Warning! This book could seriously improve your happiness. With Dr. Sharie's carefully devised Choose You! process, teens will discover how to take control of deciding who they want to be. Choose You! is for teenagers who want to... - Be challenged by thought-provoking ideas - Learn about the neuroscience of the teenage brain - Discover philosophical and psychological concepts - Complete activities and find out how they can reinvent themselves and build self-confidence. Focusing on obtaining personal happiness, this book contains psychology with aspects of science, philosophy, practical advice and therapeutic concepts. The interactive exercises throughout the book will guide the teenager through the Choose You! process, helping them uncover the person that they choose to be.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 12-17 years.

There are 288 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2020 by Bonnier Books Ltd .

Dr Sharie Coombes is a former primary teacher, headteacher and local authority adviser and consultant who retrained as a child and family psychodynamic psychotherapist, neuropsychotherapist, solution-focused therapist, and specialist paediatric hypnotherapist. Sharie gained a doctorate in education from the University of Brighton in 2007 and is an expert in the therapeutic use of linguistic patterns. She has worked part-time as a child, adolescent and family psychotherapist at the NHS Tavistock Clinic in London with adopted and fostered children, young people and families. Alongside a busy private therapy practice in Brighton, Sharie now works as a volunteer psychosocial practitioner in the British Red Cross with the Refugee Support and International Family Tracing team. Sharie has 2 adult children. Accredited by: British Psychoanalytic Council, Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists, Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council, General Hypnotherapy Register