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Instant Help Books

In a constantly changing world, young people need resources for mental health issues more than ever before. Founded by renowned child psychologist Lawrence Shapiro, Instant Help Books offers fun and easy-to-use workbooks to teach children and teens effective skills for dealing with a variety of mental health issues and life challenges. Whether they are dealing with depression, anxiety, bullying, or any traumatic experience, these evidence-based self-help books will provide children and teens with the tools they need to thrive—at home, in the classroom, and beyond.

Feel free to browse our catalog below, or if you’d like a free sample of these books download our guide: 6 Skills Every Teen Needs to Thrive in High School. In it the editors here at New Harbinger Publications have sifted through the dozens of titles in this series to bring together six key research-based psychological skills that offer an excellent example of the scope, breadth, and quality of these books.

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The Teen Girl’s Survival Guide

The Teen Girl's Survival Guide

Ten Tips for Making Friends, Avoiding Drama, and Coping with Social Stress

by Lucie Hemmen

Price: $17.95

ISBN: 9781626253063

Pub Date: November 2015

Teen girls feel intense pressure to fit in and make friends. In this important guide, therapist and teen expert Lucie Hemmen offers ten tips to solve one of the biggest worries teen girls struggle with: social success. In the book, teen readers will find real strategies for growing a strong sense of self-knowledge and self-appreciation—two key building blocks for succeeding in the social world, and beyond.
Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens

Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens

A Workbook to Break the Nine Thought Habits That Are Holding You Back

by Mary Karapetian Alvord and Anne McGrath

Price: $17.95

ISBN: 9781626258891

Pub Date: July 2017

You aren’t what you think! That’s the message in this powerful, evidence-based workbook for teens who struggle with negative thinking habits. In this practical guide, a licensed psychologist and a health journalist offer a transdiagnostic, cognitive behavioral approach to help readers break free from the nine most common negative thinking habits that make teens sad, worried, angry, and stressed.
Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens

Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills for Helping You Manage Mood Swings, Control Angry Outbursts, and Get Along with Others

by Sheri Van Dijk

Price: $18.95

ISBN: 9781572248830

Pub Date: March 2011

Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens presents a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) workbook to help teens manage difficult emotions and unhealthy coping mechanisms. Teens with depression, anxiety, anger, bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorder will learn to take charge of their own feelings and start feeling calmer and more stable. Skills learned include mindfulness, emotion regulation, crisis management, and interpersonal relationship techniques. Based on the bestselling workbook Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life, this guide will help teen readers get along with family and friends, and cope with the highs and lows of adolescence in healthy and productive ways.

The Anger Workbook for Teens

The Anger Workbook for Teens

Activities to Help You Deal with Anger and Frustration

by Raychelle Cassada Lohmann

Foreword by Julia V. Taylor

Price: $18.95

ISBN: 9781684032457

Pub Date: May 2019

It’s hard being a teen in today’s world—and many teens struggle with anger as a result. But what if we could teach teens to interact with their anger in a positive way? Fully revised and updated based on reader feedback, this timely second edition of The Anger Workbook for Teens includes activities based in empirically supported treatments to promote psychological flexibility, giving teens the skills they need to understand and interact with their anger, rather than simply attempting to control it.
The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens

The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens

Activities to Help You Build Confidence and Achieve Your Goals

by Lisa M. Schab

Price: $17.95

ISBN: 9781608825820

Pub Date: June 2013

The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens provides practical advice and activities to help teens gain confidence, respond effectively to criticism, be assertive, and set and achieve goals. The book promotes acceptance, compassion, and validation as powerful confidence-building techniques, and contains 40 activities to help the reader make positive changes in his or her life.
The Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens

The Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens

Help for Unprepared, Late, and Scattered Teens

by Sharon A. Hansen

Price: $18.95

ISBN: 9781608826568

Pub Date: October 2013

Disorganized, chronically late, forgetful, or impulsive—these are words commonly used to describe teens with executive functioning disorder (EFD), an attention disorder marked by an inability to stay on task. In this easy-to-use, practical workbook, a licensed school counselor provides teens suffering from EFD the skills needed to get organized, retain information, communicate effectively, and perform well in school and everyday life. From handling frustration to taking notes in class, this book will help teens with EFD hone the skills they need to succeed.
The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens

The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens

CBT and ACT Skills to Help You Build Social Confidence

by Jennifer Shannon

Illustrated by Doug Shannon

Foreword by Christine Padesky

Price: $17.95

ISBN: 9781608821877

Pub Date: June 2012

The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens offers worksheets and comic-style illustrated scenarios that help teen readers identify their values and practice evidence-based skills from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for overcoming shyness and social anxiety.

Stopping the Pain

Stopping the Pain

A Workbook for Teens Who Cut and Self Injure

by Lawrence E. Shapiro

Price: $18.95

ISBN: 9781572246027

Pub Date: March 2008

This comprehensive workbook helps teens who self-injure explore the reasons behind their need to hurt themselves and sets forth positive ways to deal with the issues of stress and control. The activities in this workbook provide teens with safe, effective alternatives to self-injury and help them develop a plan to stay healthy.
Just As You Are

Just As You Are

A Teen’s Guide to Self-Acceptance and Lasting Self-Esteem

by Michelle Skeen and Kelly Skeen

Price: $17.95

ISBN: 9781626255906

Pub Date: July 2018

“Stop comparing yourself to others—you’re special just as you are!” That’s the message psychologist Michelle Skeen and her daughter, Kelly Skeen, instill in teen readers with this unique self-help guide. With this fun and engaging book, teens will learn how to silence their nit-picky inner critic, overcome feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness, cultivate self-acceptance and self-compassion, and discover what really matters to them.
I’m Not Bad, I’m Just Mad

I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Mad

A Workbook to Help Kids Control Their Anger

by Lawrence E. Shapiro, Zack Pelta-Heller and Anna F. Greenwald

Price: $17.95

ISBN: 9781572246065

Pub Date: June 2008

By working through the activities in I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Mad, children with anger control problems can develop better emotional and behavioral control. Kids will learn how to identify the things that make them angry, become better problem solvers, talk about their frustrations, and much more.
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