Zombies and Zebras: Understanding Your Tricky Brain - Softcover

Marsden, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0648487504 ISBN 13: 9780648487500

Publisher: Marsden Media, 2019

Synopsis

Psychoeducation on how our brain design can contribute to anxiety, anger, sadness or self-criticism can help adolescents and young adults stop blaming and shaming themselves (and others) for difficult thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Vividly and humorously illustrated, "Zombies and Zebras: Understanding Your Tricky Brain" makes accessible complex concepts including neuroplasticity, the triune brain and its relationship to the new and old brains, the amygdala, negativity bias, neural pruning and the reward centre in adolescence, and how our environment and genes influence brain function. This evidence-based book is a useful tool for psychologists, counsellors, psychotherapists and educators supporting adolescents. Parents and young people will also benefit from learning about how the design of the human brain explains and can be used to work with common mental health struggles. It is the first in a series based on neuroscience and Compassion-Focused Therapy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Marsden Media
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0648487504
• ISBN 13: 9780648487500
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 36
• Illustrator: Marsden Olivia