Description: Teens living with depression often struggle with loneliness, lack of motivation, self-doubt, and negativity. Written by a clinical psychologist specializing in adolescent mental health, this engaging guide offers an array of prompts, quizzes, exercises, and other activities to jumpstart teens' motivation and turn damaging thoughts and behaviors into positive outlooks and actions that lead to a more promising future.
Brief description: Amy Mezulis, PhD, is a clinical psychologist specializing in adolescent mental health. She is cofounder and chief clinical officer of Joon Care, a teletherapy practice for teens and young adults. Her research has been sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the American Psychology Association (APA), and she has authored or coauthored articles for dozens of publications, including Cognitive Therapy and Research, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, and Harvard Review of Psychiatry.
Review Quotes: "Amy Mezulis is a brilliant psychologist and scientist who brings her talents to bear in this important and practical book to help teens help themselves out of depression. In plain, accessible language, Mezulis explains what depression is, and offers dozens of actions--many of them low cost or no cost--that teens can take to work out of a downward spiral of depression."
--Janet S. Hyde, PhD, professor emeritus of psychology and gender and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, and coauthor of The Psychology of Women and Gender--Janet S. Hyde, PhD