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Audiobooks. bibliography biography Educational films. Internet videos. Videorecording.Summary: A certain amount of stress can actually enhance performance and productivity. However, continually high levels of stress have been linked to all of the leading causes of death in America, including heart disease, cancer, and lung ailments. This program analyzes the role of stress in day-to-day life and in overall physical and mental health. Sources of stress are identified, and techniques for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: When is war justified? What is worth dying for? Does protesting work? Is world peace possible? In this politically balanced program, children and teens express themselves with passion, intelligence, and insight as they grapple with these questions. "I made this documentary to give children a voice as well as encourage adults to reflect on what we are teaching tomorrow's citizens," says...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Depression, anxiety, and an overwhelming schedule may be hallmarks of adulthood, but many young people are also familiar with them. This program gathers together the voices of teenagers as they reflect on personal frustrations and challenges. In an expressive flow of words, images, and music, three high school students-an ambitious male cheerleader raised by a single mother, a pierced and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Stress has been called the most prevalent disease of modern society: an epidemic brought about by the pace of modern life and the pressure to succeed in a climate of increasing job insecurity. But what exactly is stress? How do medical and psychological approaches to stress management differ? And what psychological strategies-behavioral, cognitive, and organizational-are available to combat...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Unresolved stress is all too frequently a cause of substance abuse and suicide. This program shows teens how to recognize, analyze, and manage the stresses in their lives by using the C.H.I.L.L. formula: Communications, Health (nutrition), "I" concerns (self-esteem and self-image), Laid back (relaxation techniques), and Little at a time (time management) This valuable instructional tool can...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Is childhood really the carefree and happy-go-lucky picture that some adults paint? Not always! In this program, we see that children do have stress in their lives, but not the wisdom or experience to know how to handle it. Eye-catching graphics and stories from the kids themselves will keep your classes watching to see fun and creative ways to handle stress in productive ways. And..a tag at...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Over the last three decades, science has been advancing the understanding of stress-how it impacts the human body and how social standing can make a person more or less susceptible. Through studies of baboons on the plains of Africa and research in the neuroscience labs of Stanford University, scientists are discovering just how lethal stress can be. Understanding how stress works can help...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Stress, when carefully managed, can actually facilitate academic achievement. Reinforced by on-screen lists and a review segment at the end, this program first defines stress and then promotes three core strategies for dealing with it: a positive attitude, a healthy lifestyle, and relaxation techniques. The harmful aspects of unmanaged stress, which include an increased susceptibility to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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LeDoux, Joseph E.
Summary: Joseph LeDoux, whose NYU lab has been at the forefront of research efforts to understand and treat fear and anxiety, explains the range of anxiety disorders, their origins, and discoveries that can restore sufferers to normalcy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 153.42 LeDSummary: What are the consequences of bullying, high-stakes testing, homework overload, and family turmoil? Do these experiences prepare kids for an uncertain life ahead or are they too much, too young? This program explores what happens under the stressful conditions that children often face at home and school. Tracking a group of 25 eight-year-olds, the program follows young subjects through academic,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This program is designed to help teens deal with common areas of stress in their lives: academic stress, social stress, and stress from home life. 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 oneself; how to reduce dating stress; what to do if there is a serious...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Many feel that, in today's society, the needs of the mentally ill have fallen completely by the wayside-with the most tragic results, perhaps, occurring among young people. This program features first-person stories from adolescents and young adults who are confronting depression, anxiety, and mental illness. From depressed, suicidal teens to parents unaware of what may be troubling their own...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: We all get depressed or feel stressed once in awhile. But today, teenagers have more stress in their lives than ever before. Divorced parents, substance abuse, lack of adult supervision, abusive family situations, unemployment, and a sense that the world may not be getting any better..are all factors which cause many teenagers to feel alone and desperate. Most teenagers successfully deal with...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Teenagers are running away from home, dropping out of school, having babies, taking drugs, committing suicide, and going to jail for violent crimes. This program discusses normal adolescence and today's too-frequent scenarios: a juvenile delinquent whose drug use led him to criminality; an eighth-grader whose drug use completely altered his personality; a young girl who became severely...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Petersen, Andrea.
Summary: A wry, sympathetic, bracingly honest account of living with anxiety, coupled with deep reportage on the science of anxiety disorders. --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PETERSEN, ANDREA PETWarner, Priscilla
Summary: "A funny memoir of Faith Club coauthor's serious attempt to change her brain from panic to peace in a year-long spiritual quest"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARNER, PRISCILLA WARBerzin, Robin
Summary: "Functional medicine innovator and founder of nationally renowned practice Parsley Health, Dr. Robin Berzin's definitive work on how to fight the physical ailments at the root of the international epidemic of burnout, anxiety, and stress"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2022