The mental health and wellbeing workout for teens : skills and exercises from ACT and CBT for healthy thinking / Paula Nagel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nagel, Paula, author.

Contributor:

Bainbridge, Gary, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive therapy for teenagers.

Health behavior in adolescence.

Teenagers--Mental health.

Teenagers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 pages)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Jessica Kingsley Publisher, 2019.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This easy-to-understand, engaging guide arms teens with healthy thinking habits and coping strategies for staying on top of their mental health. Using tried and tested therapeutic techniques, readers are given the tools to build their own personalised mental health 'workout' to boost their emotional resilience and wellbeing. Informed by the experiences of teens themselves, this friendly guide gives practical tips and strategies on how to overcome everyday stresses and ditch negative thinking 'frenemies' before they develop into more serious issues. Teens will be better equipped to recognise negative thoughts and emotions, monitor their mood and behaviour, and flex their positive thinking muscles in order to combat the mental health blips we all face sometimes.

Contents:

Part 1: 1. Helpful and unhelpful thinking (aka best friend and frenemy thoughts)

2. Unhelpful thoughts in action (Marc's miserable morning)

3. Stretch and flex-ercises

Part 2: 4. Social comparison (aka The self-hater)

5.Catastrophising (aka But what if... )

6. Black-and-white thinking (aka All-or-nothing thinking)

7. Negative filtering (aka Looking throught gloomy goggles)

8. Perfectionism (aka Unreal ideal)

9. Personalisation (aka Over-owning it)

10. Mind reading (aka Filling in the blanks)

11. Emotional reasoning (aka Feelings rule, Okay!)

12. Living the life YOU want to lead.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781805014638

1805014633

9781784507534

1784507539

OCLC:

1088337289