SELF-CONFIDENCE RESOURCES

WEBSITES

Christianity Today
Filled with lots of personal articles by teens and young adults.

Coaching To Happiness

LCET

BOOKS

Bates, M. & Kiersey, D.W. (1978). Please Understand Me. Del Mar, CA: Prometheus Nemesis Book Company.

Kroeger, O. & Thuesen, J.M. (1988). Type talk. New York: Dell Publishing.

Both Type Talk and Please Understand Me are based on the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator. Each book lists the sixteen personality types determined by the indicator, and clearly explains each personality’s preferences, dislikes, and characteristics. Both books correlate the personality types to job preferences, relationships, learning styles, and ways of handling stress. These are exceptionally helpful for learning about oneself.

Loomans, D. & Loomans, J. Full Esteem Ahead: 100 ways to build self-esteem in children and adults. This excellent book offers parents 100 practical, meaningful ways to increase their children’s confidence, joy, and self-esteem.

McKay, M. & Fanning, P. Self-esteem. This book contains cognitive techniques proven to improve and maintain self-esteem. Shows readers how to talk back one’s own self-critical voice, foster compassion for oneself and others, handle mistakes, react to criticism, and make one’s needs and desires fully known.

Negley, S. Crossing the bridge: A journey in self-esteem, relationships, and life balance. This book is a creative, innovative, and interactive book for use with individuals and groups. It is filled with meaningful stories, easy-to-read yet challenging self-esteem lessons, and dozens of reproducible activity and journal handouts. This book also contains fantastic illustrations.

Taubman, S. Ending the struggle against Yourself. This workbook features exercises and activities to help readers develop deep self-confidence. It motivates readers to truly examine and change core beliefs that affect every aspect of one’s life.

Zack, L.R. Building self-esteem through the museum of I: 25 original projects that explore and celebrate the self. Created by a teacher and tested on kids, the 25 open-ended projects in this book encourage creative thinking and expression while building skills and self-esteem. Each project is complete with learning objectives, a materials list, directions, and suggestions for alternative projects. Numerous reproducible handouts are included. This is a great resource for professionals who work with kids in grades 4-8.

Suzanne Carter and Kathryn Q. Powers cCYS