Lending Library > Social-Skills
Status:Available Beyond the Blues: A Workbook to Help Teens Overcome Depression
Published: 2008
The activities in this book can help teens cope with sad & difficult feelings, find new ways to make friends, and deal with conflicts. Helps teens make small changes that add up to a brighter future... Details >>
Status:Available El Pensamiento Adictivo: Comprender el Autoengano
Published: 2000
**Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception** A look at self-deceptive thinking that feeds low self-esteem and relapse, plus new information on depression & affective disorders. .. Details >>
Status:Available Bullying at School
Published: 1993
Practical advice for principals, teachers & parents on how to implement a "whole school approach to bullying," & a guide to help teachers & parents recognize if a child is being victimized or is bullying others... Details >>
Status:Available Teasing and Harassment
Published: 2001
Learn how to counter & prevent low-level agression in school & at home. Based on social learning theory, the frames & scripts approach provides easy-to-learn language for working w/ kids to unlearn the behavior that leads to teasing & learn positive probl.. Details >>
Status:Available What Kids Really Want That Money Can't Buy
Published: 2003
Children's social lives are complex, stressful & sometimes even dangerous. Offers ways to help children navigate their social world, distinguish friendship from popularity & build a positive self-image & sense of uniqueness... Details >>
Status:Available What Teens Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways To Shape Your Own Future
Published: 1998
Over 1,200 ideas for teens to build a strong foundation for their futures based on the 40 Developmental Assets. Includes checklists, quizzes and fun lists of things to do and try... Details >>
Status:Available Building Assets Together: Do Something Positive with Your Youth
Published: 1997
Interactive group activities for 6-12th graders and copiable worksheets that help youth understand their own assets and strengths. Covers community values, school, relationships, creativity, cultural competence, refusal skills, stress and hobbies... Details >>
Status:Available Pathways to Prevention: Guiding Youth to Wise Decisions
Published: 2003
A drug & alcohol prevention guide for youth leaders in faith communities. Curriculum addresses peer pressure, friendships, the media, personal beliefs and values, pros and cons of substance use, and intervening with loved ones. Reproducable worksheets inc.. Details >>
Status:Available 101 Ready-To-Use Drug Prevention Activities
Published: 1999
Curriculum-based & reproducible for grades 2-6, most of these activities can be done using materials usually found in classrooms. They range from those designed to help kids develop a firm decision-making process, to creative ways to make your Red Ribbon.. Details >>
Status:Available Bullying
Published: 1995
This video and teacher's guide put in place several strategies to reduce bullying in school. Students are presented with various bullying scenarios, at the end of which questions are asked to provoke thought and discussion about the characters and circums.. Details >>
Status:Available Be Cool: Coping With Anger
Published: 1995
Specially designed for children with learning and developmental disabilities. Teaches how to handle anger at others by accepting, apologizing, and making amends. .. Details >>
Status:Available Sooper Puppy: Self-Esteem
Published: 1995
Delightful puppets emphasize the importance of liking yourself, and being able to say "No" to things that don't feel right. Sooper Puppy is feeling sad when some bad news dogs approach him to 'have some fun.' He agrees, and suffers the consequences of not.. Details >>
Status:Available The Art of Setting Limits
How to defuse verbal exchanges before they become confrontations... Details >>
Status:Available Straight Up (Closed Captioned)
A television series of three 30-minute programs for high school students. Each 30 minute program is divided into two parts. The first program looks at knowledge and facts. Program two is about attitudes and perceptions. Program three covers self-image.. Details >>
Status:Available Hard Facts - Speak Up, Speak Out/Dare to be Different
A series of three programs designed for middle school students. "Hard Facts" addresses the facts on alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. "Speak Up, Speak Out" teaches kids how to say no to their friends. "Dare to be Different" looks at how you need to care.. Details >>
Status:Available Sesame Street: Developing Self Esteem
Published: 1989
This video encourages youngsters to experience the special feelings of pride in accomplishment, in unique aptitudes and abilities, in friends and family, and in learning new skills... Details >>
Status:Available Sons & Daughters: Parents and Problems
Addresses common conflicts between parents and adolescents. Helps them to communicate... Details >>
Status:Available Making Friends
Teaches young people an easy, non-threatening way to make new friends, whether they are the new kid at school or merely want to widen their circle of friends... Details >>
Status:Available Staying Out of Trouble With Your Friends
Animal puppets teach children to STOP; THINK, about what might happen; LOOK around you for something to do instead; and GIVE yourself a pat on the back for staying out of trouble. Encourages children to consider the consequences of their actions... Details >>
Status:Available Staying Out of Trouble With Your Friends
Animal puppets teach children to STOP; THINK, about what might happen; LOOK around you for something to do instead; and GIVE yourself a pat on the back for staying out of trouble. This program encourages children to consider the consequences of their act.. Details >>
Status:Available Ask For It
Published: 1986
This video, featuring animal puppets, teaches children how to make requests in an assertive,non-aggressive way. Children can also use the skill in making friends, reaching compromises, or joining in an activity... Details >>
Status:Available Becoming Skillwise
Four teachers discuss the importance of teaching social skills to their students and how they do it. The same strategies can be used for teaching any social skill... Details >>
Status:Available Deciding
Students learn a technique for making good decisions that can be applied to a variety of situations. They find out that many different people influence their decisions and that any decisions that they make have consequences... Details >>
