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The Trauma and Adversity Workbook for Teens

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An invaluable workbook for teens facing adversity, stress and tough times. The book is set out in an easy to understand format and the worksheets themselves are fabulous. Trackers, regulators and many other worthy tools to help navigate teens when they need it the most.

Another fabulous workbook.

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A wonderful book for adults to read. Really important we stop trying to understand everything and simply hold space for people, mainly teens, to exist on their terms, without being obligated to constantly advocate for themselves. It's a balance, trying to accept and understand, to unpack, identify, so we can better address issues and challenges... but let's try to accept some of the confusing unknowns and exploration of expression. Let's not gaslight our teens or let them figure it all out on their own, let's create and hold space for them. Important read.

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These workbooks are my go tos as a BCBA working with teens. Love that there’s a framework for trauma! Will be buying multiple copies for my practice.

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This workbooks is a perfect gift for any teen that has experienced trauma, stress, and difficult times. It instructs the reader in how to release anger, anxiety, fear, and how to begin to live again with a new mindset. This workbook provides worksheets, activities, and tips to allow an individual to work through adversity, develop mindfulness skills, and recover. Recommendations from the authors include working through the book and skills in sequential order. There are so many valuable resources and information provided. What sets this workbook apart from similar resources, is that it is easy to read, easy to follow, and also delves into the realm of self harm. It also focuses on stress, which is so harmful to not only teens, but also adults. We often don’t take stress into consideration, and don’t recognize the stressful, busy lives that our teens are living. Coping and grounding techniques are introduced. This book is a wonderful resource to clinicians, parents, psychologists, and educators. Thank you the publisher and NetGalley for the advance review copy in exchange for my honest review.

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Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC

This book is amazing, and will be very helpful to any teens or young adults who need assistance processing traumatic situations, normalizing mental health difficulties, and determining when emotional support is required.

Parts of the Book that Stood out:
- Grounding Techniques
- Self Harm tracker (for when you have the urge to, or after you've self harmed.)
- Self care Activities and Self Care Tracker
- List of Healthy and Safe Coping Skills
- Tips on how to Relax and be more Mindful

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thank you netgalley for this advance copy!

this workbook will be one i, and many readers, will come back to. the techniques i’ve found so far are useful. i think this book will be a great resource for many hoping to heal and cope with their trauma

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Would love to see a SEL course designed around this course. Chambers does a fantastic job creating a workbook that provides tools for teens.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

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The Trauma and Adversity Workbook for Teens is a helpful guide and resource for young people who need help processing traumatic events, normalizing mental health struggles, and identifying when emotional support is needed and how to go about finding it in a safe place with safe people.

There are Self-Care in Action Activities and a chapter entitled Things in This Moment to help teens learn grounding techniques and identify coping mechanisms they can use when feeling stressed or activated. At the back of the book there is also a journal where folx can take notes and reflect on their learning process while reading.

Among the many great tools taught in the text there is a self-harm tracker that youth can use then they have the urge to act or after they've engaged in risky behavior. The book is written to educate and not to shame which is the most impactful part of the way it is written. As a therapist, I could see myself recommending this book often both to teens and their parents and caregivers.

By distinguishing between what things like self-harm are, what sort of thoughts might come through one's mind, what sort of feelings might arise, and what sorts of behavioral impulses or actions might occur, Chambers, Biegel, and Cooper are teaching young people the what, how, and why of mental and emotional struggles. This is an excellent resource for teens and the professionals who support. them.

Thank you to the author and publisher for the e-arc copy!

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I have a lot of the other workbooks for teens from this series. I love how this one delved into stress first and different aspects of stress and then going into the trauma portion. I anticipate using this workbook with many of clients in my own practice. I love that the workbook provides many many different types of activities that can draw teens in. Another great book in the series that will be in my professional collection!

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