Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Stress Management Programme For Secondary School Students
Sarah McNamara · 2003
64/100
👎 Skip It
A thoughtfully built photocopiable program from a credentialed psychologist, but it leans directly on depression and anxiety content that really needs a trained facilitator with counseling backup — not a casual pickup. It's also showing its age, first published back in 2003.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Addresses clinical-adjacent depression/anxiety content aimed at vulnerable teens; requires trained facilitator with counseling backup. We still scored it 64; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety62
Substance / usefulness68
Craft & writing55
Originality52
Evidence & accuracy62
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit55
Human-eye read48
Penny’s verdict64
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