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

• 15.1- Children's Stress and Coping
  In this video produced by the Psychology Foundation of Canada, a child psychologist talks about what causes of childhood stress and gives parents advice on how to help their children cope.

• 15.3 - Child Life Specialists
  Child life specialists work with children and families to make hospital and medical situations less stressful for the entire family.

• 15.4 - Toxins
  This video, called Toxic Trespass, discusses the link between environmental toxins and children's health.

• 15.5 - Asthma
  Dr. Joseph Smith from Cornell University discusses childhood asthma.

• 15.6 - Auto Safety
  Properly installed and used children's safety seats help prevent accidents and death.

• 15.7 -Marijuana and Presciption Drug Use
  Marijuana and prescription use is on the rise among adolescents.

• 15.8 - Binge Drinking
  This video from the CDC describes the range of risks associated with binge drinking.

• 15.9 - Children and Homelessness
  This story chronicles how a formerly middle-class family tries to cope with becoming homeless.

• 15.10 - Child Abuse
  The video looks at some causes and outcomes of child abuse, including families who successfully break the cycle.

• 15.11 - Bipolar Disorder
  How bipolar disorder in children and teens differ from the condition in adults.

• 15.12 - Tics and Tourette's Syndrome
  Description of tics and Tourette's syndrome, and types of treatment, if required.

• 15.13 - Childhood Schizophrenia
  Daily struggles of two families with schizophrenic children.

• 15.14 - Resilient Children
  A university study of the characteristics of resilient children.

Video Links

• Health, Mind and Behavior
  The video looks at the relationship between our psychological and emotional state and our health and wellbeing.

• Toxic Stress
  The effects of toxic stress on brain development.

• Stress, Vulnerability and Resiliency
  Neurobiologists discuss vulnerability and resiliency in the developing brain of children under stress. (1:04:47)

• Coping
  Susan Folkman delivers a lecture on problem-focused and emotion-focused coping in the face of stress.

• Children's Health
  The WebMD website has 200 videos related to children’s health and development on its web site (use link to “Children’s Health Videos” on the left).

• Environmental Toxins
  A Canadian mother and daughter have their blood analyzed and discover they have been exposed to a variety of environmental toxins.

• Air Pollution
  Half hour video on the chronic effects of air pollution on children’s health, focusing on the Los Angeles area.

• Childhood Cancer (9: 58)
  Video from St. Jude’s about childhood cancer.

• Childhood Poverty
  Marian White Edelman describes how 1 in 6 children in American experience growing up in poverty.

• Homelessness
  A 2009 study of homeless families in Minnesota describes the challenges the homeless families everywhere in America face daily.

• Preventing Child Abuse
  This video describes a variety of ways that a community can help to prevent children abuse.

• Recognizing Child Neglect
  A social worker talks about the difficulties with determining when a bad living situation becomes neglect and must be acted upon by authorities.

• Sexual Abuse
  An OB/GYN discusses the negative outcomes associated with childhood sexual abuse.

• Prejudice and Discrimination
  A presentation illustrating the difference between prejudice and discrimination.

• Racial Socialization
  Dr Naomi Priest from the University of Melbourne describes a program being developed to promote positive racial socialization.

• Anxiety Disorders
  Experts from the British Columbia Children's Hospital describe the difference between normal childhood anxiety and clinical anxiety.

Audio Links

• Toxins in the Home
  Research has found that the level of toxic air pollutants inside a home can be higher than the air outdoors.

• Silence about Sexual Abuse
  A victim of childhood sexual abuse discusses why she did not disclose that she was being abused.

• Aftermath of Sexual Abuse
  This program describes some of the factors that affect how an individual child reacts to being a victim of childhood sexual abuse.

• Bipolar Disorder
  The label of "temper dysregulation disorder" has been proposed as an alternative name for children diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

• Childhood Schizophrenia
  A family describes their lives with one of the youngest children ever diagnosed with schizophrenia.