Mindfulness Skills for Kids & Teens: A Workbook for Clinicans & Clients with 154 Tools, Techniques, Activities & Worksheets

by Debra Burdick

Overview

Finally — a comprehensive, practical and user-friendly mindfulness resource written specifically for children and adolescents.
Best-selling mindfulness author Debra Burdick has blended the latest research and best practices to create this straight-forward guide for improving self-awareness, self-regulation skills, mental health, and social connectedness in kids and teens. This expertly crafted resource features a collection of more than 150 proven tools and techniques, presented in a simple, step-by-step skill building format. Perfect for mental health practitioners, teachers and all in the helping professions.
• Tools for explaining mindfulness and neurobiology in kids language
• Activities, games, and meditations that build basic through advanced mindfulness skills
• Step-by-step instruction on teaching and practicing mindfulness, meditation and reflection
• Guidance on choosing age appropriate skills
• How to apply mindfulness skills to specific childhood mental health disorders
• Journal prompts to help integrate learning
• Goal-setting charts for tracking progress
• Downloadable worksheets, exercises and reflections

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781937661571
Publisher:	PESI Publishing & Media
Publication date:	09/28/2014
Edition description:	Workbook
Pages:	307
Sales rank:	655,639
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Debra Burdick, LCSWR, BCN, also known as "The Brain Lady", is the author of the best-selling Mindfulness Skills Workbook for Clinicians and Clients. She is an international speaker, psychotherapist and neurotherapist who has been teaching mindfulness skills to her clients for more than 25 years.