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Life Guide for Teens: Harnessing Your Inner Power to be Healthy, Happy, and Confident

Ran D. Anbar

The Life Guide for Teens is a new kind of self-help book for young adults. In clear, empowering terms, this book takes a deep dive into the most prevalent wellness concerns for teens, guiding readers through topics such as learning to tamp down anxiety, navigating tough decisions, communicating effectively, and dealing with media input overload.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Publish Date: Mar 15th, 2025
  • Pages: 280
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.58in - 5.59in - 0.94in - 1.05lb
  • EAN: 9781538191415
  • Recommended age: 12-20
  • Categories: Social Topics - Emotions & FeelingsSocial Topics - FriendshipReference

About the Author

Anbar, Ran D.: - Ran D. Anbar, MD, FAAP, is board certified in both pediatric pulmonology and general pediatrics. He offers counseling and hypnosis services at Center Point Medicine in La Jolla, California, and in Syracuse, New York. Dr. Anbar is the author of the acclaimed Changing Children's Lives with Hypnosis: A Journey to the Center (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), as well as a regular columnist for Psychology Today Online. Dr. Anbar is the founder of Center Point Medicine, serving the mission of making mental health care more accessible for children. He lives in La Jolla, California.

Praise for this book

The Life Guide for Teens: Harnessing Your Inner Power to be Healthy, Happy, and Confident, with its insightful overview and practical tips for teens and parents alike, has the potential to be a beacon of invaluable empowerment.

--Dandan Pan, founder of Haddee Education

Another Homerun! In TheLife Guide For Teens, Dr. Ran Anbar once again displays his exceptional ability to communicate, teach, and inspire. Dr. Anbar has discovered a literary formula: he presents psychological principles in an enticing way to a population not always eager to learn from grown-ups. And he simultaneously helps parents better read the road signs of adolescence. His suggestions, both psychological and behavioral, are always spot-on. A must-read for all ages!

--Lewis J. Kass, MD, FAAP, Section Chief, Pediatric Pulmonology, Sleep Medicine and Clinical Hypnosis, Valley Mount Sinai Health Paramus

The Life Guide for Teens is a wonderful new book. It provides teens with innovative, down-to-earth guidelines filled with examples and new skills for better, healthier, and more satisfying experiences in daily living. It is a resourceful treasure for teens, parents, teachers, and clinicians.

--Moshe S. Torem, MD, distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and professor of psychiatry at Northeast Ohio Medical University

Dr. Anbar distills decades of experience working with teens into this excellent compendium of self-help techniques written just for them. The perspectives, tools, and stories contained within its pages can empower teens to fortify their mental health and enhance their resilience. As an integrative pediatrician who teaches children to harness the power of their minds in positive ways, I love to share this book with my own teen patients!

--Marina Capella, MD, MEd, Healing Arts Pediatrics

I've known Dr. Anbar for over 30 years and watched the amazing care he gives kids through teaching them mind/body regulation techniques and about self-actualization. He is now sharing his learnings and teachings in an easy-to-read format to help teens and their families with practical tips to deal with their stress, pain, and overall health. This is a great resource for everyone who knows a teen, with practical advice for people of all ages.

--Cheryl Beighle, MD, Integrative Pediatrician

In The Life Guide for Teens, Dr. Anbar has taken his vast experience in caring for adolescents (and raising some too!) to a new and unique dimension. This delightfully easy-to-read, accessible book will grab and engage teens. Each new chapter begins with a real patient's case story and is followed by tools that are easy to learn and do-able right away. Equally importantly, each chapter includes "Teen to Teen" advice from other adolescents with similar problems and insightful notes for parents. Each chapter thus reminds teens to talk with parents and parents to talk with their teens - advice of inestimable value.

--Daniel P. Kohen, MD, FAAP, Director, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics program; Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Family Medicine & Community Health, University of Minnesota (retired)

The Life Guide for Teens is truly an all-encompassing playbook for living a stable and satisfying life.

--Brandon Joe, co-founder of Treasure Hacks

I wish I could have had this book to recommend to teens during my 50-year career in clinical pediatrics. Dr. Anbar speaks to them in a conversational, direct, practical and optimistic way. In his unique, engaging fashion, he reveals that he understands their predicaments, respects their resilience, and empowers them to make self-directed and beneficial changes. His words comprise a library of ideas, guided imagery, and language tools from which they can choose as they encounter challenging situations.

--F. Ralph Berberich, MD, FAAP, author of How to Be a Good Doctor in Under in Hour and co-author of The Available Pediatrician