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Your Anxious Child John Dacey

Your Anxious Child By John Dacey

Your Anxious Child by John Dacey


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Summary

Step-by-step, this supportive and practical guide, explains the causes and symptoms of anxiety in children and introduces an effective programme, called COPE, that can be used to help.

Your Anxious Child Summary

Your Anxious Child: How Parents and Teachers Can Relieve Anxiety in Children by John Dacey

Katie freezes when she's asked to perform. Jose is a clinger. Damian is terrified of animals. Felicia always worries that she's going to make a mistake. It's hard being the parent of an anxious child, watching your son's frustration grow, or seeing how your daughter tries to cope with her fears but gives up so quickly. 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. Parents and teachers alike will find excellent strategies in this essential guide.

Your Anxious Child Reviews

"...parents and indeed therapists could learn much from this book..." (European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Vol.11, No.4, 2002) "...The language is simple and easy to understand. The information is certainly relevant..." (European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, No.4, 2002) "...The language is simple and easy to understand. The information is certainly relevant..." (European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, No.4, 2002)

About John Dacey

John S. Dacey, Ph.D., is professor at Boston College in the Department of Counseling, Developmental Psychology, and Research Methods. An expert in child development, he is also the author of many books and articles on parenting, creativity, adolescent psychology, and human development. Lisa B. Fiore, Ph.D., teaches courses in developmental and educational psychology at Boston College and Curry College. Her background as an early childhood educator has fostered her research in Head Start centers and her work in counseling parents of young children.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. 1. What Anxiety Is and How It Can Be Alleviated. 2. Eight Types of Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents. 3. COPE Step One: Calming the Nervous System. 4. COPE Step Two: Originating an Imaginative Plan. 5. COPE Step Three: Persisting in the Face of Obstacles and Failure. 6. COPE Step Four: Evaluating and Adjusting the Plan. 7. How Your Parenting Style Can Help Ease Your Child's Anxiety. Appendix A: Summary of Activities and Their Goals. Appendix B: Solutions to Activity Problems. Annotated Bibliography. About the Authors. Index.

Additional information

GOR002080890
9780787960407
0787960403
Your Anxious Child: How Parents and Teachers Can Relieve Anxiety in Children by John Dacey
Used - Good
Paperback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
2002-03-22
256
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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