{"id":2605,"date":"2025-08-06T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/mental-health\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:06:23","slug":"the-conversation-back-to-school-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/2025\/the-conversation-back-to-school-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"New Article posted in The Conversation by Dr. Pozzulo entitled, &#8220;Back-to-school transitions can trigger stress and anxiety \u2014 these 5 books can help&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<div>\n<div class=\"content-header-block\">\n<h1 class=\"legacy entry-title instapaper_title\"><strong>Back-to-school transitions can trigger stress and anxiety \u2014 these 5 books can help<\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Bibliotherapy, practised as prescribed reading by a mental health professional, can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bcmj.org\/premise\/bibliotherapy-review-organization-and-dissemination-recommended-reading-psychiatry-patients\">help with anxiety and depression<\/a>&nbsp;with positive&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cpr.2017.09.006\">effects being sustained over a longer period<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you seek to be proactive with maintaining your mental health, or are mildly concerned about how well you are doing (the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-national-defence\/services\/benefits-military\/health-support\/road-to-mental-readiness\/mental-health-continuum-model.html\">mental health continuum model<\/a>&nbsp;of \u201cgreen, amber and red\u201d zones might help you consider this), self-help books are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/carmha\/publications\/antidepressant-skills-workbook.html\">among the resources that<\/a>&nbsp;can provide a supportive option until you have access to a professional, or in conjunction to working with a trained professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When choosing books&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/looking-for-mental-health-or-wellness-advice-in-a-book-check-the-authors-credentials-first-256082\">for this purpose, choose evidence-based books<\/a>. Here are five books offering strategies on how to ease the stress and anxiety associated with back-to-school transitions&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button \" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/back-to-school-transitions-can-trigger-stress-and-anxiety-these-5-books-can-help-261042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to continue reading the article!<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back-to-school transitions can trigger stress and anxiety \u2014 these 5 books can help Bibliotherapy, practised as prescribed reading by a mental health professional, can&nbsp;help with anxiety and depression&nbsp;with positive&nbsp;effects being sustained over a longer period. 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