The Essential Guide to Treating Child and Adolescent Anxiety - by Steve O'Brien (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Supporting anxious kids means empowering anxious parents.Clinical psychologist Dr. Steve O'Brien knows firsthand how challenging, even overpowering, it can be when a child presents with anxiety.
- About the Author: Steve O'Brien, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in Tampa Bay, FL, with over 30 years of experience treating children, adolescents, and families (obrienpsychology.com).
- 208 Pages
- Psychology, Psychotherapy
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About the Book
Supporting anxious kids means empowering anxious parents. Clinical psychologist Dr. Steve O'Brien knows firsthand how challenging, even overpowering, it can be when a child presents with anxiety. So often, their struggles send a ripple effect that disrupts the entire family system. In The Essential Guide to Treating Child and Adolescent Anxiety, clinicians will find an integrative, whole-family approach for treating the most common anxiety-related issues in childhood, including school fears, social anxiety, excessive worry, separation anxiety, and more. Drawing from cognitive behavioral, family systems, and client-centered therapies, this book provides over 75 handouts, worksheets, scripts, and tips to help you navigate the most common treatment obstacles so you can empower anxious children and their parents to live healthier, happier lives. You'll learn how to: - Navigate the initial session and build rapport with parents - Provide child-friendly psychoeducation on anxiety - Assist families in developing healthier habits to decrease household stress - Provide intensive parent consultation - Break the anxiety-reassurance-repeat cycle - Use the 3 R's (recognize, relax, redirect) of anxiety management - Reframe how parents and teachers think about "misbehavior" - And more!Book Synopsis
Supporting anxious kids means empowering anxious parents.
Clinical psychologist Dr. Steve O'Brien knows firsthand how challenging, even overpowering, it can be when a child presents with anxiety. So often, their struggles send a ripple effect that disrupts the entire family system.
In The Essential Guide to Treating Child and Adolescent Anxiety, clinicians will find an integrative, whole-family approach for treating the most common anxiety-related issues in childhood, including school fears, social anxiety, excessive worry, separation anxiety, and more. Drawing from cognitive behavioral, family systems, and client-centered therapies, this book provides over 75 handouts, worksheets, scripts, and tips to help you navigate the most common treatment obstacles so you can empower anxious children and their parents to live healthier, happier lives.
You'll learn how to:
- Navigate the initial session and build rapport with parents
- Provide child-friendly psychoeducation on anxiety
- Assist families in developing healthier habits to decrease household stress
- Provide intensive parent consultation
- Break the anxiety-reassurance-repeat cycle
- Use the 3 R's (recognize, relax, redirect) of anxiety management
- Reframe how parents and teachers think about "misbehavior"
- And more!
Review Quotes
"The Essential Guide to Treating Child and Adolescent Anxiety is a detailed, organized, and comprehensive guide for therapists who work with anxious youth. Dr. Steve O'Brien addresses the stages of counseling, beginning with the first session, and includes sensitive approaches to parents, who often present with frustration, guilt, and their own anxiety. He offers sample language to use with anxious clients as well as sound therapeutic interventions. Dr. O'Brien's book meets a vast need for effective professional help for the anxiety epidemic in young people."
--Paul Foxman, PhD, director of Vermont Center for Anxiety Care and author of The Worried Child: Recognizing Anxiety in Children and Helping Them Heal; The Clinician's Guide to Anxiety Disorders in Kids and Teens; Conquering Anxiety and Panic Disorders: Success Stories, Strategies and Other Good News; Dancing with Fear: Controlling Stress and Creating a Life Beyond Panic and Anxiety; and Traumas and Triumphs: A Psychologist's Personal Recipe for Happiness
"Dr. Steve O'Brien's wonderful new book is an innovative and practical guide for helping kids and their families navigate the complexities of living with anxiety. Packed with current information about all types of anxiety disorders, novel treatment interventions, and creative worksheets for children, teens, and their parents, this book highlights Dr. O'Brien's expertise and helps you apply his insights and tools to your own work. The handouts can be used in session, at home, or at school to promote self-understanding, personal wellness, and key coping tools. Dr. O'Brien believes supporting anxious kids means empowering their parents--and he delivers the knowledge, materials, and guidance to make that happen. I highly recommend this terrific book and can't wait to start using it with my clients!"
--Sharon Saline, PsyD, licensed psychologist and author of What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids in School and Life and The ADHD Solution Card Deck
About the Author
Steve O'Brien, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in Tampa Bay, FL, with over 30 years of experience treating children, adolescents, and families (obrienpsychology.com). A national speaker, on-air mental health reporter, and trusted media psychologist, Dr. O'Brien also developed the first-of-its-kind app for obtaining a child's perception of family life (psychtouch.com).
