media on emotions
 

Aggression, Intimidation, & Bullying DVD     DVD
Give your students the tools to work together and eliminate bullying and intimidation amongst peers with this fun and informative video. Viewers will learn about the causes of aggression, its various manifestations, and the steps victims can take to avoid and put an end to it.

Anger   VIDEO
During this fast paced video, Carl Reddick makes a clear distinction between anger and violence. He explains a continuum of beliefs, emotions and behaviors.

Boy Talk: How You Can Help Your Son Express His Emotions
In Boy Talk, psychologist Mary Polce-Lynch draws on her own extensive research to help parents understand why so many open and expressive little boys turn into locked-down, uncommunicative adolescents who often don't seem to have a clue about their own inner lives.

The Childhood Roots of Happiness: Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy     BOOK
Here, at last, is a book brimming with the good news of raising children—the basic reassuring news about happiness and unconditional love, about enduring family connections and kids who grow up right. Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., father of three and a clinical psychiatrist, has thought long and hard about what makes children feel good about themselves and the world they live in.

Embarassment      BOOK
This book examines the personal, situational, and interactive determinants of embarrassment, integrating literature from clinical and social psychology, sociology, communications, biology, and other fields. Drawing upon the author’s own research and the most up-to-date findings, it covers a range of topics from the evolutionary significance of embarrassment to coping with chronic blushing, re-vealing insights into a key aspect of our social lives.

The Emotional Energy Factor: The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue     BOOK
Do you wish you had more energy?  Do you often feel drained, even after a good night’s sleep?  Are there days when you can’t get going...when you just feel blah? If so, you’re not alone. You’re suffering from emotional fatigue--an all too common outgrowth of our frenetic modern-day lives.

The End: Families Facing Death VIDEO
This program examines terminal illness through the darkly fascinating lens of family dynamics. The loved ones of five different hospice patients document their experiences, creating video diaries that are part case study, part family album. With intermittent views into the heavy responsibilities of hospice social workers—who must juggle clinical procedure, unpredictable group psychology, and their own conflicting emotions—The End clearly illustrates that the slow process of dying is never just one individual’s journey, and that impending loss amplifies our deepest emotional connections. A provocative analysis of the end-of-life experience. An HBO Production. (85 minutes, color)

No I Won't! And You Can't Make Me!    VIDEO
Teaching your child how to keep his or her own emotions under control. No I Won't offers you valuable tips, including a five-step process for teaching your child how to keep his or her own emotions under control.

Opening Up   BOOK
The book presents compelling evidence that personal self disclosure is not only good for our emotional health but can boost our immune system’s functioning as well. Clinical- research based findings on the medical benefits of writing or talking about trauma are interwoven with insightful case studies on secret keeping, confession and the hidden price of silence. Written for general readers, practitioners, and students.

Opposite Action: Changing Emotions You Want to Change    VIDEO
Whether it is by doing something nice for a person you are angry at, or approaching something that you fear, this video shows how taking opposite action can modify unwarranted negative emotions and make them feel more manageable.

Shame & Guilt    BOOK
Shame and guilt, while the focus of attention among scholars and clinicians for generations, have only recently been subjected to systematic empirical scrutiny. This volume reports on the growing body of knowledge on these key self-conscious emotions, integrating findings from the authors' original research program with other data emerging from social, clinical, personality, and developmental psychology

Sibling Preparation VIDEO
A new baby in the house can produce mixed reactions from older siblings. This program explores the emotions children of various ages may experience with an addition to the family and how parents can help them adjust.
One 17-minute video. © 2003

Staying in Control : Anger Management Skills for Parents of Young Adolescents BOOK
Adolescence can be a perilous time for many parents and teens — especially young teens. As the need for independence asserts itself, conflict and anger inevitably arise. This new, hands-on manual shows parents how to remain calm and "stay in control" as they handle angry moments with their teens and in other areas of their lives

Too Scared to Cry  BOOK      
Childhood trauma can affect adults throughout their lives. This book gives answers to adults who have had traumatic experiences as children on how to deal with your past and how to move forward. Treatment alternatives are also presented in the book.

Working With Emotions in Psychotherapy    BOOK
Exploring the important role of emotion in psychotherapy,this book outlines the intimate connection between emotion and cognition and details a manualized framework for conducting emotion-focused therapy. The authors show the unique ways of working with different emotions as well as different expressions of the same emotion.