this is a great book in terms of content - helpful for anxious/sensitive kids and just for promoting a growth mindset type of approach. my children 9 and 11 required me to help them and work through it with them

I love using this workbook for my therapy clients. It is easy to understand and has made an impact. Thank you for creating this!

I read this to help my children with issues they have stemming from their anxiety.

They really liked the activities and felt like the book really guided them through the steps. My children are on the top end of the recommended ages of 7-12 and they had no issues with thinking it was too young.

I would recommend this book to help guide children to resilience.

The Resilience Workbook for Kids is a great resource for kids, parents, educators, and counsellors. The lessons are explained in relatable, kid-friendly ways using everyday examples that children can understand and appreciate. There is a wide variety of activities that are fun and informative. Thank you Netgalley for an eARC of this thorough educational tool

Great workbook with lots of strategies for kids to deal with stress and to develop inner resilience. Very useful in my job as a school counselor. Would recommend for those doing brief work with children.

This book was really good. I really like the way this book gave understandable examples of what to write in each section. This book is split up into easy to understand activities will will help your child to build there resilience and understand that emotions are in no way wrong or to be hidden and how to deal with emotions that are harder to understand this books targeted audience is for 7 to 12 year old. But at the lower of the age range it may probably need to be explained and worked through with an adult . It would be more understandable for ages 10 to 14 I would of thought. As the educational systems get harder. I often find books like this one is needed more and more to help children avoid the stress of it all. Also you working together on certain tasks together I found help my child know I'm there for her. I have been through it all and I believe she can do it. Makes that special bond . The most important message both I and my daughter learnt from this book is the 3 levels of stress and how to understand and deal with them. And simple tasks like changing your wording it was brilliant and so useful learning this skill. That helps raise children to be confident in there own abilities and are better to cope with the stresses of everyday life. I'm am glad I read this book.

Many thanks to the author and publishers for producing this very good guide that was really useful skills for life.

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What I liked:
--The book was well organized and the format was consistent across the sections, making it easy and familiar for readers to navigate
--Multiple approaches were used to explain and demonstrate each concept to engage all sorts of learners
--There was so much practical advice, and it was clearly communicated. This will be incredibly useful.
--Lots of real-life examples were used to help readers relate to issues or ideas described.
--Scripts were offered for how to have challenging conversations
--The authors managed to thread the needle between advocating for positive thinking and optimism without veering too heavily into toxic positivity.

What concerned me:
--There was some questionable advice around nutrition. The whole "8 glasses of water" thing has been pretty thoroughly debunked and the language around food wasn't entirely value neutral (i.e. some choices defined as "better", etc.)
--So many acronyms! I will never remember all of them.
--I couldn't decide who the appropriate audience would be for independent reading. The book is quite text-heavy and the writing is fairly sophisticated, which would suggest a middle-grades audience, but the activities and tone seemed to skew younger. I'm not sure a younger child could use it effectively and I'm not sure an older child would relate.

I think this would be a great resource for teachers as well as school psychologists, social workers, and resource officers. It could easily be broken into small individual lessons or units and might be most effective that way.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!

The Resilience Workbook for Kids breaks down skill-building into "learn it," "do it," and "strengthen it" to support learning and applying strategies to build resilience.

This workbook would be a great tool to work through with children in upper elementary or lower middle school school who are experiencing life stressors typical to development, and I think that this is a great tool for school social workers and counselors, as well as anyone delivering SEL curriculum at that age group.

I think that this workbook would be particularly helpful directed and supported by an adult. While the skills here are great and the language is age-appropriate without speaking down to kids, I don''t know many kids who would be engaged enough by the activities here to complete this independently.

I love that the author used the term "special adult" here in lieu of "parent" or "caregiver," and the way that the book describes stress, mindfulness, and other concepts in kid-appropriate language.

I'll absolutely pick up a copy of this to pull from in my clinical sessions with kids. However, I would not recommend that this book be used with children who have experienced trauma (not that it's designed to) without further consultation or discussion with a trauma-informed provider, as the way that the book works to normalize stress could feel minimizing to children with significant trauma histories.

The Resilience Workbook for Kids is a wonderful resource for children (and parents) to help their kids learn to be resilient, identify their emotions, and create a positive pathway to the future. While this is advertised for 5 to 12-year-olds, I really think it is better suited for a more narrow range of 7-10. I feel the younger ones wouldn't quite be ready for these particular activities and the older crowd may not find them "cool" enough. That being said, the content is on-point, and is great for kids to work through with the help of a special adult. The lessons can be done one at a time or a section at a time, lending individualized flexibility to the reader. This workbook would be great for families, teachers, and therapists working with elementary-aged kids.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

The Resilience Workbook for Kids by Caren Baruch-Feldman and Rebecca Comizio is an activity workbook for kids that will teach them about how to rebound from setbacks. According to the description, "designed for kids ages 7 to 12, this workbook provides actionable techniques to help kids cope with stress, manage powerful emotions, and grow through life’s challenges."

Overall, The Resilience Workbook for Kids is a helpful activity book with very important lessons about resilience. Although I appreciate the authors' intent and the purpose of this book, I can't imagine using this workbook. One of the problems is that I'm not sure that this book is actually appropriate for the stated age group. The copious amounts of text make this book more appropriate for middle school, but the text asks kids to do activities with their "special adult." It's like the authors were trying to target too many ages at once. If you're intrigued by the description, you can check out this book when it comes out in April.

