Overcoming Anxiety in Children & Teens

Practical and evidence based treatments for anxiety are described in an extremely user friendly format. Parents and clinicians alike will be able to help both typical and autistic children overcome debilitating anxiety. Simple to use fear ladders, “think like a scientist” cue cards, meditation guides, physical exercises, and cognitive behavioral strategie are shown to help children gradually confront their fears. If you need simple, ready to use strategies that work, this is the book for you. Chapters cover:

• Simple phobias

• Social phobia

• Selective mutism

• Separation anxiety

• School refusal

• Panic disorder

• Obsessive compulsive disorder

• Somatic symptom disorder and/or illness anxiety disorder

• Generalized anxiety disorder

• Perfectionism

and other common fears.