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

Zucker, Bonnie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593633432 ISBN 13: 9781593633431

Publisher: Prufrock Press, 2008

Synopsis

About one in ten children nationwide meet the criteria for an anxiety disorder. Research has shown that if left untreated, children with anxiety disorders are at higher risk for performing poorly in school, having being less developed social skills, and to be more vulnerable to substance abuse.

This exciting solutions-oriented guide 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 two-books-in-one approach-a practical, reader-friendly book for parents and a fun workbook for kids-this book covers the six most commonly occurring anxiety disorders in childhood: generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, specific phobias, social phobias, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The author gives kids and their parents successful strategies for achieving relaxation, conquering worries, challenging faulty thinking patterns, developing self-talk and facing one's fears.

About this title

About the Author:

Bonnie Zucker, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist in Washington, DC. Dr. Zucker conducts psychotherapy at the National Center for the Treatment of Phobias, Anxiety, and Depression, utilizing a cognitive-behavioral (CBT) approach to the treatment of generalized and social anxiety, panic disorder, phobias and depression. Dr. Zucker is respected nationally as a top authority on childhood anxiety.

Review:

Anxiety does not have to be a constant state. Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children is a parent's guide to dealing with their child's anxieties and phobias so that they can face them now before they develop into lifelong problems. Doubling as an advice guide for parents and an activity book for younger readers in dealing with their fears, Anxiety-Free Kids is a unique approach to childhood phobia [and is] highly recommended. --
    —James A.Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Prufrock Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1593633432
• ISBN 13: 9781593633431
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280