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ACT on Life Not on Anger BOOK
From the bestselling author of When Anger Hurts, Matthew McKay, Ph.D., and ACT experts Georg Eifert, Ph.D. and John P. Forsyth, Ph.D., comes the first bookto provide ACT principles and techniques for dealing with anger, and to teach readers how to change their relationship with, and response to, anger by developing compassion for themselves and others.
Once a rarity, centenarians are becoming noticeably less unusual. How have they managed to live so long in such good health? In this program, doctors from Harvard Medical School’s New England Centenarian Study and the University of Georgia’s study of extreme longevity search for a correlation between life span and the genetic, physical, psychological, and cognitive dimensions of aging. In addition, people who have surpassed the ten-decade mark offer personal insights into the importance of key aspects of life such as faith, exercise, nutrition, sexuality, and continued involvement in daily routines and meaningful work. (47 minutes, color)

The Anger Control Workbook  BOOK
The toxic costs of anger are well understood: sabotaged careers, alienated family and friends, and even physical damage to a point where illness or an early death can result.

The Anger Workbook for Women  BOOK
Although men and women can articulate anger in very different ways, books on managing problem anger tend to focus on men and their tendency toward more violent anger expression. This workbook addresses the unique concerns of women with anger problems. Rigid social patterning, the book argues, conditions many women to stifle or deny their anger, and this repression can cause a range of other psychological problems.

Angry All the Time BOOK
An Emergency Guide to Anger Control
Angry All the Time, Second Edition, a major revision of a best-selling classic that has helped tens of thousands of people overcome problem anger, contains both.

The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook  BOOK
A revision of the classic best-seller, The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook Fourth Edition provides step-by-step help for anxiety and offers the latest treatment strategies for the major anxiety disorders, i.e., panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and OCD, with revisions that include updated information on medications, mindfulness training, and health-related conditions that aggravate anxiety.
 

Accepting Life’s Transitions VIDEO
Aging is a series of transitions, some gradual and some abrupt. How do people come to terms with these changes? This program examines the aging process from beginning to end, defining age from the viewpoints of biology, psychology, society, functionality, and the law. The impact of current behaviors and attitudes on one’s future self is also discussed, as well as dying—itself a part of life—and the stages of grieving. In addition, the program addresses the health challenges faced by older Americans and indicates why some seniors cope better than others. (29 minutes, color)

Alzheimer’s and Dementia: Caring for the Caregiver VIDEO
The experience of the family members and spouses in this program reflects that of thousands of Alzheimer’s and dementia caregivers who struggle daily with the heartfelt conflict of love and obligation. This program presents examples of caregivers who have learned to cope effectively with these stresses, restoring balance in their own lives. The importance of caregiver support groups and other outlets for the discussion of problems is closely examined. (57 minutes, color)

Alzheimer's Disease Frequently Asked Questions  BOOK
Long before a person is diagnosed with Alzheimers disease, indicators are present. This book provides sympathetic, pragmatic answers to difficult questions and explains how to cope with the painful personal issues and dilemmas this disease brings forth.

Anger: Deal With It, Heal With It, Stop It from Killing You   BOOK
If anger has a strong grip on your life this book is for you. This book teaches the reader that anger feeds anger, and it helps the reader with exercises throughout the book with techniques on how to overcome it. Defoore explains aspects of anger - how it affects, effects, and then defects. Worth the read.

Anxiety and Phobia Workbook  BOOK
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook is a practical and comprehensive guide that offers help to anyone struggling with panic attacks, agoraphobia, social fears, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, or other anxiety disorders.

Anxious 9 to 5   BOOK
A psychologist specializing in anxiety and stress in the workplace offers this collection of self-help solutions to perfectionism, fear of failure, and procrastination—techniques that can transform on-the-job anxiety into enjoyment and success in the workplace.

Apartment Renting 101: What Happened to My Security Deposit?  VIDEO
Whether you are looking for your first apartment or your tenth, trying to find a suitable place to rent can be a complicated and time-consuming experience. This comprehensive video addresses all of the issues that need to be considered to find comfortable housing at a reasonable price. The program begins by examining the reasons to choose an apartment and how to determine what percentage of income should be allocated for housing. Beginning with a list of needs and wants, the video shows where to find available apartment listings (including on the Internet), what is covered in lease agreements, and how to document existing problems to keep from losing your security deposit. The program also covers the different options for finding furnishings and how to decide whether to move yourself or contract with a mover. Ideal for teaching independent living skills to teens or adults.

The Art Of Listening  VIDEO
A coffee shop provides the setting for two college students to watch and discuss their video class project on the on the most basic of skills, listening. We spend more time listening than any activity except breathing, yet we listen at only a fraction of our potential. Art of Listening teaches practical techniques to use immediately. It presents listening as a skill your students can learn, practice, and perfect.

Asperger’s Syndrome: Autism and Obsessive Behavior   VIDEO
It is the size of the frontal cortex that helps separate the human brain from that of other animals. This part allows humans to communicate, infer meaning, and imagine, all basic to the socialization process. But there is a group of people, primarily males, who lack a small piece of this frontal cortex and who suffer from a mild form of autism. Identified as Asperger’s syndrome in 1940, this condition makes them incapable of everyday social interactions. They live in a constant state of anxiety, a result of the phobias that are a part of the disease. This program profiles the symptoms of Asperger’s syndrome and what sufferers and their families can do to overcome the limitations that it imposes. Original BBC broadcast title: I’m Not Stupid. (30 minutes, color)

At the Gates of Autism: Emerging into Life  VIDEO
As a child, Dr. Temple Grandin was diagnosed as brain-damaged; doctors today would call her autistic. But her condition did not deter her and, with the help of her mother and therapists, she went on to become an expert in animal behavior, designing livestock handling facilities and teaching as an assistant professor at Colorado State University. Much of her expertise with animals comes through lessons learned from her own condition. This program provides the rare opportunity to hear an autistic person discuss her condition and how she deals with life. Dr. Grandin offers many insights into the motivations behind autistic behavior and how parents, teachers, and therapists can better work with autistic children. (59 minutes, color)

Autism: Diagnosis, Causes, and Treatments   VIDEO
What is it like for people with autism, living among others yet always, in a sense, living alone? And how do their parents cope, as they care for them? Built around several case studies, this program distinguishes between high- and low-functioning autism; illustrates structural and functional differences between autistic and non-autistic brains; considers genetics, neurological diseases, and immune system anomalies as possible contributory factors; and discusses associated conditions, such as mental retardation, epilepsy, and echolalia. Applied behavior analysis, the TEACCH system, multisensory stimulation, and dietary interventions are also touched upon. (53 minutes, color)

Banks: A User's Guide VIDEO
Banks are more than just “where the money is”. They offer a wide array of sometimes confusing financial services. Banks: A User’s Guide helps viewers understand the basic principles of banking and teaches the basic skills needed to manage money: both the “why” and the “how”.

Behind With the Laundry and Living Off Chocolate: Life Changing Strategies for Busy Women   BOOK
 This is a delightful easy-going book for busy women of all ages and from all walks of life. Life Coach, Lynette Allen reveals her inspirational, intuitive and realistic tips for creating a balanced, fun, stress-free and fulfilling life for all women.

Be The Life And Soul Of The Party: Socializing for Success
Have you wished that socializing came naturally? That instead of feeling like a chore to be endured, you imagined yourself actually enjoying being at a party, leading the conversations rather than just following them? Do you just want to feel relaxed as you chat with others, be accepted by anyone, and entertain an audience as you tell stories that keep them spellbound? Once you have read this book, you will never again be lost for words, not have a great story ready to tell, or have that pithy question ready at just the right time.

Better Than Ever: Love and Sex At Midlife
 Is it better than ever? Now that the children have grown and there’s more time on your hands as a couple, are you finding that the love and intimacy has gone from your life? It is a fact that as we mature, our sexual drives mature as well, but it is also a fact that while you may slow down and your lovemaking may be different than it was in your youth, that doesn’t mean that the quality has to be lower or your pleasure less.

