Product Description

Anxiety is the number one mental health problem facing young people today.


Childhood should be a happy and carefree time, yet more and more children today are exhibiting symptoms of anxiety, from bedwetting and clinginess to frequent stomach aches, nightmares, and even refusing to go to school. Parents everywhere want to know: All children have fears, but how much is normal? How can you know when a stress has crossed over into a full-blown anxiety disorder? Most parents don’t know how to recognize when there is a real problem and how to deal with it when there is.

In Freeing Your Child From Anxiety, a childhood anxiety disorder specialist examines all manifestations of childhood fears, including social anxiety, Tourette’s Syndrome, hair-pulling, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and guides you through a proven program to help your child back to emotional safety.

No child is immune from the effects of stress in today’s media-saturated society. Fortunately, anxiety disorders are treatable. By following these simple solutions, parents can prevent their children from needlessly suffering today—and tomorrow.



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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1902 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-30
• Released on: 2004-03-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
"...the master of providing clear, accessible, practical advice and guidance for wise and loving care of the anxious child." -- Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D. author of Dear Patrick: Letters to a Young Man, Brain Lock, and The Mind & The Brain

"Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind." -- Judith S. Beck, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

From the Inside Flap

Anxiety is the number one mental health problem facing young people today. Childhood should be a happy and carefree time, yet more and more children today are exhibiting symptoms of anxiety, from bedwetting and clinginess to frequent stomach aches, nightmares, and even refusing to go to school. Parents everywhere want to know: All children have fears, but how much is normal? How can you know when a stress has crossed over into a full-blown anxiety disorder? Most parents don?t know how to recognize when there is a real problem and how to deal with it when there is. In Freeing Your Child From Anxiety, a childhood anxiety disorder specialist examines all manifestations of childhood fears, including social anxiety, Tourette?s Syndrome, hair-pulling, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and guides you through a proven program to help your child back to emotional safety. No child is immune from the effects of stress in today?s media-saturated society. Fortunately, anxiety disorders are treatable. By following these simple solutions, parents can prevent their children from needlessly suffering today?and tomorrow.

About the Author
TAMAR E. CHANSKY, Ph.D., founder of The Children’s Center for OCD and Anxiety, has helped thousands of children overcome fears and gripping mental compulsions. Author of Freeing Your Child from Obsessive Disorder, she has appeared frequently on television and radio, including National Public Radio's Voices in the Family and The Parents’ Journal. She lives with her husband and daughters in Philadelphia.

Customer Reviews

Tangible help
This book break down the root of anxiety and provides real life examples on how to help your children work through their aniexty. The book is organized in a way that the information is easy to read.

Terrific, concise, book.
This book has many tangible solutions and specific excercises to try with your child. Very helpful and easy to understand.

Excellent resource
This is a great book for parents trying to help an anxious child. It is written in a straightforward way, without a lot of the fluff and extra verbiage that other, similar books include. The author includes realistic-seeming examples and vignettes, but not so many that they overwhelm the content. A very useful resource.