Oct/100
Skilled Technical Careers
Pursuing a college degree is not the only option for young people. Instead, it is a cultural norm that has become the go-to option for those who need more education, engagement, and time to decide on a career path. Skilled careers are a viable option for young people that are often lost in the overwhelming societal push towards the college experience.
There are many ways to transition into a skilled career as a young person. Apprenticeships, work-based learning programs, and associate’s degrees are just three ways to pursue opportunities for employment. These paths are each explored in the Succeeding Without College DVD resource from Program Development Associates. This indispensable resource helps viewers consider the abundant alternatives to college and decide which option is best.
Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships are an excellent way to link employers with individuals who are ready to dive into the workplace. The Internet has become a valuable resource for employers to post apprenticeship opportunities, and for young people to find apprenticeship opportunities in their field of interest.
Work-Based Learning
Work based learning takes a hybrid approach to education, combining traditional the traditional learning environment with hands on work experience. This provides the ideal environment for individuals to showcase their abilities, as well as to learn firsthand whether or not a particular work environment is aligned with their personal values and abilities.
Associate’s Degree
The Associate’s Degree is perfect for the individual who does not want to pursue a four year undergraduate college degree but nonetheless has a particular field that they wish to study. Moreover, individuals who choose this path will be well positioned to transition to a college to attain an undergraduate degree if they so choose.
Making the change from teenager to young adult is difficult, and choosing the correct opportunity is critical. The Succeeding Without College DVD is an essential resource for young adults who are considering alternatives to a college education. This resource explores various skilled career options, highlighting skills and essential qualities for success along the way.
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Teen Anger
Real Life Teens: Teen Anger DVD
http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Real_Life_Teens_Teen_Anger_DVD-pid873.html
Resource #: RTAD964W
Part of the Real Life Teens Series
Real Life Teens: Teen Anger DVD
The Real Life Teens series takes an unbiased, realistic look, from the teen’s perspective, at the wide variety of issues teens face toda. Featuring young teenagers (not actors) telling their stories, in their own words.
The series discusses many significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice. The Real Life Teens is crafted by experts to solve pressing problems in today’s high schools. Give your students the advice and support they need in this complex and often overwhelming world.
Anger is often the most powerful emotion for teens — but it can reveal a deep assortment of underlying emotions. At school campuses everywhere, anger is a growing problem for students.
This program covers teen anger and why anger can be the tip of an emotional iceberg. Students discover methods for recognizing anger in all its forms and how to cope with it. Teens learn what leads up to anger and how to diffuse angry or violent situations. They’ll also learn about anger and home life, why covering up anger is dangerous, how to maintain positive attitudes and how to deal with this negative emotion in a positive way.
Subjects covered include:
• Identifying Anger
• Why Anger can be destructive
• Common sources of anger in teens
• How to let out anger
• Anger and home life
• Violence and anger
• Expressing emotions in a positive way
This program is designed for use with a general high school audience, grades 8-12.
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Deep Depression & Suicide
Real Life Teens: Deep Depression & Suicide DVD
Resource #: RDDD964W
Part of the Real Life Teens Series
Real Life Teens: Deep Depression & Suicide DVD
The Real Life Teens series takes an unbiased, realistic look, from the teen’s perspective, at the wide variety of issues teens face toda. Featuring young teenagers (not actors) telling their stories, in their own words.
The series discusses many significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice. The Real Life Teens is crafted by experts to solve pressing problems in today’s high schools. Give your students the advice and support they need in this complex and often overwhelming world.
Teen Suicide is a complex situation mostly of deep depression where a Teen develops feelings that they are un-wanted, misunderstood, angry, ashamed, abused, unloved, or victimized. Other Teens that commit suicide may be feeling guilty about disappointing family, friends or they feel an overwhelming sense that they are too much of a burden on others. Deep Depression can affect Teens where they believe that suicide is the only solution. If a Teen commits suicide, everyone is affected. Sometimes even those who barely know the Teen develop feelings of guilt, confusion and the sense they could have done something themselves to prevent the suicide.
Subjects covered include:
• What is Deep Depression?
• How Deep Depression is recognized
• Attempted Suicide
• Substance Abuse
• Warning Signs
• Coping with Teen problems
• Where to turn to if you or a friend needs help
This program is designed for use with a genereal high school audience, grades 8-12.
