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ISBN# 978-1-59363-343-1
Anxiety-Free Kids
Publication Date: 2009 |
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| Bonnie Zucker, Psy.D. |
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About the Author |
| Bonnie Zucker, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist in Washington, D.C. Dr. Zucker conducts psychotherapy in private practice at Alvord, Baker, & Associates, and at the National Center for the Treatment of Phobias, Anxiety and Depression. Using a cognitive-behavioral (CPT) approach, she has helped hundreds of children become anxiety-free by teaching them coping skills, methods for challenging their faulty thinking, and how to systematically face their fears. A respected psychologist in the treatment of anxiety, Dr. Zucker also is active in training other mental health professionals on the treatment of anxiety disorders. |
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Summary
Anxiety-Free Kids offers parents strategies that help children become happy and worry free, methods that relieve a child’s excessive anxieties and phobias, and tools for fostering interaction and family-oriented solutions. Using a unique companion approach that offers two books in one—a practical, reader-friendly book for parents and a fun workbook for kids—this solutions-oriented guide utilizes the cognitive-behavioral approach to therapy by integrating the parent in the child’s self-help process.
Research has shown that if left untreated, children with anxiety disorders are at higher risk to perform poorly in school, to have less-developed social skills, and to be more vulnerable to substance abuse. The author employs cognitive-behavioral therapy, the most empirically supported treatment of anxiety disorders, along with a family approach to build a supportive team to help kids with anxiety successfully overcome their worries.
Covering the six most commonly occurring anxiety disorders in childhood—generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, specific phobias, social phobias, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder—this book gives kids and their parents successful strategies for achieving relaxation, conquering worries, challenging faulty thinking patterns, developing positive self-talk, and facing one’s fears.
Reviews
Dr. Zucker's Anxiety-Free Kids is the kind of practical help that parents of anxious children badly need. The book is unique in addressing the family and children together--strongly recommended.
-Judith Rapoport, MD, Chief of the Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health
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