Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children

Anxiety-Free Kids (2nd ed.) offers parents strategies that help children become happy and worry free methods that relieve a child's excessive anxieties and phobias and tools for fostering interaction and family-oriented solutions. Using a unique companion approach that offers two books in one-a practical reader-friendly book for parents and a fun workbook for kids-this solutions-oriented guide utilizes the cognitive-behavioral approach to therapy and integrates the parent in the child's self-help process. Research has shown that if left untreated children with anxiety disorders are at higher risk to perform poorly in school to have less-developed social skills and to be more vulnerable to substance abuse. Covering the six most commonly occurring anxiety disorders-generalized anxiety separation anxiety specific phobias social phobias panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder-this book gives kids and parents successful strategies for achieving relaxation conquering worries challenging faulty thinking patterns developing positive self-talk and facing one's fears.

Paperback: 300 pages

Publisher: Prufrock Press; 2 edition (October 1 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1618215612

ISBN-13: 978-1618215611

Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces