Mindfulness for Teen Worry
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ISBN: 9781626259812
About the Book
Is your worrying keeping you from reaching your goals? In Mindfulness for Teen Worry, a clinical psychologist offers quick, easy-to-learn mindfulness skills teens can use anytime, anywhere to stop worries from growing and taking over.
Let’s face it—being a teen isn’t easy. And if you’re like a lot of other teens, you probably worry about getting good grades, fitting in with a certain crowd, or what the future will bring after high school. These are all completely normal worries, and signs that you are tuned in to your life and thinking about your goals. But what about chronic worrying—the kind that keeps you up at night, ruminating about that paper you just turned in, or that thing your friend said to you at lunch (what did she mean by that?), and so on. Sometimes worrying isn’t helpful. In fact, it can get in the way of living your life! So, how can you start putting worry in its place before it takes up too much head space?
Mindfulness for Teen Worry will show you how living in the moment will dissolve worry and help you stay grounded in the here and now. You’ll learn powerful and easy-to-use mindfulness skills to manage the four most common worry struggles teens face: school pressure, coping with friendship and relationship problems, improving body image, and handling family conflicts. You’ll discover why you worry and the long-term destructive impacts worry can have on your life. And most importantly, you’ll be introduced to simple, effective techniques to help you become more mindful—like harnessing the power of the breath and how to relax your body in times of stress.
If you struggle with worry or anxiety that gets in the way of being your best, this fun and friendly guide will help you maintain a mindful life in a frenzied world.
This book has been selected as an Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Book Recommendation—an honor bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.
Contributors
Books by Jeffrey Bernstein
Praise
—Martha Stark, MD, faculty, Harvard Medical School
—Leah Kaminsky, physician; author and winner of the Voss Literary Prize for The Waiting Room
—Ivan Katz, superintendent of schools for the Fallsburg Central School District in Fallsburg, NY
—Christopher Willard, PsyD, author of Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety, and coauthor of Mindfulness for Teen Depression; Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School
—Stephanie Margolese, PhD, clinical psychologist, and author of Sam’s Big Secret and When Monkey Lost His Smile
—Karen Bluth, PhD, author of The Self-Compassion Workbook for Teens, and assistant professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine
—Gina M. Biegel, MA, LMFT, psychotherapist; author of The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens, Be Mindful and Stress Less, and Be Mindful Card Deck for Teens; and founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens (MBSR-T) and Stressed Teens programs
—Richard P. Brown, MD, associate clinical professor in psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and coauthor of The Healing Power of the Breath
—Shannon L. Delaney, MD, MA, child and adolescent psychiatrist on the faculty of Columbia University Medical Center
