Today, we are talking about teen anxiety, something that I like to feature with students every school year at this time. For the past two weeks, I have partnered with our school counselor, Andrew Palmer, in a presentation for Year9 (8th grade) students. It's been a fantastic couple of weeks of in-depth conversations with our students on an issue that is all too real for some of them.

Today's podcast features our first guest interview, our school counselor, Andrew Palmer. As we did with our Year9 student presentation, Mr. Palmer will talk first about anxiety, what it is, and why schools need to help students recognize it. After the interview, I will feature 12 fiction and nonfiction titles that will help teens learn to recognize and manage their own anxiety.

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TITLES DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST:

• Boys Don't Knit (in Public) by Tom Easton
• Ten Things I Can See From Here by Carrie Mac
• Nice Girls Endure by Christina Struyk-Bonn
• Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
• It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
• I Don't Want to Be Crazy by Samantha Shutz
• Freaking Out: Real-Life Stories About Anxiety by Polly Wells; illustrated by Peter Mitchell
• The Anxiety Survival Guide for Teens by Jennifer Shannon and Doug Shannon
• Lily & Dunkin by Donna Gephart
• Frazzled by Booki Vivat
• 101 Ways to Conquer Teen Anxiety by Thomas McDonagh and Jon Patrick Hatcher
• The Huge Bag of Worries by Virginia Ironside

MUSIC CREDIT:

"Let It Be Christmas" by Nicolai Heidlas. Licensed under Creative Commons, 2016.