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Anxiety coach a parent's guide to treating childhood anxiety and OCD

When children have anxiety disorders they are very afraid, nervous, or worried about typical daily experiences that would not bother most children their age. For some kids with OCD, rather than feeling nervous or worried, they feel "grossed-out" by things or feel the need to make things "just-right....

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Main Author: Whiteside, Stephen P. H. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Rochester, MN : Mayo Clinic Press, 2024.
Edition:[Trade paperback edition].
Subjects:
Anxiety in children.
Worry in children.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder in children.
Parenting.
Child psychology.
Mentally ill children > Care.
Mentally ill > Care.
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Summary:When children have anxiety disorders they are very afraid, nervous, or worried about typical daily experiences that would not bother most children their age. For some kids with OCD, rather than feeling nervous or worried, they feel "grossed-out" by things or feel the need to make things "just-right." In both cases, children feel anxious or upset, even when there is nothing happening around them that would frighten or bother most other kids. This book is the first of its kind to give parents the tools to carry out exposure therapy with their child at home. It is born from Dr. Whiteside's gold standard exposure therapy program at Mayo Clinic, which pioneers the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders, phobias, and OCD with exposure therapy, by offering therapy to children and their parents. Treatment for anxiety disorders and OCD involves helping kids learn through facing their fears in a series of scenarios, showing them that they were more nervous than they really needed to be. Parents are included in exposure therapy in Dr. Whiteside's program, so they can learn what anxiety is, what exposure therapy is and how to use one to treat the other. Dr. Whiteside wants children and their parents to leave his program knowing how to practice exposure therapy and to be able to use the skills and tools at home. This practical and supportive book will guide them in their efforts to help their children lead happy, healthy, anxiety-free lives.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:277 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:9798887700335
Author Notes:Stephen P. H. Whiteside, Ph.D., ABPP, is a board-certified licensed clinical psychologist, professor of psychology in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, and director of the Pediatric Anxiety Disorders Program at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Whiteside is the co-author of Exposure Therapy for Child and Adolescent Anxiety and OCD and Exposure Therapy for Anxiety: Principles and Practice. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife and daughter.

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