Kate Collins-Donnelly has worked as a therapist, psychologist, criminologist and anger management consultant based in the UK for many years. She runs a successful independent consultancy practice which provides cognitive behavioural therapy, counselling, coaching and training, and is head of the Psychological and Criminological Research Division. She is the author of several books for children and young people published by JKP, including Banish Your Body Image Thief, Banish Your Self-Esteem Thief and the Starving the Gremlin series.

• Acknowledgements. About the Author. Introduction. 1. What is Self-Esteem? 2. Your Self-Esteem. 3. How Low Self-Esteem Develops: Introducing the Self-Esteem Vault and the Self-Esteem Thief! 4. How Low Self-Esteem Develops: Influences. 5. How Low Self-Esteem Develops: Thoughts. 6. How Low Self-Esteem Develops: Feelings. 7. How Low Self-Esteem Develops: Behaviours. 8. Impacts of Low Self-Esteem. 9. Banishing Your Self-Esteem Thief: An Introduction. 10. Banishing Your Self-Esteem Thief: Managing Your Thoughts. 11. Banishing Your Self-Esteem Thief: Managing Your Behaviours. 12. Self-Esteem Dos and Don'ts. 13. Summing Up! Appendix: The Self-Esteem Quiz Answers. Information for Parents and Professionals. References.

Yet again, Kate Collins-Donnelly has managed to take a complex subject and communicate it in simple, fun and engaging language. Regardless of age or background, children, young people and practitioners alike will not help but enjoy this cognitive behavioural journey of self-discovery. For the child or young person, the book oozes interesting and fun ways to help you feel good about yourself and to motivate you to banish your Self-Esteem Thief! For parents, I suspect the journey will be just as much fun and enlightening! For the practitioner, the book communicates both breadth and depth of theory and provides a useful and clever framework to facilitate change in others. Without doubt, the Self-Esteem Thief will be joining my language of change!