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

Mindfulness Skills for Kids &; Teens : A Workbook for Clinicans &; Clients with 154 Tools, Techniques, Activities &; Worksheets
ISBN: 9781937661571
Publication Date: 1 September 2014

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.

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.