In my opinion I found this to workbook hard to follow with the exercises in trying to apply the lesson. I couldn’t see how a pre-teen-aged can grasp the material. I tried to see if I could use some of these tools for my kids but I even had difficulty comprehending some concepts. I noticed the images were helpful and the way CBT thoughts were broken down were well done.I don’t think this would be one of the workbooks I can use in daily life with my kids.

A solid overview of the key concepts and strategies relevant to maximizing the ability to successfully navigate life's inevitable challenges. Parents and kids will benefit from this careful discussion of an important topic for all of us.

This book is fantastic. It's formulated well and helps kids better understand and master their emotions, become better problem-solvers, and become more resilient. Kudos to the authors. This is a stellar book!

As mom to three kids and a former mental health professional I cannot recommend this workbook enough! Filled with hands on activities to ground your practice in resilience building with kids of all ages. I'll definitely be picking up a physical copy to share with friends and have on hand for my own use.

The Resilience Workbook for Kids is an amazing workbook for parents, psychologists, and educators to use when helping kids to learn how to deal with stress. The first chapter of the book deals with explaining resilience in kid friendly terms. The second chapter covers emotions; labeling them and expressing them. The third chapter deals with negative thinking and how to create a growth mindset. The fourth chapter is about problem solving and coming up with solutions to problems. The fifth chapter is about helping others and combining all of the lessons and activities. I highly recommend this book! Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance review copy in exchange for my honest review.

This book is a great resource. Full of tips and activities to help children understand and build their resilience.

The book had a great format that encourages children to understand important concepts, practice them and strengthen them. Children are encouraged to talk to adults about what they have learned.

Children could work through this alone but I think it would be most beneficial to be gone through with children, or at least for an adult to check in at various points.

Great teaching and really easy to understand without being patronising. I love it.

The Resilience Workbook for Kids: Fun CBT Activities is broken into 5 parts, with small lessons and activities within each that scaffold skills and work to build the skill of resilience in youth ages 7-12. All activities are grounded in research based practices, CBT, and positive psychology. Activities are a mixture of independent work and working with a trusted adult, with the intended age range being ages 7-12 it is important to note that in order for younger children to complete tasks they will need adult support and help with reading and navigating activities in order to receive the full benefit of them. As a school social worker, this workbook would be great to use for individual and small group counseling sessions.

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This is a really useful book for the classroom - the activities are great for identifying feelings and then knowing how to label and cope with them. It's quite wordy in parts and I feel it's a workbook that would need to be worked through with an adult but it would make a great intervention for children who have real resilience issues - perhaps those who are extremely anxious or have anger issues. This could be such a powerful tool slightly adapted to use with pupils individually or in small groups.

The book breaks down resilience for children - it introduces a term (like 'toxic stress' for example), gives a context to it, perhaps with a real-life example and then has an activity or two designed to help children recognise their own feelings or how they deal with that particular thing.

This workbook has lots of work through - some tasks feel quite 'homework' like, matching people and their life stories for example, but there are lots of self-review tasks and others such as word-searches or sudokus.

There are free, supportive resources online that complement this book - it's one I shall be recommending!

Note: I do not have professional experience with this topic, only personal. As the number of COVID cases is too high in my area right now, I wasn’t able to test any of the material with children.

The book starts with a letter to the parents, professionals, or anyone else reading this book. It gives a very clear overview of what to expect from the book and how to use it. Also very important: it includes a letter to the kids, where the authors explain what “resilience” is, in a very easy to understand manner. This very clear way of explaining gets used throughout the entire book, which is the number one reason why I recommend this book.

Also included in this letter is a little bit about the authors. They give examples of setbacks they’ve experienced, and that really helps to get a grip on what resilience really is.

I loved how it instructs the reader to make sure you’re all caught up yourself, before helping a child with these skills. It provides a link to online activities, to test your own resilience, learn how to grow it and how to support a child in their development of these skills. Too bad the link didn’t work yet, but I’m sure this is a really big asset to the book.

The book is divided into several parts. Each part starts with a summary of what you can expect from it, and which activities are included. Each activity is split into three parts: learn it, where you get a bit of background information. Do it, where it’s your turn to work, and strengthen it, where you learn how to apply these things in real life situations and get tips.

Things I loved:
- Loads of positive affirmation! No being dismissive about any behaviour, just showing how to improve it, for your own benefit. You’re just not there YET!
- Loads of examples: makes it so much easier to grasp the concept
- The activities are short: I think most children will be able to finish them within 10-15 minutes. This makes the book suitable for everyone, even those children with a busy after school schedule. There’s also a mix between writing, drawing, and actual physical activities.
- Layout: usually not too much text on a page, very clear structure.
- The checkpoints: LOVED how they had little to do with learning, but were just about having fun whilst also becoming familiar with the topics.
- The diversity: children of all races and beliefs were featured in the cartoon drawings
- The way they refer to the adults as “special adult” or “trusted adult”. It’s very important to distinguish how not every adult will be a good support system for the children working through this book. Luckily, if they are smart enough to buy this book, I’m sure they’ll be a solid help.
- The acronyms are very easy to understand, and sometimes even funny. Very important for children! These might even be things they talk about with their peers at school, so it’s a win-win!


Some texts were a bit too long, like the “toxic stress” activity. It’s already quite a heavy topic, and I feel like it would be received better if it was a bit shorter, or if there was a little break in the middle. That's really the only remark I have. In general, this book is amazing! So many things to learn, so many different approaches. Not everything might work for everyone, but that’s okay, the authors have made it so no one will feel bad about it.

I could go on for so much longer, and I wish I had the chance to try out some of the exercises with kids! But I know that I would’ve benefited so much from this as a child, and I will definitely use some of the things I’ve learned in my own life from now on.

Thank you NetGalley for providing this digital copy.