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The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress
First, the bad news: your teenage years are some of the most stressful of your life. Up to 70 percent of teens say they're stressed out, and with pressure about grades at school, parents who just don't seem to get it, and friends who drive you crazy, it's no wonder. Here's the good news! If you learn a few strategies for getting stress under control now, you'll have the skills you need to deal with problems and difficult feelings that life sends your way in high school and beyond.
The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens is a collection of thirty-seven simple workbook activities that will teach you to reduce your worries using a technique called mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way to be aware of your thoughts and feelings in the present moment. You can use mindfulness when you start to feel as though things are spinning out of control, so you can stop worrying about what might happen and focus instead on what's happening now. Ready to get started? Open this workbook and try out the first activity. Soon, you'll be well on your way to developing resilience and a new kind of strength.
If you’re like many people, you find it easy to look at your negative qualities or feel there is no way to fix your problems or stress. This book is about building on the resources, skills, and positive qualities that you might not even realize you have. It is a way to move from “I'm powerless” thinking to “I can do it!” thinking.
Hundreds of teens in mindfulness-based stress reduction classes have used activities like the ones in this book, and here is what some of them have said:
"I have learned to let things go and move on from bad experiences."
"I felt that the coping skills learned are easy enough and effective enough to be used when I need. I now feel at the very least that I have the ability to reduce my stress."
"I learned new and different ways to stay relaxed and how to deal with stress and now I don’t worry much."
If they can do it, so can you!
The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens is a collection of thirty-seven simple workbook activities that will teach you to reduce your worries using a technique called mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way to be aware of your thoughts and feelings in the present moment. You can use mindfulness when you start to feel as though things are spinning out of control, so you can stop worrying about what might happen and focus instead on what's happening now. Ready to get started? Open this workbook and try out the first activity. Soon, you'll be well on your way to developing resilience and a new kind of strength.
If you’re like many people, you find it easy to look at your negative qualities or feel there is no way to fix your problems or stress. This book is about building on the resources, skills, and positive qualities that you might not even realize you have. It is a way to move from “I'm powerless” thinking to “I can do it!” thinking.
Hundreds of teens in mindfulness-based stress reduction classes have used activities like the ones in this book, and here is what some of them have said:
"I have learned to let things go and move on from bad experiences."
"I felt that the coping skills learned are easy enough and effective enough to be used when I need. I now feel at the very least that I have the ability to reduce my stress."
"I learned new and different ways to stay relaxed and how to deal with stress and now I don’t worry much."
If they can do it, so can you!
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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October 20, 2015
This book helps when your shifting into high school and need a little help getting organized
November 1, 2017
I thought this book might be fruitful in my advisory period, and I was right! I teach juniors and seniors in high school, and the exercises in this book seem to be a great fit for their developmental stage. I recently used some prompts from the first chapter with my advisees (similar to a "homeroom" period), and was very pleasantly surprised by the quality of discussion that arose. It seems like the book is intended for an individual teen to use as a type of workbook/journal, but I would recommend that teachers who have students for advisory/mentorship/homeroom type of groupings try this as a complementary resource for personal growth, using the structure of small groups. I happen to use a model of "base groups," a cooperative learning concept I've gleaned through some materials by the Johnson Bros, particularly emphasizing the relationship-building aspect of keeping the same groups over time. The first set of prompts asked students to think about which aspects of their lives they wished to change, and set up language for them to use in future lessons about handling stress. I definitely plan to continue to use this valuable resource with my advisory throughout the year.
August 22, 2017
"The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress" by Gina M. Biegel MA, LMFT is a wonderful workbook for teens. While at times it may seem simplistic, the exercises all build on one another to slowly let teens identify the feeling and stresses that they are dealing with and ways to accept them and to help discover solutions. This is going to be something that I intend to use both in the home and at work. Several of the exercises are perfect at a catalyst for journal entries as well as internal growth. Very well done.
May 25, 2013
Really great book! Started using this with my kids at the school and they really appreciated the exercises. I look forward to implementing it more in group counseling. It will be interesting to track and observe the results after a few weeks of employing these techniques, and am especially eager to notice if it reduces symptoms of ADD. Definitely a book for parents, teachers, and counselors to add to their personal library.
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