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Your Amazing Teen Brain

CBT and Neuroscience Skills to Stress Less, Balance Emotions, and Strengthen Your Growing Mind
By Elisa Nebolsine
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Your Amazing Teen Brain offers teens a fascinating glimpse into the changes happening in their developing minds. With a foundation in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and neuroscience, this guide provides practical tools to manage intense emotions, navigate friendships, and tackle life's challenges with confidence. Tailored to the exciting and sometimes overwhelming teen years, it explains why feelings can be so intense and equips readers with strategies to remain calm and focused, helping them make the most of their brain's powerful potential.
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This book is ideal for teenagers seeking to understand their emotions and brain development, as well as for parents, educators, and professionals who support adolescents through this transformative stage.

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Teen brains are primed to learn and grow. In Your Amazing Teen Brain, teen readers will find fun and easy “brain hacks” grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and neuroscience to help them make the most of their growing minds, manage difficult emotions, build better relationships, and face all the challenges of growing up.

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Your Amazing Teen Brain is all about understanding and embracing the incredible changes happening in your teenage brain! This engaging book offers fun and easy "brain hacks" that will help you make the most of your developing mind, manage your emotions, build meaningful friendships, and face life's challenges with confidence.

During your teenage years, your brain is undergoing significant changes. Your emotions feel bigger and more intense, and your relationships with friends and peers become increasingly important. You're on a journey of self-discovery, figuring out who you are and what truly matters to you. At the same time, you're beginning to understand the complexities of the world around you—and it's not always sunshine and roses. It’s completely normal to feel overwhelmed by these changes, and this book is here to help!

Your Amazing Teen Brain provides you with skills rooted in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and neuroscience to help you harness your brain's growth, manage difficult emotions, and navigate the various challenges of adolescence—from academic pressures to social conflicts. You’ll gain insight into how your brain operates and why the teenage years are so intense, as well as practical skills to help keep your cool when emotions run high.

Life as a teen is a thrilling and demanding time, and your brain is both energised and primed for transformation. With this unique guide, you’ll learn to maximise your brain’s potential, empowering you to be your very best. What are you waiting for?

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"Your Amazing Teen Brain is a must-read for all teens--and those who live with teens! Elisa Nebolsine writes with clarity and wit, and the result is a powerful, highly engaging resource that gives teens the information they need to understand their emotions and successfully navigate through this pivotal developmental stage."
--Sherin Stahl, PhD, Yale Child Study Center and Yale University School of Medicine faculty

"This down-to-earth guide to cognitive behavioural therapy based on adolescent brain development is practical and accessibly written."

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781684038046

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 February 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: New Harbinger Publications

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 202.0mm

Weight: 241g

Pages: 200

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About the Author

Elisa Nebolsine, LCSW, is owner and clinician at CBT for Kids, a private practice in Falls Church, VA. She is also adjunct faculty at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, adjunct faculty at the Catholic University of America, and diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. She has presented locally and nationally on the topic of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and children, and is a consultant for schools, agencies, and other organizations on the implementation and use of CBT with children.

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