Helping Your Child with Fears and Worries 2nd Edition: A self-help guide for parents
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PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS OVERCOMING YOUR CHILD’S FEARS AND WORRIES
Does your child suffer from fears and worries that affect their behaviour or keep them awake at night?
Fears and worries are very common among children with around 15% thought to suffer from anxiety disorders; the most commonly identified emotional or behavioural problems among children. However, if left unchecked, they can cause more serious problems such as school avoidance, difficulties in making friends and long-term problems with anxiety and depression.
Written by two of the UK’s foremost experts on childhood anxiety, this extremely useful guide will enable you to understand what is causing your child’s worries and to carry out step-by-step practical strategies to help him or her to overcome them, including:
· Addressing specific fears and phobias as well as general anxiety and ‘worrying’
· Using case studies, worksheets and charts
Helping Your Child is a series for parents and caregivers to support children through developmental difficulties, both psychological and physical. Each guide uses clinically-proven techniques.
Series editors: Professor Peter Cooper and Dr Polly Waite
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Additional information
| Publisher | Robinson, 2nd edition (11 April 2019) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 336 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1472138619 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1472138613 |
| Dimensions | 12.7 x 1.91 x 19.69 cm |
by Nicola
This book is written in simple, clear English. No jargon, no long words, so it is super easy to follow. I use it now to refer to relevant chapters as it is nicely laid out. There are good examples which are easy to relate to and there are exercises to do (if you wish) which help to break things down into manageable steps.
I needed this book for a course and it has given me loads of pointers to use and is now my goto reference book.
by Lily
I was asked to purchase this ahead of an anxiety workshop for my child. I have only read the first two parts so far (as directed) and I have to say, I’m impressed. No one likes to think that maybe they’re doing something wrong when it comes to parenting, but honestly, this is such a good read and incredibly insightful. It turns out that we may now be going down a different avenue now with the outreach services, but I shall continue to read this book regardless. If your child has worries or anxieties that are more frequent than the ‘norm’ I really recommend this.
by Mira
I recommend to all parents to have this book because will help them a lot with their children.for me it’s helpful
by E Cranna
A bit of a background – my daughter (10) is having a hard time with social anxiety. We are waiting for an appointment with CAMHS (Child Adolescence Mental Health Service) but the wait times are about a year. In the meantime she is struggling to go to school and has withdrawn from social activities with peers including quitting all her after school activities. She seems so unhappy and as a parent this is hard to watch (it’s heart-breaking!). We are lucky that the school she attends have been incredibly supportive and have put in place support systems while she is at school. But none of this is helping her overcome her anxiety. We believe its as a result of COVID lockdown but who knows! I have been attending a course run through our local council to give parents the tools to help their kids. This book was recommended on day 1 of the course, I have found it more useful than the course. The book explains anxiety and then gives you a step by step guide on how to help your child. There’s 5 steps to the process and it involves getting your child to face their fears (very gradually). It involves setting goals. As your child achieves their goals they learn new things about the situations that causes them anxiety. It teaches you how to speak to them when they are feeling anxious. We have only been following this book for a few weeks – I haven’t made it all the way through, so far I have just been changing how I react to my daughters anxiety. We have set goals but not the steps needed to achieve them. I have already seen a change in my daughter, she still has plenty of anxiety driven moments but I’m better able to guide her through them. I wish I had read this book years ago as I believe that it would benefit anyone who has a child, not just parents with an anxious child. If you are reading this review and are at breaking point, like we were, I totally sympathise with you, anxiety is hard, really hard. Give this a go, what do you have to lose?
by Verified Customer
This was recommended to me by a mental health professional for kids. It’s a good book, but has limitations.
On the plus side, it explains everything and really spells out how to support (but not coddle) a child.
On the down side, I did feel that the examples in the book were easier to fix than some real life anxieties. Eg the book had a case study of a girl who is afraid to raise her hand in school, and a case study of a boy who is scared of going upstairs in case a (fictitious) monster “gets him” – both pretty easy to solve.
Real life worries like being scared their grandparents might die, or that they will lose their friends when they move house, or that theyll see less of their dad when their parents get divorced .. these worries are much harder to address, because it’s far more likely to happen – it’s a legitimate fear / worry. But we don’t want such worries to consume our kids, so they do need to deal with it, but the “try x and see if anything bad happens” approach is great when the kid goes upstairs and realises the monster didn’t get him, but if the kid goes to Grandma’s house and sees she didn’t die, this does nothing to quell the fear that she will die at some point. Because Grandma is in fact going to die. So it’d be nice to have strategies to address these sorts of fears and worries too.
by Dani
Very Helpful
by Lily
The book itself is useful. I need to read it to be prepared to deliver Parent-led CBT. However, the condition the book arrived in is poor. A large crease on the back of the book and a smaller crease on the front of the book. This is not what I expect from a brand new book.
by Han
I tried to leave an honest review. Sadly Amazon said it was not allowed. It included how disappointed I am with the company and so I guess it is not surprising that a honest review is not allowed.
The book itself is a brilliant book. I would recommend it to other parents. It is informative and helpful. It was recommended to me and I was leant a copy, and it was so good that I wanted a copy of my own. If your child has worries I would suggest you get this book. It is very easy to read.