Beyond Anxiety and Phobia   BOOK
This book goes beyond symptom management of anxiety and phobia disorders to treat the whole person. If youíre struggling with any of the symptoms encompassed by these broad categories, youíll find, in this straightforward and informative booK.

Body Image for Boys   VIDEO
As the idealized male physique continues to be hyped in movies, on TV, in magazines, and on billboards, a rapidly growing number of men are becoming obsessed with appearance.

The Body Invaders   VIDEO
Packed with practical health tips and 3-D computer graphics, this illuminating 11-part series hosted by Kat Carney reveals the facts and fallacies of some of today’s most common illnesses, disorders, and conditions. Interviews with doctors, scientists, alternative practitioners, and others who help prevent and cure diseases are balanced by talks with patients who are fighting to regain their health. A Discovery Channel Production. 11-part series, 50 minutes each

Body Story   VIDEO
How does the body battle the flu? What triggers a heart attack? Can sexual desire produce a hormonal high? Using sophisticated 3-D animation and other forms of high-tech imaging, this extraordinary series follows six different people to reveal what goes on inside their bodies as they react to common events such as pregnancy, intoxication, injury, and even death. A Discovery Channel Production. 6-part series, 25 minutes each.

Body Language I: Beyond Words VIDEO
Some of your students may be bilingual and some may have taken a course in Spanish, Latin, or Japanese. But are any of them fluent in Kinesics? Kinesics is the study of body language as a form of communication.

Boiling Point   BOOK
In the breakthrough book Boiling Point, Jane Middelton-Moz revealed a pervasive problem in our society: More and more individuals are internalizing their anger, which left uncontrolled, is bursting out sideways in the form of road rage, depression, illness and random acts of violence.

Book of Ages 30: How Do You Stack Up ?   BOOK
This year about four million people in the United States will turn 30. If you’re one of them, the bad news is that you’re older than 42 percent of Americans. You’ve already lost 10 percent of your muscle mass. And, on average, you’re almost $20,000 in debt.

Brain Traps VIDEO
There are no "viewers" for Brain Traps, only participants. This highly involving video presents a series of seemingly simply but frustrating problems that demand creative thinking. The video asks participants to examine their own problem solving methods and learn how mental habits can become "brain traps." The problems here don't require high IQ's or advanced math -- just clever thinking and an open mind.

Breaking Through: Making Therapy Work For You  BOOK
If you are considering mental health treatment, or have already embarked on a journey of self discovery, Breaking Through can help you determine if therapy is the solution, identify the problems to be addressed, select the right therapist, and get the most from the services of trained professionals.

Budgeting Basics
After college, Rachel was living the good life. She landed a job as a yoga instructor, rented a great apartment and drove around in a sporty new car. She hardly thought twice about buying concert tickets, new outfits, or the latest electronic gadgets.

Cancer: A Personal Voyage VIDEO
"I am writing this because of the infinite love I have for my family, and it also makes me feel good to write. I will never re-read what I have written." So begins the diary of Dr. Peter J. Morgan, a physician who learned at age 29 that he had terminal cancer. This program intimately chronicles Dr. Morgan’s last two years through readings of his diary by actor Matthew Broderick, along with interviews with Dr. Morgan’s family and friends. The program provides a rich exploration of coming to terms with mortality on a professional as well as personal level. A Ruth Yorkin Drazen Production. (58 minutes, color)

The Carb Controversy: What Are the Facts?  VIDEO
Are low-carb diets healthy? In this topical nutrition video, two friends have lunch together—but have entirely different meals. One is on a low-carbohydrate diet. In fact, for the first two weeks, she didn’t eat any carbs. She thinks bread is the enemy. The other is on the track team. The whole team has a big pasta party to carb-load the night before every meet. Both hold fast to their ideas about nutrition and search for information to back up their position. This video cuts through the hype and looks at the facts about carbohydrates and how they work in our bodies. Video worksheet and teacher’s key included.

The Caregiver's Sourcebook  BOOK
A must-read reference for those of you who are caregivers to either a member of your family or a friend, this heartwarming, supportive book explains to you the intricacies of the caregiving experience.

Charge It!  VIDEO
Use Charge It! to teach your students "secrets" that credit card issuers might prefer stay hidden. Show your students how to select the best credit card to match their spending habits. Show how marketing gimmicks such as teaser rates and instant cash "checks" can be expensive traps. Show how to use a credit card responsibly and understand its hidden costs.

Checks and Balances: The Basics of Banking  VIDEO
Because teenagers have sources of income too, it’s increasingly important for every young adult to master basic banking skills. That’s where Checks and Balances comes in. This informative, practical, and entertaining video covers the fundamentals of checking and bank accounts, such as filling out a check correctly, maintaining a checkbook register, and reconciling a bank statement. In addition, the video presents up-to-the-minute banking techniques, including ATM transactions, debit cards, and online banking. Viewers will learn what factors to consider when choosing a bank, as well as how to identify different types of checking accounts. Correlates to the National Standards of Life Skills for Life Work. A Meridian Production.

Chicken Soup For The Couples Soul   BOOK
Whether single, separated, or someone’s spouse, everyone wants to find and keep that elusive thing called love. Bestselling author and foremost relationship expert Barbara De Angelis Ph.D. teams up as a coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Couple’s Soul, a collection of heart warming stories about how real people were transformed when they discovered true love.

Children in Crisis  VIDEO
Lillian, a four-year-old with autism, lives in a world all her own. Sixteen-year-old A.D.’s attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder causes him to proudly proclaim that he does not love his parents anymore. Eleven-year-old Pamela’s five different diagnoses stand in the way of her being left alone with her brother. These children are examples of the more than 3 million in the country who have some type of mental and behavioral disorder. This intense program highlights how their lives, as well as the daily routines of their families, are an incessant struggle. Therapists from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Center for Child Development and Research assert that with proper diagnosis and treatment, children and families can find a measured quality of life. A Discovery Channel Production. (46 minutes, color)

Chill: Straight Talk about Stress VIDEO
Unresolved stress is all too frequently a cause of substance abuse and suicide. This program shows teens how to recognize, analyze, and manage the stresses in their lives by using the C.H.I.L.L. formula: Communications, Health (nutrition), "I" concerns (self-esteem and self-image), Laid back (relaxation techniques), and Little at a time (time management). This valuable instructional tool can help teens reduce their stress levels and avoid the related problems that stress can cause. A Meridian Production. (22 minutes, color)

Clinical Hypnosis For Stress And Anxiety Reduction   VIDEO
This video will put the average viewer into a profound relaxing trance. In part one hypnotherapist Bernie Schallehn explains the nature of hypnosis and why it is such a valuable aid to relaxation. In part two, he moves outdoors for an introduction reinforced by panoramic views, nature sounds, music, and skillfully rendered images. 45 min.

Clothing Dollars and Sense  VIDEO
Teenage students spend most of their earned income on their wardrobes, and young adults spend up to ten percent of their full-time income likewise. This live-action video helps develop the skills needed to make smart decisions when purchasing clothing. It covers the importance of planning for purchases and illustrates how to take a clothing inventory. It also explains how personality, climate, and income influence what clothing we buy. A fashion coordinator teaches our young shoppers Jennifer and Greg how to judge quality and workmanship. Is a designer label worth the price? Is fad clothing a wise choice? Follow along as they also learn about fabric identification and reading labels. A terrific video for anyone wanting to be a better clothes shopper. A Cambridge Educational Production.

Coping with Anxiety    BOOK
In ten simple steps, the author of "The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook" explains this proven program that help readers relieve anxiety, fear, and worry by taking a sensible, clinically based approach to overcoming the problem.   BOOK

Coping with Stress VIDEO
A certain amount of stress can actually enhance performance and productivity. However, continually high levels of stress have been linked to all of the leading causes of death in America, including heart disease, cancer, and lung ailments. This program analyzes the role of stress in day-to-day life and in overall physical and mental health. Sources of stress are identified, and techniques for managing stress are suggested. Information on how to improve personal communication—a powerful safety valve—is also provided. (30 minutes, color)

Creating All-Around Wellness VIDEO
True wellness involves not only physical health, but mental, emotional, spiritual, social, and environmental well-being, too. An engaging blend of interviews and on-screen text and graphics, this stimulating eight-part series puts it all together. 8-part series, 29 minutes each.