Status:Available Stay Out of Trouble
This program incorporates scenes from Duffy's Story to demonstrate the steps of refusal. Two adults introduce the skill to two children and then coach them in how to stay out of trouble with their friends... Details >>
Status:Available Helping Your Children to Stay Out of Trouble
This program incorporates scenes from Duffy's Story to demonstrate the steps of refusal. Two adults introduce the skill to two children and then coach them in how to stay out of trouble with their friends... Details >>
Status:Available I Think
A teacher sees her young self in her students as they struggle to balance their desire to conform w/ their peers with their real selves. From personality traits and appearance to behaviors & opinions, children face great pressure to be like their friends... Details >>
Status:Available Less Stress
Presents dramatic stressful episodes common to most children. Teaches what stress is, some of the things that may cause it, and gives suggestions about how to deal with it... Details >>
Status:Available Making Friends
Teaches young people an easy, non-threatening way to make new friends, whether they are the new kid at school or merely want to widen their circle of friends... Details >>
Status:Available Making Friends
Teaches young people an easy, non-threatening way to make new friends, whether they are the new kid at school or merely want to widen their circle of friends... Details >>
Status:Available Me and the Monsters
Animated cartoons about the 'monsters' of bullying, alcohol and other drugs, and tobacco. Teaches the child to deal with these everyday monsters... Details >>
Status:Available Negotiation Skills
Five parts. Shows how to replace conflict with compromise and improves problem-solving skills. It promotes the understanding of others' views, and fosters active listening... Details >>
Status:Available Square Pegs - Round Holes
Published: 1974
A little cube is born, & as it grows, it finds it isn't like its fellow shapes; the cones & spheres;who easily fall into grooves made for them. Finally, the answer comes to him: he digs his own hole, jumps in, and eventually finds his own unique way of li.. Details >>
Status:Available Stand Up!
Published: 1995
Explains skills used by people who want to express different types of limits to their friends. Two different scenarios are presented, in which the characters present their limits in a way that keeps their friends, and avoids hostility... Details >>
Status:Available Staying Out of Trouble With Your Friends
Animal puppets teach children to STOP; THINK; LOOK around for something to do instead; & GIVE yourself a pat on the back for staying out of trouble. Encourages children to consider the consequences of their actions, which facilitates the learning of soc.. Details >>
Status:Available Talking Helps
Four parts. Shows teens how to help their friends and themselves work through problems... Details >>
Status:Available You Can Refuse...Including Group Pressure
Realistic vignettes show teens how to stay out of trouble with friends. The video emphasizes that students can stay out of trouble without losing their friends... Details >>
Status:Available Suicide Prevention
Published: 2003
Students will learn the key points of suicide prevention, characteristics of students who may be at higher risk, why any threat of suicide should be taken seriously, steps to take if a friend is suicidal, & problem-solving tips & effective communication s.. Details >>
Status:Available Positive Action Steps for Parents of Drug-Abusing Kids
Focuses on effective ways that parents can respond to a child abusing alcohol & other drugs. Communication, discipline, confrontation, caring and parental examples are all addressed, as well as how parents can get support from other parents, the school,.. Details >>
Status:Available Paternidad Exitosa (Successful Parenting)
Este beneficioso y gracioso video nos muestra las frustraciones que sufren los padres de familia, explica que disciplina significa el ensenar a nuestros ninos el comportarse en un medio social y ofrece una variedad de tecnicas que pueden ser usadas por lo.. Details >>
Status:Available Assets Happening Here
Published: 1999
A video made by teens, for teens, about growing up healthy, caring and responsible. Based on the 40 Developmental Assets... Details >>
Status:Available Urban Improv: Violence & Conflict Resolution
Published: 2004
The Urban Improv troupe dramatize the consequences of arguments erupting into physical violence, the traumatic results of revenge, and the dangers of abusive relationships. Classroom activities include role-plays and discussions of anger management & conf.. Details >>
Status:Available Soulforce: The Power of Non-Violence
Published: 1999
This historical look at non-violence empowers youth by focusing on positive strategies used by leaders of the nonviolence movement. Interspersed are stories of formerly at-risk teens who have used nonviolence to resist violence in their own schools and ne.. Details >>
Status:Available McGruff on Anger, Conflict and Violence
Published: 2001
McGruff finds his nephew, Scruff, angry at his video game, and explains that violence is not the answer. He shows how potentially violent situations can be defused, and the negative effects violence has on students' relationships & lives. Peaceful conflic.. Details >>
Status:Available Anger
Published: 2002
Anger is an emotion, not a behavior. When it's transformed into the behavior of aggression & violence it can lead to tragic consequences. This video encourages personal responsibility & presents a step-by-step process to curb agressive behavior... Details >>
Status:Available Sooper Puppy: That's Trouble
Published: 1995
Delightful puppets teach a valuable lesson about resisting peer pressure. Sooper Puppy learns how to say no to trouble by thinking ahead and imagining if what he's about to say or do will have consequences he can do without. He helps his friends avoid tro.. Details >>
Status:Available Sooper Puppy: Once Upon a Feeling
Published: 1995
Delightful puppets teach kids to pay attention to their feelings. His Grandpaw helps Sooper Puppy through his jealously over a new dog in the house, and his sadness and embarassment when he gets sent to his doghouse for acting out. Understanding yourself.. Details >>
Status:Available Sooper Puppy: Whose Wuzzit?
