Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens: A Workbook to Break the Nine Thought Habits That Are Holding You Back

Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens: A Workbook to Break the Nine Thought Habits That Are Holding You Back

by Mary Karapetian Alvord PhD, Anne McGrath MA
Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens: A Workbook to Break the Nine Thought Habits That Are Holding You Back

Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens: A Workbook to Break the Nine Thought Habits That Are Holding You Back

by Mary Karapetian Alvord PhD, Anne McGrath MA

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Overview

You aren’t what you think! For teens with negative thinking habits, a licensed psychologist and a health journalist offer cognitive restructuring—a simple and effective cognitive behavioral approach to help you break free from the nine most common negative thinking habits that typically result in feeling sad, worried, angry, and stressed.

This workbook offers a powerful technique called cognitive restructuring to help you reframe your thoughts, regulate your emotions, become a more flexible thinker, and stop letting your thoughts define who you are and how you feel. You’ll learn to target the nine specific kinds of negative thinking habits that can cause you to worry or feel bad, such as the I can’t habit, the doom and gloom habit, the all or nothing habit, the jumping to conclusions habit, and more!

Each chapter will walk you through simple explanations of each kind of negative thought, and offers real-life examples—as well as the sorts of behaviors, emotions, and bodily sensations that might be expected. You'll also gain an understanding of unhelpful or unrealistic thoughts, how to challenge them, how to replace them with more realistic and helpful thoughts, and an action plan for moving forward.

By recognizing these negative thinking habits, you’ll feel more in control and less anxious and sad. Most importantly, you’ll be able to see yourself and the world more clearly. Your thoughts don’t have to define who you are and how you experience life. The transdiagnostic approach in this book will show you how to kick negative thinking habits to the curb for good!

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781626258891
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Publication date: 07/01/2017
Series: Instant Help for Teens Series
Pages: 168
Sales rank: 281,207
Product dimensions: 7.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Mary Karapetian Alvord, PhD, is a psychologist with more than forty years of clinical experience; and is director of Alvord, Baker & Associates. She specializes in treating children, adolescents, and adults using evidence-based therapies. She is adjunct associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Fellow of both the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), she is also a clinical fellow of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA). Recently, she founded a nonprofit—Resilience Across Borders, Inc.—with a mission to promote mental health. She is coauthor of ResilienceBuilder Program for Children and Adolescents, and with Anne McGrath, Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens.


Anne McGrath, MA, is an editor and writer with expertise in health, medicine, mental health, and education. She retired as executive editor overseeing publications and events at U.S. News & World Report, where she was responsible for the annual Best Hospitals and Best Colleges annual special issues—and spent thirty-five years writing and editing on health, medicine, higher education, and personal finance. She is coauthor of Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens. She holds a master’s in journalism from Syracuse University.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 The "I Can't" Habit 7

2 The Catastrophizing Habit 19

3 The All-or-Nothing Habit 31

4 The Zooming-In-on-the-Negative Habit 43

5 The "I Should, You Should" Habit 57

6 The Fortune-Telling Habit 71

7 The Mind-Reading Habit 83

8 The Blaming Habit 97

9 The "It's Not Fair!" Habit 111

Acknowledgments 125

Appendix: A Handy List of Challenge Questions 127

Resources 131

Interviews

Alvord and McGrath reside in Silver Spring, MD.

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