Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents - Softcover

Rapee, Ronald M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 145877189X ISBN 13: 9781458771896

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Product Description

All kids get scared, but some fears can escalate into paranoias with long-term ramifications. This step-by-step guide tackles the why, how, and what now of anxiety disorders. Written in everyday language, it describes in detail strategies and techniques parents can combine into a comprehensive self-help program for managing a child's worry while building confidence and self-control.

Review

"In "Helping Your Anxious Child", parents are provided a step-by-step guide for assisting their children in overcoming a panoply of worries, fears, and anxieties. The strategies described are well-established ones, backed by considerable scientific support. Parents will find this book engaging, easy to read, and full of important ideas about how best to help their children."
--Thomas H. Ollendick, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor in the department of psychology, Virginia Tech

"In "Helping Your Anxious Child," parents are provided a step-by-step guide for assisting their children in overcoming a panoply of worries, fears, and anxieties. The strategies described are well-established ones, backed by considerable scientific support. Parents will find this book engaging, easy to read, and full of important ideas about how best to help their children."
--Thomas H. Ollendick, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor in the department of psychology, Virginia Tech

In "Helping Your Anxious Child," parents are provided a step-by-step guide for assisting their children in overcoming a panoply of worries, fears, and anxieties. The strategies described are well-established ones, backed by considerable scientific support. Parents will find this book engaging, easy to read, and full of important ideas about how best to help their children.
Thomas H. Ollendick, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor in the department of psychology, Virginia Tech"

In Helping Your Anxious Child, parents are provided a step-by-step guide for assisting their children in overcoming a panoply of worries, fears, and anxieties. The strategies described are well-established ones, backed by considerable scientific support. Parents will find this book engaging, easy to read, and full of important ideas about how best to help their children.
Thomas H. Ollendick, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor in the department of psychology, Virginia Tech

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"In Helping Your Anxious Child, parents are provided a step-by-step guide for assisting their children in overcoming a panoply of worries, fears, and anxieties. The strategies described are well-established ones, backed by considerable scientific support. Parents will find this book engaging, easy to read, and full of important ideas about how best to help their children."
--Thomas H. Ollendick, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor in the department of psychology, Virginia Tech

"In Helping Your Anxious Child, parents are provided a step-by-step guide for assisting their children in overcoming a panoply of worries, fears, and anxieties. The strategies described are well-established ones, backed by considerable scientific support. Parents will find this book engaging, easy to read, and full of important ideas about how best to help their children."
--Thomas H. Ollendick, Ph.D., University Distinguished Professor in the department of psychology, Virginia Tech

Edition details

• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 145877189X
• ISBN 13: 9781458771896
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 388