The Teen Girl's Survival Guide: Ten Tips for Making Friends, Avoiding Drama, and Coping with Social Stress

by Lucie Hemmen

Overview

As a teen girl, you are likely feeling pressure and stress from every direction. Having good, healthy relationships with friends you can count on makes all the difference. In this guide, psychologist and teen expert Lucie Hemmen offers ten tips to guide you toward creating and maintaining the social life you want. Even better, the real experts that make this guide special are older teen girls who have recently been where you are now—and have plenty to say about it.

As you move through this fun and engaging guide, you will get a sense of who you are as a friend, appreciate authentic qualities you can share with others, and get moving toward expanding the quality and quantity of your social connections. Before you know it, small steps will lead to big changes and you will find yourself more confident, connected, and happy.

Grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), the ten tips guide you in developing yourself in both simple and significant ways. You will engage in thought-provoking exercises and take fun quizzes spaced between tips to get you thinking more deeply about yourself and others. If you’re ready to get going on your social life, this book will show you the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626253087
Publisher:	New Harbinger Publications
Publication date:	11/01/2015
Series:	Instant Help Solutions Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	605 KB
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Lucie Hemmen, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in working with teens and their parents in private practice while raising two teen girls of her own, Marley and Daisy. She is author of Parenting a Teen Girl, and has written The Teen Girl’s Survival Guide for girls who identify social stress as a top concern. Hemmen lives and practices in Santa Cruz, CA.
Lucie Hemmen, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice in Santa Cruz, CA. For more than twenty years she has worked with teens, their parents, and their communities in programs designed to maximize health and well-being. She is mother of two daughters, and author of Parenting a Teen Girl, The Teen Girl’s Survival Guide, and The Teen Girl’s Anxiety Survival Guide.

Interviews

Hemmen resides in Santa Cruz, CA.

Editorial Reviews

“Finally, the guidebook to adolescence so many women I know wish they’d had, but can now offer their daughters, patients, students, and friends.”
—Christopher Willard, PsyD, author of Child’s Mind and Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School

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