Helping emerging adults build practical mental health awareness, self-care habits and resilience skills, this workbook is aimed at people aged 16 to 24 who are navigating study, work, identity, relationships and independence. It may suit teenagers, young adults, youth workers, counsellors, teachers and families looking for a printable mental health workbook with reflective activities, wellbeing prompts and support-planning tools.
Emerging adulthood is the central theme, with the workbook recognising the stress that can come with education, career choices, moving away from home, financial independence, new relationships and developing a stronger sense of identity.
Across the contents, readers are guided through mental health and mental illness, identity exploration, core values, stigma, helpful language, change, self-actualisation, supporting a friend, balance, resilience, gratitude and goal setting. The structure mixes short learning sections with practice pages, making it useful as a mental health awareness worksheet pack, wellbeing workbook or youth resilience resource.
Practical activities include a mental wellbeing self-assessment, identifying support, exploring the impacts of mental illness, creating an identity web, listing personal values, completing a core values circle, planning for change, using conversation starters and trying the GROW model for goals. The healthy mind platter, gratitude brainstorm, gratitude letter and road to resiliency activities give young people concrete ways to reflect rather than only read.
Young adults could work through it independently at home, while youth practitioners, school staff, college wellbeing teams and counsellors could use selected pages in one-to-one sessions, group workshops or mental health education programmes. The workbook is linked to the EQUIPPED Mental Health Awareness module and names Canadian Mental Health Association Calgary Region and YouthSMART in its acknowledgements.
