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Review of Building Self Esteem in Teens
[Following is an official OnlineBookClub.org review of "Building Self Esteem in Teens" by Scott Douglas.]
Being a teenager is one of those stages in life that requires resilience and appropriate guidance. This is sometimes where events that occur may scar you for life. In his book Building Self-Esteem in Teens, Scott Douglas offers a 7-step roadmap to great self-esteem. In this book, we can see how different factors influence a teenager's self-esteem. He explains these factors, how they work, and how to tackle them. His strategy involves including parents on this road and directly addresses teens and parents. At the end of the book, he also expounds on the parents' part, teaching them how to help teens on this road.
Scott Douglas provided a great introduction and explained how it feels to look down on yourself. I also realized how it feels to see someone else suffer from a problem you know well. This provides a good foundation for a teen going through these issues or a parent who knows how this feels and can see the struggle in their kids. He tackles different aspects that all round out to building self-esteem, including body image, self-awareness, and even relationships with others.
Building Self-Esteem in Teens is well-researched, with references to the sources provided in the book. Scott Douglas has collected all the valuable information a teen needs in one accessible format, including new knowledge for everyone. He provides thinking points at the end of each chapter that help the reader recap the topic they just read. The book includes practical solutions and explains why things might not have worked out in a preferred way (in a few instances).
However much I enjoyed some aspects of this book, there were a few aspects to criticize. This book provided a good introduction, and the title seeks to enlighten teens more. The introduction makes the reader feel included, but as I began the book, it tended to address parents more and not the people facing the problem. The author specified that the book is for both teens and parents, and thus a connection has to be established with the teens. This also occurred in more instances in the book.
I also noticed that this book was not exhaustive. For example, when challenging your negative self-talk, what if your negative thoughts are true and you know it? Even if you don't, what if you still think they are true? How does one go about this? I believe more information needs to be added to the book since it focuses in one direction.
I rate Building Self Esteem in Teens: Accept Who You Are, Manage Emotions, Become Self-Confident, and Accomplish Your Goals to Be the Person You Want to Be by Scott Douglas 3 out of 5 stars. This book is a needed source of guidance for many teens and parents. The editing was also professionally done, and I was impressed with it. However, I deducted two stars because the book has more potential and requires more information. I also recommend that, in a world where everything is fed into the reader concerning mental health, engaging the reader more using the thinking points should be done. This would involve asking the reader to identify areas and how they can or have applied this in their daily lives. This will help in identifying and creating plans to counter these issues. It would be a timely intervention that elevates the book and helps teenagers.
All the aspects mentioned will help improve the book's content and level of helping others. Even before that is accomplished, I recommend this book to teenagers and parents, as already mentioned by the author. Even as an individual in their early adulthood, reading this book will take you a long way to where you want to be.
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Building Self Esteem in Teens
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Being a teenager is one of those stages in life that requires resilience and appropriate guidance. This is sometimes where events that occur may scar you for life. In his book Building Self-Esteem in Teens, Scott Douglas offers a 7-step roadmap to great self-esteem. In this book, we can see how different factors influence a teenager's self-esteem. He explains these factors, how they work, and how to tackle them. His strategy involves including parents on this road and directly addresses teens and parents. At the end of the book, he also expounds on the parents' part, teaching them how to help teens on this road.
Scott Douglas provided a great introduction and explained how it feels to look down on yourself. I also realized how it feels to see someone else suffer from a problem you know well. This provides a good foundation for a teen going through these issues or a parent who knows how this feels and can see the struggle in their kids. He tackles different aspects that all round out to building self-esteem, including body image, self-awareness, and even relationships with others.
Building Self-Esteem in Teens is well-researched, with references to the sources provided in the book. Scott Douglas has collected all the valuable information a teen needs in one accessible format, including new knowledge for everyone. He provides thinking points at the end of each chapter that help the reader recap the topic they just read. The book includes practical solutions and explains why things might not have worked out in a preferred way (in a few instances).
However much I enjoyed some aspects of this book, there were a few aspects to criticize. This book provided a good introduction, and the title seeks to enlighten teens more. The introduction makes the reader feel included, but as I began the book, it tended to address parents more and not the people facing the problem. The author specified that the book is for both teens and parents, and thus a connection has to be established with the teens. This also occurred in more instances in the book.
I also noticed that this book was not exhaustive. For example, when challenging your negative self-talk, what if your negative thoughts are true and you know it? Even if you don't, what if you still think they are true? How does one go about this? I believe more information needs to be added to the book since it focuses in one direction.
I rate Building Self Esteem in Teens: Accept Who You Are, Manage Emotions, Become Self-Confident, and Accomplish Your Goals to Be the Person You Want to Be by Scott Douglas 3 out of 5 stars. This book is a needed source of guidance for many teens and parents. The editing was also professionally done, and I was impressed with it. However, I deducted two stars because the book has more potential and requires more information. I also recommend that, in a world where everything is fed into the reader concerning mental health, engaging the reader more using the thinking points should be done. This would involve asking the reader to identify areas and how they can or have applied this in their daily lives. This will help in identifying and creating plans to counter these issues. It would be a timely intervention that elevates the book and helps teenagers.
All the aspects mentioned will help improve the book's content and level of helping others. Even before that is accomplished, I recommend this book to teenagers and parents, as already mentioned by the author. Even as an individual in their early adulthood, reading this book will take you a long way to where you want to be.
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Building Self Esteem in Teens
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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