Genres and Topics

DEFINITION & RATIONALE

These lessons are intended to provide students with a safe space to begin to explore challenging  psychological issues and emotional self-awareness. Additinally, participants are encouraged to share their inner subjective experiences, and learn more about ordinarily taboo psychiatric. Students will explore with the themes of loneliness and alienation, as the different wasys of experiencing and reacting to emotional pain.

WEBSITES: CURRICULUM AND LESSON PLANS

Song Guide: Lithium by Nirvana

 http://www.rocklibrary.com/Library/Entity.aspx?id=dc85d170-a87b-46ca-8606-edb74d1ee0f1

WEBSITES: GENERAL RESOURCES ON TOPIC

The Icarus Project

Misled Youth

http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=6342

Yale Lecturer Advises: Flush the Prozac and Hack Your Own Happiness

http://acmecoalition.org/essential_resources

www.newdayfilms.org

 http://www.mediarelate.org/

ARTICLES (for teacher background knowledge)

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ARTICLES (for students, short, readable, and high interest)

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BOOKS (about teaching this topic/genre)

BOOKS (general information about this topic/genre)

Mad In America

Comfortably Numb

Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry

Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction

ONLINE VIDEO, SHORT FILMS & MOVIE CLIPS

Abilify Commercial

Frontline: The Medicated Child

RADIO/PODCASTS

NPR: Diagnosing Bipolar in Children and Teens

MOVIES

12 Monkeys

One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest

Girl Interrupted

Running With Scissors