Anxiety Resources for Parents and Students
For Parents: Understanding Anxiety
Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind
by Judson Brewer
New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits.
You and Your Anxious Child: Free your child from fears and worries and create a joyful family life
by Lynn Sonberg
Differentiates between separation anxiety, generalized anxiety, and social phobia, and guides parents on when and how to seek intervention.
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children.
Freeing Your Child From Anxiety Powerful: Practical solutions to overcome your child's fears, worries and phobias
by Tamar E. Chansky
Childhood anxiety expert Dr. Tamar Chansky shares a proven approach for helping children build emotional resilience for a happier and healthier life.
Coping Cat Parents: Understanding Anxiety
Albano, A.M., with Pepper, Leslie (2013)
For Parents: Helping Your Child with Anxiety
Spacetreatment.net - SPACE stands for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions and is a parent-based treatment program for children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and related problems. Parents (and other caregivers) participate in SPACE treatment sessions. In most cases the child or adolescent does not need to attend the treatment sessions.
by Tamar E. Chansky
In her landmark book, Dr. Tamar E. Chansky creates a clear road map to understanding and overcoming OCD based on her successful practice treating hundreds of children and teenagers with this disorder.
Your Anxious Child: How parents and teachers can relieve anxiety in children
by John Dacy and Lisa Fiore
Filled with solid information, a proven four-step program, dozens of engaging activities, and insightful personal vignettes, Your Anxious Child gives you easy, fun, and highly effective tools to help your child become a creative problem solver.
Helping Your Child Overcome Separation Anxiety or School Refusal: A step-by-step guide for parents
by Andrew Eisen, Linda Engler and Joshua Sparrow
This book shows you how to identify when your child's separation anxiety or school refusal is more than just a phase and offers effective tools that you can use to manage your child's anxiety.
Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking: Powerful, practical strategies to build a lifetime of resilience, flexibility and happiness
by Tamar Chansky
This book covers the underlying causes of children’s negative attitudes, as well as providing multiple strategies for managing negative thoughts, building optimism, and establishing emotional resilience.
Chansky, T. (2008)
Eisen, A.R., Engler, L.B., & Sparrow, J. (2006)
For Students
My Anxious Mind: A Teen’s Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic
by Michael Tomkins & Katherine Martinez
Helps teens take control of their anxious feelings by providing cognitive behavioral strategies to tackle anxiety head-on and to feel more confident and empowered in the process. It also offers ways for teens with anxiety to improve their interpersonal skills, manage stress; handle panic attacks; use diet and exercise appropriately; and decide whether medication is right for them.
Free From OCD: A Workbook for Teens With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
by TA Sisemore
Offers forty easy cognitive behavioral exercises to help you move past your symptoms and live freely and flexibly, without fear.
Perfectionism: What’s Bad About Being Too Good
by Miriam Adderholdt & Jan Goldberg
Includes new research and statistics on the causes and consequences of perfectionism, biographical sketches of famous perfectionists and risk takers, and resources for readers who want to know more.
Talking Back to OCD: The Program That Helps Kids and Teens Say "No Way" - and Parents Say "Way to Go"
by John March and Christine Benton
Each chapter begins with a section that helps kids and teens zero in on specific problems and develop skills they can use to tune out obsessions and resist compulsions. The pages that follow show parents how to be supportive without getting in the way.
The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness skill to help you deal with stress
by Gina Biegel
The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens is a collection of simple workbook activities that will teach you to reduce your worries using a technique called mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way to be aware of your thoughts and feelings in the present moment. You can use mindfulness when you start to feel as though things are spinning out of control, so you can stop worrying about what might happen and focus instead on what’s happening now.
by Amy Salzman
A Still Quiet Place for Teens can be that place. It is a place of peace and calm within. In this workbook, mindfulness expert Amy Saltzman offers a comprehensive program to help you manage daily stressors and challenges in your life, whether at home, in school, or with friends.