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    Anxiety: A troubleshooting guide for parents
    Anxiety: A troubleshooting guide for parents
    Anxiety: A troubleshooting guide for parents
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    Anxiety: A troubleshooting guide for parents

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    You want to provide the best for your children, but sometimes you can’t do it alone. If your child has been diagnosed with a serious medical condition, you may be overwhelmed with the challenges ahead. The Everything Healthy Living Series is here to help. These concise, thoughtful guides offer the expert advice and the latest medical information you need to understand your child’s condition and provide the best possible care.

    Inside you’ll find expert advice and helpful tips on recognizing when a healthy worry becomes an area of concern, understanding the causes of anxiety, seeking professional help, and treatment options, along with thoughtful suggestions on helping your child cope with anxiety.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9781440544507
    Anxiety: A troubleshooting guide for parents
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    Adams Media

    Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, informs, instructs, and inspires readers across a variety of lifestyle categories by providing the content they’re looking for, from the experts they follow and trust. From New Age to Personal Finance, Cooking to Self-Help, Adams Media researches, identifies, creates, and distributes accessible content with implicit discoverability. Embodying a uniquely flexible “ground-up” publishing model, Adams Media navigates within or between consumer categories as market opportunity dictates. These are the books people are searching for. 

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      Anxiety - Adams Media

      The Everything Healthy Kids Series: Anxiety cover

      The Everything Healthy Kids Series

      Anxiety

      A troubleshooting guide for parents

      Adams Media, a division of F+W Media, Inc.

      Avon, Massachusetts

      Contents

      Introduction

      Children and Anxiety

      What’s Happening to My Child?

      The Anxious Coping Style

      Worry Makes Anxiety Grow

      Your Child’s Identity

      Your Child’s Self-Esteem

      The Stress and Anxiety Connection

      Causes of Anxiety

      How Common Is Anxiety?

      Psychological Aspects

      Biological Aspects

      Genetic Causes

      Environmental Factors

      Behavioral Aspects

      Signs and Symptoms of Anxiety

      Behavioral Issues

      Feeling Isolated

      School Refusal

      Homework Refusal

      Trouble with Friends

      Body Bugaboos

      Common Types of Anxiety in Children

      Separation Anxiety Disorder

      Panic Disorder

      Social Phobia

      Generalized Anxiety Disorder

      Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

      Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

      Night Terrors

      Is There a Test for This?

      Self-Evaluation and Charting

      Clinical Interview and Diagnosis

      Clinical Inventories

      Formal Testing

      School-Based Evaluation

      Parenting Pointers

      Consistency and Follow-Through

      Being Active and Proactive

      Patience Really Is a Virtue

      Calm in Calamity

      Routine Is King

      Co-Parenting

      Educate Yourself

      Also Available

      Copyright Page

      Introduction

      For more than 10 years, millions of readers have trusted the bestselling Everything series for expert advice and important information on parenting and health topics ranging from pregnancy and postpartum care to asthma, dyslexia, and juvenile diabetes. Packed with the most recent, up-to-date data, Everything guides help you get the right diagnosis, choose the best doctor, and find the treatment options that work for your child.

      The Everything Healthy Kids Series books are concise guides, focusing on only the essential information you need. Whether you’re looking for information on how to treat ailments in children from infants to teenagers, advice on raising happy, well-adjusted kids, or suggestions for how to get your child to eat the right foods, there’s an Everything Healthy Kids Book for you.

      Anxiety

      As with any serious health issue, learning to manage the symptoms of anxiety is a topsy-turvy journey, much like being swept up in a tornado where life can seem as if it is spiraling out of control. Sometimes you will not know where you are going, and it may feel like you have landed in a surreal dream, ill-equipped to handle your new and unfamiliar surroundings. After you realize that your child is struggling with an anxiety disorder and the initial storm has passed, you may feel like the weight of it all has dropped on you like a house out of the sky.

