Tertiary Catalogue

Social Care


Managing Grief and Loss in School Settings

Managing Grief and Loss in School Settings

State of Disruption

When loss occurs in a school community, it can be deeply challenging for students and teachers alike. This video for the whole classroom explains how to acknowledge and provide support to students and other teachers and gives ideas for activities...Show More
Young People and Loss

Young People and Loss

State of Disruption

A young child’s reaction to loss is different to that of an adult, but teenagers are often able to understand death in the same way as adults. This video discusses how adolescents may react to loss and explores the different types of loss that...Show More
Grief and Loss during COVID-19

Grief and Loss during COVID-19

State of Disruption

The COVID-19 pandemic was a time of tremendous loss: not only of human life, but also of significant milestones and social contact. This video explains the things that people might have lost or be grieving as a result of the pandemic and...Show More
Moving Forward From Loss During Uncertain Times

Moving Forward From Loss During Uncertain Times

State of Disruption

As human beings, we love predictability, which can make coping with our uncertain and ever-changing world very difficult. This video explores strategies for moving forward from loss at an individual and community level and who to turn to for...Show More
Understanding Grief and Loss

Understanding Grief and Loss

State of Disruption

People can experience many different types of loss and grief is a reaction to any loss of anything important to us. This video describes how the grieving process can be different for different people, explains some ways to cope with grief and...Show More
Hacking Happiness

Hacking Happiness

State of Disruption

The actions we take can influence the very function of our brain cells, and ground-breaking research has proven just how much control we have over our mind-body connection. This video explores how ‘hacking’ our ‘feel-good’...Show More
Stress, Anxiety and Resilience in a Time of Disruption

Stress, Anxiety and Resilience in a Time of Disruption

State of Disruption

Our world is currently in a state of disruption not before seen in our lifetimes. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the social, economic and political structures that humans once took for granted, understandably impacting the mental health of...Show More
Resilience and the Fight-or-Flight Response

Resilience and the Fight-or-Flight Response

State of Disruption

Encountering a wild animal predator may be a stress we long left behind in history, but the survival mechanisms humans developed then still serve us in today’s stressful situations, from exams to online bullying. This video explores the...Show More
Emerging into Resilience

Emerging into Resilience

State of Disruption

While the sympathetic nervous system triggers the fight-or-flight response to danger, the parasympathetic nervous system allows the body to relax and repair. This video looks at ways we can help our bodies to engage the parasympathetic nervous...Show More
Hannah: Eating Disorders

Hannah: Eating Disorders

Woven Threads: Stories from Within

Hannah is young woman full of life, enthusiasm and a smile that is infectious. If you met her on the street you would never guess the challenges she has faced in her young life. During this episode, Hannah shares some of her journey with us: the...Show More
Keenan: Childhood Trauma, Addiction, Incarceration, and PTSD

Keenan: Childhood Trauma, Addiction, Incarceration, and PTSD

Woven Threads: Stories from Within

After losing his parents at a young age and being separated from his brothers, Keenan was moved from his home in Redfern to the suburbs of southern Sydney. At the age of 13 and against the wishes of his carers, he went to find his brother who...Show More
Emma: Trauma, Adoption, Disordered Eating and PTSD

Emma: Trauma, Adoption, Disordered Eating and PTSD

Woven Threads: Stories from Within

Emma was adopted at six weeks old and always knew she was adopted. When Emma was three, her family adopted another baby girl. As kids they were inseparable but as they grew older they started to see the world differently. Emma lacked a sense...Show More
Jett: Bullying, LGBTIQ, and Eating Disorders

Jett: Bullying, LGBTIQ, and Eating Disorders

Woven Threads: Stories from Within

Nineteen year-old Jett shares his story of suffering from bullying in school and in his dance career, which led to severe anxiety, depression and resulted in anorexia nervosa. When Jett was in primary school, the bullying started because of his...Show More
Olive: Teen Depression

