Stop Surviving, Start Fighting by Jazz Thornton

$38.00 NZD

Category: NZ Biographies

Jazz Thornton first attempted to take her own life at the age of 12. Multiple attempts followed and she spent time in psychiatric wards and under medical supervision as she rode the rollercoaster of depression and anxiety through her teenage years - yet the attempts continued. Find out what Jazz learned about how her negative thought patterns came to be, and how she turned those thoughts - and her life - around. Who and what helped, and what didn't help. The insights she gives will help create greater understanding of those grappling with mental illness, and those around them who desperately want to help. Jazz went on to attend film school, and to co-found Voices of Hope, a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping those with mental health issues and show them there is a way forward. She creates online content to provide hope and help. Her first video Dear Suicidal Me has had over 80 million views all around the world. She went on to create Jessica's Tree, a web series that follows the 24 hours between a friend, Jess, going missing and the discovery of her body. It provides insights into Jessica's struggles, to help people better understand those suffering from depression. https-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QFU_qg7Msk Jessica's Tree was viewed more than 230,000 times in the two months following its release in March 2019 and immediately began winning international recognition and awards. The process and the delicate decisions that had to be made to create Jessica's Tree have themselves been documented in a film about Jazz called The Girl on the Bridge, due for release early in 2020. ...Show more

Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain by Daniel J. Siegel

$40.00 NZD

Category: Mental Health

In this groundbreaking book, the bestselling author of Parenting from the Inside Out and The Whole-Brain Child shows parents how to turn one of the most challenging developmental periods in their children's lives into one of the most rewarding. Between the ages of 12 and 24, the brain changes in import ant and often maddening ways. It's no wonder that many parents approach their child's adolescence with fear and trepidation. According to renowned neuropsychiatrist Daniel Siegel, however, if parents and teens can work together to form a deeper understanding of the brain science behind all the tumult, they will be able to turn conflict into connection and form a deeper understanding of one another. In Brainstorm, Siegel illuminates how brain development affects teenagers' behaviour and relationships. Drawing on important new research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, he explores exciting ways in which understanding how the teenage brain functions can help parents make what is in fact an incredibly positive period of growth, change, and experimentation in their children's lives less lonely and distressing on both sides of the generational divide. ...Show more

Worry Workbook for Teens by MICCO JAMIE A

$40.00 NZD

Category: Mental Health

Break the worry cycle for good! This fun, practical workbook offers effective, easy-to-understand cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) exercises to help you understand your chronic worrying, toss junk mail thoughts, and manage your fears in a constructive way.Do you worry all the time? Maybe you re worrie d about school, tests, making new friends, or even about what the future holds? The teen years are full of big changes, and it s normal to worry sometimes. But if you have chronic, difficult-to-control worries, you may have trouble sleeping, paying attention, and even experience physical symptoms like stomachaches and headaches. You need help putting things in perspective.Written by a Harvard University faculty member and expert in teen anxiety, this is the first book to target chronic, debilitating worry with proven-effective skills to help you alleviate worry symptoms and prevent them from escalating into anxiety. With this book, you ll uncover the real reasons you worry all the time, stop unhelpful junk mail thoughts from taking over, challenge your worries, face your fears, and most importantly reach your goals!If you re tired of worrying, this friendly guide can help you get your life back. ...Show more

Social Success Workbook for Teens: Skill-building Activities for Teens with Nonverbal Learning Disorder, Asperger's Disorder, and Other Social-Skill Problems (An Instant Help Book for Teens) by Barbara Cooper, Nancy Widdows

$35.00 NZD

Category: Mental Health | Series: An Instant Help Book for Teens

This engaging workbook includes forty activities to help teens recognize and use their strengths to overcome social skills deficits related to Asperger's disorder or nonverbal learning disorder. Developed especially for teens, the activities in this workbook teach how to learn to read social cues, under stand emotions, avoid meltdowns, and more. Making friends is a skill like any other-there are rules to follow, ways to measure your progress, and reasons why some people are better at it than others. Although it may seem like this skill comes naturally to those who don't have Asperger's disorder, nonverbal learning disorder (NLD), or other problems relating to others, the reality is that even the most popular people must constantly hone their abilities in order to make new friends and keep the friends they already have. This workbook includes forty activities you can do to recognize and use your unique strengths, understand the unspoken rules behind how people relate to each other, and improve your social skills. After completing the activities in this workbook, you will discover that you can get along with others and build friendships despite the challenges you face. All you need is the confidence to be yourself while still keeping the feelings of others in mind. ...Show more

