Coping Skills for Tweens and Teens

Are you concerned or frustrated with the choices your child makes when it comes to their peer groups, study habits, and use of social media? Do you feel your child is pushing you away and your connection is weakening? Are you unsure of the next steps you should take to help your child succeed? A whole new set of parenting concerns arise during tween and teenhood that can be overwhelming for any parent.

Key Features

• Creative Coping Skills for Teens and Tweens: Activities for Self Care and Emotional Support including Art, Yoga, and Mindfulness - This photocopiable activity book helps teens and tweens who are feeling voiceless, ineffective or fearful in response to events at a world, community or individual level. It incorporates exercises using art and craft, nutrition, mindfulness, yoga and other movement-based activities.
• Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens: Strategies for Unlocking Your Child's Full Potential - Offers a step-by-step plan for raising your adolescent through this tumultuous time. Douglas Haddad provides specific, proven tools for you to help your child become a problem solver and grow to be smart, successful, and self-disciplined.
• Good Selfie: Tips and Tools for Teens to Nail Life - Good Selfie contains simple strategies to help kids and teens build self-confidence, get through hard times and go after massive goals. It’s real, straight-talking and funny and its garnering incredible reviews the world over.
• Mental Health and Wellbeing Workout for Teens: Skills and Exercises from ACT and CBT for Healthy Thinking - This easy-to-understand, engaging guide arms teens with healthy thinking habits and coping strategies for staying on top of their mental health.

Additional Information

This pack offers tools and activities to help your parenting style and anecdotes to illustrate the strategies and techniques provided.

This book offers dozens of suggestions, interventions, and activities for ways that tweens and teens can care for their physical and mental health, including managing life's stressors, how to recognise 'red flags' in a relationship, and listening to their body's intuition more often. Ideal for mental health counsellors, social workers, program coordinators, and other providers working with this age group, it can also be used by parents.

In The Ultimate Guide to Raising Teens and Tweens, you will:

• Discover the secrets of effective communication with your child
• Learn the techniques to stop behaviour problems right in their tracks when they happen
• Know the strategies to best motivate your child and unlock their potential
• Find out how to set appropriate limits and hold your child accountable for their actions
• Understand today's "child-limiting challenges" and the solutions for handling them with your child

Every parent wants the best for their child, and these years can be fraught with challenges: bullying, violence, gambling, sex, smoking, alcohol, substance use, eating disorders, depression, suicide, unhealthy eating, lack of physical activity, etc. Making sense of these challenges, this book offers exercises for incorporating the ten child unlimited tools into your parenting style and anecdotes to illustrate strategies and techniques. Supported by current research, the tools found in these pages will serve as a guide for any family with tweens or teens.

Inside this beautifully illustrated and psychologist-reviewed book, Turia explores how to:

• Build self-confidence and self-belief
• Get through hard times
• Re-frame the way you see your life and your challenges
• Set and get big goals
• Create a kick-ass support crew

It’s basically a teen’s guide to a resilient mindset and a kick-ass life!

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.