Award-winning title offers teens straightforward advice on stress management, anxiety reduction, and digital well-being. Untempered stress among teens is approaching epidemic status. Prolonged and intense anxiety can feel like being stalked by a tiger, never knowing when it will strike. Helping adolescents cope with day-to-day stressors—like school, friendships, family, and social media—can help curb impulsivity and other risky behaviors. Now in its fourth edition, the revised and updated Fighting Invisible Tigers teaches teens proven techniques and stress management skills to face the rigors of growing up. Packed with useful information on how stress affects physical and emotional health, readers will learn: smart approaches to handle decision-making easy steps toward greater assertiveness relaxation and mindfulness exercises to focus their minds time management skills to avoid feeling pressured how to avoid online drama positive self-talk techniques and more! Getting rid of stress is impossible, but learning how to control the response to it can help teens develop healthier relationships, make better decisions, and outsmart those tigers.

This Program Guide comes with a free Scanning Relaxation audio CD. Enhances the ability of middle and high school students to reduce stress and handle stressful situations in their daily lives--for use in classroom or small group settings. The Program Guide provides scripted sessions, instructions, worksheets, visual aids, and motivational activities. Pretests and posttests are included to measure levels of stress, ability to handle stress, and the effectiveness of various coping strategies. A free copy of the Scanning Relaxation audio CD is included with the Program Guide. The Student Manual is an integral part of the program and is necessary to implement the program.

Provides strategies and activities for teenagers to manage their stress, describing such tasks as identifying stressor events, concentrating on the present, letting go of negative self-judgements, self-care, and focusing on the positive.

Life can be stressful, especially for teens, and this stress can have negative impacts on both physical and psychological health. This book answers readers' questions about the causes and consequences of stress and how it can be prevented and managed. Overscheduling, the pressure to get into a good college, bullying, body image, conflicts with friends, and social media are just a few of the many sources of stress for today's teens. And, while teens may face just as many, if not more, stressors than adults, they are less likely to have the coping mechanisms and stress management tools needed to effectively combat the stress they feel. Part of Greenwood's Q&A Health Guides series, Teen Stress: Your Questions Answered follows a reader-friendly question-and-answer format that anticipates readers' needs and concerns. Prevalent myths and misconceptions are identified and dispelled, and a collection of case studies illustrates key concepts and issues through relatable stories and insightful recommendations. Each book in the series also includes a section on health literacy, equipping teens and young adults with practical tools and strategies for finding, evaluating, and using credible sources of health information both on and off the internet-important skills that contribute to a lifetime of healthy decision-making.

Enhances the ability of middle and high school students to reduce stress and handle stressful situations in their daily lives - for use in classroom or small group settings. The Program Guide provides scripted sessions, instructions, worksheets, visual aids, and motivational activities. Pretests and posttests are included to measure levels of stress, ability to handle stress, and the effectiveness of coping strategies.

55 activities to help your family: reduce stress, fear & worry, become more confident, relaxed & resilient, manage difficult emotions.

Adolescent Stress concentrates on a range of major problems—those of a normal developmental nature as well as those of poor adaptation—identified in adolescents.

"We may not be able to prevent stressful events from happening, but we can change our lifestyles to handle stressful situations. [Here, the authors] outline a program that will help you identify what is causing your stress, teach you calming techniques, and provide you with a realistic approach to reducing stress." --Back cover.

Helps students learn new ways of thinking and specific actionsthey can use to reduce stress in their daily lives. The ProgramGuide provides scripted sessions, program forms, relaxationscripts, and pretests/posttests to measure levels of stress,ability to handle stress, and the effectiveness of various copingstrategies. A free copy of the Scanning Relaxation Audio CD isincluded with the Program Guide. The Student Manual (sold inpackets of five) contains written and relaxation exercises, motivationalactivities, worksheets, and home practice notes.

Packed with practical clinical tools, this guide explains how to plan and organize individualized interventions that promote resilience, strengthen child-caregiver relationships, and restore developmental competencies derailed by chronic, multiple stressors. Includes more than 45 reproducibles.