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Teens: Mental Health and Well-being

Resources a for teens offering information, guidance, and stories on a variety of topics including depression, anxiety, grief and disordered eating. This list includes both non fiction, fiction and graphic novels.

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  • How We Grow Up

    Understanding Adolescence

    Richtel, Matt,
    The transition from childhood to adulthood is a natural, evolution-honed cycle that now faces radical change and challenge. The adolescent brain, sculpted for this transition over eons of evolution, confronts a modern world that creates so much…
    Book, 2025New York : Mariner Books, [2025] — 155.5 RIC
  • Grief Recovery for Teens

    Letting Go of Painful Emotions With Body-based Practices

    Popowitz, Coral,
    Did you know that when you experience a loss, it can affect both your mind and body? If you've lost someone you love or are close to, you may feel sadness, anger, loneliness, or fear. You might get headaches or stomachaches, feel exhausted or numb,…
    Book, 2017Oakland, CA : Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc., [2017] — YP 155.9370835 POP
  • How to Manage Your Eco-anxiety

    An Empowering Guide for Young People

    Grose, Anouchka,
    How does climate change make you feel? Sad? Afraid? Powerless? Guilty? Manage your eco-anxiety with this helpful guide. You'll finish this book feeling equipped with solutions and practical advice to help you be kinder to the planet...and yourself.
    Book, 2024New York : Magic Cat Publishing, 2024. — YP 155.915 GRO
  • Your New Playlist

    the Student's Guide to Tapping Into the Superpower of Mindset

    Acuff, Jonathan,
    "Popular speaker and New York Times bestselling author partners with his daughters to help teens tackle overthinking by replacing self-defeating thoughts with a positive, healthy mindset that pushes them forward in life rather than holding them back"
    Book, 2022Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2022] — YP 155.419 ACU
  • Mindfulness For Teen Depression

    A Workbook For Improving Your Mood

    Abblett, Mitch R.
    With this powerful workbook, you’ll learn effective skills based in mindfulness and positive psychology to help you manage difficult emotions, gain distance from negative thoughts, and enhance your awareness of the present moment. You’ll also…
    Book, 2016Raincoast Books 2016/05 — YP 616.852700835 ABB
  • Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety

    a Workbook for Overcoming Anxiety at Home, at School, & Everywhere Else

    Willard, Christopher (Psychologist),
    "It's hard enough being a teen without having to worry about panic attacks, chronic worry, and feelings of isolation. In Mindfulness for Teen Anxiety, a psychologist offers teen readers proven-effective, mindfulness-based practices to help them cope…
    Book, 2014Oakland, California : New Harbinger Publications, Inc., 2014. — YP 155.51246 WIL
  • An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey's daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother's gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk…
    Book, 2016Toronto, Ontario : Doubleday Canada, [2016] — YP KIN
  • In this moving graphic novel, sisters Lucy and Olivia find their bond tested as one of them grapples with an eating disorder.
    Book, 2022New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2022. — GN J WIL
  • "In this novel for middle readers, a group of young teens gather for Grief Camp, where they confront their feelings and try to understand how grief affects everyone differently."
    Book, 2018Victoria, British Columbia : Orca Book Publishers, [2018] — J POL
  • Brave Face

    a Memoir : How I Survived Growing Up, Coming Out, and Depression

    Hutchinson, Shaun David,
    Hutchinson lays bare his high-school and early college years—his coming out, the resulting family tension, friendship difficulties, depression, self-harm, failed relationships, a suicide attempt—in this razor-sharp, deeply revealing, and brutally…
    Book, 2019New York : Simon Pulse, 2019. — YP 616.85 HUT