Your Anxious Child: How Parents and Teachers Can Relieve Anxiety in Children - Hardcover

"With today's kids confronting an increasingly stressful world, Your Anxious Child is a book that every parent, teacher, and therapist needs to read and put into practice." --Alex J. Packer, author, Parenting One Day at a Time "Your Anxious Child will help parents (and teachers) to help children grow and develop. I gladly recommAnd this delightful and persuasive book." --Timothy Dugan, M.D., director of training in child and adolescent psychiatry, Cambridge City Hospital; psychiatry instructor, Harvard Medical School "Well thought-out strategies by experienced therapists." --Susan Shnidman, psychotherapist and psychology instructor, Harvard Medical School "Filled with hands-on advice and activities that can tell parents, teachers, therapists, and relatives what to do to relieve anxiety." --Neal Klein, psychotherapist and associate professor, Lesley College

Katie freezes when she's asked to perform. Jose is a clinger. Damian is terrified of animals. Felicia always worries that she's going to make a mistake. It's hard being the parent of an anxious child, watching your son's frustration grow, or seeing how your daughter tries to cope with her fears but gives up so quickly. Filled with solid information, a proven four-step program, dozens of engaging activities, and insightful personal vignettes, Your Anxious Child gives you easy, fun, and highly effective tools to help your child become a creative problem solver. Parents and teachers alike will find excellent strategies in this essential guide.