Watch and learn! Carefully selected media links and video chapter summaries by Laura Levine and Joyce Munsch will help bring key concepts and theories to life, preparing you for your studies and exams. 

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Chapter Video

• 14.1- Unstructured Play
  This video is part of a documentary called "Where do the Children Play" which focuses on children and unstructed play.

• 14.2 - Overscheduled Children
  The video describes ways that parents can tell if their children are overscheduled with activities.

• 14.4 - Positive Youth Development
  Dr. Jeffrey Butts describes how the positive youth development model has been adapted to use with youth in the criminal justice system.

• 14.5 - Concussions
  A teenager describes how ignoring a spoorts-related concussion changed her life.

• 14.8 - Multi tasking
  The Kaiser Family Foundation produced this video on multitasking.

• 14.9 - The Thin Ideal
  Jean Kilbourne talks about the unrealistic images of women in media and the impact those images have on the viewers.

• 14.12- Therapeutic Riding
  The therapeutic riding program allows children with cerebral therapy to experience the freedom and fun of riding horses.

Video Links

• Overscheduled Children
  Suggestions for how to tell if your child is overscheduled.

• Positive Youth Development
  This seminar takes a fresh look at adolescence from a positive youth development framework, rather than a risk perspective. (1:53:12)

• Developmental Assets
  This seminar takes a fresh look at adolescence from a positive youth development framework, rather than a risk perspective. (1:53:12)

• Coaching Youth Sports
  This youth football coach emphasizes how to keep the game positive for the players.

• Natural Mentors
  Michelle Munson describes her research on the impact of "natural mentors" on youth who are in foster care.

• Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds (2 hours: 11mins)
  A briefing to release "Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds," a national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation which documented the dramatic recent increase in the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media.

• Media and Obesity
  A doctor discusses the role that media plays in the obesity epidemic.

• Sesame Street
  Interviews with Jean Ganz Cooney, Creator of Sesame Street – 3 videos (30:58), (25:48), (11:58)

• Facebook
  Humorous look at the impact of Facebook on adolescents.

• Media Literacy
  An introduction to media literacy, with a link to additional resources on current media.

• The Natural World
  A lecture by Richard Louv, looking at the need to balance the virtual world with the natural world. (1:37:09)

Audio Links

• The Loss of Unstructured Time
  Children discuss their busy schedules and adults comment on the loss of unstructured time for free play.

• Adolescent Employment
  Parents discuss the potential benefits and the costs of teen employment as they see it.

• Media and Cognitive Development
  A school in New York is using video games to teach thinking skills. (4:19)

• Internet Predators
  A look at how pervasive the threat of internet predators really is. (30:03)

• Minorities in the Movies
  A screen writer discusses the portrayal of minorities in summer movies.