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Cyber-Bullying
Real Life Teens: Cyber-Bullying DVD
http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Real_Life_Teens_CyberBullying_DVD-pid876.html
Resource #: RCBD964W
Part of the Real Life Teens Series
Real Life Teens: Cyber-Bullying DVD
The Real Life Teens series takes an unbiased, realistic look, from the teen’s perspective, at the wide variety of issues teens face today. Featuring young teenagers (not actors) telling their stories, in their own words.
The series discusses many significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice. The Real Life Teens is crafted by experts to solve pressing problems in today’s high schools. Give your students the advice and support they need in this complex and often overwhelming world.
Cyber-bulling is any form of harassment that occurs via the Internet. Vicious forum posts, name calling in chat rooms, posting fake profiles on web sites and mean or cruel email messages are all examples of bullying. While Cyber-Bullying mainly takes place on line, other high tech methods like threatening text messages and taunting voicemail also fall under this category. Cyber-bullying is a crime in some States and has even led to death. Hear from Real Teens as they discuss their views on Cyber-Bullying.
Subjects Covered Include:
• Why do teens Cyber-Bully
• What can be done about Cyber-Bullies
• How can Cyber-Bullies be stopped
• Dealing with forum and chat room bulling
• Where to turn to if you or a friend is being Cyber-Bullied
• The consequences of Cyber-Bulling
• Dealing with website bullying
• The must do’s and the not do’s of the Internet
This program is designed for use with a general high school audience, grades 8-12.
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Bullies & Harassment on Campus
Real Life Teens: Bullies & Harassment on Campus DVD
Resource #: RBHD964W
Part of the Real Life Teens Series
Real Life Teens: Bullies & Harassment on Campus DVD
The Real Life Teens series takes an unbiased, realistic look, from the teen’s perspective, at the wide variety of issues teens face toda. Featuring young teenagers (not actors) telling their stories, in their own words.
The series discusses many significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice. The Real Life Teens is crafted by experts to solve pressing problems in today’s high schools. Give your students the advice and support they need in this complex and often overwhelming world.
This program discusses bullies and harassment on campus and some of the motivations behind a bully’s behavior. Using interviews with teens that bully and teens that have been bullied, this program provides a broad understanding of why bullies do what they do, the best way to handle them and who can be of help in a harassing situation. The program discusses the damage to self-esteem when a student becomes the constant victim of bullying and the ways to avoid conflict and violence on campus. Teens tell us their fears and solutions in this “must watch” program.
Subjects Covered Include:
• Does bullying exist?
• Student harassment.
• How to deal with a bully.
• The law & it’s involvement with bullying.
• School rules to protect from harassment.
• How to stand up for yourself.
• Where to turn for help with a harassing situation.
This program is designed for use with a general high school audience, grades 8-12
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Eating Disorders
Real Life Teens: Eating Disorders DVD
http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Real_Life_Teens_Eating_Disorders_DVD-pid878.html
Resource #: REDD964W
Part of the Real Life Teens Series
Real Life Teens: Eating Disorders DVD
The Real Life Teens series takes an unbiased, realistic look, from the teen’s perspective, at the wide variety of issues teens face toda. Featuring young teenagers (not actors) telling their stories, in their own words.
The series discusses many significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice. The Real Life Teens is crafted by experts to solve pressing problems in today’s high schools. Give your students the advice and support they need in this complex and often overwhelming world.
Eating Disorders are a growing concern amongst teens. While positive feelings of self esteem about appearance are important in today’s world often teens put appearance above all else with devastating results. Eating disorders are complex, self-destructive and dangerous issue with physical, psychological and emotional roots. Viewers will learn the difference between anorexia and bulimia and why becoming obsessed with weight can reveal serious underlying issues. Students will discuss and learn some of the common causes of eating disorders. Teens see that both sexes can be affected and that getting help is possible. Real Teens talk about how they feel about their self image and food.
Subjects Covered Include:
• Why appearance is important.
• The difference between anorexia and bulimia.
• Why eating disorders are dangerous.
• What to do if you suspect an eating disorder.
• Why diet pills and fads are dangerous.
• Good nutrition for teens.
• Where to turn for help with eating disorders.
This program is designed for use with a general high school audience, grades 8-12
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Obesity & Health
Real Life Teens: Obesity & Health DVD
http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Real_Life_Teens_Obesity_Health_DVD-pid879.html
Resource #: ROHD964W
Part of the Real Life Teens Series
Real Life Teens: Obesity & Health DVD
The Real Life Teens series takes an unbiased, realistic look, from the teen’s perspective, at the wide variety of issues teens face toda. Featuring young teenagers (not actors) telling their stories, in their own words.
