Summary of Eli R. Lebowitz's Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 Anxiety is a system that helps us recognize possible threats and dangers and keeps us safe from them. We use our senses to keep out of trouble, such as when we jump at a loud noise, look both ways before we cross the street, or sniff a yogurt container to decide whether it smells good enough to eat.

#2 When we are anxious about imaginary dangers, we become vulnerable to worries that are not realistic or likely at all. We must learn to evaluate these scenarios and assign values to them so that the most realistic and likely ones carry more weight than the highly unlikely or outlandish ones.

#3 When we say that a child is anxious, we are usually describing a child who shows some predictable patterns in how he uses each of these abilities: overestimating the likelihood of negative events and downplaying the likelihood of positive ones.

#4 An anxious child is not able to simply ignore all the negative possibilities that come to mind. It is easy to see why a child prone to higher levels of anxiety would decide to skip the party altogether.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669364139

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Insights on Eli R. Lebowitz's Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD

Contents

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Anxiety is a system that helps us recognize possible threats and dangers and keeps us safe from them. We use our senses to keep out of trouble, such as when we jump at a loud noise, look both ways before we cross the street, or sniff a yogurt container to decide whether it smells good enough to eat.

#2

When we are anxious about imaginary dangers, we become vulnerable to worries that are not realistic or likely at all. We must learn to evaluate these scenarios and assign values to them so that the most realistic and likely ones carry more weight than the highly unlikely or outlandish ones.

#3

When we say that a child is anxious, we are usually describing a child who shows some predictable patterns in how he uses each of these abilities: overestimating the likelihood of negative events and downplaying the likelihood of positive ones.

#4

An anxious child is not able to simply ignore all the negative possibilities that come to mind. It is easy to see why a child prone to higher levels of anxiety would decide to skip the party altogether.

#5

The science of mental health does not have a clear answer as to why some children are more anxious than others. It may seem surprising that we don’t yet have good solid answers to such an important question.

#6

It is important to remember that anxiety is a problem that affects each child differently. While it is tempting to assume that a certain environmental factor is the cause of a child’s anxiety, it is not necessarily the case that without that factor, the child would not have been anxious.

#7

Anxiety is the most common mental health problem in children and adolescents. It is estimated that between 5 and 10 percent of children from preschool through adolescence have a current anxiety problem.

#8

The term anxiety disorder is