CBT Workbook for Teens by Rebecca Thompson

CBT Workbook for Teens by Rebecca Thompson

Is anxiety disrupting your life?

Anxiety is a difficult emotion to manage―especially with all of the stressors that come with the teenage years. From surviving awkward social situations to getting into college, it's normal for teens to feel anxious. This book arms teens with effective tools to tackle worrying―so that anxiety doesn't have to be overwhelming.

Using the latest strategies from CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and mindfulness therapies, teens will learn how to control their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors so that they don't trigger anxiety. With real scenarios they might face at school, home, or with friends, this book is every teenager's secret weapon to stay cool in stressful and scary moments.

This book will show you how to:

• Evaluate the areas of your life and the improvements you would like to make in each.
• Learn where your core beliefs come from.
• Identify what matters most to you.
• Shift from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset.
• Overcome anxiety.
• Rewire your negative thoughts.

With these 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.

Andromachi Tseloni is Professor of Quantitative Criminology at Nottingham Trent University. She has a BA(hons.) and an MA from Athens University of Economics and Business and a PhD in Econometrics and Social Statistics from the University of Manchester and has held posts in a number of universities in Greece, the United Kingdom and the United States. Her research focuses upon the individual and environmental factors that shape victimisation risk and repetition. This research has explored in particular victimisation inequalities, and the role that security has played in the crime drop across a number of offence types.

Rebecca Thompson is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University. Her research focuses upon household burglary, anti-social behaviour and police-academic collaboration. Much of this involves working with external partners, for example the East Midlands Policing Academic Collaboration (EMPAC). Rebecca graduated with a PhD in Criminology in 2014. Prior to this, she worked for a police force in the UK (with a specific remit around crime reduction and community safety) before being awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship to undertake doctoral study. Since her PhD, she has held research and teaching positions at a number of academic institutions.

Nick Tilley is a Professor in the UCL Department of Security and Crime Science, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University and an adjunct professor at the Griffith Criminology Institute in Brisbane. His academic work has been devoted to developing and delivering theoretically informed applied social science. Specific interests lie in evaluation methodology, the international crime drop, problem-oriented policing and situational crime prevention, about all of which he has published extensively. He was awarded an OBE for Services to Policing and Crime Reduction in 2005 and elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in 2009.