Creating a Good Death: Coping with Terminal Illness VIDEO
For years, Laura Schmidt helped cancer patients come to terms with their mortality. She even had a degree in thanatology, the study of death and dying. Then, at the age of 51, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This ABC News program follows Laura through her final months as she applies her knowledge and experience to her own case, squarely addressing end-of-life issues to create a good death that would leave herself and those caring for her at peace. Interviews conducted with her husband and others after Laura passed away provide additional insights into the end of life even as they add closure to the story of a caring person who had the courage to model the very behaviors she had instilled in so many others. (27 minutes, color)

Credit Card Cautions  VIDEO
One of today’s rites of passage, from teenager to young adult, is the credit card. Armed with a brand-new credit card, many older teens and young adults gain immediate buying power, but not always knowledge of how to use credit responsibly. This program guides viewers through a maze of introductory rates, finance charges, credit reports, credit repair, card safety, and purchase decisions. First-person stories from credit card users and abusers as well as a credit counseling expert help viewers understand how credit cards actually work. (30 min.) A Meridian Production.

Curriculum in a Box: Managing Emotions  VIDEO
This multi-faceted curriculum incorporates nine videos, two posters and dozens of student worksheets into a comprehensive unit designed to help teens learn real-world social skills for coping with common personal situations. Adolescence is a crucial time for young people to improve their ability to handle their emotions and communicate with others. Teens must learn to deal with common stressful encounters with their peers, but they also must be prepared to confront difficult situations involving sexual harassment, bullying, emotional abuse and even physical violence. Students will gain new interpersonal skills as they watch these videos and work on the activities provided in this thought-provoking curriculum. The range of topics is sure to bring out a lively discussion among your students, and increase their ability to manage their own emotions in the future.

Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind   BOOK
The best-selling author of Calming Your Anxious Mind offers a wealth of daily mindfulness meditations you can use every day to manage chronic anxiety, restore calm, and feel at peace.

Dancing Healers: The Science and Spirit of Healing, Audio
The story of a 26-year-old, newly minted doctor from Brooklyn who joins the Indian Health Service to begin a 20-year odyssey that transforms a young physician into a healer.
 

Dealing with Difficult People  VIDEO
This program will help you to spot the various types of difficult behavior, defuse potentially volatile social situations, and discover the formula for changing attitudes that can bring out the best in people.

Deep Trance Music  BOOK
 Deep Trance Music was produced by Nick Kemp to provide deeply hypnotic musical soundscapes for deep relaxation, enhanced well being, altered state progressions, and deep hypnosis.

Deep Trance Training Manual Vol 1   BOOK
 Presents core theoretical principles from all the major hypnotic perspectives and includes many practical exercises designed to improve technique as well as supporting the development of elegant, individual style and language, and the mastery of powerful approaches for working with others.

Depressed and Anxious   BOOK
his book shows readers who struggle with both anxiety and depression, how to tolerate distress, use mindfulness, behavior strategies, end negative self-talk, resovle inner conflict, and go on to create positive experiences and personal meaning in their lives.

Depression: Not a Normal Part of Aging  VIDEO
Aging well might be an ambiguous phrase but it does have meaning, especially for people over 60. This program tells the stories of five vibrantly alive seniors who have successfully navigated through momentous life changes. Their examples highlight important precepts for staying mentally healthy, showing how mental health is a key to successful aging. In interviews and in footage of these men and women engaged in various activities, the program provides useful tips and firsthand advice on planning for retirement, staying active, coping with grief, and making the senior years an age of new discoveries. (57 minutes, color)

The Depression Workbook   BOOK
Interactive exercises provide guidance to help readers take responsibility for their own wellness and teach essential coping skills, such as tracking and controlling moods, building a support system, increasing self-confidence and self-esteem, avoiding conditions that can exacerbate mood swings, and using relaxation, diet, and exercise to stabilize moods.

Design I: The Elements  VIDEO
Explore the elements of design: color, line, shape, form, pattern, and texture. This video features the usual design disciplines—interior, clothing, landscape, and architecture—as well as more unusual venues like the family dog, kids, and professional models. Video worksheet and teacher’s key included.

Design II: The Principles  VIDEO
A lively, entertaining, quickly paced video narrated by an award-winning actress! Take your students on a whirlwind tour of the natural world, the fashion world, ancient times, modern pastimes, interiors, exteriors, and everything in between for a thorough grounding in the principles of design: balance, rhythm, scale, proportions, and harmony. Video worksheet and teacher’s key included.

Developing Good Study Skills  VIDEO
This program includes two video's and a print component designed to instruct students on tried and true methods that will help them to study more effectively and achieve higher grades. The six basic skills highlighted are how to prioritize and manage your time, how to use the library to your best advantage, how to study using textbooks, how to take better notes, how to listen effectively and how to take tests. The program begins by explaining several critical in-class skills, and then moves on to discuss successful techniques for studying at home. Effective test preparation is covered in depth, with strategy tips provided for multiple choice exams and other common test formats. The final section of the video explores how to be more efficient in writing research papers and using the library or internet appropriately. Follow-up activities in the Teacher’s Resource Book will reinforce the video’s message, and offer students the opportunity to examine the areas they need to improve in their own study skills techniques.

The Diabetes Food and Nutrition Bible    BOOK
Introducing the American Diabetes Associations first all-in-one food book, a combination of nutrition guideline, menu planner, and cookbook. Readers will learn how to shop, plan nutritious meals, and cook low-fat and healthy foods.

The Differences in People  VIDEO
With differences in people come different attitudes and differences of opinion. This program will help you to learn how to overcome stressful personality conflicts, how to recognize the control you have over yourself, how to develop better business relationships, and how to understand and adjust your "belief filters."

Divorce: A Survival Guide for Kids VIDEO
As this program makes clear, the most important thing for a child or teenager to understand about divorce is that it is not their fault. Still, how a child or teenager is affected depends a lot on how the parents handle the divorce and whether they can preserve some semblance of family life. In this video, teens, psychologists, and divorced parents talk about the difficulties young people face when their parents decide to separate. Through interviews and commentary, the program outlines the six emotional stages a young person typically experiences after divorce has changed a family. A Cambridge Educational Production.

Dragon Slaying : Dragons into Princes, New Edition   BOOK
 Discover how to combat, tame or even slay your 'dragons' or negative states - failure, self-contempt, anxiety - by building up positive states to counteract them.

Dreaming Realities:A Spiritual System to Create inner Alignment  BOOK
Taking a refreshing approach to the act of dreaming, this fascinating book goes one step further, offering the opportunity to explore our full potential through the very control of our dreams.
 

Dynamics of Conflict Resolution      BOOK
Bernard Mayer, an internationally acclaimed leader in the field of conflict resolution, presents practitioners with ways of thinking that can lead others to reconciliation, empowerment, personal change, healing growth and social justice.

Eaten Alive: Parasites and Their Human Hosts VIDEO
The remorseless battle between parasites and humans is ugly—very, very ugly—but understanding it is of vital importance to anyone entering the health professions. Using case studies, experiments, computer simulations, medical imaging, and commentary by leading experts, this graphic three-part series exposes the intricate ways in which parasites colonize the human body and illustrates how to treat infected patients. Viewer discretion is advised. Original BBCW broadcast title: Body Snatchers. 3-part series, 50 minutes each.

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)

Enjoying Weight Loss (4-CD Program)  CD PROGRAM
Using the latest weight-loss research combined with cutting-edge hypnosis techniques, this CD program allows you to effortlessly follow any healthy weight-loss plan. Become naturally thin by actually enjoy eating right and exercising more.

