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Featured Faculty: "Children and Stress: A Handbook for Parents, Teachers, and Therapists"
Product Description This book provides an overview of childhood stress and a wide array of creative activities that can be used to help children gain control over their stress. Included are activities that help children adopt healthy coping strategies, learn new stress management skills, and value the benefits of relaxation. Each fun and engaging activity is a complete lesson plan, providing all the detail an adult needs to conduct the activity and follow-up questions. This book is an essential resource for anyone who would like to help children deal with stress today, tomorrow, and throughout a lifetime. Section I provides background information to help parents, teachers and therapists effectively work with children. It summarizes information about stress in children, provides an overview of research on the immediate and long-term consequences of stress in children, and describes a continuum of stresses ranging from everday common stresses to more severe stress brought on by trauma. i...
ARTstor has Gone Mobile!
The ARTstor Digital Library is now accessible to registered ARTstor users through the iPad, iPhone, and the iPod Touch, providing read-only features such as searching and browsing, zooming, and viewing saved image groups. We are also introducing the Flashcard View for ARTstor Mobile, which allows users to test their knowledge by viewing the image without textual information, and then flipping the image to reveal the image record. This new view can be found under the “Views” menu as “Flashcard.” ARTstor Mobile is only available through the Safari browser, just go to http://library.artstor.org from your mobile device. For more details, visit our Help page at http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/ARTstor_Mobile .
Films on Demand Subscription
Check out the Library's new Films on Demand video subscription! Films on Demand is a web-based,digital, streaming video service that can be incorporated into your classes, allowing students to view the films anywhere and at anytime. The videos cover a wide range of topics and can be viewed in their entirety or by segments. The educational videos are from Films Media Group; the current list of their most frequently viewed films includes: 9/11 through Saudi Eyes Mass Media in Society Growing Up Online The End of Print The Once Good Earth: Understanding Soil An Anorexic's Tale: The Brief Life of Catherine