“Your Most Important Assignment Is YOU: A Workbook of Mental Health Activities for Teens” is a comprehensive workbook designed to help teenagers navigate and improve their mental health. Authored by Angela M. Doel and Lawrence E. Shapiro, it provides 36 psychological skills and activities focusing on positive thinking, goal setting, emotional pain management, and developing self-compassion. The workbook is particularly tailored to address mental health challenges intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, offering practical tools and exercises to foster a sense of control and hope in young people’s lives.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Accepting Unpleasant Experiences, Thoughts, and Feelings
- Acts of Kindness Lead to Happiness
- Asking for Help
- Becoming Aware of Your Upsetting Thoughts and Feelings
- Building Your Emotional Toolbox
- Creating a Better Day
- Creating a Vision of a Happier Life
- Eating Better to Feel Better!
- Expressing How You Feel
- Finding Things in Your Life That Will Increase Inner Satisfaction
- Focus on the Present and the Future
- Getting More Sleep to Feel Better
- Getting Off the Stress Roller Coaster
- How Do You Deal with Emotional Pain?
- How Do You View Yourself?
- Is It Time to Take a Social Media Break?
- Journaling To Cope When You Feel Down
- Loving Kindness Meditation
- Maintaining Strong Social Connections
- Managing Catastrophic Thinking
- Managing Your Upsetting Thoughts with the RAIN Technique
- Mindful Coloring
- Nurturing Hope with a Hope Box
- Overcoming Setbacks
- Reducing All-or-Nothing Thinking
- Seeing and Embracing Your Goodness
- Taking a “Noticing” Walk
- The Grounding Technique
- Tolerating Uncertainty
- Treat Yourself Like a Good Friend
- Understanding Your Stress
- Untying Negativity Knots
- Use SMART Goals to Make Smart Choices
- What Went Right?
- Writing Your Depression Story
- Your Worries Are Just Thoughts
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