Extreme Driving Quiz    VIDEO
Driving is a daily exam where failure can spell disaster and—all too often—death. Putting viewers’ knowledge to the test, this eye-opening program employs professional drivers to demonstrate how to survive extreme automotive hazards and roadway crimes, including brake failure, wrong-way drivers, stalling on railroad tracks, road rage, carjackings, rollovers, submergence, multicar pileups, tailgating by drunk drivers, bump-and-rob attacks, and driving during thunderstorms, hailstorms, and tornadoes. Clips from crash-site videos, interviews with police investigators and survivors, and detailed reenactments are also included. A Discovery Channel Production. (47 minutes, color)

Facing Serious Illness, CD
In this recording, Dr. Hammerschlag will help you understand that it is not the events in life that do you in, but the choices one makes about how you come to them.
 

Fashion Frenzy: 100 Years of Clothing History  VIDEO
A tour of 20th-century fashion. What inspires facts, fashions, and classics? How is fashion affected by economic, social, and political events? Follow fashion for 100 years with a teen narrator, a fashion expert, vintage videos, and a fabulous fashion show. Video worksheet and teacher’s key included.

Furnishing and Decorating Your First Apartment  VIDEO
You’re moving away from home and into your very own apartment. It needs to reflect you and your taste—so where do you begin? This video covers the basics of furnishing and decorating on a limited budget. Viewers learn about elements and principles of design as well as how personal style and accessories can affect the look. We take you to flea markets, secondhand stores, and thrift shops to find just the right piece of furniture and talk about floor and wall coverings. We also differentiate between essential furnishings and non-essential items. Furnishing a room or an apartment on a budget is certainly possible—especially if you’re willing to stretch your imagination! (15 min.) A Meridian Production.

Games Great Lovers Play: Mastering the Game of Love  BOOK
A book about how to love---how to play, enjoy, and win at the Games of Love.

Games Slim People Play: Winning the Game of Being Slim and Fit   BOOK
Looks at the whole process of our relationship to food (eating), and movement (exercise) in terms of a Game.

Getting the Story on Social Skills   VIDEO
Mike talks with his mouth full, Emma makes weird noises, and Gwen dresses most peculiarly. Even worse, Greg will not share, Barry never smiles, and Chase acts like a bully. In an effort to help these socially challenged students learn to get along with their classmates at Fairfield Junior High, the staff of the school newspaper decides to do a story on social skills.

The Go-Away Doll   BOOK
On a nearby bench Mr. Sidney, Cara's neighbor, overhears her sobbing. He walks over to her, reaches in his pocket and takes out a note to share with her. The note is from Monica. She has gone off to see the world but will send messages through Mr. Sidney about her travels.

Golf: Lower Your Score With Mental Training   BOOK & CD
This is the first book to offer the avid golfer sound, scientifically tested ways to perform better at golf while actually enjoying it more. This book along with a free CD, explains quick and effective methods for avoiding the pitfalls and the negative thinking that frustrate so many golfing experiences. You discover how easy it is to develop–and keep–a confident frame of mind.

Going Home without Going Crazy  BOOK
For many of us, walking through the door of our parents' home is like stepping back in time. We leave our independent adult lives out on the sidewalk and resume our old roles-with all the emotional baggage that goes with them. Instead of enjoying a time of togetherness and connection, most of us spend holidays and homecomings torn between resentment and sadness.

Guy Finley   AUDIOS & VIDEOS
Best-selling self-help author reveals the powerful principles that lead to authentic self-change for those seeking relief from addiction, anger, and anxiety in his audios, videos and books.

Healing Ceremonies: Creating Personal Rituals for Spiritual, Emotional, Physical and Mental Health   BOOK
 Scientific and medical research now confirms the long-held belief that faith promotes health. But in practical terms, how does one incorporate such healing power into day-to-day life?

Healing Journey   BOOK
Until the age of six or seven, our patterns of behavior are reinforced by the love and affection that is heaped upon us as children.

Healing Stories  BOOK
Sometimes we are unprepared by events that overtake or overwhelm us.

Help! They Stole My Name! VIDEO
What is identity theft? Can it happen to me? How likely is it that it will? What can I do if it does happen? We talked to actual identity theft victims and heard their accounts. The people you’ll see onscreen aren’t actors, and their harrowing tales are genuine. From corporate data theft to shouldersurfing and skimming – we show the most common ways thieves steal your identity.
 

Home Safety: Prevention, Preparation, and Practice  VIDEO
Nicks and cuts, minor burns, bruises, abrasions—more accidents occur in the home than anywhere else. To reduce the number and severity of injuries, people need to understand the three P’s: prevention, preparation, and practice. In addition to giving plenty of information on how to deal with common household dangers, this video stresses the importance of thinking ahead to eliminate hazards before they can become a problem. Ideal for students living at home or out on their own. 

Horsefeathers: Stories of Preconceptions and Self Deceptions  BOOK
Carl Hammerschlag, renowned psychiatrist, author and healer, encourages us to look again at what we think we know and see if it still makes sense in our lives.

Housecleaning 101: Fighting the War on Grime  VIDEO
Can cleaning the house be made fun and exciting? Not really, but this tiresome chore can be cut down to size by following the simple tips and suggestions in Housecleaning 101. Which rooms should be cleaned first (and last)? How should you approach a room so that nothing is missed? What supplies will you need, and how often should you clean? Humor and practical strategies will motivate viewers to roll up their sleeves and get to work. Guaranteed to be a hit with anyone who has too many dust mice and too little time. A Meridian Production.

How to Break Your Addiction to a Person  BOOK
Are you unable to leave a love relationship even though it gives you more pain than joy? Your judgment and self-respect tell you to end it, but still, to your dismay, you hang on.

Hypnosis for Change-3rd Ed.     BOOK
This book is for professionals and lay persons who are looking for ways to harness and focus their natural abilities to relax, ease pain, preepare for and recover from surgery, heal, overcome depression, and change themselves.

I Can't Get Over It   BOOK
The groundbreaking work is the first book to guide readers through the healing process of recovering from PTSD one step at a time. It helps survivors cope with memories and emotions, identify triggers that reactivate traumatic stress, and gain a sense of empowerment and hope.

Ignite Your Intuition: Improve Your Memory, Make Better Decisions, Be More Creative, Achieve Your Full Potential   BOOK
Dispelling the myths of psychic powers, Karges reveals how to unlock the extraordinary natural powers of your mind. This book will awaken you to the possibility of truly realizing your full potential.


Imperfectly Natural Woman: Getting Life Right the Natural Way  BOOK
If the closest you’ve ever come to ‘natural’ living is choosing the ‘light’ version of mayonnaise, or if the only recycling you’ve ever done is throwing out all of your wine bottles together the morning after – this is book you will want to read.

Instant Happiness Cards   BOOK
Jamie Smart has helped thousands of people around the world to live richer, happier, more fulfilling lives. Now he’s distilled his powerful ideas into 52 easy to understand tips that can help you bring more happiness into every area of your life.

Instant Wealth Cards
People think you need money to make money, but what you really need is to think and act like a wealthy person.

Instant Relaxation   BOOK
Debra Lederer has been utilizing and teaching these techniques for many years and sums them up as her state-of-the-art methods for flying into a powerful and resourceful state of calm.

Interior Design: The Basics!  VIDEO
For many people, interior design is a mystery: they know what they like when they see it, but have no idea how to put it together themselves. This video provides guidelines on how to transform an empty room into an attractive and functional living space. Professional interior designer Robin Strangis explains how to develop a personalized design concept that includes the use of scaled floor plans and demonstrates how to coordinate colors, fabrics, lighting, and accessories. Sample rooms decorated in 18th-century English and American, American and European country, Arts and Crafts, soft contemporary, international contemporary, rustic, and eclectic styles are featured.

The Invisible Hand  VIDEO
Economics is a study of how we use opportunities, spend time, make choices, respond to incentives, and share limited resources. Join us in this lively exploration of basic economic ideas we use everyday. Learn about cost, supply and demand, prices, profits and losses, and trade using everyday examples from making a bed to buying an ice cream cone to sharing housework. Discover how "the invisible hand" guides everyday decisions.

