Sometimes the depression comes first and people try using drugs as a way to escape. Other times, the alcohol or other drug use comes first, and depression is caused by the drug itself, the withdrawal from it or the problems that substance abuse causes learn more ...
Age Group: 12 to 19
Publishing Date: 2005
SKU: DVD6183
Among adolescents, one in eight may suffer from depression. Of all these children and teens, a mere 30% receive any sort of intervention or treatment. The other 70% simply struggle through the pain of mental illness or emotional turmoil, doing their best to make it to adulthood. The consequences of untreated depression can range from increased incidence of depression in adulthood, involvement in the criminal justice system, or in some cases, suicide. learn more ...
Age Group: 12 to 19
Publishing Date: 2005
SKU: DVD6181
In this program, you will see the struggles teens face with Bulimia Nervosa and Anorexia Nervosa from individuals that have suffered from this affliction and survived. learn more ...
Age Group: 12 to 19
Publishing Date: 2005
SKU: DVD6182
Kids today are under enormous pressure and are taking it out on ...themselves. This program features the stories of pre-teens and teens who injure themselves with knives and razor blades; who regularly and very purposely get high or drunk, and who attempt suicide...using pain to reduce the pain they feel, as a way of crying out for help. learn more ...
Age Group: 9 to 19
Publishing Date: 2005
SKU: DVD6424
Too often depression in teens is dismissed as simply part of growing up or as an expression of teenage melodrama. In Beyond the Blues, depressed teens finally get the help they need. learn more ...
Age Group: 13 to 18
Publishing Date: 2004
SKU: BK20160
This indispensable book describes how treatment works and what additional steps parents can take at home to help children with mood disorders--and the family as a whole--improve the quality of their lives. learn more ...
Age Group: 5 to 18
Publishing Date: 2004
SKU: BK2802
With the guidance of a counselor, real middle school students talk about depression triggers, symptoms and treatment of teen depression as well as the warning signs of and myths about suicide. learn more ...
Age Group: 10 to 16
Publishing Date: 2004
SKU: DVD6276