How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess: A Guide to Building Resilience and Managing Mental Health
Ebook
Overview
Every Parent’s Guide to Supporting Their Child’s Mental Health
Increasingly, children ages 3-10 are struggling with anxiety, depression, and mental health challenges. These can be brought on by many factors--stress at home, upheavals in society, breaks in routine, isolation from friends, bullying or social pressure--and if left unaddressed, they follow kids into their teens and adulthood, causing mental, emotional, and relational problems that will steal their peace and joy.
But there is hope. Bestselling author Dr. Caroline Leaf helps you teach your kids how to
● recognize negative feelings and respond in a healthy way
● navigate a world that can feel scary and overwhelming
● manage uncomfortable or challenging situations
● replace toxic thoughts with brain-building practices that produce better outcomes
● develop resilience and emotional strength
Based on up-to-date research, clearly illustrated with case studies, and practically applied to the problems kids are facing today, How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess is what parents, caretakers, teachers, and counselors have been waiting for. Dr. Leaf shares a clear and effective five-step plan to teach your child how to manage their mind so they can live a life with greater resilience, health, and happiness.
From the Back Cover
Every Parent’s Guide to Supporting a Child’s Mental Health
Is your child struggling with toxic thoughts or mental health challenges brought on by stress, breaks in routine, isolation from friends, bullying, or social pressure? If left unaddressed, these mental messes can follow your child into their teens and adulthood, causing mental, emotional, relational, and physical problems that will steal their peace and joy in life.
If you’re seeing the signs of a mental mess, there’s hope. With deep understanding and compassion, bestselling author Dr. Caroline Leaf teaches you how to help your child
· recognize negative feelings and respond in a healthy way
· navigate a world that can feel scary and overwhelming
· manage uncomfortable or challenging situations
· replace toxic thoughts with brain-building practices that produce better outcomes
· develop resilience and emotional strength
Backed by clinical research, easy-to-understand mind-management skills, and practical application for the problems kids are facing today, How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess provides a clear and effective five-step plan to teach your child how to manage their mind so they can live a life with greater resilience, health, and happiness.
- Title: How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess: A Guide to Building Resilience and Managing Mental Health
- Author: Caroline Leaf
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781493423408, 9780801093418, 0801093414, 1493423401
- Resource ID: LLS:9781493423408
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-13T16:37:00Z
Dr. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and clinical neuroscientist whose passion is to help people see the power of the mind to change the brain and find their purpose in life. She is the USA Today bestselling author of Switch On Your Brain, Think and Eat Yourself Smart, The Perfect You, Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess, and How to Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess, among many other books and journal articles, and her videos, podcasts, and TV episodes have reached millions globally. She currently teaches at various academic, medical, and neuroscience conferences, as well as in churches around the world.