Description

This step-by-step guide lets the parents of anxious children help their child overcome anxieties and fears. It describes in detail, strategies and techniques parents can combine into a comprehensive self-help program for their child's particular needs. From separation anxiety to general anxiety, social anxiety, specific phobia and panic disorder, the authors describe the common types of childhood anxiety, how anxiety originates, and options for dealing with the condition.

About the Author

Ronald M. Rapee, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Psychology of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Sue Spence, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology with the University of Queensland, Brisbane, in St. Lucia, Australia.
Vanessa Cobham, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Department of Psychology with the University of Queensland, Brisbane, in St. Lucia, Australia.
Ann Wignall, M.A., is a clinical psychologist with the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of Royal North Shore Hospital, in Sydney, Australia.