Emotional Health
Many young people experience loneliness, anxiety, depression, and burnout. Learn how to deal with your emotions.
Negative Emotions
How Can I Control My Emotions?
Emotional ups and downs are common among young people but can also be confusing. The good news, though, is that you can understand your emotions and learn to control them.
Gaining Control Over Your Negative Emotions
This worksheet is designed to help you cope with swings in emotion.
How Can I Avoid Negative Thinking?
You can learn to cultivate positive thinking by following these suggestions.
How Can I Deal With Depression?
These coping strategies can help you take the necessary steps toward healing.
Working Through Sadness
What can help you lift your mood when you feel down?
From Sad to Glad
What can you do if you are overwhelmed with sadness?
How to Deal With Loneliness
Chronic loneliness is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. How can you avoid feeling left out and lonely?
How Can I Deal With Anxiety?
Five tips can help you make anxiety work for you rather than against you.
How Can I Control My Anger?
Five scriptures can help you to stay calm when you’re provoked.
How to Tame Your Temper
Five Bible-based steps can help you to control your anger.
Am I a Perfectionist?
How can you tell the difference between trying to do your best and chasing an impossible ideal?
Learning to Be Less Than Perfect
This worksheet can help you to be reasonable in what you expect of yourself and others.
Challenges
How to Deal With Change
Change is all but inevitable. Consider what some have done to deal with it successfully.
How Resilient Am I?
Because adversity is inevitable, it’s important for you to build resilience, no matter how trivial or how serious your problems may be.
How Can I Cope With Grief?
It takes time for intense grief to subside. Consider the suggestions in this article, and see which ones are most helpful to you.
How Can I Deal With Tragedy?
Young people relate what helped them to cope.
When a Parent Dies
The loss of a parent is a devastating blow. What can help young people manage the range of emotions that are sure to follow?
What if I Don’t Want to Live Anymore?
Four practical tips that can help you overcome the feeling that your life isn’t worth living.
What if I’m Being Bullied?
Many who are bullied feel helpless. This article explains what can be done to improve the situation.
How Can I Cope With Bullying?
You might not change the bully, but you can change your reaction.
Beat a Bully Without Using Your Fists
Learn why bullying happens and how you can deal with it successfully.
What if I’m Being Cyberbullied?
What you should know, and what you can do to protect yourself.
How to Silence a Cyberbully
This worksheet will help you to weigh the pros and cons of several options and to create an action plan to silence the bully.
How Is Social Media Affecting Me?
Social media is addictive. These suggestions can help you stay in control.
How Can I Deal With Puberty?
Learn what to expect and how to deal with the changes successfully.
Why Do I Cut Myself?
Self-injury is a problem for many young people. If you have resorted to this behavior, how can you get help?
How Can I Prevent Burnout?
What causes this condition? Are you at risk? If so, what can you do about it?
Recovering From a Breakup
The steps in this worksheet can help you move forward.
What Should I Know About Sexual Assault?—Part 2: Recovery
Read firsthand expressions from abuse victims who have recovered.