Japanese Education in Crisis  VIDEO
This documentary explores sobering developments linked to Japan’s emphasis on intense academic pressure and conformity: 2,000 teen suicides per year, a 60 percent increase in crime since 1994, and the phenomenon of hikikomori children—those who have collapsed emotionally and withdrawn from society. Gritty footage shot in chaotic classrooms and dysfunctional homes, combined with commentary from counselors, parents, and dispirited young people, depicts a nation unprepared for radical social change and, in spite of recent educational reforms, lacking a consensus on whether to crack down or loosen up. Portions are in Japanese with English subtitles. (20 minutes, color)

Kill or Cure: A History of Medical Treatment  VIDEO
For much of the course of medicine, it was often the case that a treatment could either kill or cure. This five-part series presents a history of medical science from ancient times to the present, dramatically contrasting today’s most advanced techniques with the methods of the past. Archival footage, photos, and excerpts from manuscripts and other primary sources are blended with interviews with patients and commentary from leading physicians, experts, and medical historians. 5-part series, 51 minutes each.

Laundry 101: Clothing Care for Looking Good  VIDEO
A lively format! The perfect primer on clothing care. Jacki and Duane, two junior high students, follow five easy steps as they sort, pre-treat, wash, dry, and fold clothes for a clothing drive project. Covers all laundry room basics. Video worksheet and teacher’s key included.

Leave Your Mind Behind  BOOK
This warm and engaging little book distills the very best techniques from the best-selling Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook to beat stress, calm down, and get centered and focused into a powerful collection of step-by-step practices, which include progressive muscle relaxation, visualization, and mindfulness exercises.

Letting Go of Anger BOOK
A revised and updated edition from best-selling anger management author Ronald Potter-Efron, this book identifies the eleven most common anger patterns and offers step-by-step help for overcoming them.

Loneliness Workbook: A Guide to Developing and Maintaining Lasting Connections    BOOK
The author of The Depression Workbook offers a new workbook designed to help people relieve loneliness in their lives. Readers learn to create change, take stock of their strengths, and develop a circle of support that sustains them through difficult times. The reader will be learning from the many stories and quotes from the study participants, and will gain insight and inspiration from their experiences.

Loss: How to Overcome Sadness and Depression    BOOK
There are many factors that determine one’s mood or state of mind.Weather, work, personal difficulties, or mental illness can affect our moods. This book provides strategies on how to overcome this common problem.

The Love Lab: Putting Marriages Back Together  VIDEO
This insightful program goes inside John Gottman’s renowned "Love Lab" to see how one of America’s foremost marriage counselors and his staff analyze and advise couples in marital distress. At The Gottman Institute, videotape of spouse interactions is the key to determining marital stability…and the likelihood of divorce. Extensive footage is provided of couples undergoing assessment—in their homes and cars as well as during 15-minute monitored conflict discussions and 18-hour live-ins at the Lab—and of Dr. Gottman, sociologist Virginia Rutter, and the rest of the Gottman team. A Discovery Channel Production. (51 minutes, color)

Love Tune-Ups   BOOK
Even the best relationships need care to maintain their peak performance. Love Tune-Ups offers weekly activities for enhancing intimacy, bridging communication gaps, spending more quality time, and strengthening your bond. Well-known psychologist Matthew McKay shares with the readers tested strategies that help keep couples happy with each other.

Magic of Mind Power:Awareness Techniques for the Creative Mind BOOK
 Drawing together threads from hypnotherapy, behavioral science, Zen, Sufism and esoteric Christianity, Duncan McColl weaves them into a practical self-help guide to the immense potential of the human mind.

Maintaining Mental Health VIDEO
Aging well might be an ambiguous phrase but it does have meaning, especially for people over 60. This program tells the stories of five vibrantly alive seniors who have successfully navigated through momentous life changes. Their examples highlight important precepts for staying mentally healthy, showing how mental health is a key to successful aging. In interviews and in footage of these men and women engaged in various activities, the program provides useful tips and firsthand advice on planning for retirement, staying active, coping with grief, and making the senior years an age of new discoveries. (57 minutes, color)

Making the Speech: Conquer your Fear of Public Speaking VIDEO
Follow shy Stanley Reed as he pursues his school's public speaking prize. Last year he fell off the stage. Will he walk off a winner this year? With the help of speech guru Doug Masters, Stanley learns the intricacies of public speaking. Making the Speech is a breakthrough in educational programming, with a storyline that is as entertaining as it is informative.

Managing Pain Before It Manages You   BOOK
Designed to help those who suffer from chronic pain develop coping skills that can enhance their lives, this book is ideal for client assignment. A hands-on easy-to follow workbook, it presents activities and homework assignments that help the client understand the pain process, learn about medications and their effects, and recognize factors that increase or decrease pain

Mastering Blocking and Stuttering   BOOK
Have you ever wondered why most people who block or stutter do not stammer every single time that they speak? Indeed, most people who stammer are actually consistently fluent in certain contexts. When by themselves, speaking to a pet, or speaking to a person with whom they are very comfortable, they do speak fluently. This paradox has been a puzzle for people who stammer and even for speak pathologists for many years.

Matrix Model: The 7 Matrices of Neuro Semantics   BOOK
The 7 Matrices Model tells the story of how we all carry with us frames of mind that we map from experiences and ideas. It describes the mental and emotional frames that govern our lives.
 

Medical Images Library DVD
This comprehensive library of medical images from the collection of the Wellcome Trust includes over 12,000 images on one easy-to-use DVD-ROM. The images illustrate a broad spectrum of diseases, medical treatments, and healthcare practices and are paired with a state-of-the-art slide show tool that provides the ability to create customized presentations. Images are also downloadable and printable and can be incorporated in handouts and reports.

Meditation: Chill Out Classics for Quiet Moments  BOOK
Classical Music is particularly conducive to improving our ability to learn as it helps us to attain a state of relaxed alertness, known as the “alpha state”, which is very beneficial to concentrating and studying.
 
The Miracle Question: Answer It and Change Your Life  BOOK
Have you ever considered how a miracle would change your life? Would it enable you to get a better job, fix your marriage, stop drinking, keep your teenager home at night, make peace with your parents, silence your boss, bring back your deceased relative, or help you financially?

Meta-States: Mastering the Higher States of Mind   BOOK
 You will discover a new model for tracking the structure of subjective experience. The author taps into the works of Korzybski and Bateson as well as those of the mainstream NLP developers and develops new insights of his own.

Mind-Lines: Lines for Changing Minds   BOOK
Now in it's fifth edition, Mind-Lines is the book that will introduce you to the magical world of language, the magic of persuasion, and the magic of changing and transforming beliefs. We create and set the meaning frames that then control our thoughts.

Money And Values  VIDEO
Our early money education is often burdened with emotional baggage of fear, envy, shame and guilt. Here's a video that explores attitudes about money in order to gain a balanced understanding. Explore the nature of money, how money is confused with basic human needs, how money relates to happiness, the meaning of luxury fever, and the difference between being rich and being truly wealthy. Use in consumer education, career planning, family living, or personal finance classes.

Movie Mind: Directing Your Mental Cinemas   BOOK
 The author expertly, and simply explains how all of our emotions, thoughts, skills and feelings are controlled by the films that we constantly run through our minds and that, more importantly, we can take control of these films to empower ourselves to find success in everything we say, feel, and do.

New Dietary Guidelines: What You Need to Know  VIDEO
In response to epidemic obesity in the United States, our government has issued new dietary guidelines that replace the old “Food Pyramid”. Viewers learn how to develop a healthy lifestyle instead of a healthy diet, combining sensible eating with regular exercise. Program explains the new Food Pyramid, encouraging students to use the new guidelines to personalize their own pyramid. Three major recommendations include: staying within your calorie or energy needs, being more active, and making wiser food choices. The relationship between the amount of food the body needs, the amount taken in, and the amount of calories burned for energy, illustrates how a person puts on excess weight and how to avoid this problem. On-the-street interviews with kids point out the need for serious education on this crucial subject.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Dummies   BOOK
This basic guide to NLP has a simple premise: take someone who’s good at something, model how they do it and learn from them. Don’t let the title fool you. This is a comprehensive guide that covers NLP techniques in many areas including business, education, sports, coaching, counseling, personal development and relationships.

