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Drama Queens and Tough Guys: Helping Teens Handle Emotions

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Intense emotions are part of every teen’s life. Too often, however, these emotions spill over into “dramas” with groups of kids reacting to and escalating the impact of the drama.

Grade Level: 
Middle
Length: 
00:19
Drama Queens and Tough Guys: Helping Teens Handle Emotions

Developing Self-Confidence

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Do you know students who talk about themselves in negative ways? Avoid putting themselves in situations where others could judge them? Always make excuses? Don’t feel they have anything special to offer? Very often, these students lack self-confidence.

Grade Level: 
Middle
Length: 
00:18
Developing Self-Confidence

Advertising, the Media, and Your Health

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Today's teens are often labeled Generation M because of the extent that media saturates their lives. This program examines how different forms of media encourage young consumers to smoke more, drink more, eat more unhealthy foods, and take greater risks with sexual behavior.

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Middle
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Length: 
00:19
Advertising, the Media, and Your Health

Huffing: The Latest Facts About Inhalant Abuse

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This gripping program shares unforgettable real stories of teens fighting their abuse of inhalants, as well as two families who lost children to inhalant abuse. One interview segment involves an Ohio police officer whose son died after a brief experiment with inhalants.

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Middle
High
Length: 
00:20
Huffing: The Latest Facts About Inhalant Abuse

Help Your Young Teen Understand Bullying (2008)

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Research shows that a majority of young teens report having bullied someone or have been bullied. Many do both. Few know how to handle it.

Grade Level: 
Middle
Length: 
00:24
Help Your Young Teen Understand Bullying

Body Image: Extreme Measures (2004)

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In a country obsessed with the perfect body, the pressure starts early. Once just thought to be an issue for adolescent girls, the desire to have a beautiful body is affecting kids as young as seven, and has even moved to boy's locker rooms across the country. This program explores the harmful consequences.

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Middle
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Length: 
00:30
Body Image: Extreme Measures

Teenage Depression & Suicide (2004)

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This informative series empowers teenagers to make responsible decisions by providing them with honest and realistic information and an accessible scientific foundation upon which to base them. Students get an in-depth look at the most prominent drugs and teen health issues of the day, as well as an understanding of the history of the drugs that currently populate the nation's landscape.

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Middle
High
Length: 
00:23
Teenage Depression & Suicide

Steroids (2004)

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Examines the use of illegal anabolic steroids and steroidal supplements, profiling case studies that provide a comprehensive overview of the detrimental effects these drugs can have. Vivid animations and expert testimony shed light on what is happening to the mind and body of a steroid user.

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Middle
High
Length: 
00:23
Steroids

Hallucinogens (2004)

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This informative series empowers teenagers to make responsible decisions by providing them with honest and realistic information and an accessible scientific foundation upon which to base them. Students get an in-depth look at the most prominent drugs and teen health issues of the day, as well as an understanding of the history of the drugs that currently populate the nation's landscape.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:23
Hallucinogens

Alcohol & Alcoholism (2004)

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Viewers learn about the dangers of alcohol abuse and the signs and symptoms of alcohol dependence, while the many factors involved in the disease of alcoholism are highlighted. Whether it is beer, wine or liquor, alcoholic beverages all belong to a class of drugs known as depressants and use can lead to dependence and addiction.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:23
Alcohol & Alcoholism

Tranquilizers & Other Depressants (2004)

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Introduces students to the history of drugs like barbiturates, benzodiazepines and other substances known as "date rape drugs." Compelling animations explain the effects they have on the chemistry of the brain and the body.

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Middle
High
Length: 
00:23
Tranquilizers & Other Depressants

Cocaine & Crack (2004)

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This informative series empowers teenagers to make responsible decisions by providing them with honest and realistic information and an accessible scientific foundation upon which to base them. Students get an in-depth look at the most prominent drugs and teen health issues of the day, as well as an understanding of the history of the drugs that currently populate the nation's landscape.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:23
Cocaine & Crack

Club Drugs (2004)

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This informative series empowers teenagers to make responsible decisions by providing them with honest and realistic information and an accessible scientific foundation upon which to base them. Students get an in-depth look at the most prominent drugs and teen health issues of the day, as well as an understanding of the history of the drugs that currently populate the nation's landscape.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:23
Club Drugs

Inhalants (2004)

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It's tragic, but true: Sniffing readily-available household products kills. "Inhalants" explains the dangers of breathing in toxic substances with animations and graphics that illustrate what happens to the brain and body when it is exposed to poisons.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:23
Inhalants

Marijuana (2004)

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Explores the physical consequences of abuse as well as the controversy surrounding its medicinal uses. Animations give viewers an in-depth look at the short- and long-term impact that marijuana has on the brain. Interviews with users and experts explain the crippling effect that marijuana can have on the motivation, memory and future of even the most casual user.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:23
Marijuana

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