Helping Your Anxious Child, Third Edition: A Step-By-Step Guide for Parents

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, this book offers new, practical, and evidence-based proven tools that can help. Now in its third edition, Helping Your Anxious Child has been expanded and updated to include the latest research and techniques for managing child anxiety, and includes new information on helping very young children and adolescents; as well as anxiety in children with behavioral problems, learning difficulties, or medical conditions. The book offers proven-effective skills based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure therapy, and mindfulness and relaxation techniques 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. Parents will learn: how to help your child practice "detective thinking" to recognize irrational worries; what to do when your child becomes frightened; how to expose your child gently and gradually to challenging situations; and how to help your child learn important social skills.

About the Author :
Ronald M. Rapee, PhD, is a professor in the department of psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and director of its Centre for Emotional Health. He has authored or coauthored several books, including Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia. Ann Wignall, DPsych, is senior clinical psychologist and director of child and adolescent mental health for Northern Sydney Health Service. Susan H. Spence, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. She has published more than one hundred books and academic articles in her field. Vanessa Cobham, PhD, holds appointments in the school of psychology at the University of Queensland and the Mater Child and Youth Mental Health Service in Brisbane, Australia. Heidi Lyneham, PhD, is a clinic director at the Centre for Emotional Health at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Coleen Marlo is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator who has been nominated for an Audie Award twice, winning in 2011. She has been awarded three Listen-Up Awards from Publishers Weekly, an AudioFile Audiobook of the Year Award in 2011, and was named Audiobook Narrator of the Year for 2010 by Publishers Weekly. She is a member of the prestigious Actors Studio and taught acting for ten years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Marlo is a proud founding member of Deyan Institute of Voice Artistry and Technology.

Review :
"Readers are in excellent hands with Helping Your Anxious Child...The strategies they describe have been tried and tested in their many rigorous studies. But critically for busy families, the style of the book is extremely practical and, most importantly, written with empathy, compassion, and hope." -- "Cathy Creswell, professor of developmental clinical psychology, University of Oxford"