Description: Teens who experience toxic stress--strong, frequent, and prolonged adversity such as family illness or economic hardships, neglect, and abuse--grow up at risk for life-long mental and physical health consequences. Written by an expert in teen mental health, this important workbook offers powerful skills for overcoming trauma and adversity using mindfulness, neuroplasticity, and emotion regulation.
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 Biegel is one of the world's leading experts on helping teenagers manage stress and grow resilient well-being. In this wonderful book, she offers a super-practical tool kit along with her personal stories and tremendously caring and nurturing heart. Highly recommended!"
--Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Making Great Relationships--Rick Hanson, PhD