Helping Your Anxious ChildReadHowYouWant.com, 2010 - 468 pages Most children are afraid of the dark. Some fear monsters under the bed. But 10 percent of children have excessive fears and worries - phobias, separation anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorder - that can hold them back and keep them from fully enjoying childhood. If your child suffers from any of these forms of anxiety, the program in this book offers practical, scientifically proven tools that can help. Now in its second edition, Helping Your Anxious Child has been expanded and updated to include the latest research and techniques for managing child anxiety. You'll learn how to help your child overcome intense fears and worries and find out how to relieve anxious feelings while parenting with compassion. Help your child practice ''detective thinking'' to recognize irrational worries What to do when your child becomes frightened How to gently and gradually expose your child to challenging situations Help your child learn important social skills. |
Contents
Understanding Anxiety | 1 |
How Do Thoughts and Feelings Affect | 57 |
Learning to Think Realistically | 72 |
Parenting an Anxious Child | 121 |
Facing Fear to Fight Fear | 184 |
Simplifying Realistic Thinking and Creative | 228 |
Troubleshooting Stepladders | 258 |
Assertiveness and Social Skills | 285 |
Taking Stock | 334 |
Planning for the Future | 353 |
Appendix | 366 |
Common terms and phrases
able afraid anxi anxiety disorders anxiety management skills anxious child anxious children ask your child avoid behavior beliefs Brainstorm bully calm thought chapter child will need child’s anxiety CHILDREN'S ACTIVITY cope cue cards Detective Thinking Worksheet difficult encourage your child event evidence example eye contact facing fears fears and worries feel friends frightened George George’s give your child goal happen help your child idea important involved Jess keep Kurt Lashi Lashi’s mother left intentionally blank Lisa Simpson look Macquarie University Maggie manage anxiety muscles obsessive-compulsive disorder original book Panic disorder PARENT ACTIVITY possible PRACTICE TASK questions realistic thinking realistic thought reassurance relax remind your child rewards scared situation social skills space left intentionally Specific Phobias step strategies Talia talk teach your child teacher teasing things understand week worried thought Worry rating worry scale