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The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Build Confidence and Achieve Your Goals
Named in Tutorful’s Best Child Self-Esteem Boosters/Resources 2018
As a teen, it is incredibly important to have self-confidence, especially when you consider societal pressures about appearance and grades. Just growing up is difficult in and of itself, and in the midst of all this life-related stress, you may not be seeing yourself clearly. In fact, you may be magnifying your weaknesses and minimizing—or even ignoring—your true assets. Psychologists believe that low self-esteem is at the root of many emotional problems. When you have healthy self-esteem, you feel good about yourself and see yourself as deserving of the respect of others. When you have low self-esteem, you put little value on your opinions and ideas, and may find yourself fading into the background of life. Without some measure of self-worth, you cannot accomplish your goals. In The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens , you will learn to develop a healthy, realistic view of yourself that includes honest assessments of your weaknesses and strengths, and you will learn to respect yourself, faults and all. You will also learn the difference between self-esteem and being self-centered, self-absorbed, or selfish. Finally, this book will show you how to distinguish the outer appearance of confidence from the quiet, steady, inner acceptance and humility of true self-esteem. The book also includes practical exercises to help you deal with setbacks and self-doubt, skills for dealing with criticism, and activities that will aid in the development of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-worth. With the right amount of self-confidence, you will have the emotional resources you need to reach your goals.
As a teen, it is incredibly important to have self-confidence, especially when you consider societal pressures about appearance and grades. Just growing up is difficult in and of itself, and in the midst of all this life-related stress, you may not be seeing yourself clearly. In fact, you may be magnifying your weaknesses and minimizing—or even ignoring—your true assets. Psychologists believe that low self-esteem is at the root of many emotional problems. When you have healthy self-esteem, you feel good about yourself and see yourself as deserving of the respect of others. When you have low self-esteem, you put little value on your opinions and ideas, and may find yourself fading into the background of life. Without some measure of self-worth, you cannot accomplish your goals. In The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens , you will learn to develop a healthy, realistic view of yourself that includes honest assessments of your weaknesses and strengths, and you will learn to respect yourself, faults and all. You will also learn the difference between self-esteem and being self-centered, self-absorbed, or selfish. Finally, this book will show you how to distinguish the outer appearance of confidence from the quiet, steady, inner acceptance and humility of true self-esteem. The book also includes practical exercises to help you deal with setbacks and self-doubt, skills for dealing with criticism, and activities that will aid in the development of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-worth. With the right amount of self-confidence, you will have the emotional resources you need to reach your goals.
200 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2013
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July 2, 2017
Note: I won a copy of this book through First Reads Giveaways.
As a therapist working with adolescents and young adults, I have read many books related to self-esteem. I have also read and used other titles in the "Instant Self Help Book for Teens" series in my work and they have consistently been accessible to a teen audience and easy to incorporate in treatment. In keeping with others in the series, The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens did not disappoint. I appreciated the well-rounded approach to developing/maintaining self-esteem, including a brief section on biological influences on mental health, family history, social/cultural pressures and messages, as well as the value of authenticity, assertiveness and accountability. As with other books in the series, The Self-Esteem Workbook includes checklists and illustrations that I think would be relatable and easy to use with teens. Recommended.
As a therapist working with adolescents and young adults, I have read many books related to self-esteem. I have also read and used other titles in the "Instant Self Help Book for Teens" series in my work and they have consistently been accessible to a teen audience and easy to incorporate in treatment. In keeping with others in the series, The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens did not disappoint. I appreciated the well-rounded approach to developing/maintaining self-esteem, including a brief section on biological influences on mental health, family history, social/cultural pressures and messages, as well as the value of authenticity, assertiveness and accountability. As with other books in the series, The Self-Esteem Workbook includes checklists and illustrations that I think would be relatable and easy to use with teens. Recommended.
May 26, 2013
It is so very important for your teen to have a good self-esteem. In my opinion this workbook would be the perfect tool to help your teen build their confidence and self-esteem, provided that it is done along with some type of therapy. The workbook will engage and challenge your teen as well as help with self analysis. It also provides scenarios and real life situations to help them develop a lifelong healthy self-esteem.
August 10, 2025
I really don’t know why this title should only be for teens. It is a positive and helpful title through and through. You’ll find 46 chapters, each introduced with a kind of affirmation, a short explanation, and followed by exercises that are somewhere between good and excellent. This is an awesome title if you want to work on your self-esteem. Nevertheless, I’d still recommend combining this with therapy. 5 stars.
February 11, 2021
This is not my favorite installment of the Instant Help Book series. I had hoped to use it to supplement a small group I designed for middle school students working on confidence. Unfortunately, I was not able to use any of the tools from this book. I was disappointed by this because I have used a lot of this author's resources from her Instant Help Book on teen anxiety with my students.
March 13, 2022
I never finished the workbook, I know I should've given it a chance but the activities frustrated me, why did I have to draw my family tree?, And write my childhood? I didn't have time and found it annoying. Would not recommend
December 21, 2018
Fantastic book written by a fantastic psychologist who aims to build up teens' confidence through teaching them to value themselves.
January 14, 2022
The best thing about this book is that it is easy to work with and really engages teens in the activities.
July 19, 2023
Practical, accessible and useful workbook to work on your own self esteem, wether you are a teen or not. I recommend it!
July 25, 2013
I won this book in the First Reads giveaway. I was happy to have won this book and it arrived at a very timely moment. My elementary school aged sister was being bullied at school and was crying when the book arrived. She sat with the book and we talked about her not letting bullies get the better of her and to keep being the brave, beautiful and smart girl that she is. This book was great about teaching kids to respect themselves and others.
July 13, 2013
I read through this workbook yesterday. It is awesome and will be great to use with teens I work with and colleagues . This workbook has great scenarios and tasks for teens to do to help build their self esteem I was truly impressed with how this workbook was written and it was real world not not dummied up so to speak. Thanks for this great tool to help our teens, our future!! I wish I had had this book when my kids were younger!
December 26, 2020
The book is very well done.
I gave it only three stars because I didn't like the reference to some kind of divinity. I appreciated the fact that it was not named, to include most religious point of view, but it seems to exclude all the kids that don't believe in any superior power. And I also think that this specific part was not necessary to the book, it could have ended without these last 4 pages.
I gave it only three stars because I didn't like the reference to some kind of divinity. I appreciated the fact that it was not named, to include most religious point of view, but it seems to exclude all the kids that don't believe in any superior power. And I also think that this specific part was not necessary to the book, it could have ended without these last 4 pages.
July 18, 2013
This was very interesting we did this with my step son and found out several things about him. It opened his eyes to understanding not sharing information with others.
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March 23, 2016
Not as good as the others in this collection
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