A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Anxiety

Worries are like tomatoes. If you pay attention to them, they will grow. Some kids worry about almost everything around them--home, grades, friends, natural and man-made disasters, etc.

This book is for those kids who worry to the point that it is effecting their everyday behavior and for those who show tendencies to becoming overreacting worriers.

This interactive self-help book includes:

cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of anxiety

lively metaphors and illustrations to make the concepts and strategies easy to understand

step-by-step prompts drawing and writing prompts to help children master new skills to reduce anxiety

One of the "What To Do Guide Series" that also includes What To Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck/OCD and What To Do When You Grumble Too Much.

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TOPICS: Anxiety, worrying

INCLUDES: Self-help book, information for adults

GRADE LEVELS: 1-6/AGES: 6-11

FOR USE WITH: Individuals, small groups

AUTHOR: Dawn Huebner

RECOMMENDED FOR: Elementary-school counselors,social workers, special education teachers, psychologists, parents

8.5 X 11, 78 pages, black & white illustrations, paperback, 2006