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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!

Runtime:  26 mins

Anger can generate a lot of trouble for us if we don't know how to control it properly.  If we don't manage it correctly, it can have harmful effects on our health and negatively affect our relationships with other people.  In this video, you'll learn what causes anger and understand why our bodies react as they do when we're angry.  Successful techniques for controlling anger are discussed, and you'll find that in the long run, issues that disturb you are more likely to be resolved when you change your thinking and communicate calmly.

Runtime:  21 mins

This video features an exciting, fast paced quiz show game with music and colorful animation. It presents children with a wide range of behavior options to help them handle their anger. Players earn or lose points based on the quality of the solutions chosen. This presentation provides a basis for lively classroom discussion, and it's a great addition to your lending library Also included is a CD-ROM containing reproducible activities.

Runtime:  23 mins

In this video, the story comes alive with color, sound and animation. Viewers will identify with Buddy as he learns the importance of managing his anger and the consequences of letting it get out of control. The story is followed with a lively animated "Roller Rink" exercise which consists of animated Dragons placed in realistic decision making situations where viewers are invited to choose the correct course of action. There's review questions to reinforce the lessons presented. Kits include reproducible activities as well as a presenter's guide.

Runtime:  11 mins

Many adults that are faced with a child or teenager's explosiveness are uncertain of how to respond.  Should I punish him for the outburst?  Do I try to be understanding of how she is feeling and overlook her ugly behavior?  In reality, these children are have difficulty managing their anger and need to be taught the skills necessary for coping with frustrating situations that demand flexibility.  The lack of these cognitive skills contributes to the angry outbursts.  Calming the Tempest provides parents, teachers, and caretakers with an understanding of, and an overview on, how to teach these skills at home and school.  This DVD features Ross Greene, Ph.D. and Stuart Ablon, Ph.D., co-directors of the Center for Collaborative Problem Solving.

Runtime:  35 mins

This book helps children to develop the skills of anger management, and to behave in a responsible manner for both themselves and others. We know that everybody gets angry, and its good for children to learn to realize and understand their feelings of anger, convey them, and build skills to deal with anger in a correct manner. They will learn that it is normal to get angry, but also understand that it's not good to harm anyone physically or verbally. Supportive and compassionate, the book helps preschool and primary children realize that when they cool down and work through anger, they can feel peaceful again.

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Uncontrolled anger can have destructive results for everyone involved.  This video defines anger, and also explains how to help manage it by identifying certain strategies that allow you to control your feelings of anger.

Runtime:  12 mins

These two videos come alive with color, sound and animation. Children will identify with Sue as she experiences the consequences of her anger, and how she is helped by her school counselor and mom to handle her anger. The set includes two presentations of each video, one with and one without counselor comments as well as reproducible activities, a presenter's guide, and a PDF of each book. These videos are the perfect resource for a small group or classroom situation, and it's a great addition to your lending library. Also included is a CD-ROM containing reproducible activities.

Runtime:  32 mins

This DVD contains two videos, Give and Take and Fun to Share. There are two presentations of Fun to Share, one with counselor comments. Fun to Share was developed for children in K-2, and the Give and Take is geared towards children in grades 3-4. Both videos contain related content with the story of Jason and Mark as they learn how to handle conflict. The Fun to Share video is followed by discussion questions that help to reinforce the concepts presented in the story. These videos help children develop an awareness of anger management and the role it plays in conflict resolution. Kits include reproducible activities as well as a presenter's guide.

Runtime:  24 mins

Your favorite team is losing the biggest game of the year, or a car cuts you off, or for some other reason you get angry and just want to scream!!!  Rage takes over and you've lost all control.  Find out what rage is and what situations can elicit this extreme response.  Also, find out what to do to stop rage before it starts.

Runtime:  27 mins

On many school campuses, anger is a growing problem for students.  Anger is often the most powerful emotion for teens, and it can reveal a deep assortment of underlying emotions.  This video covers teen anger, and shows why anger can just be the tip of an emotional iceberg.   Students will discover methods for recognizing anger in all its forms and understand how to cope with it.  They learn what leads up to anger and how to diffuse angry or violent situations.  They'll also learn about anger and home life, and why covering up anger is dangerous.  Students learn how to maintain positive attitudes and how to deal with this negative emotion in a positive way.  Teens discuss anger in a revealing set of interviews.

Runtime:  20 mins

The United States has been plagued with many acts of teen violence that have resulted in tragedy.  We often wonder what could cause seemingly normal teenagers to act out in violence and vandalism.  Some people believe that feelings of isolation and alienation have fueled these acts.  By watching this video, you'll have the opportunity to face issues dealing with social alienation, and stop the violence.

Runtime:  22 mins

In this book, you discover ways to stop your toddler's unacceptable behavior, curb their annoying behavior, and increase your child's good behavior. Learn how to soothe his stormy outbursts with amazing success and better yet, stop these outbursts before they begin! In one of the best parenting books of past ten years, Dr. Karp shows that toddlers often act in a very uncivilized way with a primitive way of thinking and communicating that's all their own. In this revised edition of his parenting classic, Dr. Karp has made his inventive approach easier to implement than ever before. By combining his tools of Toddler-ese and the Fast-Food Rule with a very effective new green light/yellow light/red light method for molding toddler behavior, Dr. Karp offers parents a fast solutions for today's busy and stressed parents. Additionally, the new thirty-item glossary of his parenting techniques will save you precious time when you need to instantly calm an uncontrollable child.

Pages:  336

Everyone experiences feelings of anger from time to time;  It's only human.  However, anger is a explosive emotion, and if it's not controlled, can often result in an act of violence.  By learning how to deal directly with our anger and knowing how to channel it in positive ways can help us to make the best of a bad situation.

Runtime:  19 mins

It has been reported that as many as 160,000 guns are carried into classrooms by teens on any given day.  At least fifteen youths die each day in the U.S. alone from gunshot wounds.  In this hard-hitting video, we examine this waste of lives and their dreams of these teens.

Pages:  50 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.

Runtime:  30 mins