NLP Going Meta: Advanced Modeling Using Meta Levels   BOOK
The originators asked- How do the experts communicate, relate, and map the world? Then they modeled three therapeutic wizards and the adventure began.

Open Your Mouth and Say Awe: Stories of Sustaining Connections   BOOK
With humor and his inimitable deep throated voice, Carl Hammerschlag, MD, master storyteller, shares his wisdom through tales that help us thrive in trying times.

On Healing and Healers  BOOK
Two of the world’s leading authorities on mind-body-spirit medicine share their thoughts before a live audience of health professionals.

On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying in America VIDEO
In this acclaimed four-part series, veteran PBS journalist Bill Moyers reports on the growing movement in America to improve care for people who are dying. Using interviews and research from across the country, each program describes the intimate experiences of patients, families, and caregivers as they struggle to infuse life’s ultimate rite of passage with compassion and comfort. The DVD version of this series also includes a special video introduction by Mr. Moyers. This powerful series is available exclusively through Films for the Humanities & Sciences. 4-part series, 87 minutes each. The DVD version can be viewed using a DVD player or computer DVD-ROM drive.

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.

Overcoming Anxiety    BOOK
This program applies a cognitive-behavioral approach to the problem of anxiety, teaching listeners how to identify triggers and perform anxiety-relieving exercises.
4 audio cassettes (229 minutes total), and manual in folio.

Overcoming Binge Eating   BOOK
Provides all the information needed to both understand binge eating behaviors and bring them under control.It presents an accessible, up to date account of current knowledge, and step-by-step guidance to the most effective strategies.

Overweight in America: Why Are We Getting So Fat? VIDEO
Huge portion sizes, fat-filled diets, too much TV/video games and not enough exercise are common choices for a growing number of today’s teens. This timely program helps teens understand the serious health hazards of obesity and explores options for healthier eating and exercise. Program visits the Yale Bright Bodies clinic where teens and parents are learning how to change their lifestyles. Another segment looks in on an entire family trying to stem the tide of obesity. Teens will also see how a “fat camp” operates and how teens there are trying to get healthier. Lastly, the program visits former NFL quarterback, Dr. Archie Roberts, who is now a heart surgeon working with overweight NFL players trying to achieve maximum health with weight reduction.

Patrick’s Story: Attempted Suicide, Attempting Life VIDEO
Every year, thousands of teenagers commit suicide. Almost a statistic himself, Patrick Bird survived his attempt and succeeded in turning his life around. Helped along by caring friends and a loving adoptive mother, Patrick moved beyond a childhood blighted by abuse, abandonment, drugs, and crime—as well as a brush with death—to begin a search for identity by reconnecting with his Cree roots and discovering his hidden talents for music and acting. Using Patrick’s inspiring story as a case study, this program identifies warning signs of impending suicide and resources that can help people resist it. (25 minutes, color)


Patterns for Renewing the Mind: Christian Communicating & Counseling Using NLP   BOOK
 Does the Bible have all the answers? Absolutely, you just need to know where to look. In this NLP book written primarily for Christian pastors and counselors, the authors reveal a model of communication that facilitates effective counseling and preaching. After all, the Bible presents the how to manual of living. Well, this book presents the how to of applying Biblical truths to living.

Peace of Mind is a Piece of Cake  BOOK
Designed to help all of us cope with the stresses and strains of modern-day life, Peace Of Mind Is A Piece Of Cake contains tips and strategies, relaxation techniques and exercises for the immediate and lasting relief of stress and all its damaging results.

Perception  VIDEO
How can two people see the same event and make completely opposite judgments about it? Do you think we see the world in much the same way as a camera? This video contends that we don't simply record what we see, we create it by the act of perception.
 

Portion Distortion: Seeing the Healthy Way to Eat VIDEO
This program teaches children how to choose the right food portions for their body type and metabolism. Nationwide, children have become accustomed to eating “supersized.” This is a major factor in the obesity epidemic affecting teens today. Kids are suffering from weight-related health problems—diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, depression, and even heart disease. The goal of this program is to teach children how to correctly measure food portions using everyday, easy-to-understand analogies. For example, a protein portion should be about the same size as the palm of your hand; a portion of baked potato is about the size of a computer mouse. Using video to visualize portions, the program teaches viewers the difference between supersized portions and nutritionally correct portions. Once children understand the right food portions for their body and metabolism, they can make healthy judgments about food portions at every meal, every day, for long-term health. Portion Distortion also gives children practical tips on eating healthy portions, checking labels, ordering small or medium sizes at restaurants, taking home leftovers from restaurants, sharing meals with friends and starting with smaller amounts on dinner plates.

The Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drug Guide for Seniors   BOOK
Mature consumers do not have the same reaction to medications as younger adults. Yet, too often, manufacturers, pharmacists, caregivers, and older adults themselves, are unaware of how medications can act and interact in seniors.

Psychological Treatment Of Panic    BOOK
A complete step-by-step manual for the cognitive-behavioral treatment of panic,
this book provides sufficient detail to enable clinicians to immediately begin
using these techniques with their clients.

Rage  book
This new book from anger expert Potter-Efron offers powerful, emergency help to anyone whose extreme and volatile rages cause him or her to lose control of emotions, behaviors, and even conscious awareness-causing sometimes irreparable emotional and physical harm to themselves, their loved ones, and, occasionally, to innocent by-standers.

Rational Madness   BOOK
Addictions-to alcohol, food, drugs, violence or anything else, arise as a way of coping with the world. Hoskins explores these different types of coping methods and discusses the reasons they develop. He builds on successful ways that addicts can escape from their destructive patterns, learning mature coping strategies that will allow them to break free of addiction forever.

Relaxation Procedures   AUDIO
This widely used program links progressive relaxation with other tension reducing exercises to form one of the most easily learned methods for physical and mental relaxation. An ideal aid for health professionals, biofeedback and other relaxation therapies, and general use. 1 audio cassette (39 minutes)

Reconnecting to the Magic of Life  BOOK
How do we reconnect to the magic of life when life doesn’t feel like magic because it is filled with trauma, stress or pain? Through stories and storytelling.

Releasing the Pressure  CD
The CD is designed to maintain a healthy balanced blood pressure level.



The Road to Wise Money Management: Planning, Credit, and Your Paycheck  VIDEO
Adult financial life can be overwhelming. Among the most bewildering of adult responsibilities is money management. Balancing checkbooks, understanding bank statements, getting credit—all of these are complex and intimidating, but necessary skills. Join Kate, a recent high school graduate living at home, as she struggles to get her finances in order. Realizing that she knows almost nothing about finance, she asks for help. The first thing she learns is the importance of a sound spending plan that takes into account the different types of expenses—fixed, flexible, and periodic. Learn how to set short-term goals (for a stereo or a prom dress) and how to set long-term goals (for a car or a house). A detailed breakdown of taxes reminds viewers that they will not get all the money they expect from their paychecks and illustrates where the missing money goes. We follow Kate as she balances and reconciles her checkbook, thus demonstrating the basic principles of money management. Finally, students learn about credit: how to get it, the advantages and disadvantages of the different types of credit cards, interest, and finance charges. The program concludes with an explanation of the Truth in Lending Law. A thorough and entertaining introduction to the basics of money management!

Sack Your Boss! How to Quit Your Job and Turn Your Passion Into Your Profession  BOOK
 Every week, thousands of people quit their jobs and going into business on own business. Perhaps you too are thinking of doing this right now? What you need to make it a success is information on exactly how to do it - from someone who has done it.

The Science of Stress  VIDEO
What is stress and what does it do to us? This program explores the links between stress and illness by staging a day in the life of a lawyer. An endocrinologist, a perinatal psychobiologist, an occupational psychologist, and two psychiatrists observe and comment on his stress factors and the way he handles them. The experts discuss how the "fight or flight response," a result of adrenalin and cortisol secretion triggered by stress, might be appropriate for fleeing from lions but is not a useful reaction in the office and can be detrimental over time. Type A and B personalities are explained, as well as how the ability to manage stress may be determined before birth.

