Ronald M. Rapee Libros

Excessive fears and anxieties can significantly affect a child's ability to enjoy life, with some experiencing phobias, separation anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorder. The updated second edition of this guide provides practical, scientifically backed strategies to assist parents in supporting their anxious children. It covers techniques for addressing irrational worries, managing fear responses, and gradually exposing kids to challenging situations. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of nurturing social skills and fostering a compassionate parenting approach.

Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia provides a detailed program for eliminating social anxieties based on the latest cognitive behavioral treatments for social phobia.

Guides readers to help a child overcome anxiety and fears. From separation anxiety to general anxiety, social anxiety, specific phobia and panic disorder, this book describes the common types of childhood anxiety, how anxiety originates, and options for dealing with the problem, with or without a therapist's help.