Tired of Anxiety - A Kid’s Guide to Befriending Scary Thoughts and Living Your Life Anyway

Tired of Anxiety is a step-by step guide for children on how to do the things that matter to them despite anxiety. Based on principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), the book uses evidence-based clinical techniques and describes them in accessible, child-friendly ways to ensure that families have a toolkit for working positively with anxiety over the long term. By acknowledging that difficult thoughts and feelings are a normal part of being human, rather than something we must try to stamp down or wish away, the authors normalise the everyday struggles of anxious young people so that children can learn to 'make friends' with their own anxiety and get on with the more important work of actually living and enjoying their lives. The text is presented in a visually appealing style, with frequent opportunities to engage with the material and a suite of supporting audio meditations.

About the author

Sarah Cassidy is an educational, child, and adolescent psychologist who specialises in the assessment and treatment of learning and emotional/behavioural difficulties. LISA COYNE is the Founder and Senior Clinical Consultant of the McLean OCD Institute for Children and Adolescents a at McLean Hospital, Massachusetts, and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Summary

A step-by-step, visually engaging guide that draws on proven psychological science to give parents and other caregivers the means to make real, effective changes in the lives of young people who are experiencing long-term struggles with anxiety.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Cassidy, Cassidy Sarah, Lisa Coyne
• Publisher: Pavilion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781803880808
• ISBN: 978-1-80388-080-8
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; SELF-HELP / Anxieties & Phobias, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General, Psychotherapy, Coping with anxiety & phobias, Advice on parenting, Parenting: advice and issues, Coping with / advice about anxiety and phobias