What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety

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Did you know that worries are like tomatoes? No, you can’t eat them, but you can make them grow, simply by paying attention to them… If your worries have grown so big that they bother you almost every day, this book is for you.

What to Do When You Worry Too Much is an interactive self-help book designed to guide 6 – 12 year old and their parents through the cognitive-behavioural techniques most often used in the treatment of generalised anxiety.

Metaphors and humorous illustrations make difficult concepts easy to understand, while prompts to draw and write help children to master new skills related to reducing anxiety. 

If you are the parent or caregiver of an anxious child, you know what it feels like to be held hostage. So does your child. Children who worry too much are held captive by their fears. They go to great lengths to avoid frightening situations, and ask the same anxiety-based questions over and over again. Yet the answers give them virtually no relief. Parents and caregivers find themselves spending huge amounts of time reassuring, coaxing, accommodating, and doing whatever else they can think of to minimise their child’s distress.

 

But it doesn’t work. The anxiety remains in control. As you have undoubtedly discovered, simply telling an anxious child to stop worrying doesn’t help at all. Nor does applying adult logic, or allowing your child to avoid feared situations, or offering reassurance every time the fears are expressed.

 

Anxiety has a way of growing, spreading, shifting in form, and generally resisting efforts to talk it out of existence. But there is hope. What to Do When You Worry Too Much will teach you and your child a new and more successful way to think about and manage anxiety. The techniques described in this book will help your child take control.

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Weight 0.3000 kg
Dimensions 0.0000 cm