Freeing Your Child from Anxiety. Powerful, Practical Solutions to Overcome Your Child's Fears, Worries, and Phobias

Editorial Review

Anxiety is the number one mental health problem facing young people today.

Childhood should be a happy and carefree time, yet more and more children today are exhibiting symptoms of anxiety, from bedwetting and clinginess to frequent stomach aches, nightmares, and even refusing to go to school. Parents everywhere want to know: All children have fears, but how much is normal? How can you know when a stress has crossed over into a full-blown anxiety disorder? Most parents don’t know how to recognize when there is a real problem and how to deal with it when there is.

In Freeing Your Child From Anxiety, a childhood anxiety disorder specialist examines all manifestations of childhood fears, including social anxiety, Tourette’s Syndrome, hair-pulling, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and guides you through a proven program to help your child back to emotional safety.

No child is immune from the effects of stress in today’s media-saturated society. Fortunately, anxiety disorders are treatable. By following these simple solutions, parents can prevent their children from needlessly suffering today—and tomorrow.

www.broadwaybooks.com

Cached date: AWS Called=true

Customer Reviews

Grateful

2007-07-06
Best help yet for dealing with our son's anxiety. It was like learning another language and I use the dialogue daily. Especially for a parent who does not have an anxiety issue, it really helped me to understand what a struggle it is to be in a state of constant worry and how to quit saying "there's nothing to worry about". For this book I will be eternally grateful as it is helping to change our son's life back into what a nine year life should be; birhtday parties, sleepovers and play dates, not hanging out with mom worried about the next separartion.

Such a helpful, informative book

2007-06-27
This book is an absolute must for a parent of a child with anxiety issues. Chansky informs about various anxiety disorders without sounding alarmist or condescending. There's comprehensive information and it's presented in a practical, easy-to-understand way. This book should probably be your first purchase if you're trying to help your child cope with anxiety.

Excellent book!

2007-05-14
This book was very helpful. It had a lot of great suggestions for anxious children.

Helped Me Understand the Disorder

2007-05-09
This book was extremely useful for me -- I don't suffer from anxiety so I didn't understand and was easily frustrated by many of my daughter's actions that were directly related to her anxiety disorder. I didn't understand the biological element and how the brain chemistry affects everything from how sensitive she was about her socks not feeling right to being unable to participate in an activity that she loved. I feel I understand some of what she must be going through and it has helped me be more supportive of her condition.

Great advice

2007-03-08
This book was not only easy to read, but very informative. It gives lots of really good advice that can easily be implemented. I wish Dr. Chansky lived nearby so that we could use her as our therapist!!
This is a must read book if your child has anxiety issues.

Excellent resource

2008-03-12
This is a great book for parents trying to help an anxious child. It is written in a straightforward way, without a lot of the fluff and extra verbiage that other, similar books include. The author includes realistic-seeming examples and vignettes, but not so many that they overwhelm the content. A very useful resource.

Freeing Your Child From Anxiety

2007-11-07
this book is very informational and organized well. i like that you can just go to the sections you are interested in. they also have very good techniques for the kids (and adults) to try. highly recommended!

A very helpful book!

2007-08-26
I really enjoyed this book. It was very user friendly, and showed how to help your child, by giving you the appropriate language to use to explain feelings of anxiety/fear and how to take charge of them.

sleep problems

2007-08-24
my daughter has not slept n her bed alone for 8 years. she was always scared of the dark. We have tried everything and nothing worked. I bought the book and taught her the how to handle things using the books ideas and she now has slept in her bed all night allnight by herself for 1 month. The book is wonderful and can imply to all types of anxiety problems and is a great book for parents. Praise God for this.

Freedom

2007-08-11
Any parent who has the unfortunate circumstance to pick-up this book and learn how to cope with their child's anxiety will find it very informative and helpful. More importantly it will help your family down the road towards freedom. Freedom for your child to understand their feelings of anxiety and begin to relax and enjoy their childhood experiences. Freedom is also attainable for the parents, and other siblings, to have more productive days without dealing with the amazing stress of altering daily actives to meet the needs of your anxious child.

Dr. Chansky does a great job at explaining anxiety in simple terms that a parent can use to help explain to the child and re-assure him/her that the problem is not their fault. There are practical steps outlined that helps the child understand the differences between "good" thoughts and "anxious" thoughts. Dr. Chansky then breaks down different anxieties that are most common in children and provides exercises for the parents to break the anxieties down and build a foundation to change the child's thinking patterns that lead to the anxiety.

While the book is laid out in a very easy to follow format, and devotes sections to your child's particular problems, I think the book should be combined with some professional help depending on the severity of your child's issues. It is a great tool to be used when working with your child to begin removing anxious thoughts, but as a non-professional I found certain exercise (although very helpful) opened the door to larger discussions that I was less prepared to help with.

A good book that will prepare parents and children towards successful freedom