Stronger Than BPD: The Girl's Guide to Taking Control of Intense Emotions, Drama and Chaos Using DBT by Debbie Corso

$40.00 NZD

Category: Personality Disorders

You are strong! No matter what anyone says, you can heal the symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD). In this unique guide, influential BPD advocate and blogger Debbie Corso offers an easy-to-use primer on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), as well as powerful peer-to-peer support for managin g your worst BPD symptoms. If you have BPD, you may experience extreme emotional ups and downs. These intense feelings can make navigating everyday life that much more difficult, and as a result, you may have trouble maintaining relationships, seeing yourself clearly, or reaching career goals. You should know that you are not alone, and that BPD isn t your fault. Most importantly, you need to know that you are strong. With the right tools, you can overcome the symptoms of your BPD this book will show you how.Written by a BPD survivor and advocate, Stronger Than BPD offers practical, evidence-based dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to help you manage the intense emotions and negative self-image that can occur with BPD. This easy-to-use guide helps you apply the fundamental components of DBT such as mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness to everyday situations that can trigger your symptoms. And through personal examples and real-life stories, you ll see how others have put these skills to work in their own lives to get relief. You ll even learn how social media can help you heal!BPD is a part of your life, but it doesn t have to define you. If you are ready to take control of your symptoms using powerful, evidence-based DBT skills, this friendly guide will light the way. ...Show more

When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers by Jim Delisle

$55.00 NZD

Category: Mental Health

Gifted kids are so much more than test scores and grades. Still, it's sometimes difficult to see past all that achievement and potential to the child, adolescent, or teen who may be filled with anxiety, pressured to be perfect, lonely, alienated, confused, and unsure of what the future might bring. Thi s book offers proven, practical suggestions for encouraging social and emotional growth among gifted, talented, and creative children and youth. The authors explain what giftedness means, how gifted kids are identified, and how we might improve the identification process. Then they take a close-up look at gifted kids from the inside out (their self-image and self-esteem) and the outside in (challenges to their well-being from their family, school, peers, and society in general). They present ways to help gifted underachievers, perfectionists, and those who are bored in school, ways to advocate for gifted education, and ways to create a supportive environment for all gifted students. The final chapter explains how teachers can make it safe to be smart by creating the gifted-friendly classroom. Complete with first-person stories, easy-to-use strategies, classroom-tested activities, and resources, this book is for anyone committed to helping gifted students gain insights, find solutions, and know they're not alone. 288 pp., B&W photos and illust ...Show more

What Happens Next: A Handbook for Parents, Caregivers and Family/Whanau of Young People Who Have a Mental Illness by Wendy Lyons

$14.00 NZD

$15.00 (6% off)

Category: Mental Health

A practical, helpful and encouraging book for parents, carers and family members who are looking after, and supporting, a teenager or young adult with a serious mental illness. Parents and family members regularly feel not only overwhelmed by their child's situation and its consequences, but frustrated that information to help them manage whatever comes next is very hard to find. This makes their journey extra difficult. What's Next has been written by Wendy Lyons, of Wellington, whose daughter's illness thrust her, her husband and family, into intense and traumatic times. Suddenly left caring for a child whose condition was high risk, often scary and unpredictable, Wendy couldn't believe the lack of information available. She has since linked with a range of other parents and gathered their experiences and input for this book also. ...Show more

The ADHD Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Gain Motivation and Confidence by Lara Honos-Webb

