Your Anxious Child: How Parents and Teachers Can Relieve Anxiety in Children
Your Anxious Child empowers you to teach your child essential coping skills for dealing with anxiety in engaging, creative ways. Through dozens of activities you can start using right now, your child will learn how to alleviate stress, build courage and trust, and become an innovative problem solver. Your Anxious Child is based on the acclaimed "COPE" program, which has been used successfully with children throughout the United States for more than fifteen years. The program offers physical,...
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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.
Acknowledgmentsxi1.What Anxiety Is and How It Can Be Alleviated12.Eight Types of Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents253.COPE Step One: Calming the Nervous System434.COPE Step Two: Originating an Imaginative Plan855.COPE Step Three: Persisting in the Face of Obstacles and Failure1356.COPE Step Four: Evaluating and Adjusting the Plan1657.How Your Parenting Style Can Help Ease Your Child's Anxiety197Appendix ASummary of Activities and Their Goals217Appendix BSolutions to Activity Problems225Annotated Bibliography227About the Authors233Index235
