About the Author. Acknowledgements. Information for Parents and Practitioners. Introduction. 1. What is Stress? 2. You're Not on Your Own: Stress in Other Young People. 3. My Stress. 4. The Stress Gremlin: How Stress Occurs. 5. Effects of Stress. 6. Starving the Stress Gremlin: An Introduction to Stress Management. 7. Starving the Stress Gremlin: Managing Your Thoughts. 8. Starving the Stress Gremlin: Managing Your Behaviours. 9. Stress Do's and Don'ts. 10. Summing Up! Appendices.
From the award winning CBT series, worksheets and fun activities to help children aged 10+ to starve their stress gremlin
Kate Collins-Donnelly has worked as a therapist, psychologist, criminologist and anger management consultant based in the UK for many years. She presently runs a successful independent consultancy practice which provides cognitive behavioural therapy, counselling, coaching and training, and is head of the Psychological and Criminological Research Division. She is the author of Starving the Anger Gremlin, Starving the Anxiety Gremlin and Starving the Stress Gremlin.
The book is a good, basic stress management resource for those
working with the 10 years and older age group, including
counsellors, therapists, social workers and school counsellors.
Alternatively, it can also be worked through by a young person on
their own, or with a parent.
The Stress Gremlin character brings an element of humour and
fantasy to the book... The book is full of simple exercises to help
young people develop self-awareness and insight into how they
currently cope with stress, and particularly how their thoughts
relate to their behaviour and actions... Collins-Donnelly has
developed an evaluation sheet that can be used alongside the book
to help monitor your progress... I am sure young people who read
Starving the stress gremlin will get a good grounding in the basics
of stress management, feel better resourced and more confident in
the fight against their own Stress Gremlin.
*MentalHealth.org.nz*
Collins-Donnelly provides three CBT workbooks targeting stress,
anxiety and anger. A great feature of these books is that they are
geared towards teens. Although the book itself states it is for
youth aged 10+, the book is most appropriate for older teens. The
gremlin character is accessible for youth, without being too cute
and babyish for this age group. The extensive use of visuals and
repetition of topics and concepts makes this series a good fit for
youth on the spectrum. The workbooks encourage writing and drawing,
and youth who enjoy and have strength in reading will be able to
benefit... Overall, these workbooks serve as a great introduction
to cognitive behavioral therapy and can serve as a great adjunct to
in-person psychotherapy. Teens are taught to identify the sources
of their stress, anger, and anxiety as well as the thoughts that
accompany these feelings. "Starving the gremlin" serves as a great
metaphor for changing your thoughts to change your behavior.
*"On The Specturm" Magazine*
This is a recommended read for any young person who has difficulty
coping with stress. It is a practical guide that is easily to
follow, and innovative. Young people who 'work' through this book
will gain insights as well as coping strategies about the
day-to-day challenges of stress.
*Raychelle Cassada Lohmann, MS, LPC, professional school counselor
and author of The Anger Workbook for Teens and co-author of The
Bullying Workbook for Teens*
Starving the Stress Gremlin is clearly a workbook... he book is
designed to be teenager-friendly : it uses cartoons and diagrams
effectively and contains a number of quizzes and questions which
are likely to appeal... the overall presentation of the book is
excellent... There are lots of examples of stress-inducing thinking
and these are helpfully categorised and structured which reinforces
the reality that a young person is not alone in thinking this way -
it is a common part of human experience... Starving the Stress
Gremlin is a good introduction to CBT for young people and
parents.
*Wellbeing Mentor blog*
Fun activities, including quizzes, work sheets, questionnaires,
crosswords, and word searches.... presented in an attractive format
in order to interest and engage children aged 10+..... These books
would be useful for professionals who are already working with
children, but would like to introduce a more activity based
approach or extend the range of materials which they already
use.
*ACPNL Magazine*
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