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Looking After Your Mental Health

By Louie Stowell and Alice James
Series: Usborne Life Skills
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Looking After Your Mental Health by Louie Stowell and Alice James is a children's guide to understanding and managing mental well-being. The book provides practical tips, relatable scenarios, and illustrations to help young readers recognise and deal with emotions effectively. It encourages open conversations about feelings and offers advice on coping strategies and fostering resilience.
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This book may appeal to you if you're looking to help children understand mental health in an engaging way. It's filled with accessible advice, vibrant illustrations, and supportive guidance that encourages young readers to take charge of their own emotional wellbeing and express their feelings.

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The mental health of children and teenagers hits the headlines on a regular basis, with more and more young people reporting mental health difficulties.This book provides a gentle guide to good mental health, with input from experts in both psychology and psychiatry.

Illustrations: Black and white illustrations

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We talk about our physical health, but not so much about how we're feeling. With lots of practical advice, this lively, accessible guide explains why we have emotions and what can influence them.

Covering everything from friendships, social media, and bullying to divorce, depression, and eating disorders, this is an essential book for young people.

Looking After Your Mental Health by Louie Stowell and Alice James offers crucial insights for understanding and managing mental health.

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Looking After Your Mental Health by Louie Stowell and Alice James is highly regarded as a safe and accessible guide for young readers to understand mental health. It provides expert advice from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, addressing topics such as anger, relationships, and social media. The book is praised for its practical advice, non-preachy tone, and ability to empower youngsters with honest guidance, making it an ideal introduction to mental health awareness for young teens.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781474937290

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 May 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Nancy Leschnikoff
  • Illustrated by Nancy Leschnikoff

Audience: General / adult, Children, Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 210g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Alice James joined Usborne after working in primary schools for a while. She absolutely loves science, and over the years has lived with chimps, spent a month in the rainforest, studied Biology at Oxford University, and grown 200 carnivorous plants (not necessarily in that order). Whilst at Usborne Alice has worked on books on all kinds of science topics, from space to energy to the periodic table. Louie Stowell has written dozens of non-fiction and story titles for Usborne, on everything from space science and coding to the human body and, now, politics. She is now Editorial Director at Ladybird, Penguin Random House and is currently working on four children's fantasy novels.

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