Freeing Your Child from Anxiety: Powerful, Practical Solutions to Overcome Your Child's Fears, Worries, and Phobias
by Tamar E. Chansky
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10 ratings, 3.70 average rating, 5 reviews
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published
March 30th 2004
by Broadway
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Paperback, 320 pages
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0767914929
(isbn13: 9780767914925)
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Anxiety is the number one mental health problem facing young people today.
Childhood should be a happy and carefree time, yet more a...more
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Read in June, 2008
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Heather, Thanks!recommends it for: Parents with kid's struggling with anxiety
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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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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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.
So far, incredibly helpful. But it is so long and very textbook-like. Difficult, but, for me, so important.
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Read in December, 2007
Interesting stuff but very clinical. It did have some good ideas, though!
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