Helping Children Who are Anxious or Obsessional

<p>This is a guidebook to help children who:</p><ol> <li>are insecure or worry too much; suffer from phobias or nightmares</li> <li>find it difficult to concentrate to let go and have fun</li> <li>have suffered a trauma; are worryingly good or seem like little adults</li> <li>use order and routine as a way of coping with 'messy' feelings</li> <li>retreat into dullness as a way of managing their being in the world</li> <li>and develop obsessive-compulsive behaviour in order to ward off their too-powerful feelings.</li> </ol>