By Anne Maheux — 2021
The amount of time teenagers spend on social media isn’t the only thing that matters. So does how they use it.
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Psychologist Anna Sidis explains why self-care is especially important for teenagers and how they can practice self-care to reduce stress.
We tend to think of addiction as an adult problem, but drug abuse starts, overwhelmingly, in adolescence.
Psychiatrist and Professor Daniel J. Siegel give us the keys to fight false beliefs about adolescence. “Adolescence is as baffling as it is special because it has an emotional spark; it is a moment of social connection and a search for novelty ".
Daniel Siegel debunks myths about the Teenage Brain and “raging hormones.” He discusses the changes and remodeling of the brain within the adolescent period. He asserts that people need to learn about these changes to support and meet adolescents with empathy and compassion.
Something is supposed to happen during the adolescent years--something greater than MTV, video games, and the Internet.
Getting good grades, making and breaking up with friends, and figuring out what being an adult looks like―these are just some of the challenges that can weigh down on teens.
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Following the success of Transforming Stress, this book is the first to provide teens with the life-changing, proven-effective HeartMath skills for reducing stress.
Cutting and other forms of self-injury are often cries for help, pleas for someone to notice that the pain is too much to bear. As Plante discusses here, the threat of suicide must always be carefully evaluated, although the majority of cutters are not in fact suicidal.
This second edition of The Anger Workbook for Teens includes brand-new skills and activities based in clinically proven treatments such as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you deal with negative thoughts without losing control.