Helping Your Anxious Child

Thirteen percent of children and adolescents experience some kind of anxiety disorder. Helping Your Anxious Child is one of the most comprehensive resources on the market, offering parents the most up-to-date, proven-effective techniques to help children overcome anxiety. This expanded and updated version of the best-selling classic guides readers through the process of helping a child overcome anxiety and fears. It describes in detail strategies and techniques they can combine into a comprehensive self-help program for a child's particular needs. The book identifies the common types of childhood anxiety, explains how anxiety originates, and suggests options for dealing with the problem, with or without a therapist's help. In this updated version, the progression of chapters reflects the authors' clinical program, in which major skills are introduced early and then are consolidated and built upon in later chapters.Throughout, the book employs a step-by-step approach that is both structured and directive. Written activities are incorporated throughout the chapters, some intended for the child and others for his or her parent to complete.