Self-Hurting Teens

Product Description

Cutting. Burning. Suicide attempts. Tens of thousands of adolescents try to ease or end their deep and hidden pain with self-destructive behavior, and they are keeping it a secret from their families. Viewers will hear the powerful true stories of kids who have struggled with self-injury, from Andrea, whose legs bear scars from razor blade cuts, to Chad, a bright and athletic student who ultimately took his own life. This compelling and emotional program explores the causes of these dangerous behaviors, and emphasizes the importance of children communicating their pain so they can get the help they desperately need.

• Key Benefits:
  Correlated to Health, At-Risk & Safety Standards in those states with Health & Safety Standards, and to Life Science (Human Body) standards in many other states (most states mandate substance abuse and other at-risk education at various places in their K-12 curricula)
• Instructional designs that combine “scare/shock” with “reasonable/factual” approaches to changing student behavior, which have oscillated this “Guidance” strand of education back and forth in the last 30 years
• Students’ points of view used to give these behavioral programs maximum credibility with their target school-age audiences
• Award-winning (Emmy & many others), television-level production values also give these programs credibility with the media-saturated target audience of pre-teen and teenage viewers
• Only recently produced at-risk programs with a new approach that will equally satisfy student behavior modification needs of counselors, teachers, administrators and students alike
• Unlike many at-risk programs produced over the last decades, these programs focus more on causes of behavior and less on the “de jour” symptoms, such as specific substances abused, STDs, etc.
• Combination of the above factors ensure that these programs will change students’ behaviors quickly, which is the primary motive for educators to purchase them
• Recently updated for classroom use

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