Description: Based on the teen self-help success, The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens, this card deck offers the same proven-effective mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) approach for soothing stress in a fun and portable format. Using these stress-busting cards, teen readers can find lasting relief from stress anytime, anywhere.
Brief description: Gina M. Biegel, MA, LMFT, is a California-based psychotherapist, researcher, speaker, and author who specializes in mindfulness-based work with adolescents. She is founder of Stressed Teens, which has been offering mindfulness-based stress reduction for teens (MBSR-T) to adolescents, families, schools, professionals, and the community since 2004. She created MBSR-T to help teens in a large HMO's outpatient department of child and adolescent psychiatry whose physical and psychological symptoms were not responding satisfactorily to a multitude of other evidence-based practices.
Biegel is an expert and pioneer of bringing mindfulness-based approaches to youth. She is author or coauthor of the The Trauma and Adversity Workbook for Teens, Take in the Good, The Stress Reduction Card Deck for Teens, The Mindfulness Workbook for Teen Self-Harm, Be Mindful and Stress Less, Mindfulness for Student Athletes, The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens, and Be Mindful. She also has a mindfulness practice audio CD, Mindfulness for Teens, to complement the MBSR-T program. She provides worldwide multiday trainings and intensive ten-week online trainings, and works with teens and families individually and in groups. Her work has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Psychology Today, Reuters, TheNew York Times, US News & World Report, and Tricycle to name a few. For more information, visit her website at www.stressedteens.com.Review Quotes: "Gina's stress reduction cards are an incredibly useful tool. They are easy to use, cover very important topics with few words, and offer great, implementable suggestions. Helping youth identify their thoughts and emotions, and teaching them to take appropriate action, will help move kids out of their heads into the present moment where there is much good to be found. Helping them recognize the positive stuff in their lives is a sure path to more calm and joy. Teens' lives have become frighteningly difficult. Statistics about the declining mental health of our youth should be of concern to all of us. We must help our kids, and Gina's cards are a simple way to do so. Gina's cards should be a must in every teen's backpack."
--Laurie Grossman, director of social justice and educational equity at Inner Explorer, cofounder of Mindful Schools, and coauthor of Breath Friends Forever and Master of Mindfulness--Laurie Grossman