Handling Peer Pressure
Description
The teen years are a time of experimenting with identity, but along with that search for self come major decisions about what groups to fit into-and how to fit into them. This video explores peer group influences; how they can cause young people to change their attitudes, values, or behaviors in order to conform; and what can be done to avoid their pitfalls. Topics include positive, negative, direct, and indirect peer pressure; cultural forces, especially media-driven ones, that push the desire to be a "star" instead of making a genuine journey of self-discovery; and media stereotypes of what it means to be attractive, smart, or successful. The program also looks at how friendship groups can become cliques, how low self-esteem leads some people to manipulate or intimidate others to fit in, and how peer pressure, as pervasive as it is, can be countered with honesty, self-expression, and self-knowledge.
Runtime
30 min
Series
Subjects
- Self-realization (33)
- Age groups (25)
- Personality development (77)
- Child development (475)
- Peer pressure (23)
- Developmental psychology (215)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2011], c2011
Database
Films on Demand
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