Tag Archives: adulthood

Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

A Beautiful Mind

Title: A Beautiful Mind

Date: 2001

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Keywords: adulthood, family conflict, family trauma, response to crisis, work and family

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults, Parents, Couples

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The movie follows John Nash as he makes brilliant discoveries but also struggles with schizophrenia without knowing it. He becomes aware of schizophrenia after he got married and learns his wife is pregnant with their child. He became aware of his mental illness after his wife checked him into a mental institution. The rest of the movie follows John as he learns how to live life with a mental illness.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How did mental illness impair Nash from being a father to his child? How did his wife have to pick up the slack to raise their child?

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

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Internal Dynamics of Families

Gilmore Girls

Title: Gilmore Girls

Date: 2000-2007

Media type: Television

Format: Episode

TV Season-Episode: Season 1, Episode 9; Season 3, Episode 7; Season 4, Episode 2

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults, Parents

Language: English

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: Each episode is jam packed with multiple types of relationships, such as authoritarian and authoritative parenting, secure attachment, and many other topics as well. This series would provide multiple points of view and ways that parents can learn more about parenting.

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

Contributor: Sadie Simonett

Human Growth and Development, Internal Dynamics of Families, Parenting

Still Walking

Title: Still Walking

Date: 2008

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Human Growth and Development, Parenting

Keywords: stress and coping, family relationship, family functioning, adulthood, parent-child relationships, various family structures

Rating: NA

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults, Parents, Families

Language: Japanese

Film/Episode Summary: Still Walking is a family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day. The aging parents have lived in the family home for decades. Their son and daughter return for a rare family reunion, bringing their own families with them. They have gathered to commemorate the tragic death of the eldest son, who drowned in an accident fifteen years ago. Although the roomy house is as comforting and unchanging as the mother’s homemade feast, everyone in the family has subtly changed.

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

Contributor: Anonymous