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Fighting Invisible Tigers: Stress Management for Teens

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This enjoyable, easy-read offers proven, practical advice to adolescents interested in acquiring stress and life management skills. Adults working with teens will find this book a valuable resource for helping adolescents understand what happens when they are stressed to the limits of their coping ability. The section "Self-Care for Tiger Bites" offers immediate first aid for those times when fast relief is needed to relieve overwhelming levels of stress. Using this book, teenagers and adults alike can crack the whip and tame the stress within.

I find this book, despite its small size & simple layout, to be an excellent guide/resource for teens.

The analogy is interesting. When life is very stressful, it can feel as if you're in a jungle with lots of dangerous tigers --ferocious, hungry, invisible tigers, quietly stalking you.

It covers everything from being assertive to building relationships, taking risks, making decisions, staying healthy, dealing with fears, using positive self-talk, & even growing a funny bone. There is also a "Self-Care for Tiger Bites" section which offers ready "first aid" for teens who need quick relief.

Parents &/or educators who are also interested in this book, are advised to get hold of the Leader's Guide. It is designed to support & enhance the messages of the Student Book with a step-by-step curriculum in a dozen of easy-to-use sessions. It comes with two dozens of reproducible handout masters.

Kudos to the authors for these two excellent guides/resources!

I would strongly recommend readers to check out the publisher's website. They have an extensive repertoire of excellent guides/resources for kids, teens, parents as well as educators.

Anxious and troubled and confused teens (most of the teen populations) will carry this portable guide to survival for several days and come away reassured that they are not alone, and come away with useful skills to make life better and easier. Even the teen readers like it!!

This book is excellent because the author deals
definitively with the classic "stressors" in the lives
of most students. The presentation provides practical
coping strategies to identify stress and deal with it
in a timely and constructive manner. There is coverage
of the breathing techniques for greater oxygenation,
as well as strategies to handle limited time and
seemingly hostile peers and relevant others.

The book advises students to do the following:
o be assertive so that we have the time to attend to priorities
o build personal relationships
o take calculated risks in our decision-making
o make decisions over analysis paralysis
o stay healthy because we cannot do difficult sustained work
unless we are healthy
o deal with fear constructively and within the bounds of
people and things we can control

Overall, the volume would be a tremendous resource in order
to assist students with personal planning at school and elsewhere.

My Teen fell asleep 3 times trying to get through this book and still hasn't finished it. I tried reading it and found it was too slow paced for my liking. We are all avid readers so Im trying to be fair with this review. There are good methods in this book but the way the book is written unfortunately isn't very appealing to teens.

I bought this book (the revised/updated version) to review and possibly use for a teen girls support group I am leading. I was very pleased with what I got! It is very straightforward and really tries to reach young people where they're at, using pretty relevant examples. I bookmarked so many of the pages and it's been very helpful to refer to as I lead discussion in the group. It also has really practical suggestions for coping skills. I would recommend this to parents, school leaders and mental health professionals to talk through with a teen. I would have liked to see a little more about the whole world of social networking and how that impacts teens today. But there's room for that in discussion.
Thanks so much!

-Sarah Baker MAMFT
Atlanta, Ga
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The teen years are some of the more stressful of people's lives - high school, hormones ranging, preparing for the future. Now in a fully revised and informatively updated new edition, "Fighting Invisible Tigers: Stress Management for Teens" is a guide book for teenagers who need to reduce the stress in their hectic lives. "Fighting Invisible Tigers" outlines ten techniques that will assist teens in their desire to control their stress, such as breathing and relaxation exercises, time management, dealing with hostile peers/family/friends, and embracing an optimistic outlook. A top pick for community library parenting collections.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

This book was the original version---over 20 years old and was so dated that I sent it back to the seller about 2 weeks ago and have yet to hear from them. If there had been any information about the date of publication available when I ordered it, I never would have prodeeded with the order. I am very disappointed and now I must follow up with the seller again!!!