Anxiety-Free Kids

<p><i>Anxiety-Free Kids</i> (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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Educational Resource</p>