Why Is My Teenager Feeling Like This? A Guide for Helping Teens through Anxiety and Depression

by David Murray

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2020

Overview

Have you ever looked at your anxious or depressed teenage son or daughter and wondered, Why is my teenager feeling like this?

In this companion guide to his book for teens Why Am I Feeling Like This?, pastor and counselor David Murray offers spiritual encouragement and practical direction for parents and other adults who want to help but don't know where to start. Structured around eighteen real-life examples, Murray provides tips for having open conversations with teens about anxiety and depression, as well as discussion questions, Bible verses for memorization, and prayers. With these tools in hand, parents and teenagers alike will be equipped to experience freedom from the chains of anxiety and depression.

Key Features

• Guides parents as they seek to help their child through anxiety or depression
• Encourages teenagers with the hope of peace that God offers in their anxiety
• Equips teens and parents with practical tools to work through anxiety or depression

Contents

• Introduction: Why Is My Teenager Feeling Like This?
• Who Gets Anxiety and Depression?
• What Causes Anxiety and Depression?
• What Can We Do about Anxiety and Depression?
• Circular Sarah
• Tense Tom
• Doomed Dave
• Imaginative Imogen
• Panicky Paul
• Faithless Flavia
• Controlling Colin
• Depressed Dan
• Negative Nicole
• Workaholic Will
• Beautiful Brianna
• Media Max
• Friendly Fiona
• Bullied Benton
• Rebellious Rob
• Perfect Peyton
• Paralyzed Pam
• Lonely Luke
• Conclusion: Growing Freedom

Top Highlights

“ talk about mental illness and other emotional disorders as common experiences in a fallen world” (Page 16)

Endorsements

In this book, David Murray comes alongside parents who may be willfully naive about or find themselves completely overwhelmed by how to help their child deal with depression, offering understandable explanations of the issues and equipping them for important conversations.

—Nancy Guthrie, Bible teacher; author, Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible’s Story Changes Everything about Your Story

Parenting is good for our prayer lives, we find, especially when sons and daughters are navigating the many anxieties that seem to coincide with the teenage years. David Murray has the practical experience and spiritual wisdom to help. Based in biblical truth and at the same time sensitive to the psychological and physiological complexities of human emotions, Murray’s companion guides tell real-life stories that empower teens and their parents to understand their feelings, care well for one another, and take concrete steps toward healing together.

—Phil and Lisa Ryken, President, Wheaton College, and his wife, Lisa Ryken

In a day and age when many parents, even Christian ones, feel as though they are ill-equipped to parent their children facing all sorts of issues, along comes David Murray to give us a powerful parental tool in shepherding our children who battle anxiety and depression. With this book (and the accompanying student version), parents no longer have to be or feel ill-prepared to navigate such overwhelming issues. I just wish I had this book years ago.

—Ed Stetzer, Executive Director, Billy Graham Center for Evangelism, Wheaton College

Product Details

• Title: Why Is My Teenager Feeling like This?: A Guide for Helping Teens through Anxiety and Depression
• Author: David Murray
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 148
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Anxiety › Religious aspects--Christianity; Depression, mental › Religious aspects--Christianity; Depression in adolescence › Religious aspects--Christianity; Teenagers › Mental health; Parent and teenager › Religious aspects--Christianity
• ISBNs: 9781433570759, 9781433570780, 9781433570766, 9781433570773, 1433570750, 1433570785, 1433570769, 1433570777
• Resource ID: LLS:WHYTEENFEELTHIS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:49:30Z

About David Murray

David Murray is a professor of Old Testament and Practical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and pastor of the Free Reformed Church in Grand Rapids. He was ordained to the ministry in 1995 and pastored two churches in Scotland for twelve years. Murray is the author of Jesus on Every Page, Christians Get Depressed Too, and How Sermons Work. He regularly speaks at conferences in North American and beyond.

 

Sample Pages from Why Is My Teenager Feeling Like This? A Guide for Helping Teens through Anxiety and Depression