Self Esteem    BOOK
This second edition has a new chapter on changing core beliefs that undermine self worth. This is the only book on the subject that uses proven cognitive techniques for assessing, improving and maintaining your self esteem by talking back to the self critical voice inside you.

The Self-Nourishment Companion   BOOK
For all those readers who haven't been giving themselves the time and care they deserve, this delightful guide offers 52 inventive and easy-to-follow recipes for relaxation and rejuvenation. Two coauthors of New Harbinger's popular Daily Relaxer and Self-Esteem Companion have joined forces with the coauthor of Facing 30 to provide readers with a smart, funny, and practical guide to nurturing themselves.

Sex Smart for Teens Series  VIDEO SERIES or VIDEO
Statistics show that teens often misconstrue critical facts relating to sex, birth control, and sexually transmitted infections. This series presents the truth in a contemporary style that is engaging, humorous and honest. Sex Smart encourages healthy decision-making and emphasizes the importance of communication between teens and a parent or trusted adult. This teen-savvy, culturally relevant series will help you add impact and accuracy to your comprehensive sexuality program.

Sika and the Raven  BOOK
 When nine-year-old Sika longs for a real baby of her own, Uncle Eli shares with her an intriguing Native American legend about how Raven came to be black.

Six Pillars of Character Series  VIDEO
Help your kids explore six essential characters virtues with the Popcorn Park Puppets. In each video the puppets become entangled in problems that require them to sort out right from wrong. Complete with inspiring songs and delightful humor, these videos provide a fun way to engage your students in thinking, talking, and writing about the kinds of people they want to be.

Social Anxiety   BOOK
An unavoidable part of everyday life, social anxiety is often the consequence of quite ordinary encounters. Why does it occur? Why are some people more prone to fellings of of anxiety, shyness, and embarrassment in social contexts than other people?

Social Phobia   BOOK
Everyone feels shy or nervous occasionally, but for millions of people even signing a check or eating a sandwich in public evokes enormous anxiety, often leading these people to withdraw entirely from social contact.

Standing Tall: Learning Assertiveness Skills  VIDEO
Teasing, bullying, peer pressure…These are all behaviors that are challenging for middle school kids – especially shy ones – to deal with. How should they respond when bullies, cliques, and even friends make them feel bad or treat them disrespectfully? This powerful program helps guide middle school students on the challenging road toward learning to speak up for themselves and others. Conflict resolution expert Naomi Drew offers practical tips that students can use in developing assertiveness and standing up for themselves. A group of middle school students inspires kids with moving accounts of how they conquered their fears – and stood up to the class bully, an overbearing friend, or peer pressure. Learning to employ these techniques will empower your students to overcome challenging situations that arise at home, at school, and in life.

Stock Market Basics
This program is about the basics of the stock market. What is the difference between a stock and a bond? Where does your money go when you buy a stock? What is a dividend and why do some profitable companies refuse to pay them? What are risk and volatility and how can an individual buy stocks or mutual funds. Explore the "efficient market theory" and take a random walk down Wall Street.

Stop Feeling Tired! : 10 Mind-Body Steps to Fight Fatigue and Feel Your Best    BOOK
Experts in cognitive-behavioral psychology and oriental medicine provide an integrative, step-by-step plan that helps readers increase personal energy in a matter of minutes, helps them attain better health, and restores mental and spiritual balance.

Stop the Anger Now  BOOK
This book makes anger control a manageable skill anybody can learn by simplifying it to three essential steps: prevention, containment, and resolution. In order to prevent angry outbursts, you first identify the causes of the anger in your life, both the external situations that trigger it and the internal monologue that might be feeding your feelings of rage.
 

Strategies for Increased Self-Esteem   VIDEO
In this program, you will learn the importance of positive self-esteem and how it can help you maintain your composure when times get tough and pressure builds. The program also looks at the keys to communicating effectively.

Stress Hurts! A Wake-up Call for Women VIDEO
Do women have more stress in their lives than men and do they react differently to it? In this program, ABC News correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports on the ways in which stress is much more damaging to women and explores its connection to serious illness, memory loss, weight control, sleep, sexual desire, and depression. Hormone therapy for younger women, especially after childbirth, is discussed, as well as breakthrough research that shows stress can cause dangerous weight gain. Dr. Snyderman looks at how women, unlike men, tend to take their anger out at home rather than in the workplace, and she also offers some essential advice on reducing stress levels in everyday situations. (42 minutes, color)

Stress Management VIDEO
Stress Management is a twenty minute video which is part of the series, Back to the Basics.
No more jitters on the first day of work. Back to the Basics is a five-part series designed to introduce young adults to the work world.It addresses the issues of Problem Solving, Conflict Resolution and Etiquette, Communication Skills, Stress Management, and Professional Image.
Specialists in career planning, organizational behavior, and workplace wellness share their advice on how to navigate the business world successfully.

Stuttering    BOOK
This very common problem affects 1 in 5 Americans. Many do it occasionally unknowingly, but for others it is a part of their life. It is difficult to live with because it causes embarrassment, social problems, and sometimes low self esteem.

Suicide VIDEO
Every year, more than 30,000 American men, women, and children take their own lives—an average of one every 17 minutes. Drawing on the experiences of law enforcement officers, emergency medical personnel, psychologists, neurologists, hotline counselors, family members of suicides, and survivors of suicide attempts, this emotionally charged program offers approaches to understanding and preventing suicide while exploring the anguish that accompanies it. Groundbreaking brain research, graphic death scene photos, and actual 911 recordings add powerful support to the case studies and treatment options documented. Viewer discretion is advised. An HBO production. (59 minutes, color)

Surviving Suicide: Those Left Behind VIDEO
The two-year average for suicides in America exceeds the total number of casualties in the Vietnam War. What happens to the loved ones left behind? When unable to escape feelings of guilt, they are nine times more likely to take their own lives. Judy and Paul Tunkle—who lost their daughter, Lea, at the age of 22—have worked tirelessly to change that. This program highlights their efforts, as well as the labors of many survivors, to provide assistance to those left in suicide’s wake. Along the way, the Tunkles reflect on their daughter’s life, and other survivors share their experiences of loss and hope. A Discovery Channel Production. (51 minutes, color)

Taking Control Of Your Headaches    BOOK
In clear step-by-step instructions, the authors describe a complete headache treatment program that takes into account all the factors that can affect headaches,including diet, biology, stress, behavior, and muscle tension.

Teen Room Design  VIDEO
Students love "makeover" television shows. Interviews with multicultural teens and tours of their bedrooms give creative and fun ideas for bedrooms-on-a-budget! Video worksheet and teacher’s key included.

Teen Suicide VIDEO
We all get depressed or feel stressed once in awhile. But today, teenagers have more stress in their lives than ever before. Divorced parents, substance abuse, lack of adult supervision, abusive family situations, unemployment, and a sense that the world may not be getting any better...are all factors which cause many teenagers to feel alone and desperate. Most teenagers successfully deal with these problems—but the fact remains that, on their own, too many can’t. This excellent production takes a look at the reasons kids consider, attempt, or commit suicide while stressing specific measures to help prevent unhappy teens from becoming suicide statistics. Viewers learn how to recognize the signals of suicide contemplation which they can look for in friends or relatives considering taking this drastic measure, the importance of communication, what to do to help, and where to go for assistance in saving a friend’s life. Those who may be thinking that ending their lives is the only way to escape discover that they are not alone in their problems, learn how to conquer these feelings, and become aware of specific people and organizations that desperately want to help. A life-saving message for teens, parents, teachers—anyone who comes in contact with at-risk teens.

Teens In Between VIDEO
This finely crafted documentary video takes a rare and intimate look at the struggles and challenges faced by five immigrant teens as they attempt to adapt to life at Fairfax County Virginia’s Annandale High School. The cultural landscape of our nation’s schools is rapidly changing, with a record 16% of the school aged population is made up of immigrant students.

