About Nicola Morgan

Nicola Morgan is a multi-award-winning author for and about teenagers and an renowned speaker at conferences and schools around the world. Her classic book on the teenage brain, BLAME MY BRAIN – THE TEENAGE BRAIN REVEALED, was followed by THE TEENAGE GUIDE TO STRESS and THE TEENAGE GUIDE TO FRIENDS and innovative multimedia teaching resources on the brain and mental health, BRAIN STICKS™, STRESS WELL FOR SCHOOLS and EXAM ATTACK. Her next books are POSITIVELY TEENAGE (May) and LIFE ONLINE (June). She writes articles at www.nicolamorgan.com

Popular Contributions

Job-hunting for young people - 8: "Interviews make me sick with nerves so I never show my best side."

Nicola Morgan understands teenage stress as well as anyone - she's even written a book about it. Now she turns her understanding towards helping them relax at job interviews

Nicola Morgan

Jul 15, 2014

The Happiness Club

Negative Friendships, Toxic Friends and Frenemies

A shortened, adapted extract from the section on negative friendships in The Teenage Guide to Friends, reproduced by permission of Walker Books.

Nicola Morgan

Apr 11, 2017

Self

Blue Monday - advice for young people (and not so young!)

We all know that winter is a time when people more often feel low, but when you're actually feeling like that, or if you're a teenager and maybe don't realise that it's normal, you may need extra support. Nicola Morgan, expert on adolescence, offers that support.

Nicola Morgan

Jan 19, 2015

Work

Job-hunting for young people - 7: "What do employers really want? And how can I show I've got it?"

Nicola Morgan's series to help adults support young people approaching the world of work

Nicola Morgan

Jul 14, 2014

Family & Relationships

Dazed and confused - post-exam disorientation

Exams may be the biggest stress for most teenagers but what happens when exams are finished? Does all the stress switch off? Is it as simple as that? Nicola Morgan takes a look...

Nicola Morgan

Jun 30, 2014

Book Club

Scientific evidence for the benefits of Readaxation - at last!

You might think we don't need evidence for something so obvious - that reading is good for our mental health and our brains in many ways - but if we are to ask for support to promote reading for pleasure, we will be asked for evidence. Now we have it.

Nicola Morgan

Aug 11, 2015

Smartphones and mental health

Head Talks, The Happiness Club , Work, Family & Relationships