      You and your child may encounter many trials and perhaps some distractions and deceptions on the road to recovery. At times, the journey may take twists and turns, and seem to double back on itself, all while the oppressive threat of anxiety lurks around every corner. There is no easy fix to anxiety, you and your family will need to travel the road together, gathering insight and experience to find your way back home. Although at times you might feel discouraged and exhausted, keep faith in the process with your sights on the horizon; its promise and glow will pull you forward during even the bleakest of times.

      This book will provide you with the resources, tools, and information you need to make the right choices for your child and family. You will gain courage, knowledge, and esteem as you replace your current worry with a future filled with confidence and security. Though you may have to say goodbye to some familiar but unhelpful coping methods to make way for the new, you will come to realize that what you feared most was perhaps only an illusion, which vanishes as you acquire new information and tools to combat anxiety.

      The lessons offered in the book will guide you from diagnosis to the causes and forms of anxiety through how to find professional help, and create strategies and resources for the everyday management of anxiety. Sometimes, as life unfolds, everyone needs a little guidance and support along the way. It is so easy to be consumed by the weight of your feelings that you do not realize the vast resources you have within. You forget to go in and grab them, even if that just means asking for help or reading something to get a better perspective. As you and your child work through the various issues related to anxiety, this book will help you see that you both have the courage, the strength, and the knowledge to enjoy a happy, healthy, and well-adjusted life.

      If you’d like to learn more about anxiety, check out The Everything Parent’s Guide to Children with Anxiety, available in print (978-1-59869-686-8) and eBook (978-1-60550-796-5) formats.

      Children and Anxiety

      It is true that kids today have to keep pace with a faster lifestyle than any other generation in the past. They are faced with greater academic expectations and responsibility, have additional pressures due to a changing family structure, and look forward to an uncertain worldview economically and politically. In short, growing up is probably very different from how you remember it and, for some, a lot more worrisome.

      What’s Happening to My Child?

      It is hard for parents to think their child might be suffering in a physical or psychological way. If you are taking the time to read this, though, you must be concerned about how anxious your child is. Well, take heart; anxiety is one of the most common medical and psychological conditions in children and adolescents today. One in ten children may be affected by an anxiety disorder and it is the most frequent mental health diagnosis in America, surpassing depression. It is also the most treatable; 90 percent of children and adults successfully decrease their anxiety through lifestyle changes that foster empowerment, confidence, and independence. This has been achieved through a combination of psychotherapy, complementary and alternative medicine, and when necessary, medication.

      How to Recognize Anxiety

      Adults experiencing anxiety feel nervous, jittery, moody, and worried. You may not sleep well, and others might see you as agitated, irritable, or distractible. Children and teens can experience anxiety in much the same way. When young they often do not have the words to let you know what is going on for them, and teens get confused about how to balance what they know in their heads with the emotions they are feeling. So the anxiety creeps into their behavior, and shows itself in both overt and covert ways.

      An example of covert anxiety is that while your child is studying for a test, he keeps biting his nails until they bleed. You see the damage, but do not know why. Or, your child complains he has a stomachache, which unbeknown to you disappears after a school test is over.

      An example of overt anxiety is that before going to dance class your child has a meltdown when you ask her to put her dance gear in her bag. During the yelling, you hear things like; I can’t go to class, I will not have enough time to study tonight, or Stop being on me about everything, I’m only one person, how much can I take?

      The first line of defense is to know the signs that set normal fears and worries apart from more serious and ongoing anxieties.

      Alert

      Although some children are able to tell you how they are feeling, giving you clues how to help and diagnose, diagnosing an anxiety disorder in babies and toddlers is extremely difficult and underreported.

      While every child occasionally feels stressed, worried, or fearful, an anxiety disorder is diagnosed when your child feels excessively, unreasonably, often uncontrollably, and persistently worried. This worry will take over your child’s thoughts, sometimes

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