Elementary School
About Risky Behavior
For Back to School, BrainAbouts suggests beginning the year by watching About the Brain and About Risky Behavior to set the stage for your prevention program. These two videos offer the science behind the reason to say 'no' to high-risk behavior: to protect the developing brain. Use the BrainAbouts Handouts in-class and at home as a discussion guide.
About the Brain
For Back to School, BrainAbouts suggests beginning the year by watching About the Brain and About Risky Behavior to set the stage for your prevention program. These two videos offer the science behind the reason to say 'no' to high-risk behavior: to protect the developing brain. Use the BrainAbouts Handouts in-class and at home as a discussion guide.
Neuroscience Perspective
Steinberg L. (2008). A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Adolescent Risk-Taking. Developmental review : DR, 28(1), 78–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2007.08.002
Brain Development
Romer, Daniel. (2010) “Adolescent Risk Taking, Impulsivity, and Brain Development: Implications for Prevention.” Developmental Psychobiology, doi:10.1002/dev.20442.
Involvement of Frontal Cortex
Goldstein, Rita Z., and Nora D. Volkow. (2002) “Drug Addiction and Its Underlying Neurobiological Basis: Neuroimaging Evidence for the Involvement of the Frontal Cortex.” American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 159, no. 10, pp. 1642–1652., doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.159.10.1642.
Resisting Drugs
Bechara, Antoine. (2005) “Decision Making, Impulse Control and Loss of Willpower to Resist Drugs: a Neurocognitive Perspective.” Nature Neuroscience, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 1458–1463., doi:10.1038/nn1584
The Marshmallow Test
Mischel, Walter. (2019) The Marshmallow Test. Hachette USA.
Brainwise
The BrainWise Program, a non-profit organization, that teaches children, youth, and at-risk adults essential emotional, social, and cognitive skills through an innovative structured approach called the “10 Wise Ways.”