Books & Movies

Many of these resources are available for free through your public library. Look for them on Libby, an ebook and audiobook app from OverDrive, and Hoopla Digital, a digital library app that allows you to download ebooks, audiobooks, movies, music, comics, and TV shows.

Self-Help Books

By Mariam Gates

This is a guide that introduces teenagers to mindfulness, meditation, and yoga with examples and exercises relevant to teenagers. These practices are not easy, so the book’s colorful illustrations and tone present them in an accessible way.

By Michael Tompkins

A series of outlines and simple plans to help readers understand and manage anxiety and worry. Easy to use tools and strategies are also offered.

By Dzung X. Vo

Dr. Vo specializes in mindfulness for teens, and this book offers tips on how to incorporate mindfulness into a busy teenager’s stressful life.

By Nigel Wellings

Mindfulness is a frustrating practice, and many people encounter roadblocks in their mindfulness practices. This book offers tips on how to approach and to overcome frustrations and “setbacks” in a mindfulness practice.

By Mark Reinecke

A collection of twenty short, yet powerful, lessons and anxiety-reducing techniques that will help readers move past stressful movements.

By Mike Medaglia

A smart and beautifully illustrated guide that will help readers master the art of mindfulness.

By Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn is the creator of the mindfulness-based stress reduction program that popularized mindfulness. This book is meant for anyone who is trying to learn more about MBSR and its benefits.

Self-Help Workbooks

By Teasdale et al.

This workbook is used in many MBSR classes and gradually introduces mindfulness techniques over the course of eight weeks. Although aimed at adults, it is still appropriate for teenagers.

By Gina M. Biegel

This workbook presents appropriate mindfulness activities aimed to help teenagers learn how to cope with stress in a healthy way. It follows the MBSR program and adapts it to struggles unique to teenagers.

By Christopher Willard

This workbook uses mindfulness to help teenagers cope with anxiety. It specifically addresses situations that teenagers go through that can trigger anxiety attacks.

Fiction Books

These books all feature characters who are grappling with a variety of mental health issues. We hope that connecting with these characters will help you feel less alone during this challenging season.

By Meg Haston

Eating Disorder

This book follows Stevie's harrowing journey through loss. She feels trapped in her life and her body, and soon she is trapped in a treatment center for her eating disorder. A powerful story about giving up, starting over, and the will to survive.

By Sophie Kinsella

Anxiety

Fourteen-year old Audrey has an anxiety disorder. For a story that tackles serious issues, it's really funny.

By Neil Shusterman

Schizophrenia

Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student, and he's on a ship headed to the deepest place on earth. He documents the journey through pictures. Meanwhile, his high school friends begin to notice that his behavior is becoming increasingly unusual.

By Leila Sales

Depression

Elise is not what you would call "popular." Instead of telling the jokes, she's the punch line of the jokes. Just when she is about to give up, she meets a friend who changes everything.

By Emery Lord

Bipolar Disorder

Seventeen-year old Jonah knows loss. He lost his dad to death and his mom to depression. Struggling to hold life together for himself and his five siblings, Jonah meets Vivi and falls in love. But will love be enough?

By Holly Goldberg Sloan

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Willow Chance is the most lovable, doesn't-fit-in character you will ever meet. For everyone who has ever felt alone, or lost everyone they care about, this book will take your breath away.

By Rainbow Rowell

Anxiety

Cath and Wren are twins and huge fans of Simon Snow. Their fandom gets them through when their mother leaves. As they grow up, Wren is ready to move on. Cath isn't quite ready to let go, but she kind of has no choice. Can she make it on her own?

By John Green

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Sixteen-year-old Aza tries her best. At everything. This is a beautiful story about the battles we fight in our day-to-day lives, and in our own minds.

By Sarah Dooley

Depression

After her brother dies, Sarah has no one. In her effort to cope with unspeakable loss, she discovers poetry.

Movies

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Depression, Anxiety, Coming of Age

(2010)
Depression, Suicidal Ideation

(2003)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

(1993)
Schizophrenia

(2015)
Bipolar Disorder

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