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Freeing Your Child from Anxiety
Anxiety is the number one mental health problem facing young people today.
Childhood should be a happy and carefree time, yet more and more children today are exhibiting symptoms of anxiety, from bedwetting and clinginess to frequent stomach aches, nightmares, and even refusing to go to school. Parents everywhere want to know: All children have fears, but how much is norma...more
Childhood should be a happy and carefree time, yet more and more children today are exhibiting symptoms of anxiety, from bedwetting and clinginess to frequent stomach aches, nightmares, and even refusing to go to school. Parents everywhere want to know: All children have fears, but how much is norma...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
March 30th 2004
by Three Rivers Press
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Jul 01, 2008
Lisa Nelson
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Parents with kid's struggling with anxiety
Recommended to Lisa by:
Heather, Thanks!
This book was extremely helpful in tackling some of my daughter Julia's anxiety. They gave some great practical tips like having a worry time set aside, helping Julia to find her own solutions to her worry, giving the worry a name like the worry bug, differentiating between what she thinks will happen and what she feels will happen, and bullying the worry but telling it things like, "I'm safe, I know my Mom will pick me up, stop telling me she isn't coming." Another helpful one was also A Grandp...more
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I don't give five stars lightly (lol because my reviews MATTER) but this book is seriously amazing. I would recommend it to any parent who is concerned about their child's anxiety.
The author, a licensed psychologist and the founder of the Children's and Adults' Center for OCD and Anxiety, gives real, practical tools that parents can use to determine whether their child's anxiety is normal or problematic, and then provides tools parents can use to help their child overcome that anxiety. And hones...more
The author, a licensed psychologist and the founder of the Children's and Adults' Center for OCD and Anxiety, gives real, practical tools that parents can use to determine whether their child's anxiety is normal or problematic, and then provides tools parents can use to help their child overcome that anxiety. And hones...more
I frequently recommend this book to parents of children with anxiety issues and those who work with them. The author (a psychologist who specializes in working with youth diagnosed with anxiety disorders) does a great job of making the content easy to understand and offers plenty of examples. She includes many conceptualizations and treatment tactics often used by therapists and psychologists who work with this population.
The author starts by offering an explanation of anxiety, worries, and fea...more
The author starts by offering an explanation of anxiety, worries, and fea...more
This is a solid and well written books that discusses the use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and a treatment for childhood anxiety. It gives a complete explanation for adults, and then gives good examples about how to talk to your child about it. It also deals with some specific issues, and gives simple general instructions for how to deal with in the moment issues, and how to create a gentle but effective get-used-to-it plan.
The only trouble with it that I found was I, personally, have read WA...more
The only trouble with it that I found was I, personally, have read WA...more
This is an excellent book. It really closely aligns with my therapy style for anxious kids (CBT and EX/RP). I think giving this book to parents would help them be able to engage more in working with their kids at home and explain the rationale for why we do what we do. I also think this might be enough to help solve some mild anxiety in kids if their parents read it and use the strategies. I really thought he did a good job with this book.
This book has helped our family so much. The cognative behavior therapy outlined in this book was easy enough-- my 4 1/2 year old learned to conquer her "worry brain." She now bosses back her worries, saying "wowwy bwain, you're not the boss of me! My smart bwain can thwoah you off a cliff!!" She also does deep breathing exercises all by herself with her little stuffed animals (or tummy breathing). You can actually see the color (red) draining from her face as she calms herself down. A year ago,...more
sliced by age group and by different levels of behaviors, and with many practical tips along the way, this author provides some tools for expanding kids' options beyond the limiting patterns of anxiety/shyness/ocd/worry they might develop. there's a handy scale to evaluate how difficult a situation would be (people involved, location, activity involved, etc) that can be used to build an approach to introduce kids to new experiences without overwhelming them.
this book looked like it might be too...more
this book looked like it might be too...more
The main thing I remember from this is the chapter on how to help talk your child down from their anxiety - that was really helpful for me. I liked the coping tips and the ideas for how to better support our kids while teaching them to recognize what is happening to them, give them the emotional vocabulary and teach them to find appropriate coping techniques.
