interface between the group and the experts.  This video focuses on warning signs and prevention; facts on statistics on what works and what doesn't; how to recognize the signs of suicide; and what to do if you think a friend or a loved one is contemplating ending their life.  Part of the Teen Suicide Video Series.

Runtime:  35 mins

All of us will face problems throughout our lives.  Most of the time, we just work through them, and eventually things get easier.  Sometimes we are unable to get out of the despondency, and may think that nothing will ever get better.  We just need help in order to bring about change, and this program can provide helpful insight to those in need of assistance.

Runtime:  46 mins

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.

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As they grow up, teens start feeling more emotions and will have experiences that may leave them feeling stressed out, confused, angry, or depressed.  Most teens are able to handle the range of emotions they experience, but some are unable to, and head down the path of self-destructive behavior.  In this video, students will find out what may lead someone to destroy him or herself, how he or she does it, and the ways they may be able to be helped.

Runtime: 28 mins

This first part of a two-part series helps young people understanding suicide; facts and statistics about teen suicide; why it happens; the myths and fallacies surrounding it; and the ways in which it affects family and friends.  An ethnically diverse group of suicide survivors and family members of suicide victims participate in an open forum discussion, creating an environment where all involved can talk about their experiences and how suicide has affected their lives.  Individual experts in teen suicide are also interviewed, complementing the discussion and providing concrete facts on suicide detection, action and prevention.  A host serves to interface between the group and the experts.  Part of the Teen Suicide: Finding the Will to Live Video Series.

Runtime: 28 mins