Olive: Teen Depression

Woven Threads: Stories from Within

Olive is sixteen and lives with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD), ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), anxiety and depression. At the age of nine, Olive began to have negative thoughts but she managed to hide them from everyone...Show More
Peter: Anxiety, Depression and Work Stress

Peter: Anxiety, Depression and Work Stress

Woven Threads: Stories from Within

Pete grew up on a farm in New South Wales, Australia. His father was a farmer and all he ever wanted to do was follow his dad around and be a farmer too. After school, Pete went to another farm and learnt about sheep farming, eventually bringing...Show More
Unmasking: The End of Debate?

Unmasking: The End of Debate?

Unmasking is an extreme form of criticism that is becoming increasingly prevalent in social science and everyday discourse where individuals are accused of being fraudulent and ideas are exposed as illusions, making debate and argument...Show More
Media and Aggression

Media and Aggression

Can we learn aggression from aggressive media? This film looks at experimental, longitudinal and case study research evidence and how social learning, script theory and susceptibility approaches such as hostile attribution bias can help...Show More
Top Tips for Teaching About Pornography

Top Tips for Teaching About Pornography

Behind the Scenes of Respectful Intimate Relationships: A Teacher's Guide

Relationship and Sex Education consultant, Rebecca Jennings, regularly provides lessons in schools about pornography. In this video she describes three ways in which teachers can prepare and deliver curriculum. Most importantly, she suggests...Show More
Student FAQs

Student FAQs

Behind the Scenes of Respectful Intimate Relationships: A Teacher's Guide

Relationship and Sex Education consultant, Rebecca Jennings, offers some simple and practical tips for working with students when discussing pornography. Including making sure phones are put away, dispelling myths and encouraging open...Show More
Does Pornography Encourage Misogyny?

Does Pornography Encourage Misogyny?

Behind the Scenes of Respectful Intimate Relationships: A Teacher's Guide

Relationship and Sex Education consultant, Rebecca Jennings, discusses how women are depicted in pornography can lead to stereotyped attitudes and less respectful intimate relationships. She also explores how pornography is made for the ‘male...Show More
What is a Respectful Intimate Relationship?

What is a Respectful Intimate Relationship?

Behind the Scenes of Respectful Intimate Relationships: A Teacher's Guide

Relationship and Sex Education consultant, Rebecca Jennings, argues that young people see pornography online, whether they seek it out or not. They are also interested in finding content about intimacy, so it important that they understand that...Show More
What are the Dangers of Sharing Intimate Images?

What are the Dangers of Sharing Intimate Images?

Behind the Scenes of Respectful Intimate Relationships: A Teacher's Guide

Relationship and Sex Education consultant, Rebecca Jennings, describes the nature of pornography addiction and its impacts on young people particularly, including erectile dysfunction, dissatisfaction with regular intimate relationships and the...Show More
What is Pornography Addiction?

What is Pornography Addiction?

Behind the Scenes of Respectful Intimate Relationships: A Teacher's Guide

Relationship and Sex Education consultant, Rebecca Jennings, defines the characteristics of a respectful intimate relationship, relating it to issues to do with effective communication, consent and withdrawal of consent.
Why is Teaching About Pornography Important?

Why is Teaching About Pornography Important?

Behind the Scenes of Respectful Intimate Relationships: A Teacher's Guide

Relationship and Sex Education consultant, Rebecca Jennings, argues that young people see pornography online, whether they seek it out or not. They are also interested in finding content about intimacy, so it important that they understand that...Show More
Pre-Teaching Support: Parents and Teachers

Pre-Teaching Support: Parents and Teachers

Behind the Scenes of Respectful Intimate Relationships: A Teacher's Guide

Relationship and Sex Education consultant, Rebecca Jennings, provides advice to teachers regarding the issues to consider before delivering content to students about pornography. Topics include informing parents about lesson content and teachers...Show More