Helping Children Get Rid of Anxiety Author: [US] Brigitte Walker Publisher: Beijing Science and Technology Press

Children also experience anxiety, and it is very common. Strong resistance and avoidance of new environments, excessive worry about the results of unfamiliar things, inability to open up, unwillingness to try, and excessive tension are all caused by inner anxiety and fear. If such behaviors and negative emotions are not promptly channeled and corrected, it is easy for them to develop into other more serious psychological problems during the growth of children, and even become personality problems that hinder the development of children.

Parents' parenting anxiety will be passed on to their children. Today, with the increasing pressure of parenting, anxious parents often find it difficult to control their emotions in family life, and the anxious mentality will also subtly affect the children's psychology. Academic pressure and parents' emotions will cause children to be nervous, afraid of making mistakes, and unable to let go, which are all manifestations of anxiety.

Anxiety is caused by wrong cognition. By changing wrong cognition, we can change the bad behavior caused by anxiety. This is how cognitive behavioral therapy improves anxiety. Cognitive behavioral therapy is currently the most widely used psychological therapy in the treatment of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression. Parents can use this method to guide and train their children at home.

Parents' timely psychological guidance for their children is better than outsiders' intervention. In the early stage of children's anxiety, the close relationship between children and parents will give children more psychological trust and positive strength, making it easier to conduct exposure training in appropriate induced situations, and gradually train children's psychological adaptability and stress resistance. Training at home will be very effective.

★ Written by Bridget Walker, an American expert in child anxiety counseling. With 20 years of experience in psychological counseling, she teaches parents to relieve children's fear, fear of difficulties, anxiety and other negative emotions through professional psychotherapy at home.

★ Interpret the psychological mechanism behind children's anxiety and avoidance behavior, so that parents can understand their children's deepest thoughts and feelings. Deeply analyze the behavioral characteristics and thinking patterns of children with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders.

★ Use cognitive behavioral therapy to help children re-understand the things they fear, change wrong thinking and negative ideas, train their adaptability and tolerance, and change negative emotions and avoidant behaviors.

★ 13 forms to help parents gradually analyze the causes of their children’s anxiety and record the entire progress of their children’s treatment and training.

★ 6 major tools to help children understand their own thinking process, monitor their own mental activities and anxiety development.

★ Exposure therapy trains children's adaptability and tolerance in anxiety-inducing situations, and gradually eliminates negative behaviors caused by miscognition.

★ A bestseller on the US Children's Anxiety Book List, a family training guide recognized by tens of thousands of families with children suffering from anxiety disorders. Detailed case analysis and family practice samples provide parents with practical and easy-to-implement methods.

Bridget Walker

Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a PhD in clinical psychology. She worked as a psychological counselor for many years and later founded her own psychological counseling office in California. During her career, she found that more and more adults and children had anxiety problems, so she began to focus on the treatment of anxiety disorders. Dr. Walker has received special training in cognitive behavioral therapy and has been focusing on solving anxiety problems for children, adolescents and adults for 15 years.