This workbook, written by an experienced therapist, gives teens a collection of tools to control their anxiety and face their day to day challenges. This self-help workbook is sure to give anxious teens more insight into their problems as well as practical ways to overcome them. It includes over 40 activities.
This is a really great book for anxiety. I think this book, more than horse therapy, more than anything she's learned/been taught, helped her anxiety. She learned so many ways to cope. She had a huge chest of skills, that she was willing and able to pull from when we stopped. (An international move and a change to our homeschool schedule prevented us from finishing the last few chapters.)
She barely even has to cognitively reach for the skills these days as she's gotten so good at just naturally coping, instead of being overwhelmed.
I will say that, as a homeschool family, and a protective mom, I wasnt comfortable just handing her the book and telling her to have at it.
For one, I wanted to know what she was learning so I could help her. Her dad and I found it infinitely helpful to help her recall techniques when we saw her "going off". Reminding her to breathe, or go to her happy place or any number of things to physically do (of which she listed as we did the lessons) helped us to help her.
And two, there are some more mature "themes" that come up that I like to either guide her through or completely overlook.
Overall a really helpful guide book for working through anxiety. HIGHLY recommended.
I’ve been struggling with anxiety a lot recently, and this book taught me a lot of different ways to cope with my anxiety. I also was able to reflect a lot through the questions, which was also very helpful. If you struggle with anxiety, I recommend this book!
As a mental health practitioner, this book is great for kids experiencing anxiety, and talks about what anxiety is and how to cope with it, giving various lessons and activities.
4 11 16. thumbed through jessica lindsey's copy today. she loves the series. looks like good stuff with a lot of exercises including scaling intensity of emotions. [see concern notes re anger mgt one.] think she said a lot of brain science in these.