The series discusses many significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice. The Real Life Teens is crafted by experts to solve pressing problems in today’s high schools. Give your students the advice and support they need in this complex and often overwhelming world.
In our looks-obsessed society, lots of people think that being overweight is simply an appearance issue. Obesity issues go way beyond the ones we usually hear about, like diabetes and heart disease. Being overweight can also affect a person’s joints, breathing, sleep, mood and energy levels. Being overweight can impact a person’s entire quality of life. Hear from Real Teens as they discuss their self image, weight, obesity and health.
Subjects Covered Include:
• Why do Teens become overweight
• How can Teens avoid being Obese
• The health issues surrounding being overweight
• How depression & anxiety add to conditions of Obesity
• What outside influences can lead to Obesity
• Changing attitudes toward body image
• Where to turn to if you or a friend needs help
• Obesity can change a Teens personal self-esteem
• How outside influences such as family life & hurtful teasing can lead to Obesity, depression & other serious issues in a Teens life & happiness
This program is designed for use with a general high school audience, grades 8-12.
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Peer Pressure
Real Life Teens: Peer Pressure DVD
http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Real_Life_Teens_Peer_Pressure_DVD-pid880.html
Resource #: RPPD964W
Part of the Real Life Teens Series
Real Life Teens: Peer Pressure DVD
The Real Life Teens series takes an unbiased, realistic look, from the teen’s perspective, at the wide variety of issues teens face toda. Featuring young teenagers (not actors) telling their stories, in their own words.
The series discusses many significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice. The Real Life Teens is crafted by experts to solve pressing problems in today’s high schools. Give your students the advice and support they need in this complex and often overwhelming world.
This program discusses peer pressure and its effect on teens. It is designed to help teens feel comfortable discussing issues and the positive and negative effects of peer pressure. After completing the program, students will have a better understanding of peer pressure and its effects.
Subjects Covered Include:
• The positive effects of peer pressure.
• The negative effects of peer pressure.
• How to avoid negative peer pressure.
• Where do most peer pressure situations occur.
• Where to turn for help.
This program is designed for use with a general high school audience, grades 8-12.
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Preparing for College
Real Life Teens: Preparing for College DVD
Resource #: RPCD964W
Part of the Real Life Teens Series
Real Life Teens: Preparing for College DVD
The Real Life Teens series takes an unbiased, realistic look, from the teen’s perspective, at the wide variety of issues teens face toda. Featuring young teenagers (not actors) telling their stories, in their own words.
The series discusses many significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice. The Real Life Teens is crafted by experts to solve pressing problems in today’s high schools. Give your students the advice and support they need in this complex and often overwhelming world.
In this modern world getting a college education is extremely important for one’s life and career goals. Today, too many teens are dropping out of high school. This program is designed to help teens get more involved in their own college preparation. Real Teens discuss the issues and problems faced by teenagers dealing with college preparation and shows the importance of preparing for college.
Subjects covered include:
• Ways to prepare for college.
• The importance of graduating from High School.
• SAT’s and their importance.
• The importance of choosing the right college.
• Developing good study habits.
• Where to ask for help with college preparation.
• Future Careers.
This program is designed for use with a general high school audience, grades 8-12.
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Teen Depression
Real Life Teens: Teen Depression DVD
http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Real_Life_Teens_Teen_Depression_DVD-pid882.html
Resource #: RTED964W
Part of the Real Life Teens Series
Real Life Teens: Teen Depression DVD
The Real Life Teens series takes an unbiased, realistic look, from the teen’s perspective, at the wide variety of issues teens face toda. Featuring young teenagers (not actors) telling their stories, in their own words.
The series discusses many significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice. The Real Life Teens is crafted by experts to solve pressing problems in today’s high schools. Give your students the advice and support they need in this complex and often overwhelming world.
Depression can be a devastating and debilitating condition for teens. It can interfere with school, social life, family life and virtually every aspect of a teen’s life. Unfortunately, teen depression is common. In this program, teens learn about the real risks of teen depression, how to identify depression and why depression interferes with a teen’s life. Students learn about self-medication and the dangers of trying to solve chemical imbalances themselves along with the warning signs of depression and why it’s important to seek help. This program also touches on the tragedy of teen suicide and what to do if you or a friend needs help. This is real advice for a dangerous and wide-spread health condition among today’s teens. Real Teens speak frankly about their “dark side”.
Subjects Covered Include:
• Defining depression.
• The warning signs of depression.
• Identifying the roots of depression.
• Depression and home life.
• Self-medication.
