Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children [Paperback]

Bonnie Zucker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2008

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Anxiety does not have to be a constant state. Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children is a parent's guide to dealing with their child's anxieties and phobias so that they can face them now before they develop into lifelong problems. Doubling as an advice guide for parents and an activity book for younger readers in dealing with their fears, Anxiety-Free Kids is a unique approach to childhood phobia [and is] highly recommended. --
    —James A.Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Bonnie Zucker, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist with an expertise in psychotherapy with children and adolescents. She received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago and her master's degree in Applied Psychology from the University of Baltimore. Dr. Zucker specializes in the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders. Using a cognitive-behavioral (CBT) 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. Dr. Zucker also integrates a family systems approach in order to teach parents how to most appropriately respond to their child's anxiety disorder. Dr. Zucker is in private practice in Washington, DC, and Rockville, MD, and is active in training mental health professionals on the treatment of anxiety disorders.

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Prufrock Press; 1 edition (November 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593633432
• ISBN-13: 978-1593633431
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #73 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Mental Health > Anxiety Disorders

More About the Author

Dr. Bonnie Zucker is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Washington, DC and Rockville, Maryland. She received her doctoral degree from Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago and her Masters degree in Applied Psychology from the University of Baltimore. In her practice, Dr. Zucker specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders in children and adults and utilizes a cognitive-behavioral (CBT) approach. Additionally, she integrates family systems work and helps parents learn the most appropriate responses to their child's anxiety disorder. Her books, Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children & Take Control of OCD: The Ultimate Guide for Kids with OCD, are modeled after her treatment methods. She conducts psychotherapy at the National Center for the Treatment of Phobias, Anxiety and Depression in Washington, DC and at Alvord, Baker, & Associates in Rockville, MD. Dr. Zucker regularly conducts trainings on CBT for anxiety for mental health professionals.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Excellent, January 22, 2009

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atomic "atomickats" (washington, dc United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children (Paperback)

I am a psychiatrist specializing in anxiety disorders. I find this book very impressive. It employs proven scientificaly based approaches to help kids with a wide range of anxiety symptoms. It is presented in an easy to understand, and easy to use format. The book synthesizes a wide range of therapeutic approaches in a manner that can be easily translated into immediate application by the layman. If you learn whats in this book, you will know more than most therapists about treating childhood anxiety disorders! I highly recommend this book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource - No Other Book Like It, November 24, 2008

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L. Friedlander - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children (Paperback)

Dr Zucker's book is truly one of a kind - the idea of pairing a book for BOTH the parent and the child is excellent - the book is easy to read - puts forth workable suggestions and strategies - and enables me to integrate my child in the process of learning how to deal with every day issues stemming from anxiety - I highly recommend this book to any parent regardless of the level of anxiety your child may be experiencing!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A parent's guide to dealing with their child's anxieties and phobias, April 11, 2009

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children (Paperback)

Anxiety does not have to be a constant state. "Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children" is a parent's guide to dealing with their child's anxieties and phobias, so that they can face them now before they develop into lifelong problems. Doubling as an advice guide for parents and an activity book for younger readers in dealing with their fears, "Anxiety-Free Kids" is a unique approach to childhood phobia, highly recommended.