Teaching to make a difference -- You can make a difference -- Modeling a healthy personality and life skills -- Interacting with students -- Teaching with the brain and mind -- Six categories of risk behaviour -- Health education and the coordinated school health program -- Working with children with special needs -- Life skills for health and emotional well-being -- Self-esteem -- Emotional intelligence -- Being proactive -- Communication skills -- Relationship building -- Goal setting -- Problem solving and decision making -- Additional life skills -- Media literacy -- Generation M -- Concerns about media exposure -- Evaluating media messages -- The world of advertising -- Online kids -- Questioning media messages: the foundation for media literacy -- Dealing with stress -- Understanding stress -- Stress in children and youth -- Stress and the community and world environments -- Stress and the home environment -- Stress and the school environment -- Managing stress -- Healthy eating and physical activity patterns -- The epidemic of overweight and obesity -- Dietary patterns that contribute to disease -- Television and media influence -- Unsafe weight-loss methods and eating -- Physical inactivity -- Physical activity guidelines for young people -- Promoting healthy eating and physical activity -- Sexual activity -- Sexual activity of teenagers -- Pervasiveness of sex in the media -- Understanding adolescence and sexual development -- Helping young people make responsible decisions about sexual activity -- Problems associated with youth sexual activity -- Substance use and abuse -- Monitoring substance use trends -- Media promotion of alcohol and tobacco use -- Substance abuse prevention education -- Substance abuse prevention curricula -- Substance abuse problems -- Violence and unintentional injury -- Understanding youth violence -- Bullying in schools -- Prevention -- Child abuse -- Rape -- Depression and suicidal behaviour -- Understanding depressive disorders in children and adolescents -- Assisting young people who are depressed -- Self-injury -- Youth suicide -- Death and dying -- Children's understanding of death and dying -- Childhood and adolescent bereavement -- Providing a supportive environment for the terminally ill child -- Responding appropriately to death -- Death education.