Teens 101: Depression and Self-Harm - Brittany's Story - DVD

Copyright 2017

AVAILABLE IN THE U.S. ONLY

Teens 101 is a multi-media initiative towards reaching, guiding, empowering, and inspiring youth through the issues that can affect their mental health and well being. The series communicates from a youth's perspective topics such as: depression and anxiety, addiction, self harm, mental illness, bullying, body image, self worth, family dysfunction, racism, sexuality and LGBTQ.

Depression and Self-Harm (Brittany's Story): At the age of 14, following a quarrel with a friend of hers from school, Brittany turned to her mother for comfort. Instead, her mother lashed out at her calling her selfish. From that day on, Brittany began to internalize her feelings. Her insecurities grew and she turned to drugs and alcohol. At a party with friends from school, her excessive drinking led to sexual abuse. This made things worse. She began to engage in self-harm practice, cutting her arms regularly. The depressed she got, the worse the self-inflicted harm became until she was hospitalized for it.

Additional Information

• Media Type: DVD
• Run Time: 19 mins
• Grade Level: 8-12
• Producer - Distribution Access
  Teens 101 - Guidance
• Public Performance Rights - Yes
• Rating - Not Rate
• Teacher's Guides - Yes/Online