Healing The Anxious Child Guiding Parents And Children Through Anxiety With Compassion And Confidence

By Brian Gibson

"Healing The Anxious Child: Guiding Parents And Children Through Anxiety With Compassion And Confidence" is a compassionate and empowering guide for families navigating childhood anxiety.

This essential book provides a roadmap for parents and caregivers to understand and effectively support anxious children. It provides practical strategies and heartfelt insights to help families foster resilience and well-being.

Through this book, you will:

• Understand Childhood Anxiety: Gain insights into the different types of childhood anxiety, including signs, triggers, and how anxiety manifests in children of different ages.
• Build a Supportive Environment: Learn how to create a nurturing and safe environment that promotes emotional regulation and reduces anxiety triggers.
• Develop Coping Strategies: Discover evidence-based techniques to teach children how to manage anxiety, including mindfulness exercises, cognitive-behavioral strategies, and relaxation techniques.
• Communicate with Compassion: Explore effective communication strategies to connect with your anxious child and foster open dialogue about their feelings and experiences.
• Navigate Challenges: Address common challenges such as school avoidance, social anxiety, and separation anxiety with practical advice tailored to each situation.

If you're ready to embark on a transformative path towards healing, this book is your trusted companion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: vincenzo nappi
• Release date: Apr 25, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224462193

Book preview

Chapter 1

Introduction

Anxiety is a familiar feeling throughout childhood and adolescence. Moreover, anxiety is considered an important means of protection against harm and is, therefore, a valuable and functional emotion. In normal development, children go through different transitory phases of elevated anxiety levels. For instance, all babies experience separation anxiety (mostly around 9 months), pre-scholars have periods with higher levels of fear of monsters and ghosts, primary school children go through phases of fear of illness and death, and most adolescents experience some form of worry related to their appearance and evaluation by others. Fear is perceived as an anxiety disorder when it:

is excessive about the situation,

cannot be reasoned away,

is beyond voluntary control,

leads to avoidance of the feared object or situation,

persists over time,

(f ) is maladaptive, and (g) is not age-specific

In general, children with anxiety disorders are characterized by anxiety that is not age-appropriate, that is extreme, that has a long duration, and that interferes with daily functioning. These children tend to avoid confrontation with the feared object or situation or endure the situations with great anxiety. Anxious children experience a broad range of somatic symptoms, commonly including cardiac and respiratory distress, trembling, flushing or chills, feeling faint, and sweating. Other symptoms, such as nausea, headaches, choking, and dizziness, are reported less