Tag Archives: adulthood

Human Growth and Development

Fried Green Tomatoes

Title: Fried Green Tomatoes

Date: 1991

Media type: Film

Category: Human Growth and Development

Keywords: adulthood

Rating: PG-13

Audience(s): College Age, Adults, Couples

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A relationship between a middle-aged and an elderly woman develops.  Within the relationship, the older woman does a life review and the middle-aged woman completes her mid-life passage.  The film depicts how the two help each other to accomplish their developmental tasks.

Places to view: Youtube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, Itunes

Contributor: Janice G. Weber

Couple and Family Counseling, Human Growth and Development, Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships

Antwone Fisher

Title: Antwone Fisher

Date: 2002

Media type: Film

Category: Interpersonal Relationships, Human Growth and Development, Internal Dynamics of Families, Couple and Family Counseling

Keywords: communication, conflict management, adolescence, adulthood, response to crises, family relationship, therapy, dysfunction

Rating: R

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: discussion: Discuss with learners the conditions observed of Antwone’s early life. How might these have impacted his relationships with others? How might his early background affect his behavior toward others?

Places to view: Cinemax, Youtube, Itunes, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play

Contributor: Laura M. Stanton

Human Growth and Development, Parenting

Modern Family

Title: Modern Family

Date: 2009

Media type: Television

Format: Clip

TV Season-Episode: Season 4, Ep. 24

Category: Parenting, Human Growth and Development

Keywords: parent-child relationships, adulthood

Rating: TV-PG

Audience(s): Children Under 12, High School Age, College Age, Parents, Couples, Families, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: This modern family shows the diversity of families involved with one another. There is the family of young teenage children, jumbling to get everything to be perfect. Another family where the grandpa is married to a young, Columbian woman and a mature young teen. A family that consists of a homosexual couple and an adopted daughter.

Clip Start Time: 0.7375

Clip Description: Phil fulfills his mom’s last wishes by meeting the woman that his mom admires. His mom’s wish was to set up the woman and his dad together after his mom’s passing. Phil mentions his mom after talking to the woman.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: What would bring Phil to grant this wish from his mother? Is it too soon to be finding his dad another woman? Phil mentions his mother and is reminded by her kindness; besides fulfilling his mom’s wish, what other activities could he be involved in to help cope with his mom’s passing?

Places to view: Youtube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play, Hulu

Contributor: Paying Lee