Growing Up Brave Expert Strategies for Helping Your Child Overcome Fear, Stress, and Anxiety

by Pincus, Donna B.

• ISBN13: 9780316125604
• ISBN10: 0316125601
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-28
• Publisher: Little, Brown Spark

Summary

With social and academic pressures at an all-time high, one in five children today suffers from a diagnosed anxiety disorder and many others go undiagnosed. More children than ever are being prescribed psychotropic drugs. In GROWING UP BRAVE, nationally recognized childhood anxiety expert Dr. Donna Pincus demonstrates that excessive anxiety is manageable and even preventable when parents learn how to identify and understand it and respond by using convenient and simple parenting techniques. The book's effective tools teach parents: - how to promote a warm, secure attachment with their child in only five minutes a day -develop routines that help ward off anxiety -implement Dr. Pincus's "bravery ladder" -and much more. GROWING UP BRAVE is an empowering and valuable guide that will leave parents equipped to help their child regain confidence and happiness.

Author Biography

Dr. Donna Pincus is the Director of the Child and Adolescent Fear and Anxiety Treatment Program at Boston University. She has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, 20/20, and more. Her work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and more. She lives outside Boston, MA.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
Understanding Childhood Anxiety
The Brave Child
Learning to Cope with the Range of Human Emotions	p. 11
What's Normal, What's Not
Decoding Childhood Emotions, Fears, and Anxieties	p. 27
The Attentive Parent
How Parent-Child Interaction Styles Affect Anxiety	p. 51
Daily Routines that Ward Off Anxiety
Five-Minutes-a-Day Time
A Simple Strategy to Set the Stage for Brave Behavior	p. 73
Managing Bedtime
The Benefits of a Consistent Sleep Pattern	p. 101
Strategies to Lessen Anxiety and Promote Bravery
The Cycle of Anxiety
A Three-Component Model	p. 121
Examining Anxious Thoughts
One Step in Breaking the Cycle	p. 127
Accepting Physical Feelings
Learning about the Body	p. 151
Changing Avoidant Behaviors
The Power of Parental Reinforcement	p. 171
The Bravery Ladder
Step by Step to Success	p. 181
Halfway to Adulthood
Combating the Fears of Adolescence	p. 217
Special Considerations
Growing Up Brave Through the Years
Finding Professional Help, Using Medications, Maintaining Progress	p. 245
Acknowledgments	p. 257
Notes	p. 261
Index	p. 263
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