Thoughts and Feelings for Teens: A Workbook to Help You Balance Emotions and Take Charge of Your Mental Health

An engaging and comprehensive workbook for radically transforming your life—just for teens!

Being a teen is an exciting time, full of promise and possibilities. But for teens growing up in today’s world, it can also feel fraught with new and terrifying obstacles. From school and social media drama to relationships and peer pressure, it’s easy to feel stressed out, overwhelmed, anxious, and even depressed. So, how can you deal with all these challenges, stay grounded, and reach your goals?

Thoughts and Feelings for Teens offers essential skills from cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help empower you to take control of your thoughts, feelings, emotions—and your life. This essential guide will show you, step by step, how to improve your mood, reduce your anxiety, and manage your emotions effectively. You’ll also learn that while you can’t necessarily change a situation, you can change how you react and respond. The ability to change your perception is an immensely powerful tool—and it’s one you already possess.

If you’re ready to start balancing your emotions and feeling better now, pick up this guide to regaining mastery over your moods. By challenging self-sabotaging thinking patterns, staying cool under stress, and living life according to what matters most to you—you can reach your highest aspirations.

Elisa Nebolsine, LCSW, practices cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in her Alexandria, VA, private practice. She is adjunct faculty at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and an award-winning clinician in the Washington, DC, area. Elisa is author of The Grit Workbookfor Kids and Your Amazing Teen Brain.

Foreword writer Matthew McKay, PhD, is a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. He has authored and coauthored numerous books, including Thoughts and Feelings, The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook, and Self-Esteem. He specializes in the cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety and depression.