Introducing "Teen's Guide"

The Teen’s Guide is a series of strategy journals that target common mental health challenges; delivered through an online community based platform. Find out how you can help equip many young people today.

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What is "Teen’s Guide"?

The Teen’s Guide is a series of strategy journals that target common mental health challenges; delivered through an online community based platform. The Teen’s Guide will give young people access to a range of evidence based resources (e.g. written material, activities and videos) to help young people manage their individual mental health journeys.  

The resources will be accessible 24/7 on any device, making it easier for teens to get help whenever they might need it. This will be particularly helpful for young people who are not able to access traditional face-to-face services due to waiting lists, stigma or finances.

What is our aim and goal?

The Teen’s Guide aims at targeting young people who are not traditionally consumers of mental health services but have some emerging mental health symptomatology due to current societal stressors. Our main goal is to increase our youth’s coping skills to manage their emerging mental health problems in order to improve their general well-being.

Why now?
  • Rates of reported mental health challenges have increased significantly among adolescents in the last 3 years.

  • Almost one in four young people experience mental health challenges, yet these remain largely unrecognised and untreated

  • Over 50% of mental health issues develop before the age of 14 years. Therefore early intervention is key.

  • Young people with psychological distress are unlikely to seek traditional face-to-face services due to difficulties accessing these services as well as the social stigma associated with these services.

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Making mental health resources more accessible.

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Testimonials

I love that the guide has so many activities and tips throughout it, and I think kids my age would find it helpful. It is so cool that you provide so many suggestions and examples of how to cope and do the exercises.
-Teenager
I am excited to hear that you are about to launch the wonderful Teen’s guide. I have found them to be a beautifully curated product, that I believe is just right for the time we now live in. The guides are beautifully presented and use evidence-based strategies that are organised in a structure that is very appealing to the designated age group.
-Head of Teaching and Learning
These resources are thoughtfully crafted to educate, engage, and empower teenagers to make wise choices to enhance their well-being.
-Head of Secondary
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Matthew Wyman - CEO of Strength Potential

Hi, my name is Matt and I am the Chief Executive Officer here at Strength Potential. I joined the Strength Potential team at the start of 2020 and have moved through different roles such as a youth mentor, team leader, and regional manager within the company as we have grown and expanded.

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Carmen Nielsen - Author And Creator

MProfPSych BA-Psych (Hons)

Hi, my name is Carmen and I am the author and creator of the Teen’s Guide. For as long as I can remember, I have had a passion to make a difference in the lives of young people. I joined the Strength Potential team at the start of 2022 and have had the opportunity to create a number of strategy journals that are aimed at targeting common mental health challenges.

Carolanne Flowers - Series Editor

DipTech (Primary)
MEd (Guidance & Counselling)

Review Panel:


Ross Carlyon
(BA, DipEd, BEd, DipSchoolAdmin)

Danielle Gibson
(BAppSc, GradDipSecTeach, GradDipTESOL)

Tracey Shields
(DipEdF-10)

Strength Potential

Here at Strength Potential we are passionate about helping young people use their Strengths to reach their full potential, and our drive is to help young people thrive. Over the last few years as we have worked with young people through our mentoring service, we have noticed that there is a long wait time for psychologists and counsellors. This means the support young people need for their mental health is not easily and readily accessible and available for lots of young people. 

 

This is why we are seeking to build an online platform that can resource members in our communities such as teachers, chaplains, guidance officers, psychologists and counsellors as well as provide an online community for young people struggling with mental health challenges. Our goal is for this online platform to be easily and quickly accessible through an online format so that members of the community can access it as well as young people. We will be working with a team of trained psychologists and teachers to ensure the content is thoroughly researched and up to date.