The Resilience Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Gain Confidence, Manage Stress, and Cultivate a Growth Mindset

The Resilience Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Gain Confidence, Manage Stress, and Cultivate a Growth Mindset

by Cheryl M. Bradshaw MA
The Resilience Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Gain Confidence, Manage Stress, and Cultivate a Growth Mindset

The Resilience Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Gain Confidence, Manage Stress, and Cultivate a Growth Mindset

by Cheryl M. Bradshaw MA

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Overview

It’s time to realize your full potential! In The Resilience Workbook for Teens, you’ll learn to bounce back from setbacks, develop grit and a growth mindset, and overcome any obstacle that comes your way.

Social media, online ads, and glossy magazines make it look easy to be a teen—everyone seems to be laughing, sun-kissed, beautiful, surrounded by friends, and wearing the perfect clothes. But if you’re like most teens and young adults, reality doesn’t look like a magazine ad, lifestyle blog, or Instagram feed. You may struggle with not fitting in or being bullied. You may feel overwhelmed by stress, experience a significant setback, or lose a parent or loved one. That’s why it’s so important to build resilience—the cornerstone of mental health and wellness. This workbook will show you how.

In The Resilience Workbook for Teens, author, psychotherapist, and youth mentor Cheryl M. Bradshaw will show you that the key to building resilience lies in your relationship with yourself. Through activities and interactive exercises, you’ll learn to balance your emotions, rewrite the negative stories you tell yourself, embrace who you are, and believe in your own power to bounce back from life’s biggest challenges.

The teen years are a critical time to learn the skills of resilience and to develop positive strategies for coping with stress and mental health challenges. Let this fun and friendly workbook guide you as you build your own resilience. It’s a gift you’ll take with you, beyond high school and well into adulthood.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781684032921
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Publication date: 05/01/2019
Series: Instant Help for Teens Series
Edition description: Workbook
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 664,192
Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Cheryl M. Bradshaw, MA, is a registered psychotherapist working in private practice, and author of How to Like Yourself—a self-esteem guide for teens—and The Resilience Workbook for Teens. She has been featured on various television shows, radio shows, and podcasts, including Breakfast Television, Global’s The Morning Show, CBC Radio, and Today’s Parent. Her first book was also selected as a 2016 Foreword INDIES finalist for the 2016 Young Adult Nonfiction category. In addition, Cheryl received the inaugural Outstanding Alumni Award from Yorkville University in 2017. Bradshaw served as a counselor at both Sheridan College and the University of Guelph. She also has a background in teaching, and continues to work with and volunteer with schools and charities to talk about youth and young adult mental health, self-esteem, and also to support parents with their teens.

Bradshaw resides in Hamilton, ON, Canada; with her husband, Andrew; their daughter; and their dogs, Baxter and Kiara. Find out more about her at www.cherylmbradshaw.com, and on social media @cherylmbradshaw.

Table of Contents

A Note For Educators, Mental Health Professionals, And Parents vii

Dear Reader ix

Goal 1 Adapting To Change

Activity 1 Rewiring the Brain 2

Activity 2 Storytelling and Perspectives 8

Activity 3 Letting Go of Your Old Story 13

Goal 2 Overcoming Adversity

Activity 4 Understanding Stress 20

Activity 5 Grit and Growth Mindset 26

Activity 6 Distress Tolerance: The Ice Cube Experiment 35

Activity 7 Direct Discomfort Versus Indirect Discomfort 41

Goal 3 Finding Your Strength

Activity 8 Fear-Turn "What If" Into "I Can" 50

Activity 9 Letter To Yourself 56

Activity 10 Vulnerability: Finding the Strength to be Yourself 60

Activity 11 Taking Chances 68

Activity 12 Assertive Defense of the Self 73

Goal 4 Keeping Perspective

Activity 13 Self-Care 82

Activity 14 Mindfulness 90

Activity 15 Values Chart-What Drives You? 95

Activity 16 Life Is Messy…And Messy Can Be Funny 101

Goal 5 Staying Focused

Activity 17 SMART Goals 108

Activity 18 The DOTS of Avoidance 113

Activity 19 Keeping the Inner Critic in Check 120

Activity 20 End of Book Check-In 129

Acknowledgements 133

Works Cited 135

Interviews

Bradshaw resides in Hamilton, ON, Canada.

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