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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
November 19th 2008
by Broadway
(first published March 30th 2004)
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Lisa Nelson
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Parents with kid's struggling with anxiety
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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 a...more
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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, ha...more
The only trouble with it that I found was I, personally, ha...more
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 ...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.
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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.
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 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.
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 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!
George-Ann Bains
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anyone with a child with anxiety
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I loved this book and use for my daughter everyday. I truly recommend this book as a tool for working with children with anxiety.
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.
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.
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i've been reading at least sections of this book as it pertains to a certain little person that i happen to love.
So far, incredibly helpful. But it is so long and very textbook-like. Difficult, but, for me, so important.
So much good stuff from this book--I had to buy my own copy. I will be referring to it often!
Pretty useful for parents. You may still need the on-going support of a therapist.
Interesting stuff but very clinical. It did have some good ideas, though!
Good practical advice on how to help talk to your kids about anxiety.
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