$35.00 NZD

Category: Mental Health | Series: An Instant Help Book for Teens

Symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, can strike at any time-during class, when you're listening to a friend's story, while doing homework, and did we mention during class? You might find it difficult to pay attention and sit still when your impulses are constantly tempting you to do the opposite. In The ADHD Workbook for Teens, you'll learn simple skills you can use to confidently handle school, make and keep friends, and organize and finish every project you start. This workbook helps you find out who you really are through a series of exercises and worksheets that focus on identifying your strengths and interests. Then, you'll begin using those strengths to create strategies for overcoming the ADHD-related issues you struggle with. Learn how to calm yourself down when you feel hyperactive or impulsive Develop plans for meeting the goals that matter to you most Get your life under control and organize your schedule Improve your social life by becoming a better listener and friend With activities that focus on developing emotional intelligence and strengths-based skills, this workbook helps adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) feel empowered to improve attention, calm impulsiveness, and gain facility in organizing and finishing projects. ...Show more

Blame My Brain: The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed by Nicola Morgan

$22.00 NZD

Category: Motivation & Self Esteem

Contrary to popular (parental) opinion, teenagers are not the lazy, unpleasant - frankly, spotty - louts they occasionally appear to be. During the teenage years the brain is undergoing its most radical and fundamental change since the age of two. Nicola Morgan's carefully researched, accessible and hum orous examination of the ups and downs of the teenage brain has chapters dealing with powerful emotions, the need for more sleep, the urge to take risks, the difference between genders, the reasons behind addiction or depression, and what lies ahead. ...Show more

Perfectionism Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help Reduce Anxiety and Get Things Done by Ann Marie Dobosz

$40.00 NZD

Category: Mental Health

Unhealthy perfectionism can result in low self-esteem, severe anxiety, and self-destructive behavior and teens are especially vulnerable. Based in proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this workbook will help you develop the self-compassion and mindfulness tools you need to counteract th e negative effects of perfectionism and develop new, healthy skills for boosting your self-confidence.In our high-pressure society, it s easy to hold ourselves (and others) to impossibly high standards. And when we fail to meet those standards as we inevitably do we may become overly critical of ourselves, or lash out toward others. While perfectionism is often associated with positive traits, such as conscientiousness, ambition, and pride in good work, dysfunctional perfectionism is destructive and can lead to anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship problems, and a number of mental health concerns, like depression, procrastination, and self-harm. With The Perfectionism Workbook for Teens, you ll gain a clear understanding of what perfectionism is and learn to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy perfectionism so you ll be better able to manage your own and others expectations. Using powerful tools drawn from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based therapies, you ll learn to identify your perfectionist thoughts, discover new ways of responding to your critical inner voice, and build the skills you need to combat negative behaviors based in perfectionism, like chronic procrastination. If perfectionism is causing trouble in your life, the techniques and exercises in this book will help you develop non-perfectionist skills and habits, leading to reduced fear, anxiety, and shame, and increased self-compassion and confidence in getting things done and handling daily pressures. ...Show more

Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens by ALVORD MARY & MCGRATH ANNE

$40.00 NZD

Category: Mental Health

You aren t what you think! For teens with negative thinking habits, a licensed psychologist and a health journalist offers cognitive restructuring a simple and effective cognitive behavioral approach to help you break free from the ten most common negative thinking habits that typically result in feelin g 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 ten 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! ...Show more

Free from OCD: A Workbook for Teens with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (An Instant Help Book for Teens) by Timothy A. Sisemore

$45.00 NZD

Category: Mental Health | Series: An Instant Help Book for Teens

Most children with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are diagnosed between the ages of ten and twelve-right on the cusp of their adolescent years. Yet, until now, there have been no resources available for the substantial population of teens suffering with the unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and ritual s (compulsions) characteristic of OCD. The activities in this book help teens and parents work together to assess the severity of the symptoms and offer teens cognitive behavioural skills to overcome them. Teen readers learn essential information about the biology and dynamics of OCD, then discover a multitude of skills for moving beyond the most common types of obsessions and compulsions: hand washing, checking, counting, ordering, repetition of mental acts, fear of harm to self or family, fear of germs or diseases, fearing of losing something valuable, and perfectionism. The last section explains exposure and response prevention and invites the reader to understand and prepare to undergo this process. Both imagined and real-life exposure and response prevention exercises are included to help teens with OCD make dramatic gains in symptom management and improve their confidence to move forward in treatment. ...Show more