Synopses & Reviews
The teen years are a time of intense change, and with these changes often come intense emotions, anxiety, and stress. If you are a teen dealing with challenges in school, problems with friends, and the scary world of dating, you may need guidance and resources for managing your stress in healthy ways.
Written by a nationally recognized pediatrician and expert in mindfulness for adolescents, Calming Your Anxious Mind for Teens provides practical mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) exercises to help you overcome your fears and worries. Originally developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, MBSR is a proven-effective therapy for treating anxiety, depression, stress, and a number of mental health issues. This book is unique in that it specifically adapts MBSR skills for a teen audience.
This book offers safe, natural, alternative strategies to effectively manage anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning. It will provide you with information to help you understand your anxiety, mindfulness practices for increasing awareness, and practical tips for managing stress. In addition, you will learn how to navigate friendships, school, family, sports, and other common factors for teen stress with confidence.
If you are looking to create a personalized anxiety management plan, this is your guide.
Review
“I heartily recommend this warm-hearted and easy-to-use book. Pediatrician Michelle Bailey offers her readers a variety of methods for accessing the power of mindfulness to manage stress and cultivate happiness and well-being. Any parent of a stressed-out child should find something useful and sustaining here.”
—Jeffrey Brantley, MD, DFAPA, author of Calming Your Anxious Mind and founder and director of the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program at Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, NC
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“Easy-to-read, practical tips tested through personal experience and illustrated with inspiring stories. I will recommend this book to families interested in learning how to use mindful practices to help kids master stress.”
—Kathi Kemper, MD, MPH, FAAP, author of Mental Health Naturally and The Holistic Pediatrician
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“This book is written in friendly, accessible language. It offers parents and children proven skills for dealing with stress and creating good mental health.”
—Amy Saltzman, MD, director of Still Quiet Place and the Association for Mindfulness in Education
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“Michelle Bailey has created a highly applicable and practical hands-on book for parents raising children in the twenty-first century. Not only will the skills in this book be helpful to children, but they will also benefit the parents themselves. It is with great pleasure that I recommend this book.”
—Gina M. Biegel, MA, LMFT, psychotherapist and author of The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens
Synopsis
In Parenting Your Stressed Child, pediatrician and Duke University integrative medicine expert Michelle Bailey shows parents how to provide their children with practical mindfulness-based life skills for keeping calm in stressful situations, including family conflicts, difficulties at school, problems with friends, divorce, and other life transitions.
Synopsis
Kids may have fewer responsibilities than mom and dad, but childhood can still be one of the most stressful periods in life. The stresses of school, extracurricular activities, and even day-to-day family living can make kids feel overwhelmed and distracted. To make matters worse, children have very little control over the events in their lives, and haven't had as much practice managing stress as adults.
In Parenting Your Stressed Child, you'll learn a variety of simple and effective mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) skills that you can teach your child to help him or her stay resilient and calm in the face of stress. This guide includes breathing exercises, progressive muscle relaxation practices, and visualization and loving-kindness meditations you and your child can do together to handle the ups and downs of everyday life. By modeling these skills and incorporating them into your own life, you can help your child learn the art of resilience, a skill that will stay with your child for a lifetime.
Synopsis
School, friends, dating, and raging hormones: for many, the teenage years are among the most stressful, and teens lack the experience and knowledge needed to manage stress and anxiety in healthy ways. In the tradition of the bestselling book Calming Your Anxious Mind, nationally recognized pediatrician and expert in mindfulness for adolescents, Michelle L. Bailey, presents Calming Your Anxious Mind for Teens, which outlines practical mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) exercises to help teens overcome anxiety, fears, and worries.
About the Author
Michelle L. Bailey, MD, FAAP, is a pediatrician who teaches mindfulness-based stress reduction skills to children in Duke Children’s Healthy Lifestyles program. She was trained in Dr. Andrew Weil’s Fellowship Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. She directs educational programs for medical professionals, residents, and students at Duke Integrative Medicine in Durham, NC. Visit her online at www.parentingyourstressedchild.com.