• Self-destructive choices.
• Getting help.
• Teen suicide.
This program is designed for use with a general high school audience, grades 8-12.
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Stress
Real Life Teens: Stress DVD
http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Real_Life_Teens_Stress_DVD-pid883.html
Resource #: RSTD964W
Part of the Real Life Teens Series
Real Life Teens: Stress DVD
The Real Life Teens series takes an unbiased, realistic look, from the teen’s perspective, at the wide variety of issues teens face toda. Featuring young teenagers (not actors) telling their stories, in their own words.
The series discusses many significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice. The Real Life Teens is crafted by experts to solve pressing problems in today’s high schools. Give your students the advice and support they need in this complex and often overwhelming world.
Many teens are under stress: school, dating, home life, social stress, it can be overwhelming! Too much stress can get in the way of enjoying life, being productive and making good choices. It’s well recognized that stress can lead to health problems and psychological harm.
This important episode of Real Life Teens is designed 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.
Subjects Covered Include:
• Sources of stress.
• What a teen can do to reduce academic stress.
• Why procrastination can cause stress.
• Pressure to “fit in”.
• Why It’s important to accept yourself.
• How to reduce dating stress.
• What to do if there is a serious problem at home.
• Solutions to stress.
This program is designed for use with a general high school audience, grades 8-12.
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Self Destruction
Real Life Teens: Self Destruction DVD
http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Real_Life_Teens_Self_Destruction_DVD-pid884.html
Resource #: RSDD964W
Part of the Real Life Teens Series
Real Life Teens: Self Destruction DVD
The Real Life Teens series takes an unbiased, realistic look, from the teen’s perspective, at the wide variety of issues teens face toda. Featuring young teenagers (not actors) telling their stories, in their own words.
The series discusses many significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice. The Real Life Teens is crafted by experts to solve pressing problems in today’s high schools. Give your students the advice and support they need in this complex and often overwhelming world.
This program discusses Teen Self Destruction and its different manifestations. Self inflicted physical injury such as “cutting” is the most common aspect of Self Destruction. Teens may experience painful feelings of their own towards harming themselves or may be exposed to a teen or friend who needs real help. Helping someone who is prone to self destruction is not easy and Teens discuss ways to help.
In this program we’ll discuss possible causes and solutions to self destruction in adolescents. Hear from Real Teens as they discuss different aspects of Self Destructive behavior
Subjects covered include:
• What is self destruction?
• What kinds of problems can lead to self-destruction?
• How to express negative feelings in a positive manner
• Alternatives to self destruction
• Positive ways of expression
• How to know if you or a friend needs help
• Where to turn to for help
This program is designed for use with a general high school audience, grades 8-12.
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Racial Tension on Campus
Real Life Teens: Racial Tension on Campus DVD
Resource #: RCTD964W
Part of the Real Life Teens Series
Real Life Teens: Racial Tension on Campus DVD
The Real Life Teens series takes an unbiased, realistic look, from the teen’s perspective, at the wide variety of issues teens face toda. Featuring young teenagers (not actors) telling their stories, in their own words.
The series discusses many significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice. The Real Life Teens is crafted by experts to solve pressing problems in today’s high schools. Give your students the advice and support they need in this complex and often overwhelming world.
This program gives an important overview of racism today in high schools and why racism can be insidious and destructive in a teen’s life.
Students learn about racial tension and how it can lead to problems in every aspect of high school life. Suggestions and techniques for diffusing racial tension are presented in a practical and useful style. Students learn how to open up their mind to the differences between races on campus, along with the common occurrence of racial cliques and why they can lead to racism. Real Teens speak frankly about their feelings on Race in this important program.
Subjects Covered Include:
• Racial cliques
• Racism on campus
• How to diffuse racial tension on campus
• The advantages to avoiding racism in life
• How to open up to other languages
• The importance of honesty
• Why some teens become racist
This program is designed for use with a general high school audience, grades 8-12.
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Teens & Disabilities
Real Life Teens: Teens & Disabilities DVD
Resource #: RTDD964W
Part of the Real Life Teens Series
Real Life Teens: Teens & Disabilities DVD
The Real Life Teens series takes an unbiased, realistic look, from the teen’s perspective, at the wide variety of issues teens face toda. Featuring young teenagers (not actors) telling their stories, in their own words.
The series discusses many significant issues in adolescent society and cuts through many barriers with its honest and relevant advice. The Real Life Teens is crafted by experts to solve pressing problems in today’s high schools. Give your students the advice and support they need in this complex and often overwhelming world.
