What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety (What to Do Guides for Kids)
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Guides children and parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of anxiety. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering kids to overcome their overgrown worries.
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185 of 186 found the following review helpful:
Kids can relate to the ideas in the book.Jul 09, 2007
By Andrea L. Polk
"Savvy Sleuth"
When your child's anxiety overtakes and consumes their joy, you'd buy 200 books if they'd help your child to feel better. Don't buy 200 books... BUY THIS ONE for your child.
My daughter is 9, but reads at 8th grade level, so I was a bit apprehensive about getting this book for her; fearing she'd think it was too baby-ish. Much to my surprise and delight, she loves the book! She says "I love the pictures. It's kind of funny and I like that it has activities to do. The book has good ideas about how to fix my worries."
The book does have great kid-friendly concepts like: Worry Time and Worry Bully, with places to draw and write down thoughts. It not only addresses how worries can take over, but empowers kids to fight back and reassures them that when they do, the worries will get smaller and smaller, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY...LOSE THEIR POWER OVER YOUR CHILD.
The book talks about the positives of getting rid of worries, like giving kids more time to play with their friends instead of worrying. Simple concepts perhaps, but written in a way that kids relate. The concepts are ones that both kids and parents can easily remember and refer to, which also helps when the Worry Bully shows up unexpectedly.
Other books that have helped my daughter: Worried No More Worried No More - Second Edition: Help and Hope for Anxious Children by Aureen Wagner, PHD (this is an excellent resource for Cognitive-Behavioral therapy support; workbook pages in the back...) and the meditations books for children by Maureen Garth: StarbrightStarbright--Meditations for Children, Moonbeam Moonbeam: A Book of Meditations for Children, and Earthlight Earthlight (read together before bedtime to help your child visualize a safe, quiet place before they fall asleep...).
93 of 95 found the following review helpful:
Excellent interventionNov 17, 2005
By Michelle S. Saidel
"Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist"
As any mental health provider will tell you, Anxiety disorders are one of the most frequent problems children face. Trying to help a frightened child talk about the problem and address their fears is often difficult. Children fear that even talking about the problem will make it worse. Dawn Huebner's book provides the solution. In developmentally appropriate and engaging scenarios, Dr. Huebner puts the problem in perspective and introduces interventions and activities which are fun and effective! The book provides a child friendly means of understanding how anxiety disorders can grow and affect a child's life. Cognitive and behavioral skills are than introduced in a manner in which the child can understand and practice. There are even workbook style pages for documenting progress and skills achieved! All of this is presented in a gradual, friendly, manner which is invaluable for the anxious child. This book is a must have for mental health professional, teachers, guidance counselors and parents of anxious children.
121 of 136 found the following review helpful:
I found this one disappointingJun 27, 2007
By Hannah The idea is a good one -- to explain anxiety at a level that most kids can understand and give them some steps to take to help them overcome their worries. Unfortunately, at one point in the book, the author makes the point that worries pick on weak people. What? If you purchase this book, you're trying to help your child cope with worry, not scold them for being too weak to conquer it.
36 of 38 found the following review helpful:
Empowerment! Practical Help rather than meds!Feb 20, 2007
By Mom, homeschooler, small business owner This book is great! Written at a child's level and it works! I asked doctors for this help and they just wanted to medicate or acted like I was being unreasonable. It really helps children get more in touch with what is going on in their heads and empowers them to defeat it. Empowers parents to be able to help them. For children old enough and with verbal skills enough to discuss what they think and feel. Really opens communication. Children often don't even know how to express their worries.
24 of 24 found the following review helpful:
The only thing that has helped!Mar 29, 2007
By S. Soderstrom We began working with this book a year ago, when my daughter was 5. When school counselors and psychologists couldn't help, I had to find a way to help my daughter myself. This book is our worry-bible! We go back to it time and time again, to remind her that she is the one in control of this thing that is trying to take over her brain. It includes wonderful activities and practical solutions that she can put into practice. Because that's the hardest part of anxiety - the child is the one who ultimately has to fix it. As parents, the only thing we can do is help them learn how and support them every step of the way. I don't know what we would do without this book!
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