Powerful skills to help you heal from racial stress and trauma, resist
racism in your day-to-day life, and thrive.
If you've experienced or witnessed racism or discrimination, you may
feel stressed, angry, sad, or anxious. You may have trouble focusing on
school or enjoying time with friends. And you may even have moments when
your heart races and you fear something bad will happen. You should know
that you are not alone, and what happened to you isn't your fault.
Most importantly, there are tools you can use to work through these
difficult emotions, regain your confidence, and move forward from your
experience. This workbook can help guide you, step by step.
Written by a team of experts in Black mental health and wellness and
grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this workbook offers
evidence-based strategies to help you manage emotions in the face of
race-based stress due to microaggressions, implicit bias, overt racism,
and vicarious racism. You'll also learn to find strength in your racial
and cultural identity, and gain the skills needed to resist racism and
thrive.
You'll gain tools to help you:
- Name and define your experience
- Explore how racial stress can impact your thoughts, feelings, and
behavior
- Create a "game plan" for responding to racism
- Apply what you've learned out in the world
With this workbook, you'll see that you are not alone in your
experience, and will find stress-relieving strategies you can draw on
throughout your lifetime to stay well in body and mind. Finally, you'll
learn tips for navigating discussions about race and experiences of
discrimination, so you can be empowered to stand up for what's right
and contribute to an antiracist society.
In these increasingly challenging times, kids and teens need mental
health resources more than ever. With more than 1.6 million copies sold
worldwide, Instant Help Books are easy to use, proven-effective, and
recommended by therapists.