This program discusses Teens and Disabilities and explores the different ways that disabilities can impact a teens life. Teens learn that many different ways in which disabilities can manifest in people and how they should treat and react to other teens with disabilities. In this program we will discuss students with disabilities and how the general student population can support them.
Subjects covered include:
•What is a disability?
•How to understand a student with a disability
•Why those with disabilities are called “special”
•Showing respect and helping those who are disabled
•Special Education
This program is designed for use with a general high school audience, grades 8-12.
Oct/090
New Resource – Teens At Risk: Addiction and Depression
Teens at Risk: Addiction and Depression DVD
Resource #: TRAD964W
Teens At Risk… Powerful Insights Into Powerful Issues
Teens At Risk: Addiction and Depression DVD
The TEENS AT RISK series deals with powerful and relevant issues facing teenagers today. This series reveals first hand how young people deal with and overcome the very real challenges encountered as part of their growing up. Relevant to all teens and with real life messages about real life issues, these highly charged personal interviews and stories reveal, in their own words, how significant and seemingly overwhelming problems can be to overcome.
TEENS AT RISK is crafted by experts to help solve and give advise about pressing issues facing youth in school, family and adolescent society and gives viewers the messages of hope and support that are needed in this complex and often overwhelming world.
Many depressed people, especially teenagers, also have problems with alcohol and drugs. Sometimes the depression comes first and people try using drugs using drugs as a way to escape. Other times, the alcohol or other drug use come first and depression is caused by the drug itself, the withdrawal from it or the problems that substance abuse causes.
Obviously, in the long run drug or alcohol use just makes things worse. Although it is often difficult to distinguish which came first, the important point is that if someone has one or both of these problems, the sooner they get help the better, as doing nothing is a recipe for bigger trouble, like serious addiction of failing in school or in life.
Teens at Risk, 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 get into treatment – proven to be the only way to really get better and stay better.
Oct/090
New Resource – Teens At Risk: Youth and Drugs
Teens At Risk: Youth and Drugs DVD
http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Teens_at_Risk_Youth_and_Drugs_DVD-pid871.html
Resource #: TRYD964W
Teens At Risk… Powerful Insights Into Powerful Issues
Teens At Risk: Youth and Drugs DVD
The TEENS AT RISK series deals with powerful and relevant issues facing teenagers today. This series reveals first hand how young people deal with and overcome the very real challenges encountered as part of their growing up. Relevant to all teens and with real life messages about real life issues, these highly charged personal interviews and stories reveal, in their own words, how significant and seemingly overwhelming problems can be to overcome.
TEENS AT RISK is crafted by experts to help solve and give advise about pressing issues facing youth in school, family and adolescent society and gives viewers the messages of hope and support that are needed in this complex and often overwhelming world.
Children generally believe that alcohol and drug use is safe. Bombarded by media from an early age, the average 18 year old has seen well over 100, 000 television commercials encouraging them to drink. Any illicit drug use by adolescents can have immediate, long-term health and social consequences.
Overall, mental health problems including depression, developmental lags, apathy, withdrawal, conduct problems, personality disorders, suicidal thoughts, attempted suicide, and other psychosocial dysfunctions are frequentlylinked to substance abuse among adolescents. Arrest, adjudication and intervention by the juvenile justice system are eventual consequences for many youths engaged in alcohol and other drug use.
Oct/090
New Resource – Teens At Risk: Wasting Away
Teens At Risk: Wasting Away DVD
http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Teens_at_Risk_Wasting_Away_DVD-pid870.html
Resource #: TRWD964W
Teens At Risk … Powerful Insights Into Powerful Issues
Teens At Risk: Wasting Away DVD
The TEENS AT RISK series deals with powerful and relevant issues facing teenagers today. This series reveals first hand how young people deal with and overcome the very real challenges encountered as part of their growing up. Relevant to all teens and with real life messages about real life issues, these highly charged personal interviews and stories reveal, in their own words, how significant and seemingly overwhelming problems can be to overcome.
TEENS AT RISK is crafted by experts to help solve and give advise about pressing issues facing youth in school, family and adolescent society and gives viewers the messages of hope and support that are needed in this complex and often overwhelming world.
In this program, you will see the struggles teens face with Bulimia Nervosa and Anorexia Nervosa from individuals that have suffered from this affliction and survived. For reasons unclear, some people, mainly young women, develop potentially life-threatening eating disorders called bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa.
