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Coping with Disruptive Life Changes
This program showcases the real stories of several teens who coped with major disruptions in their lives. One teen describes how her parents’ divorce caused her to...
View Product DetailsErik Erikson: A Life's Work
Narrated by Erikson's colleague, Margaret Brenman-Gibson, Ph.D. and Ruthie Mickles, Ph.D. Using archival materials and newly shot footage, this film introduces students...
View Product DetailsStruggling with Stress
Struggling with Stress uses a documentary format to follow a group of ethnically and socio-economically diverse teenagers through their normal everyday lives and exposes...
View Product DetailsSad, Angry, Lonely and Scared: The Masks of Depression
Untreated, depression is the number one cause of suicide and is the most common mental illness in the United States. Depression in teenagers is often hidden and can be...
View Product DetailsFears and Phobias Understanding Them, Defeating Them
Tailored to teens, this program provides information about common fears and phobias and how the brain and the body (fight-or-flight response) function when teens are...
View Product DetailsHow Children Learn
Using animation and jargon-free narration, this charming film summarizes what is currently known about learning from brain research, cognitive development research and...
View Product DetailsWho Needs Therapy? Treating Psychological Problems
This video answers many common questions that teens may have about mental health treatment. What is therapy? What kinds of therapy are available? How do I know if I need...
View Product DetailsDying is Not an Option: Thinking About Suicide
Since the 1960s, the rate of suicide among adolescents has tripled. Suicide is now the second leading cause of death for those between 15 and 24. These shocking...
View Product DetailsJohn Bowlby: Attachment Theory Over Generations
Positive intimate relationships with spouses, relatives and friends are incredibly important to mental health in adulthood. John Bowlby's Attachment Theory shows how...
View Product DetailsJohn Dewey: An Introduction to His Life and Work
John Dewey wrote extensively about philosophy, psychology, education, political science, and the arts. In his very full 92 years of life (1859-1952), he not only wrote...
View Product DetailsMaking Sense of Sensory Information
For thousands of years, humans have asked if we perceive the world accurately through our senses. Because seeing is so important for our functioning in the world,...
View Product DetailsMaria Montessori: Her Life and Legacy
Born more than 25 years before Piaget or Vygotsky, Maria Montessori understood the constructivistic nature of all learning. As she observed children building their...
View Product DetailsMary Ainsworth: Attachment and the Growth of Love
Mary Ainsworth’s “Strange Situation” is now basic to understandings of infant-parent interactions and, thus, later emotional development. Working in close...
View Product DetailsPiaget's Developmental Theory: An Introduction
The work of Jean Piaget has become the foundation of current developmental psychology and the basis for changes in educational practice. David Elkind, author of The...
View Product DetailsBandura's Social Cognitive Theory: An Introduction
Treading new ground in the field of social psychology, Albert Bandura’s work has become basic to an understanding of how social forces influence individuals, small...
View Product DetailsAdolescent Cognition: Thinking in a New Key
It is not just teenage bodies that undergo tremendous changes in adolescence; young minds begin working in new ways that sometimes cause awkward situations just as do...
View Product DetailsB.F. Skinner: A Fresh Appraisal
Other than Freud, no psychologist has been so discussed, critiqued and, at times, maligned as B.F. Skinner. Using both archival and new film, this video takes a new look...
View Product DetailsHuman Brain Development: Nature and Nurture
The fascinating interplay of genetic predispositions and experience in the development of the brain after birth is demonstrated in this film produced at the Brain...
View Product DetailsEmotional Brain: An Introduction to Affective Neuroscience
Emotions color our everyday individual existence and shape all aspects of our interpersonal and intellectual experiences. In this film, animations and fMRI images...
View Product DetailsBuilding Mathematical Competencies in Early Childhood
This film deals with the WHY's, WHAT's, and HOW's of including rich, developmentally appropriate mathematics experiences for young children in Pre-Kindergarten...
View Product DetailsReasons for Hope, Reasons to Live: Preventing Youth Suicide
This video emphasizes the hopeful message that suicides can be prevented. It focuses on the preventative actions that students can take if they are having thoughts of...
View Product DetailsExploring the Brain: The Newest Frontier
Part One: Geography of the Brain investigates physical and biochemical characterisitcs of the human brain. Part Two: Memory defines types of memory, examining...
View Product DetailsAging Successfully: Psychological Aspects of Growing Old
Systematic examination of old age is a new field inspired by the unprecedented number of people living long enough to become elderly. Developmental psychologists Paul...
View Product DetailsStressed Out: Stress Management 101
Program describes different forms of stress (acute, episodic and chronic) and explains how important it is for young people to learn effective techniques for coping with...
View Product DetailsVygotsky's Developmental Theory: An Introduction
The work of Lev Vygotsky is increasingly cited as we reconsider the theory and practice of constructivist education. This program introduces the life, vocabulary and...
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