Calming your anxious child : words to say and things to do
Trainor, Kathleen, 1955-2016
Book
Ten million children in the United States 'two million of them preschoolers' suffer from anxiety. Anxious children may be afraid to be out of their parents' sight; they may refuse to talk except to specific people or under specific circumstances; they may insist on performing tasks such as brushing teeth or getting ready for bed in a rigidly specific way. For many children these difficulties interfere with doing well in school and making friends as well as with daily activities like sleeping, eating, and bathing. Untreated anxiety can have a devastating effect on a child's future emotional, social, academic, and work life. And since most kids don't naturally outgrow anxiety, parents need to know how to help. In Calming Your Anxious Child, Dr. Kathleen Trainor builds on cognitive behavioral therapy to provide practical steps for guiding parents through the process of helping their children manage their anxieties and gain control over their worry-based behaviors. Dr. Trainor's method involves identifying the anxieties and the behaviors, rating them, agreeing on what behaviors to work on changing, identifying strategies for changing behaviors, noting and charting progress, offering incentives, and reinforcing progress. Combining family stories with practical advice and support, Calming Your Anxious Child teaches parents and caregivers how to empower their children to overcome their worried thoughts and behaviors. Children who have generalized anxiety, OCD, social anxiety, separation anxiety, phobias, or PTSD can all benefit from Dr. Trainor's method, which also helps parents move from feeling controlled by their child's anxiety to feeling they are in control of their family's future.
Main title:
Calming your anxious child : words to say and things to do / Kathleen Trainor, PsyD.
Author:
Trainor, Kathleen, 1955-, author
Imprint:
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.©2016
Collation:
249 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Fighting Anxiety: Applying CBT with a Step-by-Step Approach -- ch. 2 Stepping Up to the Challenge: How the 7-Step TRAINOR Method Works -- ch. 3 Daytime, Bedtime, Worry, Worry: Generalized Anxiety Disorder -- ch. 4 Silent Liza and Hidden Patrick: Selective Mutism and Social Anxiety -- ch. 5 Where Are You, Mom and Dad? Separation Anxiety -- ch. 6 Tap, Check, Count, Wash, Repeat: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) -- ch. 7 Scared to Death: Specific Phobias -- ch. 8 When Bad Things Happen to Good Kids: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- ch. 9 And There's More: Hair Pulling, Skin Picking, Tics, Picky Eating, and the Like -- ch. 10 Easier Said Than Done: When More Help Is Needed.
ISBN:
9781421420103 (paperback)
Dewey class:
618.928522618.9285
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
435354
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Melbourne Library | -Parenting | PARENT 618.9285 TRAI | Available |