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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

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

Childhood should be a fun and happy time. Unfortunately, an increasing number of children are showing symptoms of anxiety, which has become the biggest mental health problem facing young children today. All children have fears, but how much is normal, and how do you know when the stress has become a full-blown anxiety disorder? Most parents don't know how to realize when there is a real problem and how to deal with it. Fortunately, anxiety disorders are treatable, and parents can prevent their children from needless distress by following simple solutions. In this book, a childhood anxiety disorder specialist studies all occurrences of childhood fears, including social anxiety, Tourette's Syndrome, hair-pulling, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and leads you through a proven plan to help your child back to emotional normalcy.

Pages:  308

This book has two sections of easy-to-follow, practical tips and activities to help kids with various types of fears, anxieties and phobias. The first section of the book contains useful hints, suggestions and insights to that will help parents and professionals who are working to help kids learn to cope with their anxiety and stress. The second section was written for kids, and contains stories, activities, and suggestions that can help kids face fears such as: sleeping alone, darkness, monsters, school phobias, bullies, terrorism, separation and test anxiety, germs and sickness.

Pages:  83

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

This book brings parents the knowledge and support they need to identify and deal with problems that can occur in the home. Children, ages ten to fifteen, trust their parents to be there when they are feeling down. This is an emergency guide that covers the difficult issues parents encounter every day with their 10-15 year old children. Many parents are often frightened and unsure if they should interfere and know just how to help. This book was based on a nation-wide survey of parents, teachers, and students, interviews with a variety of experts, using the latest research, and written with the support of the National Middle School Association, you'll be able to get very useful advice on topics including: depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, sexual encounters, failing in school, internet dangers, and many other issues.

Pages:  294

When teens commit suicide, it is due to a set of events that occur from feelings that they are unwanted, misunderstood, angry, ashamed, abused, unloved or victimized.  They may have feeling of guilt about disappointing family, friends or they feel an overwhelming sense that they are too much of a burden on others.  If a teen is in a deep depression, they may believe that suicide is the only solution.  Unfortunately, teen suicides affect everyone.  Those who barely knew the teen may develop feelings of guilt, confusion and the sense they could have done something themselves to prevent the suicide.  Hear from Real Teens as they discuss their feelings about severe depression and suicide.  The program has a recommended companion title: Depression

Runtime: 20 mins

Too much stress can affect the enjoyment of life, being productive, and making good choices.  It's a well known fact that stress can lead to health problems and cause psychological harm.  Most teens are under some stress, from school, dating, home life, and socializing.  This important episode of Real Life Teens was created to help teens through the very real issue of stress in their lives.  The program covers common areas of stress in a teen's life: academic stress, social stress and stress from home life.  Real teens give real solutions and insights into this important subject.

Runtime:  20 mins

Unfortunately, teen depression is very common.  It can become a debilitating condition, interfering with school, social life, and family life.  In this video, teens learn about the real risks of teen depression, how to identify depression and why depression interferes with a their life.  Students learn about self-medication and the dangers of trying to solve chemical imbalances themselves.  They also learn about the warning signs of depression and why it's important to seek help.  Finally, the program touches on the tragedy of teen suicide and what to do if you or a friend needs help.  This is very important advice for a dangerous and wide-spread health condition among today's teens.  Real Teens speak frankly about their "dark side". The program has a recommended companion title: Deep Depression and Suicide

Runtime:  22 mins

If you work with children who self-injure, it's useful to have a variety of innovative approaches at hand. In this book you'll find a compilation of strategies and activities to help children and adolescents who deliberately self-injure. A wide variety of creative arts approaches are featured that can be used in private practice and school settings. The activities in this book can be used with individuals or with a small group. The activities help children/adolescents to understand why they self-injure, express their feelings, start the healing process, explore new methods of coping and prevention, and find new meaning and purpose in their lives.

Pages:  128

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.

Runtime:  32 mins

This video graphically describes the realities of teen suicide, including the warning signs of suicide and ways to prevent the suicide of a friend.  Unfortunately, statistics show that suicide is the third leading cause of death among people between the ages of 15 and 24, and the suicide rate for 15-19 year olds has quadrupled since 1950.  Suicide devastates surviving loved ones.   Find out why it should never be considered as a solution and learn how to recognize and understand the warning signs a suicidal person may be exhibiting.   Someday, you may be the one to convince a young person to choose life.

Runtime: 17 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

Many depressed teenagers also have problems with alcohol or other drugs.   In some cases, the depression comes first and they try using drugs as a way to escape.  Other times, the alcohol or other drug use comes first, and depression is caused by the drug itself.  The important thing is that if someone has one or both of these problems, the sooner they get help the better.  This program teaches how to be honest about both issues - showing how depressed teens can deal effectively with their illness without substance abuse and how to communicate with people who can help them get into treatment.

Runtime:  23 mins

The statistics on teen depression are alarming, with one in eight suffering from depression.  Many studies also indicate that one in five children have some sort of mental, behavioral, or emotional problem and one in ten of these problems are serious. Of all these children and teens, a mere 30% receive any sort of intervention or treatment.  The other 70% simply struggle through the pain of mental illness or emotional turmoil, doing their best to make it to adulthood.  The consequences of untreated depression can range from increased incidence of depression in adulthood, involvement in the criminal justice system, or in some cases, suicide.  Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people ages 15 to 24.  Even more shocking, it is the sixth leading cause of death among children ages 5 - 14.  Many of these struggling teens never receive counseling, therapy or medical intervention, even though the National Institute of Mental Health reports that studies show treatments of depression in children and adolescents can be effective.

Runtime:  20 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.

Pages:  311

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.

Pages:  256

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