I'm always looking for ways to help my Ethan and his anxiety. This gave me some great ideas. Very well written with practical ways to communicate with your child through their worry. I was able to skip around to the chapters that pertained to him which makes the info not so overwhelming. Good stuff.
To be completely honest I just skimmed this book - looking for what would fit for us. My daughter struggles a bit with anxiety and from this book I did find some helpful hints. However, most of this book deals with situations that are much more extreme that what I was looking for advice on.
This is by far the best book I have read about anxiety in children. My daughter has had 2 bouts of OCD that scared the living daylights out of me. In general, she is a bit anxious, but she has moved past the debilitating symptoms for which I am extremely grateful. I wish I had this book back then. But I found it extremely helpful for learning to deal with my own anxiety. I have already started using some of her techniques (i.e. relabeling worry thoughts as coming from the *worry brain*) and my k...more
This is a fabulous book that addresses all kinds of anxiety disorders - from not wanting to go to bed or school, to severe panic disorder. It is a fabulous tool that offers sound solutions! I wish I would have read this book sooner! I learned so much about psychology!
This book has been incredibly helpful in understanding the mechanisms of anxiety and giving me age appropriate tools for talking to my 4 year old about her anxieties and giving her back control of how she sees and interacts with her world. Highly recommend it to anyone whose child may be overly stressed or shy, anxious or dealing with phobias.
This is a terrific book. Easy to read, insightful. I looked a several different books, but chose this one. I haven't finished it yet, but I have already tried some things with my daughter and it is working.
The first part of this book was useful in coming up with strategies to ease anxiety in children (and also adults). The remainder of the book focused on rather esoteric phobias.
Exactly what I was looking for in a book about childhood anxiety. Clearly explained the flags to look for and ways to help your child calm themselves. So glad to have purchased this one for reference.
This is a great book to read if your child is a worrier or very anxious. Each parent is going to get something different from it based on what their child's behavior is like. You can skip what doesn't apply to you and just focus on what you need. I found the methods helpful and straightforward and have already used some of them with my child.
Eh. I mostly skimmed this one. The situations were just so much more extreme than what I was looking for.
Very helpful in understanding how the brain works with anxiety disorders
This book is full of helpful tips for parents to use with anxious children. I highly recommend it. The best book I've read on anxiety in children.
Had a lot of good information and ways to help overly anxious kids.
This is my favorite book to recommend to parents. It's excellent!
Jun 22, 2009
George-Ann Bains
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone with a child with anxiety
Recommended to George-Ann by:
Able Clinic
I loved this book and use for my daughter everyday. I truly recommend this book as a tool for working with children with anxiety.
Very helpful information into understanding anxiety and a little bit of info on how to teach kids how to deal with it.
This book was pretty dry. I read about 85 pages and now have to return it to the library. Early in the book it talked about taking your child to therapy, which I thought was strange since I was trying to figure out things I could do on my own at home. I thought that was the whole point of reading the book.
I may check it out again...or I may not.
I may check it out again...or I may not.
I have to mark this as read. I never read these types of books from cover to cover. I always skim through and read what is helpful to me. I found some helpful ways of helping my little boy cope with some of his anxiety. Although we are not dealing with an extreme case it gave me an idea of what to watch for if it gets worse in the future.
Without being overly medical, this book explains thing matter of factly. Helpful if you have questions about anxiety in children.
This was a really helpful book. I have already used some of what I learned from it in my sessions with clients. I love that it was so practical. It is written for parents of anxious children but can also be helpful for anyone who works with children.
I only got to chapter 4 before I had to return it to the library. Chapter 4 was especially helpful--great ideas for what you can do at home before finding a therapist to help with the problem.
This is a practical guide with concrete exercises that you can use to help your child with all different types of anxiety. I highly recommend it.
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