People with bulimia, known as bulimics, indulge in binging (episodes of eating large amounts of food) and purging (getting rid of the food by vomiting or using laxatives). People with anorexia, whom doctors call anoretics, severly limit their food intake. About half of them also have bulimia symptoms.
Bulimia is also a very deadly physical illness as intentionally purging causes many debilitating effects including severe teeth erosion, tears of the esophagus, life threatening potassium imbalances and more. More than 20% die from complications relating to their eating disorders.
Anorexics similarly are affected by their illnesses in many ways ranging from fatigue and lack of energy, amenorrhea( loss of menstruation), loss of bone mass and even cardiac arrest and death.
Oct/090
New Resource – Teens At Risk: Teenage Depression
Teens at Risk: Teenage Depression DVD
http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Teens_at_Risk_Teenage_Depression_DVD-pid868.html
Resource #: TRTD964W
Teens At Risk… Powerful Insights Into Powerful Issues
Teens at Risk: Teenage Depression DVD
The TEENS AT RISK series deals with powerful and relevant issues facing teenagers today. This series reveals first hand how young people deal with and overcome the very real challenges encountered as part of their growing up. Relevant to all teens and with real life messages about real life issues, these highly charged personal interviews and stories reveal, in their own words, how significant and seemingly overwhelming problems can be to overcome.
TEENS AT RISK is crafted by experts to help solve and give advise about pressing issues facing youth in school, family and adolescent society and gives viewers the messages of hope and support that are needed in this complex and often overwhelming world.
The statistics on teen depression are sobering. Studies indicate that one in five children have some sort of mental, behavioral, or emotional problem and that one in ten of these problems are serious. Among adolescents, one in eight may suffer from depression. Of all these children and teens, a mere 30% recieve 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 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. The most troubling fact is that these struggling teens often recieve no 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.
Oct/090
New Resource – Real Life Teens: Ethics in School
Real Life Teens: Ethics in School DVD
http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Real_Life_Teens_Ethics_in_School_DVD-pid867.html
Resource #: RESD964W
Real Life Teens: Ethics in School DVD
Many times it can be hard for teens to develop a positive code of ethical behavior in school. This program discusses the importance of ethics in the school environment and in a teen’s peer group. It is designed to help teens feel comfortable discussing these issues as well as probing positive and negative aspects school ethics. Real Teens talk to us about their actions and sense of right and wrong in school.
Subjects covered include:
• Positive ethics & their benefit to teens.
• Negative effects from bad ethics.
• Developing good ethics.
• Gossip and rumors.
• Negative effects of gossip and rumor.
• Ethics and your future.
Sep/090
New Resource – Coping with an Emotional Crisis
Coping with an Emotional Crisis DVD
http://www.disabilitytraining.com/product-info.php?Coping_with_an_Emotional_Crisis_DVD-pid522.html
Resource #: CWED912W
Coping with an Emotional Crisis DVD
Divorce, natural disasters, death of a loved one, terrorism, depression, navigating a difficult home life —these and other crises have a profound impact on the mental and physical health of young teens and create emotional trauma most are not equipped to deal with.
This program features poignant interviews with real teens who share their experiences with emotional crises: Brianna, 15, leaves her friends and school in New Orleans after a devastating flood destroys the city, Cedric, 14, still deals with the fears created from believing his mother perished in the World Trade Center attacks; Alex, 12, has to deal with the sudden death of his stepfather in an airplane crash; Christiana, 13, still wonders if she’s responsible for her parents divorce.
Clinical physiologist Dr. Robin Goodman, a past consultant to the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, comments on these and other experiences using them to illustrate the different types of crises typical of middle school students, the stages of a crisis, and the resources and strategies that students can use to both cope with and eventually move past the crisis.
Produced by Human Relations Media, Inc.
Sep/090
New Resource – Diabetes: Why Many Teens Are at Risk
Diabetes: Why Many Teens Are at Risk DVD
Resource #: DIAD913W
Diabetes: Why Many Teens Are at Risk DVD
As a direct result of poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, and obesity, Type 2 diabetes has become a serious health risk for many teens.
Program presents the medical facts about diabetes; the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes; the risk factors for developing diabetes; the warning signs of diabetes; and the critical steps necessary to control diabetes, including changes in diet and exercise, and proper medical care.
Profiles teens who describe how they are controlling their diabetes in order to live long and healthy lives. Identifies ways you can help a friend or classmate who has diabetes.
Program also delivers a clear message that teens can take positive steps now to reduce their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and avoid the lifelong struggle of managing this potentially life-threatening disease.
Produced by Human Relations Media, Inc.
