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This practical self-help guide introduces "Psychological Fitness" - a powerful combination of mental resilience and emotional well-being that can transform how your child navigates life's challenges. It provides brain training methods that parents and teachers can adopt and use to foster the skills and knowledge in children and young people, so they can navigate and live in this uncertain and changing world.
This book shares simple, proven techniques developed over two decades of successful programs with children and young people. You'll find easy-to-implement tools that help children express their worries and build their own solutions, alongside effective brain training methods that promote both mental and physical health. This guide empowers you to help your child embrace their unique identity and develop crucial life skills. Through practical exercises, your child will build a foundation of resilient thinking, emotional awareness, optimism, and empathy—essential abilities that support their wellbeing now and throughout adulthood.
Whether you're a parent or work with children professionally, this straightforward guide offers life-changing opportunities to support the young people in your care. The refreshingly simple techniques can be implemented right away, creating lasting positive impacts on mental and emotional health.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. 5
Introduction. 6
The importance of parents. 6
Imagine this. 7
What is psychological fitness?. 7
Learning the skills. 8
Why psychological fitness is needed now more than ever 11
Bringing the expertise to life in the real world. 11
Chapter 1: Being a Child is Different Now: teaching your teenagers well 14
Human connection matters. 15
The power of sleep. 16
The information technology revolution. 17
Unhappy teenagers. 21
Summary. 23
Chapter 2: Our Amazing Brains. 24
The Prefrontal Cortex (PFC) 24
The Limbic System.. 25
Happy healthy teenagers. 26
Ages and stages for building psychological fitness. 26
Babyhood. 27
Children. 27
Adolescence. 28
Young Adults. 28
Neurodiversity. 29
Summary. 30
Activities for teenagers. 30
Chapter 3: The Art of Self-Regulation: using our emotions strategically. 33
Theories of emotions. 33
The happiness pie. 35
The role of positive emotions. 36
Taking action: strategies for harnessing positive emotions. 38
The energy and emotions grid. 40
Something for you to try. 46
Practicing the strategies. 47
Imagine this. 48
Summary. 50
Activities for teenagers. 51
Chapter 4: Slow And Steady: the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. 58
Something to try. 59
The ABC of mental resilience. 60
Something to try. 62
Imagine this. 65
ABC Watch outs. 67
Paying attention to our beliefs. 68
Imagine this. 69
Don't sweat the small stuff, or should we?. 70
Summary. 71
Activities for teenagers. 72
Chapter 5: Don't Believe Everything You Think: Reframing with optimism.. 75
Me habit 76
Them habit 77
Always habit 77
Patterns of thinking. 78
Imagine this. 78
The process for reframing. 80
Listening with empathy. 81
Summary. 81
Activities for teenagers. 81
Chapter 6: Why Did I React That Way? Identifying what matters most 85
Something to try. 85
Big sticky beliefs. 86
Understanding what really matters to me. 87
Imagine this. 87
Ask what, not why. 89
What Carla did next 90
Imagine this. 92
Summary. 93
Activities for teenagers. 94
Chapter 7: Where the super powers begin. 95
The difference between self-efficacy and self esteem.. 95
The difference between empathy and sympathy. 97
The difference between general praise and process praise. 99
Imagine this. 101
The difference between optimism and pessimism.. 101
Keeping lines of communication open. 102
Communication Technique. 105
Imagine this. 106
Summary. 107
Communication activity for teenagers. 107
Chapter 8: The Sky is Falling In: when our thinking snowballs. 110
What is catastrophic thinking?. 111
Imagine this. 111
Why does this happen?. 112
What can we do about it?. 112
Back to Ella. 114
Something to try. 117
Summary. 118
Activities for teenagers. 118
Chapter 9: One Step Beyond: The power of moving on. 125
Confirmation bias. 125
Imagine this. 126
Pause for reflection. 127
What's the goal?. 127
Something to try. 128
Imagine this. 129
Summary. 131
Activities for teenagers. 132
Chapter 10: Making it Real: Resilience in action. 134
Practise, fast and slow.. 134
Where learning takes place. 135
Something to try. 136
Using process praise to encourage growth. 136
Shortcut skills that help us to get through. 137
Imagine This. 138
Something to try. 141
Nurturing the optimistic muscle. 142
Reasons not to teach short cuts to teenagers. 143
Summary. 143
Chapter 11: You Are One of a Kind: using unique strengths to thrive. 145
Lucy's early career 146
Things I love about people. 147
Something to think about 149
Imagine this. 150
Something to try. 152
Activity for the whole family. 153
Summary. 153
Chapter 12: A Messy Kind of Magic: achieving mastery of the skills. 155
Remember this?. 155
The Spiral Effect 158
Imagine this. 159
Spot the difference: the behaviours of psychological fitness. 162
Summary. 164
Chapter 13: Reflections on the Future of Parenting. 166
Balancing the analogue and digital worlds. 166
Education is better than prevention. 166
Mastering the skills. 167
Books for children. 167
Suggested reading for adults. 168
