Freeing Your Child From Anxiety: Powerful, Practical Solutions to Overcome Your Child's Fears,
Worries, and Phobias; Tamar Chansky; 2004
Dr. Chansky's book is informative and provides practical ideas for helping anxious children. She helps parents understand anxious children in general, what treatment is available, and where and when to go for help. She also provides details about specific anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety, phobias, social anxiety, separation anxiety, OCD, nervous habits, and PTSD.
Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents;
Ronald Rapee et al' 2008
This step-by-step guide tackles the why, how, and what now of anxiety disorders. It is written in everyday language and describes in detail strategies and techniques parents can combine into a comprehensive self-help program for managing a child's worry while building confidence and self-control.
The Anxiety Cure for Kids: A Guide for Parents;
Spencer, Dupont, and Dupont; 2003
These authors provide a guide to help parents and children understand the way anxiety works. They explain how to overcome the negative impacts of anxiety and how to turn anxiety into a positive opportunity. The book outlines specific action steps for parents to help anxious children.
Worried No More: Help and Hope for Anxious Children;
Aureen Pinto Wagner; 2005
This book provides practical guidance, specific how-to steps and ready-to-use forms and tools for parents, educators and healthcare professionals to help children overcome anxiety. It focuses on helping children cope with disasters and tragedies, panic, phobias, worry, school refusal, separation anxiety, excessive shyness, obsessions and compulsions.
What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety;
Huebner and Matthews; 2005
A workbook written for children, this book helps children understand worry, why they might worry, and what they can do to get rid of the worry.
Painfully Shy: How to Overcome Social Anxiety and Reclaim Your Life;
Markway & Markway; 2003
The authors describe social anxiety, including the symptoms and some of the possible causes. They offer methods for treating the disorder, including self-treatment options. Case histories present people from a wide variety of backgrounds who have social anxiety disorder. Appendixes include help from parents of children with this disorder and other resources.
The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven Techniques for Overcoming Your Fears;
Antony et al; 2008
This book is a step-by-step guide to overcoming fear of social interaction. It provides a comprehensive overview and includes behavioral skill-building exercises.
Brave: Be Ready and Victory is Easy: A Story About Social Anxiety;
Knudsen and Henderson; 2008
A chapter book written for children, tells the story of 5th grader Danny who is anxious in social situations, especially those that are new or different. In an effort to avoid giving a speech in class, he befriends Jack, whose grandpa teaches Danny a valuable lesson about managing anxiety.