The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Build Confidence and Achieve Your Goals

by Lisa M. Schab

For teens, confidence is key! This fully revised and updated edition of The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens has everything you need to boost self-confidence, improve your social skills, balance social media use, and reach your goals. As a teen, it is incredibly important to have self-confidence, especially when you consider all the societal pressures teens face today, particularly about appearance and grades. Growing up in today’s world is difficult, and in the midst of all this life-related stress, it’s easy to magnify your own weaknesses and minimize—or even ignore—your true assets. This workbook can help. In this fully revised and updated second edition of The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens , you’ll 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’ll 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. This second edition includes practical exercises to help you deal with body image issues, be more assertive and set boundaries with others, and navigate difficult social situations—including bullying, cyberbullying and social media overload. You’ll also find activities that promote healthy thinking habits and problem solving; tips for handling criticism, setbacks, and self-doubt; and strategies for developing self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-worth. With the right amount of self-confidence, you will have the emotional resources you need to succeed and reach your goals. This workbook can help you get started, step by step. In these increasingly challenging times, kids and teens need mental health resources more than ever. With more than 1.6 million copies sold worldwide, Instant Help Books are easy to use, proven-effective, and recommended by therapists.

Genres: Psychology, Self Help, Nonfiction, Health, Middle Grade, Self Esteem

240 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2013

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Reviews

[Brijeet · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Angelia Herrin · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Nina · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Scharenjo · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.

[Scarlett°~☆ · Rating 2 out of 5]

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

[Rex Y · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book written by a fantastic psychologist who aims to build up teens' confidence through teaching them to value themselves.

[Pilar · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best thing about this book is that it is easy to work with and really engages teens in the activities.

[sweet orange books · Rating 4 out of 5]

Practical, accessible and useful workbook to work on your own self esteem, wether you are a teen or not. I recommend it!

[Ella · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Shawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

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!

[La Ska · Rating 2 out of 5]

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.

[Tammy Flores · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Joviana Mcghee]

I'm understanding who I really am

[Barbara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not as good as the others in this collection