Publisher's Synopsis
An accessible, user-friendly and evidence-based resource brimming with tools and strategies to promote the wellbeing of teenagers and adolescents. This indispensable resource provides teachers and support staff, as well as mental health leads and SENCOs, with a variety of strategies to support secondary students build resilience and develop strategies for coping with stress and anxiety in their daily lives. Includes advice and guidance on dealing with change, peer group pressure, relationships, family difficulties, health and wellbeing, body image issues, studying and exam stress. The activities and techniques have been specifically designed to ensure that young people will develop the necessary self-regulation, self-esteem, effective thinking skills and resilience they require to effectively navigate all these issues - and more. Also boasts a comprehensive bank of resources including: photocopiable, practical activities, worksheets, diary entries, case studies, fact sheets, lesson plans, resource suggestions, useful websites, ideas for warm-ups and an emotion wheel. All the resources can be used flexibly to support individual students, small or large groups or as part of a whole-school approach to wellbeing
