The Sexual Trauma Workbook for Teen Girls: A Guide to Recovery from Sexual Assault and Abuse



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by Raychelle Cassada Lohmann MS LPC (Author), Sheela Raja PhD (Author)

If you’ve been sexually abused or experienced sexual trauma, you may feel confused, angry, ashamed, and unable to move forward emotionally. You're not alone. Like many teens who’ve been abused, you may be tempted to keep the secret locked deep inside and feel uncomfortable discussing your struggles with others. If so, this book can help you find your voice.

This empowering workbook will help you move past your trauma and serve as a comforting reminder that you are strong and resilient. Healing is possible—and with healing, comes victory. In this book, you’ll find true stories from other teen survivors, and in reading the stories you’ll find reassurance in knowing you aren’t alone in your experiences. You’ll also find practical and proven-effective strategies and exercises to help promote emotional healing and reclaim your sense of self.

Sexual abuse or trauma may be a part of your past, but it doesn’t need to define who you are now. This book will help you as you start on the path toward healing so you can move forward with confidence.

Read the Kirkus Review on this book HERE.

"A (sadly) necessary, practical tool for young women who've survived sexual abuse and assault."(Nonfiction. 12 & up) (Kirkus Review - 2016)

The Anger Workbook for Teens



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Between family life and the pressures of school, there's no doubt that it's stressful being a teenager. But if you've noticed yourself beginning to take out your frustrations on the people you love most-your parents, brothers or sisters, and friends-it may be time to make a change. The Anger Workbook for Teens includes thirty-seven exercises designed to show you effective skills to help you deal with feelings of rage without losing it.

By completing just one ten-minute worksheet a day, you'll find out what's triggering your anger, look at the ways you react, and learn skills and techniques for getting your anger under control. You'll develop a personal anger profile and learn to notice the physical symptoms you feel when you become enraged, then find out how to calm those feelings and respond more sensitively to others. Once you fully understand your anger, you'll be better prepared to deal with your feelings in the moment and never lose your cool.

From the Publisher
In The Anger Workbook for Teens, an anger management counselor offers forty-two activities and exercises adolescents can do to examine what makes them angry and learn to communicate their feelings more effectively. The activities also teach coping skills that help young readers handle anger-provoking situations in healthy ways.

"The Anger Workbook for Teens" is available in Dutch, English, French and Korean.

Teen Anxiety



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Today's teens are faced with all sorts of decisions, dilemmas and difficulties, from exam worries to friendship and relationship problems. The result is that anxiety is an increasingly common problem, and professionals need practical ways of helping these anxious teens.

Teen Anxiety is a practical manual to use with teenagers to help them cope with anxious feelings. With 60 easy-to-do activities based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), teenagers can be helped to understand what triggers their anxiety; the importance of taking care of themselves; how to work through anxious feelings, fear, stress, and panic; and how to accept and manage thoughts and emotions. Part 1 of the book provides a guide to CBT, ACT and what anxiety is, and the manual also includes scaling questions for assessment and graphs to track progress.

This ready-to-use manual, packed with information and activities, will be invaluable to professionals working with anxious teenagers.

Staying Cool ... When You're Steaming Mad

As teen anger simmers and erupts with increasing frequency in middle and high chools across the nation, counselors’ ability to help teens cope with and appropriately channel anger is more important than ever.

Staying Cool … When You’re Steaming Mad is an anger-management curriculum designed for use with individuals, groups, or in classroom settings. The program’s 10 sessions guide you from group formation through an easy-to-follow, session-by-session exploration of anger topics to group closure.

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Beginning The Group (Session 1) Understanding Anger (Session 2) Communicating Anger (Sessions 3–4) Expressing Anger (Sessions 5–6) Thinking About Anger (Sessions 7–8) Transforming Anger (Session 9) Closing The Group (Session 10)Staying Cool … When You’re Steaming Mad also includes suggestions for identifying candidates and supplemental activities helpful to students who need more skill-based practice. If you have ever had to diffuse an angry client, witnessed the suspension of a student who took anger to the extreme, or known a student whose bottled-up anger was waiting to explode, Staying Cool … When You’re Steaming Mad is for you.

The Bullying Workbook for Teens:
Activities to help you deal with Social Aggression and Cyberbullying

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From New Harbinger Publications
Raychelle Cassada Lohmann & Julia V. Taylor
Foreword by Haley Kilpatrick

Being a teenager is difficult enough without having to worry about bullying. If you have experienced bullying or cyberbullying, you aren’t alone. Bullying and cyberbullying are at an all-time high, and the effects of both can be tremendous for a young person who is already dealing with major school, life, and home stressors.

The Bullying Workbook for Teens incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help ease anxiety, fear, stress, and other emotions associated with being bullied. The workbook is made up of 42 step-by-step self-help activities designed to help you learn anti-bullying tips and strategies, manage emotions such as anxiety, fear, anger, and depression, and learn constructive communication skills to help you express your feelings.

With this workbook as your guide, you will also learn how to identify toxic friendships, how to build your own self-confidence, and importantly, how to ask for help when bullying gets out of control. The exercises in this book are designed to be useful in everyday situations, so that you gain helpful tools to help you combat bullying or cyberbullying in your life. Bullying can happen to anyone, but there is hope to make a change and stand up for yourself, once and for all.

If you are experiencing bullying, this book will offer sound psychological support to help you gain confidence in yourself and in your interactions with others. It is also a great resource for parents, educators, and counseling professionals.

Reviews

“The Bullying Workbook for Teens is a remarkable, relevant resource for both teens and professionals. The activities are engaging and offer practical strategies to help teens work through and cope with bullying situations, while also raising their self-confidence. As I read it, I found tools to implement in my own work with teens. This book offers eye-opening insights and will be useful to any teen who has been victimized by bullies.”
—Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees & Wannabes, the book that inspired the motion picture, Mean Girls

“The Bullying Workbook for Teens is a non-judgmental companion, reflection aid, and an ‘aha’ moment-maker for isolated teens. It's also a much-needed tool for clinicians. I recommend it highly and look forward to using it myself.”
—Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out