Published: 1995
Delightful puppets teach children the importance of telling the truth and apologizing when Sooper Puppy gets caught shoplifting a popular, new toy. Grandpaw helps him understand that you can't take things that don't belong to you, even if they look really.. Details >>
Status:Available Sooper Puppy: Words Can Hurt
Published: 1995
Delightful puppets address name-calling and how it hurts everyone involved. Sooper Puppy gets called a name, and is so hurt he insults his friend Big Jon. Grandpaw comforts the puppy and tells him a story to show that mean words are powerful, but so is lo.. Details >>
Status:Available Sooper Puppy: Self-Esteem
Published: 1995
Delightful puppets emphasize the importance of liking yourself, and being able to say "No" to things that don't feel right. Sooper Puppy is feeling sad when some bad news dogs approach him to 'have some fun.' He agrees, and suffers the consequences of not.. Details >>
Status:Available Sooper Puppy: This, That or the Other
Published: 1995
Delightful puppets address choices; sometimes choices are opinions, such as choosing your favorite color, and sometimes they are important decisions, as when you go to one friend's house as opposed to another. Sooper Puppy is confused by his choices, but.. Details >>
Status:Available Sooper Puppy: What's the Difference
Published: 1995
Delightful puppets teach children that being different is a good thing. Sooper Puppy befriends someone who looks very different from himself, and learns to accept himself and others... Details >>
Status:Available Riding High
Published: 1993
This high energy, non-confrontational prevention video features young athletes on roller blades, skateboards, and bicycles presenting a strong and clear message- stay away from alcohol and other drugs. Encourages kids to undertake the journey of setting g.. Details >>
Status:Available The Teen Files: The Truth About Hate
Published: 1999
Explores the origins of hate through the eyes of teens as they come face to face w/ their own racism, ethnic bigotry, religious hatred & religious discrimination. Through inter- action w/ others different from them, the students face the destructive reali.. Details >>
Status:Available The Teen Files: Surviving High School
Published: 2001
11 teens exemplify the problems of isolation, extreme dieting, steroid use, depression, & suicidal thoughts in high schools. Teens are motivated to face the gruth about modern-day pressures & make positive changes in how they perceive themselves & treat o.. Details >>
Status:Available Pulling Punches: Understanding Your Rage
Published: 2002
Part 1 of 3 addresses the connection between anger & addiction, anger "blackouts" and "highs", how anger can lead to relapse, its roots, causes from childhood, how triggers "make sense", and deciding to change. Real people tell their stories. Useful for n.. Details >>
Status:Available Pulling Punches: Tools for Managing Anger
Published: 2002
Part 2 of 3 presents 8 realistic, proven strategies for controlling anger. Real people in recovery explain how they successfully use tools such as knowing triggers, recognizing danger zone signs, removing oneself from the situation, using self-talk & othe.. Details >>
Status:Available Pulling Punches: Anger Reduction and Long-Term Change
Published: 2002
Part 3 of 3 has recovering addicts talk about how to be a less angry person by reconstructing faulty beliefs, healing the wounds of childhood, assertive conflict resolution, forgiving oneself, and stress reduction. Ends w/ glimpses of changed lives. For n.. Details >>
Status:Available Way to No!
Published: 2003
Short vignettes depict situations where adolescents use refusal skills, with questions afterward for discussion. Primary message is: Most kids don't drink. Ethnically diverse cast... Details >>
Status:Available The Teen Files Flipped: Bullies, Loners and Violence
Published: 2001
Two real-life bullies are "flipped" into a situation where they themselves are the victims, and realize the devastating impact of bullying. Also shows an after-school vigil for students from Columbine & Santana High School. Powerful... Details >>