Adolescent Mental Health

Written in Shipp's playfully authoritative, no-nonsense voice, The Grown-Up's Guide to Teenage Humans tells his story and unpacks practical strategies that can make a difference. Ultimately, it's not about shortcuts or magic words - as Shipp reminds us, it's about investing in kids and giving them the love, time, and support they need to thrive. And that means every kid is one caring adult away from being a success story.

Parenting Champions is a book designed to help parents of competitive children/teens learn how they can be better mental coaches for their children. Parents are the first and most important mental coach a child has in their life, yet parents are not taught how to help their competitive child build their mental toughness for sport, or any other competitive environment. This book helps equip parents with understanding the mental game, and how they can better help their children grow.

If you want to prepare your child for the "real world" and help them become successful adults one day, this book is your way forward. Your child is just as confused as you are about all the competing demands and expectations of being a teen in today's complex world. I understand this because I am a parent myself, a school psychologist, and a counselor. My many years of working with adolescents and their parents have shown me that growth and change are indeed possible!

Unlock the secrets to raising confident, compassionate kids with Parenting Without Punishment: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids with Positive Discipline. In a world where traditional discipline often leads to fear and disconnection, this empowering guide redefines parenting through empathy, understanding, and respect. Imagine a home where discipline fosters growth, not punishment. By adopting a Positive Parenting approach, you’ll strengthen the parent-child bond, boost emotional intelligence, and guide your child with compassion.

In 1994, Reviving Ophelia was published, and it shone a much-needed spotlight on the problems faced by adolescent girls. The approach Pipher and Gilliam take in this new edition is just what it was in the original: a timely, listenable combination of insightful research and real-world examples that illuminate the challenges young women face and the ways to address them. This updated Reviving Ophelia looks at 21st century adolescent girls through fresh eyes, with insights and ideas that will help new generations of listeners.

Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, "girl-poisoning" culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violence - from undervalued intelligence to sexual harassment in elementary school - cause girls to stifle their creative spirit and natural impulses, which, ultimately, destroys their self-esteem.

Blunt, shocking, and sometimes profane, this exciting audiobook blasts self-help and feel-good remedies to expose the lies with which we imprison ourselves. It talks straight, hard, and true to the heart of the human condition, pulling no punches. It gives us simple yet revolutionary tools to break out of our minds and into a direct and immediate perception of exactly where we are - then shows us how we can together create a world that works for everyone.

Healing Self-Injury provides desperately-needed guidance to parents and others who love a young person struggling with self-injury. First and foremost, adolescent psychologists Janis Whitlock and Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson believe that parents must appreciate how important their role is in their child's recovery; there is a lot that parents can do to support their self-injuring children. This book is a must-have for parents who want to assist in their child's recovery, as well as for anyone who lives with, works with, or cares about self-injuring youth and their families.

With four young daughters and a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves halfway across the country, to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her daughters. The two oldest, Amanda, 14, and Stephanie, 13, have a symbiotic relationship so intense they barely know where one begins and the other leaves off. They

In this painfully moving memoir, take a firsthand look at anorexia through the eyes of a young girl. Even in kindergarten, Rachel Richards knows something isn't right. By leading us through her distorted thoughts, she shines a light on the experience and mystery of mental illness. As she grows up, unable to comprehend or communicate her inner trauma, Rachel lashes out, hurting herself, running away from home, and fighting her family. Restricting food gives her the control she craves. But after being hospitalized and force-fed, Rachel only retreats further into herself.

In Mind in Motion, psychologist Barbara Tversky shows that spatial cognition isn't just a peripheral aspect of thought, but its very foundation, enabling us to draw meaning from our bodies and their actions in the world. Our actions in real space get turned into mental actions on thought, often spouting spontaneously from our bodies as gestures. Spatial thinking underlies creating and using maps, assembling furniture, devising football strategies, designing airports, understanding the flow of people, traffic, water, and ideas.

Este audiolibro nos habla de las principales incertezas educativas que solemos tener tanto padres como maestros respecto a la sobreprotección, el papel de la escuela, el equilibrio emocional y la comprensión de la sociedad. Intenta resumir criterios y reflexionar para ayudarnos a convivir activa y positivamente con nuestros adolescentes. Un audiolibro que, sin querer aleccionar, nos inspira y permite escuchar su verdadera voz.

¿Sabías que la Terapia Dialéctica Conductual ha ayudado a millones de adolescentes desde que fue desarrollada hace poco más de 30 años? ¡Sigue leyendo para conocer cómo tu adolescente también puede beneficiarse! La adolescencia es un período crucial para desarrollar y mantener hábitos sociales y emocionales que son esenciales para el bienestar mental.

L'amour ne devrait pas faire mal ! Si tu te noies dans une relation toxique, donne-toi les moyens d'agir grâce au Guide de l'adolescent pour des relations saines après un chagrin d'amour ! As-tu l'impression de porter le poids du monde, d'être pris au piège dans un labyrinthe de confusion et de blessures, d'aspirer à sortir de l'ombre d' une relation toxique? L'écho de leurs paroles vous hante et vous vous demandez si vous parviendrez un jour à vous échapper de la prison du doute et à retrouver la confiance et la joie que vous avez perdues ?

Un endroit sûr pour respirer, ressentir et grandir, une méditation à la fois. La vie d'un adolescent aujourd'hui peut sembler accablante. L'école, les amitiés, les pressions familiales, le bourdonnement constant des réseaux sociaux... C'est beaucoup à gérer. Guided Meditations for Teens offre un refuge sûr où se poser lorsque tout semble trop lourd.

In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that our children, if free to pursue their own interests through play, will not only learn all they need to know but will do so with energy and passion. Children come into this world burning to learn, equipped with the curiosity, playfulness, and sociability to direct their own education. Yet we have squelched such instincts in a school model originally developed to indoctrinate, not to promote intellectual growth.

In this groundbreaking book, psychologist Ted Zeff explores the unique challenges of sensitive boys, showing parents, educators, and mentors how to help sensitive boys grow into strong, happy, and confident men. Dr. Zeff offers practical advice on how to help your son increase his self-esteem and thrive in the family, at school, with friends, and in sports.

Dive into the complex and often misunderstood realm of adolescent mental wellbeing with "Adolescent Minds in Focus," a comprehensive and enlightening journey through the intricacies of young minds grappling with mental health issues in an ever-changing world. Embark on an insightful exploration in Chapter 1 as we unravel the enigma of the adolescent brain—vulnerable yet resilient—in the face of rising mental health challenges. Discover statistics that paint an eye-opening picture of what today's youth are facing and the multifaceted roles that culture and society play in shaping mental ...

In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In his provocative work, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett has identified the period of emerging adulthood as distinct from both the adolescence that precedes it and the young adulthood that comes in its wake. Arnett's new paradigm has received enormous worldwide scholarly attention due to his book that launched the field, Emerging Adulthood.

Disconnected Youth: Why Teens are Struggling and What We Can Do About It is a compassionate, solution-focused guide to one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Drawing on decades of experience as a psychotherapist, Dr. Richard L. Travis explores the complex emotional realities facing today’s youth—loneliness, anxiety, identity struggles, social media pressure, and disconnection from adults and community. This practical and hopeful guide includes: Real-life stories from teens, parents, and educators Links to TED Talks, YouTube videos, and mental health resources Proven tools for ...