Creative Ways to Help Children Manage Anxiety : Ideas and Activities for Working Therapeutically with Worried Children and Their Families.

Intro -- Creative Ways to Help Children Manage Anxiety -- Cover -- Of related interest -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Dr. Karen Cassiday -- Preface -- Part I. A Playful, Purposeful and Practical Approach to Childhood Anxiety -- 1. Anxiety in Children -- 2. Assessing Anxious Children -- 3. Working Therapeutically with Anxious Children -- Part II. Key Interventions and Therapeutic Activities -- 4. Theoretical and Practical Considerations -- 5. Recognizing and Understanding Anxiety -- 6. Building Coping Skills -- 7. Noticing, Understanding and Managing Anxious Thoughts -- 8. Facing Your Fears and Accepting Anxiety -- Parting Words -- References.

"This book sets out therapeutic activities to help children aged 4-12 years and their families to better understand and manage anxiety. It explains how to work with anxious children, providing a framework for assessment and therapy that draws on CBT, ACT and narrative therapy approaches. Lots of practical tips for therapists are included and important developmental considerations are discussed, including adapting therapy for children with developmental difficulties, and working with families and schools. Over 50 playful therapeutic activities are included, which have been developed through the authors' extensive work with children, giving children an arsenal of coping strategies. They focus on key areas such as understanding anxiety, managing anxious thoughts, and building resilience and use readily available, inexpensive materials and downloadable templates which are provided in the book. This is the perfect tool for therapists looking for playful and purposeful ways to work with children with anxiety." -- amazon.com

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.