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 ME
AND MY FAMILY: SOLVING CONFLICTS
23 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Teaches conflict
resolution techniques aimed at helping young teens get along better with
their families.
RESPECT
AND YOU
22 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Respect for
self and others is what builds tolerance, develops empathy, and creates
caring relationships. Using realistic scenarios, each followed by thought-provoking
discussion questions, program challenges viewers to think critically about
the issues involved in respect for property, authority, other people's
ideas, differences, and how giving respect creates self-respect.
SAY
NO AND KEEP YOUR FRIENDS
25 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Using pressure-filled
situations typical of middle school experience, program demonstrates effective
techniques that will help students stand up for themselves and still retain
friendships.
STAFF
DEVELOPMENT: WORKING WITH HOSTILE AND RESISTANT TEENS
Two 45-minute videos
For teachers/counselors of Grades 5-12
Teaches effective
anger management strategies in a school setting. Using role-plays with
real
at-risk kids, shows how to reduce the emotional content when working with
potentially explosive kids and stay focused on the underlying problem.
STUDENT
WORKSHOP: CONFLICT RESOLUTION SKILLS
35 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Designed as
a workshop to teach students the skills of conflict resolution. Through
hands-on activities and practice, students acquire six basic skills of
conflict resolution: Getting the Facts, Active Listening, Body Language,
Tone of Voice, "I" Messages, and Brainstorming.
STUDENT
WORKSHOP: MEDIATION SKILLS
30 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
In a step-by-step
approach, this workshop trains students to be peer mediators, equipping
them with skills for conducting successful mediations.
TAKING
CHANCES: TEENS AND RISK
27 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Helps middle
schoolers look at risk critically and understand its sources.
TAKING
CHARGE OF ME: EMOTIONAL I.Q.
24 minutes plus Teachers Guide
Grade level: 5-9
For midlle
schoolers struggling with the problems of growing up, mastery of emotional
and social skills (emotional IQ) may be a far better predictor of future
academic and social success than intelligence (IQ) tests. Program helps
students learn to manage anger, deal with frustration, persist at tasks,
work cooperatively, respect other points of view, and develop social confidence.
TOBACCO
AND YOU
22 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Interweaves
a TV talk-show on tobacco's health dangers with interviews with young
teen smokers to show that smoking is neither "cool," sexy, nor
grown-up, but is instead a non-glamorous and socially offensive habit
that is very hard to break.
TRUTH
ABOUT ALCOHOL (THE)
20 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Alerts students
to the facts they need to know about alcohol. Encourages viewers to reexamine
their thinking about alcohol, and helps them understand the problems caused
by other people's alcohol abuse.
TRUTH
ABOUT INHALANTS (THE)
15 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Interweaving
real-life vignettes and graphics on inhalants' dangers with tips on their
safe use, offers a powerful indictment of inhalant abuse.
TRUTH
ABOUT MARIJUANA (THE)
20 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Dramatizes
how the choice to use drugs affects a young person's social and emotional
life. Helps students recognize other alternatives for solving problems,
presents facts that can help them make the right choice.
WHEN
ANGER TURNS TO RAGE
27 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Anger often
gives rise to a fury that middle schoolers can neither understand nor
control. Program helps young teens understand this natural but troubling
emotion and demonstrates ways to deal with angry feelings. Teaches the
anger-management skills that can lead to better relationships between
students and a more peaceful learning environment.
WHEN
THERE'S TROUBLE AT HOME
34 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Helps students
whose lives are disrupted by trouble at home see that despite a bad situation,
they can still make their lives work by identifying and acknowledging
their feelings. Makes them aware that others have similar problems. Illustrates
constructive ways of coping and suggests options for action and sources
of help.
WHEN
YOU LIVE IN AN ALCOHOLIC FAMILY...
33 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Helps students
living in an alcoholic family understand that they are not the cause of
their parent's drinking, nor can they control or cure it.
WHEN
YOU'RE MAD! MAD! MAD! Dealing with Anger
27 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Helps students
differentiate between angry feelings and angry behavior. Shows viewers
that they can learn to handle anger by controlling how they act, suggests
steps they can take.
WORKING
IT OUT: CONFLICT RESOLUTION
28 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Introduces
pre-teens and young teens to conflict resolution. Shows students how good
communication skills and mediation can turn conflict into a positive experience,
build self-esteem, and improve relationships.
YOU
CAN SAY NO: HERE'S HOW
23 minutes
Grade level: 5-9
Helps students
recognize that they have the right to act in their own best interest.
Teaches the assertiveness techniques
that will enable young teens to stand up for themselves and gain more
control of their lives.
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