Micro-interventions for Adolescents

INLIGHT Psychological Services created Micro-interventions for Adolescents as a series of intervention guides to improve coping with common mental health struggles. These strategies, introduced in an accessible manner and complimentary to download, can help adolescents start exploring new ways of thinking and behaving. Mental health professionals and caregivers can also use the guides to offer effective strategies to adolescents seeking solutions. 

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  • Coping with Anxiety

    Coping with Anxiety

    This 12-page full-color intervention guide contains over 30 strategies for helping adolescents cope with anxious feelings. Aimed at helping adolescents discover different options to prevent anxious feelings from escalating, these strategies are introduced in an accessible way to encourage adolescents to take an active approach to improve functioning.

    Micro-interventions are routine yet focused strategies that can be used in everyday life to make a positive difference. This strategy guide can be helpful to teens ready to discover ways to change their thinking and behavior.

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  • Coping with Depression

    Coping with Depression

    This 12-page full-color intervention guide is written with adolescents in mind and contains 25 strategies for managing depressive feelings before they spiral downward to something more serious.

    Micro-interventions, routine yet focused strategies that can be used in everyday life that can make a positive difference, are introduced in a manner to encourage adolescents to take an active approach to feeling better.

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  • Coping with Self-injury

    This 16-page full-color intervention guide offers an evidence-based framework and over 40 strategies for coping with self-injury. Specifically aimed at adolescents, these coping skills are suggested tools to de-escalate emotional overload.

    Micro-interventions are coping strategies to explore, refine, and add to a daily routine. Despite their simplicity, they require effort and action to work. They are brief, practical methods that can be used to improve emotional regulation and manage psychological distress.

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