Dealing with Stress: Insights and Tips for Teenagers

by Christie Cognevich

Overview

Today's teenagers are dealing with stress at an unprecedented level. The inescapable flood of difficult news and world concerns can make anyone—but especially young adults—feel isolated and anxious. Dealing with Stress: Insights and Tips for Teenagers offers relatable anecdotes and practical strategies to guide teenagers who are struggling with stress and mental health, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic and other life crises.

Readers will learn:

• What stress is and its function
• How and why it can impact young adults in particular
• How to identify and manage stress triggers
• A variety of coping methods
• The real-life experiences and advice of other teenagers

Featuring sample mental health coping strategies and free downloadable blank guides on the author’s website (christiecognevich.com), Dealing with Stress is a valuable resource, empowering teenagers to recognize and manage the stress factors in their lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538152867
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/20/2022
Series:	Empowering You
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	182
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Christie Cognevich is an educator and writer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds a PhD in English literature and taught literature, composition, and creative writing at the high school and university levels for over a decade. She is the author of Depression: Insights and Tips for Teenagers.

Table of Contents

Author Note

Introduction: Stress and the Problem with Time

Section One: What is Stress?

Chapter One: Exploring Stress

Chapter Two: Experiencing Long-Term Stress in a Chaotic World

Chapter Three: Exploring Anxiety

Chapter Four: First Steps to Finding Support

Section Two: Coping with Stress

Chapter Five: On Anger and Coping with the Fight Response

Chapter Six: On Discomfort and Coping with the Flight Response

Chapter Seven: Effective Coping Through Community

Chapter Eight: Effective Coping Through Gratitude

Section Three: Anecdotes

Chapter Nine: Pandemic Experiences

Chapter Ten: Disaster Experiences

Section Four: Additional Strategies and Resources

Chapter Eleven: Coping Strategies: Thoughts

Chapter Twelve: Coping Strategies: Emotions

Chapter Thirteen: Coping Strategies: Body

Chapter Fourteen: Quick Guide to Resources

Bibliography

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

This helpful entry in the Empowering You series discusses all aspects of stress and provides resources and suggestions for how teens and college-age students can cope with it. Cognevich explains how stress impacts adolescents differently than adults and provides examples of chronic stress, social anxiety, and fear. She discusses fight-or-flight responses and the difference between aggression and anger, and offers self-care tips, including cultivating gratitude and giving it to others. Mental-health hotlines and resources are provided throughout the text. Cognevich, who has moderate hearing loss, admits to finding teaching online during the pandemic stressful, which lends authenticity to her coping advice. The most-effective aspects of the book are the anecdotes from other young people, who speak to how they’re handling the stress in their lives—during the pandemic, but also during recent natural disasters like Hurricane Ida. A useful, reassuring, and affirming resource, interspersed with occasional graphic illustrations and charts, that will help young people identify, confront, and handle stress.

Booklist

Dealing with Stress should be required reading for every teen to prepare them for a mentally and physically healthy future.

Tori Leigh Kelley

Dealing with Stress should be required reading for every teen to prepare them for a mentally and physically healthy future.

This helpful entry in the Empowering You series discusses all aspects of stress and provides resources and suggestions for how teens and college-age students can cope with it. Cognevich explains how stress impacts adolescents differently than adults and provides examples of chronic stress, social anxiety, and fear. She discusses fight-or-flight responses and the difference between aggression and anger, and offers self-care tips, including cultivating gratitude and giving it to others. Mental-health hotlines and resources are provided throughout the text. Cognevich, who has moderate hearing loss, admits to finding teaching online during the pandemic stressful, which lends authenticity to her coping advice. The most-effective aspects of the book are the anecdotes from other young people, who speak to how they're handling the stress in their lives--during the pandemic, but also during recent natural disasters like Hurricane Ida. A useful, reassuring, and affirming resource, interspersed with occasional graphic illustrations and charts, that will help young people identify, confront, and handle stress.

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