101 Tips to Help Your Anxious Child


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As a parent it can often be difficult to know how best to support your child when they become fearful and worried. This guide offers ways to help you to help your child articulate how they are feeling and offers effective coping strategies and simple lifestyle tweaks to manage anxiety by building their resilience and self-confidence for life.




Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents


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With anxiety at epidemic levels among our children, Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents offers a contrarian yet effective approach to help children and teens push through their fears, worries, and phobias to ultimately become more resilient, independent, and happy. How do you manage a child who gets stomachaches every school morning, who refuses after-school activities, or who is trapped in the bathroom with compulsive washing? Children like these put a palpable strain on frustrated, helpless parents and teachers. And there is no escaping the problem: One in every five kids suffers from a diagnosable anxiety disorder. Unfortunately, when parents or professionals offer help in traditional ways, they unknowingly reinforce a child's worry and avoidance. From their success with hundreds of organizations, schools, and families, Reid Wilson, PhD, and Lynn Lyons, LICSW, share their unconventional approach of stepping into uncertainty in a way that is currently unfamiliar but infinitely successful. Using current research and contemporary examples, the book exposes the most common anxiety-enhancing patterns—including reassurance, accommodation, avoidance, and poor problem solving—and offers a concrete plan with 7 key principles that foster change. And, since new research reveals how anxious parents typically make for anxious children, the book offers exercises and techniques to change both the children's and the parental patterns of thinking and behaving. This book challenges our basic instincts about how to help fearful kids and will serve as the antidote for an anxious nation of kids and their parents.




Helping Your Anxious Child


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Most children are afraid of the dark. Some fear monsters under the bed. But at least ten 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. The book offers proven effective skills based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to aid you in helping your child overcome intense fears and worries. You'll also find out how to relieve your child's anxious feelings while parenting with compassion. Inside, you will learn to: 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 This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit—an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.




Helping Your Anxious Child


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A guide for parents whose children suffer from excessive fears and worries.




Raising An Anxious Child


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All children have fears but not all have anxieties. Time for you, as a parent, to learn how to deal with those anxieties. Being afraid of the dark is a very common fear among children. Even adults jump at shadows-ever watched a horror movie and tried to get a glass of water in dim light? From bugs to darkness to strange phenomena, children are afraid of the unknown. They have no reference point to explain these new stimuli, and they turn to the most basic instinct of human nature: fight-or-flight. Childhood fears are definitely concerning for any parent to deal with. However, things take an even more worrying turn when children have to battle the extreme. In other words, what do you do when children refuse to take part in school activities, show no enthusiasm for all the activities they normally love to do, have frequent stomach aches, or become withdrawn and irritable? The answers lie in Katherine Guzman's new book that focuses on children's anxieties. Helping Your Anxious Child is Katherine's attempt to demystify anxiousness in children, so that parents can finally bring to light the overall problem. No more do parents have to constantly question the nature of their children's behavior. After all, knowledge truly is power. In your hands, you now have the power to understand more about anxiety in children. As you read the pages of this book, you will learn discover: What anxiety in children looks like and how it works The form they take, from panic disorders to social anxieties The reality behind anxieties and the ability to dispel the myths surrounding them How you, as a parent, can deal with anxiety Ways to start a conversation with your children about anxieties Whether anxieties are environmental or if there are other influential factors The dos and don'ts of dealing with anxiety How to stay in control when things are out of control Tips to deal with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD) AND more! Parents will be able to guide not just their children, but themselves too, as they shed light on anxieties that affect their little ones. Scroll up and click "Buy now" to get a copy of Helping Your Anxious Child today!




How to Support Your Anxious Child


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Children are often reluctant to speak about their worries, which makes it difficult to know how serious their concerns are and how you can support them. This guide offers quick-to-action parenting solutions, effective coping strategies and simple lifestyle changes to help you help your child express their feelings and manage their anxiety.




Help Your Child Make Friends


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This guide will help you teach your child what makes a healthy friendship, and equip them with the tools they need to build stronger bonds and feel more confident in making new friends. Offering ideas, information and simple tips that will help you talk to your child and show them how to develop their social skills.




Help Your Child Feel Happier


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Seeing your child experience unhappiness is difficult for any parent With so many possible reasons for low mood, it can be challenging to know how best to support them. This guide will help you to communicate with your child and equip them with the tools to express themselves. Offering ideas for simple lifestyle tweaks, it will help you to help your child foster a more positive outlook and to build their resilience and self-confidence for life. Identify the source of your child’s low mood Nurture a positive mindset Build self-confidence Learn mood-boosting activities Know when to seek support




Raising An Anxious Child


Book Description

All children have fears but not all have anxieties. Time for you, as a parent, to learn how to deal with those anxieties. Being afraid of the dark is a very common fear among children. Even adults jump at shadows-ever watched a horror movie and tried to get a glass of water in dim light? From bugs to darkness to strange phenomena, children are afraid of the unknown. They have no reference point to explain these new stimuli, and they turn to the most basic instinct of human nature: fight-or-flight. Childhood fears are definitely concerning for any parent to deal with. However, things take an even more worrying turn when children have to battle the extreme. In other words, what do you do when children refuse to take part in school activities, show no enthusiasm for all the activities they normally love to do, have frequent stomach aches, or become withdrawn and irritable? The answers lie in Katherine Guzman's new book that focuses on children's anxieties. Helping Your Anxious Child is Katherine's attempt to demystify anxiousness in children, so that parents can finally bring to light the overall problem. No more do parents have to constantly question the nature of their children's behavior. After all, knowledge truly is power. In your hands, you now have the power to understand more about anxiety in children. As you read the pages of this book, you will learn discover: What anxiety in children looks like and how it works The form they take, from panic disorders to social anxieties The reality behind anxieties and the ability to dispel the myths surrounding them How you, as a parent, can deal with anxiety Ways to start a conversation with your children about anxieties Whether anxieties are environmental or if there are other influential factors The dos and don'ts of dealing with anxiety How to stay in control when things are out of control Tips to deal with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD) AND more! Parents will be able to guide not just their children, but themselves too, as they shed light on anxieties that affect their little ones. Scroll up and click "Buy now" to get a copy of Helping Your Anxious Child today!




Freeing Your Child from Anxiety


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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 and more children today are exhibiting symptoms of anxiety, from bedwetting and clinginess to frequent stomach aches, nightmares, and even refusing to go to school. Parents everywhere want to know: All children have fears, but how much is normal? How can you know when a stress has crossed over into a full-blown anxiety disorder? Most parents don’t know how to recognize when there is a real problem and how to deal with it when there is. In Freeing Your Child From Anxiety, a childhood anxiety disorder specialist examines all manifestations of childhood fears, including social anxiety, Tourette’s Syndrome, hair-pulling, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and guides you through a proven program to help your child back to emotional safety. No child is immune from the effects of stress in today’s media-saturated society. Fortunately, anxiety disorders are treatable. By following these simple solutions, parents can prevent their children from needlessly suffering today—and tomorrow. www.broadwaybooks.com From the Trade Paperback edition.