JEF - Self-Love & Self-Care (YA) | Morristown-Morris Township

1) Anxiety relief for teens: essential CBT skills and self-care practices to overcome anxiety and stress

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With proven CBT-based skills and mindfulness techniques, this book can be your guide out of the spiraling stress of anxiety and get you back on track to living a happy and healthy life. Getting good grades, keeping up with social media, maintaining friendships... you have a lot on your plate and it's more difficult when you add anxiety to the mix. You may even be avoiding situations, events, or people that could trigger your anxiety. So, how do you...

2) The self-esteem workbook for teens: activities to help you build confidence and achieve your goals

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Schab, Lisa M

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Provides practical advice and activities to help teens gain confidence, respond effectively to criticism, be assertive, and set and achieve goals. Promotes acceptance, compassion, and validation as powerful confidence-building techniques, and contains 40 activities to help the reader make positive changes in his or her life.

3) The Grit Guide for Teens: A Workbook to Help You Build Perseverance, Self-Control, and a Growth Mindset

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Baruch-Feldman, Caren, Ph.D

4) Mental health information for teens: health tips about mental health and mental illness : including facts about anxiety, depression, suicide, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, panic attacks,...

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Teen health

5) Where to start: a survival guide to anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges

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A comforting and useful resource for anyone who's struggling emotionally and looking for help--from the nation's leading community-based nonprofit that addresses the needs of those living with mental illness. It can be extremely hard to figure out what's going on in our own heads when we are suffering--when we feel alone and unworthy and can't stop our self-critical inner voice. And it's even more difficult to know where to go for answers. This book...

6) Meditation

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Moore, Andrew

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Teen mental health

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Meditation is a tool individuals can use to deepen their understanding of their body, mind, and spirits. This expert-reviewed book in Rosen's Teen Mental Health series answers questions about how meditation is practiced in its different styles and methods

7) Yoga for your mind and body: a teenage practice for a healthy, balanced life

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Rissman, Rebecca

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Switch. Yoga for you

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"Presents yoga techniques and poses to promote brain power, stress relief, strength, and fitness"--

8) Your brain needs a hug: life, love, mental health, and sandwiches

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Earl, Rae

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Rae Earl offers her personalized advice on the A to Zs of mental health, social media, family and friendship. "Imbued with a sense of humor, understanding, and hope, Your Brain Needs a Hug is a judgment-free guide for living well with your mind. My Mad Fat Diary author Rae Earl offers her personalized advice on the A to Zs of mental health, social media, family and friendship. When she was a teenager, Rae dealt with OCD, anxiety, and an eating disorder,...

9) Heads up: changing minds on mental health

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Siebert, Melanie

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Orca issues

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"This nonfiction book for teen readers is a guide to understanding mental health and coping with mental illness, trauma and recovery. It features real-life stories of resilient teens and highlights innovative approaches to mental-health challenges."--

10) Calm girl: yoga for stress relief

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Rissman, Rebecca

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Yoga for You

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"Presents various yoga poses and breathing techniques designed to promote stress relief and a calm state of mind"--

11) The resilient teen: 10 key skills to bounce back from setbacks and turn stress into success

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Raja, Sheela

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Instant help solutions

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"More than ever, teens need tools to manage stress and increase resilience. Based on the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, The Resilient Teen offers ten key skills to help readers bounce back from difficult situations, deal with difficult emotions, and cultivate a sense of joy, even in the face of modern-day stressors"--

12) Mindfulness & self-compassion for teen ADHD: build executive functioning skills, increase motivation & improve self-confidence

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Bertin, Mark

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Instant Help Solutions

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"Attention deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) and self-compassion experts Mark Bertin and Karen Bluth bring teens powerful skills for overcoming self-criticism and building the executive functioning skills they need to become more confident, resilient, and independent. The book includes mindfulness tools to help teens accept the limitations of ADHD, and self-compassion strategies to help them stop beating themselves up and comparing themselves to their...

13) Superhero therapy: mindfulness skills to help teens and young adults deal with anxiety, depression, and trauma

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Scarlet, Janina

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A hero's journey always begins with a struggle-what's yours? For the first time ever, psychologist Janina Scarlet and Marvel and DC Comics illustrator Wellinton Alves join forces to create Superhero Therapy-a dynamic, illustrated introduction to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you vanquish your inner monsters, explore your unique superpowers, and become a Superhero questing for what matters to you. Haven't you ever wanted to be a Superhero?...

14) Mindfulness and meditation: handling life with a calm and focused mind

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Stewart, Whitney

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"From hormones to homework, parents to peers, health issues to bad habits, life can be a pressure cooker leading to anxiety and even thoughts of suicide. How can we find relief? Author Whitney Stewart introduces readers to the practice of mindfulness. With its roots in ancient Buddhist teachings, mindfulness--the practice of purposefully focusing attention on the present moment--can change a person's approach to stress, develop skills to handle anxiety...

15) Let's talk: sharing our thoughts and feelings during times of crisis

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Alpern, Michele

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Focus on family matters

16) Project you: more than 50 ways to calm down, de-stress, and feel great

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Andrus, Aubre

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"Find your balance. Make a protein-packed smoothie to energize for a busy day. Center yourself after a stressful week by taking five minutes to write in your journal. Strengthen your body and calm your mind with simple yoga poses and breathing techniques. Craft a vision board to help you achieve your goals. Create a time budget to organize your schedule. Develop an evening routine that will help you wind down before sleep. Award-winning author Aubre...

17) A guys' guide to stress ; A girls' guide to stress

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Clark, Travis

Series

Flip-it-over guides to teen emotions

18) The teen girl's anxiety survival guide: 10 ways to conquer anxiety & feel your best

Author

Hemmen, Lucie

Series

Instant help solutions

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"Teen girls are facing more pressure than ever before, putting them at greater risk for developing full-blown anxiety disorders. In this timely book, Lucie Hemmen-best-selling author of the Teen Girl's Survival Guide and an expert in adolescent girl psychology-offers ten powerful skills specifically designed to help teen girls cope with anxious thoughts and feelings in healthy ways"--

19) Chicken soup for the teenage soul III: more stories of life, love, and learning

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Inspirational stories on life, love, and learning for teens, including contributions by teens.

20) Daily reflections for highly effective teens

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Covey, Sean