Category: Kid’s Anxiety

Helping Your Anxious Teen: Positive Parenting Strategies to Help Your Teen Beat Anxiety, Stress, and Worry

By Sheila Achar Josephs, PhD  (2017)

From Amazon.com: ““… thoughtful tools for helping young people help themselves.”
—Library Journal

Parenting a teen isn’t easy, but parenting an anxious teen is especially challenging. Written by a psychologist and expert on adolescent anxiety, this essential book will show you what really works to overcome all types of teen anxiety and how to apply specific skills to support your teen.  
 
Most parents find it frustrating when common sense and logical methods such as reassurance don’t seem to work to allay their teen’s anxiety.  They want to know:  Why is anxiety so hard to get rid of once it takes hold?  Why aren’t my efforts to help working?  And how can I best help my teen break free from anxiety to become happy and resilient? 
 
This powerful book, based on cutting-edge research and cognitive behavioral strategies, will help you develop the know-how to effectively manage teen anxiety.  You’ll learn the best ways to support your teen in overcoming problematic thinking and fears, discover what behaviors and coping strategies unwittingly make anxiety worse, and understand how anxiety is best defeated with surprisingly counterintuitive methods.  Step-by-step guidance, along with numerous real-life examples and exercises, will help you to:

  • Sensitively redirect your teen’s worries when they intensify
  • Reduce social anxiety, perfectionism, and panic attacks
  • Proactively address common triggers of stress and anxiety
  • Implement a proven approach for decreasing avoidance and facing fears

From overcoming minor angst to defeating paralyzing fear, you and your teen will feel empowered by radically new ways of responding to anxiety. With Helping Your Anxious Teen, you’ll have a wealth of research-backed strategies to lead you in being an effective anxiety coach for your teen.”

Video for Kids: Why Do I Have Anxiety?!

At Parenting Survival for All Ages

January 24, 2018

This video is not intended to replace medical advice. This is for information purposes only. This video is for informational purposes only and should not be used to replace the guidance of a local mental health professional. Kids can’t fight anxiety until they understand anxiety. Parents often skip this step and wonder why their child’s anxiety never gets better. The best way to help kids with anxiety is to take the time to explain how anxiety works. So how do you explain anxiety to them in a way where they’ll not only get it, but be motivated to work on it? Have them watch my YouTube video made just for anxious kids to watch. In this short video I explain what anxiety is, why kids get it and how it works. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for new videos every week created just for kids with anxiety and OCD. *** Sign up for my e-mail newsletter at: http://madmimi.com/signups/188009/join Subscribe to my Podcast: The AT Parenting Survival Podcast https://www.anxioustoddlers.com/podcast/ For my online OCD class: Parenting Kids with OCD Http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/p/child-ocd For more support parenting a child with anxiety or OCD visit: http://www.anxioustoddlerstoTeens.com Sign up to get notified when my online Social Anxiety Class opens: http://bit.ly/Socialanxietysignup To join my private Facebook group visit: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATpar… For AT Parenting online classes visit: http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com For the AT Parenting Class: Teach Your Kids to Crush Anxiety: http://anxioustoddlers.teachable.com/… For my anxiety books visit: https://www.amazon.com/Natasha-Daniel… https://www.anxioustoddlers.com/paren… Other social places I hang out: http://www.facebook.com/anxioustoddlers http://www.pinterest.com/anxioustoddlers http://www.twitter.com/anxioustoddlers http://www.instagram.com/anxioustoddlers

CategoryPeople & Blogs

Keep Talking: Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents

Brattleboro Retreat

November 13, 2014

Research shows that children with anxious parents are up to seven times more likely than other children to develop anxiety. An untreated anxiety disorder in a child is one of the top predictors of depression in adolescence and early adulthood, but it is also the most successfully treated mental health challenge. In this episode of Keep Talking, treatment specialist Lynn Lyons, LICSW, shares with Gay Maxwell of the Brattleboro Retreat what families can do to externalize, manage, and liberate themselves from the tyranny of anxiety with results that include new problem solving skills and greater self-confidence when facing uncertainty.

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Education

Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous and Independent Children

By Reid Wilson & Lynn Lyons, LICSW. (2013)

From Amazon.com: “With anxiety at epidemic levels among our children, Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents offers a contrarian yet effective approach to help children and teens push through their fears, worries, and phobias to ultimately become more resilient, independent, and happy.

How do you manage a child who gets stomachaches every school morning, who refuses after-school activities, or who is trapped in the bathroom with compulsive washing? Children like these put a palpable strain on frustrated, helpless parents and teachers. And there is no escaping the problem: One in every five kids suffers from a diagnosable anxiety disorder.

Unfortunately, when parents or professionals offer help in traditional ways, they unknowingly reinforce a child’s worry and avoidance. From their success with hundreds of organizations, schools, and families, Reid Wilson, PhD, and Lynn Lyons, LICSW, share their unconventional approach of stepping into uncertainty in a way that is currently unfamiliar but infinitely successful. Using current research and contemporary examples, the book exposes the most common anxiety-enhancing patterns—including reassurance, accommodation, avoidance, and poor problem solving—and offers a concrete plan with 7 key principles that foster change. And, since new research reveals how anxious parents typically make for anxious children, the book offers exercises and techniques to change both the children’s and the parental patterns of thinking and behaving.

This book challenges our basic instincts about how to help fearful kids and will serve as the antidote for an anxious nation of kids and their parents.”