Break free from anxiety and manage stress with simple strategies and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques in this straightforward and encouraging handbook.

• Identify your most common anxiety triggers
• Learn essential coping skills to prevent anxiety attacks
• Redirect risky behavior, including substance abuse and self-harm
• Understand the options of therapy and medication
• Overcome the spike-and-relapse cycle

TOPICAL MATERIAL: Authors will include sections on social media culture, online bullying, school shootings, and other topical stressors teens have to deal with in the 2020s.

ACCREDITED AUTHORS: Dr. Tom McDonagh is a licensed clinical psychologist working in multiple practices in California. Jon Patrick Hatcher is a nonfiction writer with many years of experience writing about various types of therapy and has an ongoing column on Psychology Today.

EVER GROWING CONCERN FOSTERS NEW READERS: According to the CDC, approximately 5.8 million children have been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder (in 2016 to 2019), and approximately 1 in 3 experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness (in 2018 to 2019). Resources to help teens with these conditions and feelings will be continuously needed.

INTERNATIONAL STATS: The WHO states that globally, one in seven 10-19-year-olds experiences a mental disorder, accounting for 13% of the global burden of disease in this age group. Among those aged 6 to 16 in England, one in six had a probable mental health condition in 2021, up from one in nine in 2017.