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Straight Talk About Mental Health: Image and Identity

18 minutes 21 seconds

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Adolescent boy at table with woman seated on easy chair behind. Caption. This is normal and often experienced by young people.

Call-in show format focuses on adolescent perspectives on image and identity. Begins with information about hormones and their physical and mental effect on the body during puberty. Discusses teens' doubts about identity, self-worth, and body image. Pays particular attention to the influences of peer opinion and the media. Encourages finding personal style and image in safe, healthy ways.

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Runtime: 18 minutes 21 seconds

Topic: Counseling and Self-Help, Health and Safety, Social Science
Subtopic: Mental Health, Self-Perception
Grade/Interest Level: 6 - 12
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Release Year: 2001
Producer/Distributor: Marsh Media

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Computer rendering of a brain, top view in colors of blue, green, and orange. A color scale appears to the right of the brain and reads, "Heritability, open parenthesis, A squared, close parenthesis." Color scale ranges from 0.0, blue to 1.0, red.

Woman stands across a desk from another woman. Both look down at a document together. Caption. But she was afraid of being stigmatized.

Man wearing a black sweater and baseball cap looks off camera with a serious expression, hands folded in front of him. Caption. He was being abused for a long time.

Closeup of coffee beans with an overlayed image of 3 people working at desks in an office setting.

Woman in striped shirt with back facing camera reaches for something in an industrial kitchen. Caption. I want to have a degree and just make my life better.

Images of the brain shown from various angles lined up in rows. Caption. Antidepressant medications act on chemical pathways.

Still image from: Combating Social Isolation and Loneliness

Young woman speaks slightly off camera against a black and white abstract cityscape. Caption. Which is eating disorder not otherwise specified.

Young woman faces camera and looks slightly off with a glum expression on her face. Caption. All I kept hearing was, we have to sign the papers.