Ten Reasons To Get in Shape VIDEO
This video combines up-to-date information with an upbeat, engaging, kid-friendly format to teach young students the reasons why physical fitness is essential to a healthy lifestyle.
Young viewers will learn how regular exercise improves mood; builds strong muscles and dense bones; develops healthy lungs and heart; improves sleep and concentration; speeds recovery from ordinary illnesses; helps control weight; and enhances total physical and emotional health. Students will understand that a physically strong and fit body feels good and is the foundation for a long, healthy, happy, more productive life. Kids will explore basic nutrition and understand the problems of obesity and sedentary lifestyles. Simple, easy-to-use and understand, this video emphasizes that exercise is fun and the payoff is a body that feels great.

Theft of the Spirit: A Journey to Spiritual Healing, Audio 
Filled with remarkable stories about spiritual connections, here Dr. Hammerschlag shows how to journey past fear and illusion to a new strength of spirit and self.

Theft of the Spirit: A Journey to Spiritual Healing  BOOK
 Filled with remarkable stories about spiritual connections, here Dr. Hammerschlag shows how to journey past fear and illusion to a new strength of spirit and self.

Thinking Outside the Cubicle: How to Change the Job You Have into the Job You Want    BOOK
Nationally licensed career counselor Norman Meshriy presents simple, effective techniques to help employees increase their job satisfaction by transforming the workplace from within. Guided by provocative self-assessment exercises and real-life examples, readers learn how to deal with difficult coworkers, improve job skills, eliminate common roadblocks, negotiate effectively for promotions and pay increases, restructure their jobs to match their goals, build rewarding business relationships, and feel secure enough to leave the office behind at day's end.

Thinking Sexy: Unlocking the Secrets of Sensual Desire  BOOK
Every sexual encounter is initiated in the mind and it is the mind which determines whether it will be pleasurable or not. Amanda Lowe’s new book Thinking Sexy explores subconscious and deep-seated attitudes and defenses that can prevent a woman from enjoying her sex life to the full.

Thoughts And Feelings    BOOK
This book is one of the most comprehensive and empirically sound guidebooks in all of self help literature. All the major problems of living are covered. This book will be extremely valuable as a stand alone guide for persons trying to change their lives on their own, as a centerpiece of therapy for clients bibliography and as a source of dozens of ideas for interventions and home-work assignments for therapists.

 

To The Max: Understanding the New Diet and Exercise Guidelines VIDEO
One-fourth of all school-age children are overweight and one-eighth are obese making excess weight the most common problem facing today’s youth. This fast paced and entertaining video shows young, elementary students how they can begin to improve their health by eating smarter, eating smaller portions, exercising more and understanding basic information about nutrition and food labeling. In one sequence, viewers follow Justin, a typical fifth grader, as we fast forward through his day of super-sized fast food, too much TV and video games and little exercise. We also hear from real kids as well as an on-camera expert who talks to youngsters about the challenge of eating right and the importance of exercise. Special attention is directed to understanding the new dietary guidelines, food labeling information and fat burning exercise.

Tourette’s Syndrome: New Hope for a Cure VIDEO
This program takes a penetrating look at the pathophysiology of Tourette’s syndrome and a range of attendant disorders, including self-mutilation, through the cases of Shane Fistell, spotlighted in the series The Mind Traveller; John Davidson, profiled in John’s Not Mad and The Boy Can’t Help It; and others. Leading researchers such as Oliver Sacks discuss their findings as well as experimental—and frequently controversial—treatments, including transcranial magnetic stimulation, environmental therapy, low-level doses of THC, nicotine via transdermal patches, and injections of botulinum toxin. The genetic roots of TS are also considered. Some language may be offensive. Original BBCW broadcast title: Tourette’s Syndrome. (50 minutes, color)

TwentySomeone: Find Yourself in a Decade of Transition   BOOK
The decade of your twenties is full of important, stressful, maddening questions: What will I do? Who will I love? Where will I live? But maybe there's a bigger question: Who am I? The fact is, the period of time between your teens and thirties will shape a lot of your character, your calling, and your view of the world.

Unleashed: A Guide to Your Ultimate Self-Actualization   BOOK
Based on the work of Abraham Maslow, this latest book by Michael Hall develops the concepts of Self-Actualization Psycholgy, which believes in human potentials and capabilities, trusts in the best of intentions and instincts of people, and believes that it is within us to continue growing, developing and evolving.

The Unbiased Mind VIDEO
Are you biased? Are you prejudiced? Of course you are, and so am I. Bias and prejudice are everyday modes of thinking, and they usually work quite well. Without pre-judgment and bias we could not handle everyday mental tasks. But these thinking habits become dangerous when they replace critical thinking or serve to judge classes of people.

Weighing the Risks: Gastric Bypass Surgery VIDEO
With teen obesity becoming epidemic in the U.S., failed attempts to lose weight utilizing conventional means are steering young people towards drastic measures. NBC reporter Al Roker follows two obese teens who, with parental permission and months of preparation, elect gastric bypass surgery to combat their weight problem. Speaking out about common teen issues, the students share painful experiences compounded by their obesity. Memorable interviews with family members, as well as surgeons performing this procedure, highlight differing opinions. Follow the students through their surgery and its aftermath, which bring unforeseen consequences–difficult to resolve. Program humanizes obesity sufferers and conjures sympathy and support in a high school environment that often condones ostracism as an accepted response.

Well into Your Future: Mental Health and Aging VIDEO
Created to meet the needs of a steadily growing American senior population, this series addresses important issues that affect quality of life for older men and women, as well as their spouses, family, and friends. Through scenes of daily living, interviews, and expert commentary, the programs provide valuable insights and advice on mental wellness, the key to successful aging. 3-part series, 55 minutes each.

What Is a Price?  VIDEO
We all know “the best things in life are free” and “you can’t buy happiness”, right? So why do we insist on putting a price on just about everything? Well, we don’t. That’s the first of many surprising lessons viewers learn in What Is a Price?: a price is not an arbitrary number someone “puts” on something.

What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question   BOOK
It’s a question many of us have pondered with frequency. Author Po Bronson was asking himself that very question when he decided to write this book—an inspiring exploration of how people transform their lives and a template for how we can answer this question for ourselves.  Bronson traveled the country in search of individuals who have struggled to find their calling, their true nature—people who made mistakes before getting it right.


Weight Management  BOOK
This is one of a series of DVD demonstrations that is based on the work of Milton H. Erickson, MD. One of Dr. Erickson’s main ideas was that the therapist should accept and utilize whatever the client brought into the therapeutic conversation. Focusing on learning rather than explaining, actively generates preferred future actions, and releases us from the necessity of having to revisit past hurts, and the associated elevated mood can then contribute substantially to the healing process.

When the Mind Fails: A Guide to Alzheimer’s Disease VIDEO
People with Alzheimer’s disease usually live at home, cared for by family members—who, like the patient, may be feeling uncertain and scared. But authoritative information can help ease the fears and concerns. This program is a step-by-step Alzheimer’s primer for caregivers and patients alike, divided into the following sections: First Signs, Diagnosis, Middle Stages, Getting Organized, Coping, Day to Day, Last Stages, and Hope for the Future, a segment highlighting the newest genetic research. A combination of case studies and medical insights, this documentary is a vital tool in coming to terms with Alzheimer’s. (59 minutes, color)

Winning the Inner Game: Mastering the Inner Game for Peak Performance   BOOK
Previously published as Frame Games, this new edition shows how to operate and successfully play “The Inner Game.” Fail to do so and you’ll keep buying more self-help books to try to understand the game of life and how to succeed in all of its dimensions.

Work Less Make More.    BOOK
This business self-improvement guide shows you how to work less, make more money, and get more out of your life. It is based on a 10-step program that helpsyou discover what you do best, identify your true goals, focus, manage your time, delegate, and much more.

When Anger Scares You  BOOK
Anger is a natural response that can be, if properly channeled, a powerful source of energy and motivation for growth. Some people, though, habitually shy away from their own angry feelings and potentially anger-provoking situations.