Stressed Out!: Solutions to Help Your Child Manage and Overcome Stress

by Mary Anne Richey, James W. Forgan

Stressed Out!: Solutions to Help Your Child Manage and Overcome Stress is an easy-to-read guide for parents to help their children understand stress, its effects on kids' day-to-day lives, and how to handle it. The book suggests stress management solutions that can be implemented by even the busiest parents and kids, focusing on a variety of common stressful situations that are grouped according to three categories―school, family, or environmental. Strategies include sample dialogues parents can use in conversation with their child and activities to help children gain insight and understanding into the nature of their stress, such as worksheets, role-play scenarios, or children's stories. Designed for maximum accessibility, parents and their children can immediately apply and reinforce the solutions. Inherent in each chapter is the underlying understanding that stress in children is very individual and solutions need to be individualized to fit the circumstances and personality of each child.

2018 NAGC Book of the Year Award Winner

Genres: Parenting

160 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2017

About the author

Mary Anne Richey, M.Ed., a Licensed School Psychologist, has a private practice in Palm Beach Gardens, Fl. evaluating children for learning disabilities and gifted. She brings years of experience in working with children in many different capacities including as a middle school teacher, administrator, high school guidance counselor, and adjunct college instructor. In 2012, she was honored to be named Florida School Psychologist of the Year. One of her books, Stressed Out! Solutions to Help Your Child Manage and Overcoming Stress, was selected as the Book of the Year in the Parent Category by the National Association of Gifted Children. Mary Anne has assisted many students with ADHD, gifted and learning disabilities and their families over the years. She has co-authored five books on ADHD, Executive Functioning and stress in children. She is the sole author of second editions of Raising Girls with ADHD-Secrets to Parenting Healthy, Happy Daughters and Raising Boys with ADHD - Secrets to Parenting Healthy, Happy Sons. She is the proud parent of two adult children and six grandchildren.

Reviews

[Susan Walker · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book not only tells you how to help your child deal with stress, but different environment for stress. I found it very well thought out. It had some very good ideas on how stress can be managed.

[Danielle Pettifor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great examples of the kinds of issues that cause children stress, and practical ideas and strategies you can use right away to help them deal with it and lessen it. Not just for kids - these strategies are helpful for adults, too!

[Machelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the ideas were worth looking at and implementing, whereas others were just a little off target.

[David Westerveld · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short book and not all topics relevant, but some helpful tips and ideas in here.