Understanding Teenage Anxiety: A Parent's Guide to Improving Your Teen's Mental Health

If you’re the parent of a teenager experiencing chronic anxiety this book is for you. Today’s teens are high-strung and socially overextended. We shrug it off as a millennial problem but is it? In a world that encourages the quick fix instant gratification and real-time feedback can we really expect our children to cope as we did less than two decades ago in the land of handshakes eye contact elbow grease and grit? This book is a product of a combination of three very different perspectives: those of the anxious teen the parent and the therapist. We need to understand what we’ve created in terms of our current society to gain proper insight on why we’re seeing increasingly rising levels of anxiety in our teenagers. Topics include: Physical and Emotional Symptoms of AnxietyTeens and Self-HarmAnxiety and Gut HealthSports: Concussions and AnxietyNatural Ways to Help Your Teen CopeAnd much much more Within each chapter author (and parent) Jennifer Browne and co-author (Jennifer’s teenage son) Cody Buchanan who struggles with anxiety and depression will weigh in on what this affliction feels like physically mentally and emotionally. They share personal experiences to help parents better understand their teens and learn a lot along the way.

Paperback: 216 pages

Publisher: Skyhorse (August 20 2019)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1510743650

ISBN-13: 978-1510743656

Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces