Fun and easy skills to help kids bounce back from stress and rebound from adversity.
As a parent, you want to protect your child from life’s difficulties. But this isn’t always possible. In order to face the uncertainty and inevitable setbacks of life with confidence, children need the right tools. The good news is that you can give them these tools. Designed for kids ages 7 to 12, this workbook provides actionable techniques to help kids cope with stress, manage powerful emotions, and grow through life’s challenges.
The Resilience Workbook for Kids offers engaging activities grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and positive psychology to help your child recover from difficult experiences. Your child will learn how to “make friends with” their emotions, focus on the things in life that make them happy, and connect with what really matters to them. Finally, your child will discover how helping others can make them feel good about themselves, so they can move beyond feelings like sadness, fear, and anger.
Resilience can help kids stay strong and recover from the psychological impact of stress. This workbook will help your child find the tools needed to build resilience in the face of stress, so they can bounce back even better.
In these increasingly challenging times, kids and teens need mental health resources more than ever. With more than 1.6 million copies sold worldwide, Instant Help Books are easy to use, proven-effective, and recommended by therapists.
--The book was well organized and the format was consistent across the sections, making it easy and familiar for readers to navigate
--Multiple approaches were used to explain and demonstrate each concept to engage all sorts of learners
--There was so much practical advice, and it was clearly communicated. This will be incredibly useful.
--Lots of real-life examples were used to help readers relate to issues or ideas described.
--Scripts were offered for how to have challenging conversations
--The authors managed to thread the needle between advocating for positive thinking and optimism without veering too heavily into toxic positivity.
What concerned me:
--There was some questionable advice around nutrition. The whole "8 glasses of water" thing has been pretty thoroughly debunked and the language around food wasn't entirely value neutral (i.e. some choices defined as "better", etc.)
--So many acronyms! I will never remember all of them.
--I couldn't decide who the appropriate audience would be for independent reading. The book is quite text-heavy and the writing is fairly sophisticated, which would suggest a middle-grades audience, but the activities and tone seemed to skew younger. I'm not sure a younger child could use it effectively and I'm not sure an older child would relate.
I think this would be a great resource for teachers as well as school psychologists, social workers, and resource officers. It could easily be broken into small individual lessons or units and might be most effective that way.
Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!