Understanding teenage anxiety : a parent's guide to improving your teen's mental health

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Understanding teenage anxiety : a parent's guide to improving your teen's mental health

Author:

Browne, Jennifer (Jennifer Shay), 1981- author.

ISBN:

9781510743656

Physical Description:

xv, 188 pages ; 23 cm.

Contents:

An anxious generation -- Symptoms and types of anxiety -- The teenage brain -- Genetics, stress, and anxiety -- Head injuries and mental health -- Anxiety and education -- Helping or hindering? -- Anxiety and gut health -- Natural ways to help your teen cope -- Medication for anxiety -- Self-harm and suicide -- Care for the caregiver.

Subject Term:

Anxiety in adolescence.

Child rearing.

Parenting.

Added Author:

Buchanan, Cody,

Summary:

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 weve created in terms of our current society to gain proper insight on why were seeing increasingly rising levels of anxiety in our teenagers. Topics include: Physical and Emotional Symptoms of Anxiety; Teens and Self-Harm; Anxiety and Gut Health; Sports: Concussions and Anxiety; Natural Ways to Help Your Teen Cope; And much, much more. Within each chapter, author (and parent) Jennifer Browne and co-author (Jennifers 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.

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Anxiety is the most common mental-health disorder in the United States, affecting nearly one-third of both adolescents"-- New York Times

If you're the parent of a teenager experiencing chronic anxiety, you are not alone, and this book can help 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 Anxiety Teens and Self-Harm Anxiety and Gut Health Sports: Concussions and Anxiety Natural Ways to Help Your Teen Cope And 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.

Author Notes

Jennifer Browne is the author of several non-fiction works. She's currently working on an anti-anxiety cookbook and finds inspiration for her projects within her own experiences. Browne resides just outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, with her dog and three children, one of whom is the co-author of this book.
Cody Buchanan has personal experience with chronic anxiety. As a young teen, he suffered in silence for years, and he was sixteen before his condition became apparent to others, almost nineteen before treatment commenced. Buchanan is the oldest son of Jennifer Browne and agreed to participate in this project to help others better understand their anxious family members.

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School Library Journal Review

One-quarter of children today, ages 13--18, struggle with an anxiety disorder, and 75 percent of them will never receive direct support from a qualified provider, assert mother-son coauthors Browne and Buchanan. Instead of receiving legitimate treatment, many teenagers self-medicate by abusing drugs as a way to avoid uncomfortable situations, as Buchanan did. Here, the author recounts the fear and stress of his childhood. Life for teens is competitive: chock-full of activities, academic challenges, and the pressure to get into college. In addition, cyberbullying, and social media that prompt kids to compare themselves constantly with others, has been linked with a spike in mood disorders. Smartphones may provide an additional distraction that plagues teens with social anxiety by allowing them to avoid in-person conversations and situations. VERDICT Addressing such crucial topics as self-harm, suicide, and integrating diet and natural remedies into one's routine, as well as traditional treatments such as cognitive therapy and SSRIs, this work offers a further unique perspective of a teenager working through anxiety.--Julia M. Reffner, Richmond

Library Journal Review

One-quarter of children today, ages 13--18, struggle with an anxiety disorder, and 75 percent of them will never receive direct support from a qualified provider, assert mother-son coauthors Browne and Buchanan. Instead of receiving legitimate treatment, many teenagers self-medicate by abusing drugs as a way to avoid uncomfortable situations, as Buchanan did. Here, the author recounts the fear and stress of his childhood. Life for teens is competitive: chock-full of activities, academic challenges, and the pressure to get into college. In addition, cyberbullying, and social media that prompt kids to compare themselves constantly with others, have been linked with a spike in mood disorders. Smartphones may provide an additional distraction that plagues teens with social anxiety by allowing them to avoid in-person conversations and situations. VERDICT Addressing such crucial topics as self-harm, suicide, and integrating diet and natural remedies into one's routine, as well as traditional treatments such as cognitive therapy and SSRIs, this work offers a further unique perspective of a teenager working through anxiety.

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
1 An Anxious Generation	p. 1
2 Symptoms and Types of Anxiety	p. 13
3 The Teenage Brain	p. 31
4 Genetics, Stress, and Anxiety	p. 45
5 Head Injuries and Mental Health	p. 55
6 Anxiety and Education	p. 63
7 Helping or Hindering?	p. 77
8 Anxiety and Gut Health	p. 93
9 Natural Ways to Help Your Teen Cope	p. 107
10 Medication for Anxiety	p. 127
11 Self-Harm and Suicide	p. 137
12 Care for the Caregiver	p. 153
Resources	p. 165
About the Authors	p. 169
Acknowledgments	p. 171
Index	p. 173
Endnotes	p. 181

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