Mind Coach: How to Teach Children & Teenagers to Think Positive & Feel Good

by Daniel G. Amen

Everything starts and ends in your mind. How your mind works determines how happy you are, how successful you feel, and how well you interact with other people. The patterns of your mind encourage you toward greatness or they cause you to flounder in mediocrity or worse. Learning how to focus and direct your mind is the most important ingredient of success. Mind Coach is a manual that will teach children and teens "thinking skills" that will help them be more effective in their day-to-day lives.

Genres: Parenting

40 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

The Washington Post called Dr. Daniel Amen the most popular psychiatrist in America and Sharecare.com named him the web's most influential expert and advocate on mental health.
Daniel Amen is a life-long Christian and graduate of Oral Roberts University School of Medicine. He is a double board-certified psychiatrist and multiple NY Times bestselling author, with such blockbuster books as Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Healing ADD, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body, and The Daniel Plan, co-authored by Pastor Rick Warren and Dr. Mark Hyman. In November 2016, he and his wife Tana published The Brain Warrior's Way.
Dr. Amen is the founder of Amen Clinics, which has 6 locations across the United States. Amen Clinics has the world's largest database of brain scans related to behavior, totaling more than 125,000 SPECT scans on patients from 111 countries.
Dr. Amen's research team has published more than 70 scientific articles on a wide variety of topics related to brain health. He is the lead researcher on the largest brain imaging study on active and retired NFL players and was a consultant on the movie Concussion starring Will Smith. In 2016, Discover Magazine named his brain imaging work for psychiatric diagnoses as one of the top 100 stories in all of science.
Dr. Amen has also hosted 11 national public television shows about the brain, which have aired more than 80,000 times across North America and raised more than 75 million dollars for stations.

You can connect with Dr. Amen on Facebook and Twitter

Reviews

[Katie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this... Great book to help teach children (and adults!) about ANTS! (Automatic Negative Thoughts) and how we can change our thoughts to be positive, so that we can feel good about ourselves, and have healthy, happy lives... The pictures are simple, but easy to understand so that children get a visual understanding of the little "ANTS" that creep in when they are negative.
I found this book very helpful, and the information is priceless!

[Onionboy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a simple book with excellent advice for dealing with thoughts. It is well written for young chidren, but the advice is very applicable for older kids and adults as well. It sparked a lot of good conversation when we read it as a family. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to help young children develop their skills to deal with negative thoughts.

[Molly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book. Power of positive thinking to help with anxiety, perfectionism & especially with negative thinking and ANTs (automatic negative thoughts).