Outsmarting Worry

This book offers calming, constructive advice to 9-13 year olds who have anxiety. It teaches them about, and normalizes, their symptoms and provides a set of easy-to-follow steps to overcome them. The author's smart, child-friendly techniques are based on the most up-to-date psychological treatments of anxiety, including CBT and ACT.

Worry has a way of growing, shifting from not-a-big-deal to a VERY BIG DEAL in the blink of an eye. This big-deal Worry is tricky, luring children into behaviours that keep the anxiety cycle going. Children often find it hard to fight back against Worry, but not anymore. Outsmarting Worry teaches 9-13 year olds and the adults who care about them a specific set of skills that makes it easier to face - and overcome - worries and fears. Smart, practical, proven techniques are presented in language immediately accessible to children with an emphasis on shifting from knowing to doing, from worried to happy and free.

Autorentext

Dawn Huebner PhD, illustrated by Kara McHale

Klappentext

Incorporating up-to-date thinking about the successful treatment of anxiety, it includes tried and tested strategies from this bestselling author to help 9-13 year olds tackle their worries and fears.

Zusammenfassung
This easy to follow illustrated book from a best-selling author presents strategies for 9-13 year olds with anxiety. It teaches them about, and normalizes, their symptoms and provides a set of concrete steps to overcome them. The tried and tested techniques are based on the most up-to-date psychological treatments of anxiety, including CBT and ACT.

Inhalt

Intro to Readers; A Note to Parents and Caregivers; 1. Getting Started; 2. The Brain-Body Message System; 3. Danger Learning and Safety Behaviors; 4. False Alarms; 5. Where's the Evidence? 6. Thinking Mistakes; 7. Worries Love to Debate; 8. Shifting Your Attention; 9. Hanging Out with Worry; 10. Worry's Biggest Trick; 11. Breaking Free From Worry; 12. Jumping In; 13. Exposure; 14. Worry in Disguise; 15. What to Do When There Is Nothing to Do; 16. More on Exposure; 17. But I'm Still Scared!; 18. Putting It All Together; ****