Exceptional Children: Anxiety

While there's no doubt that setting high standards for yourself is a good thing, you've probably already noticed that perfectionism can come at a high price. Provides guidance and over 150 exercises and meditations to overcome perfectionist tendencies through the Buddhist psychology of mindfulness, encouraging the reader to become more flexible and forgiving.

Concise guide to sleep and sheds helpful light on how it functions and how it can be disrupted.

A guide for teenagers on anxiety and panic that details strategies to overcome fearful and worrisome moods; and discusses asking for help, breathing, positive thinking, medications, and the importance of nutrition, exercise, and sleep.

A leading clinical expert in the fields of child cognitive behavior therapy and anxiety disorders, Dr. Tamar Chansky frequently counsels children (and their parents) whose negative thinking creates chronic or occasional emotional hurdles and impedes optimism, flexibility, and happiness. Now, in the first book that specifically focuses on negative thinking in kids, 'Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking'  provides parents, caregivers, and clinicians the same clear, concise, and compassionate guidance that Dr. Chansky employed in her previous guides to relieving children from anxiety and obsessive compulsive symptoms. Here she thoroughly covers the underlying causes of children's negative attitudes, as well as providing multiple strategies for managing negative thoughts, building optimism, and establishing emotional resilience.  

In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders--rates higher than in any other socioeconomic group of American adolescents. Materialism, pressure to achieve, perfectionism, and disconnection are combining to create a perfect storm that is devastating children of privilege and their parents alike. In this eye-opening, provocative, and essential book, clinical psychologist Madeline Levine explodes one child-rearing myth after another. With empathy and candor, she identifies toxic cultural influences and well-intentioned, but misguided, parenting practices that are detrimental to a child's healthy self-development. Her thoughtful, practical advice provides solutions that will enable parents to help their emotionally troubled "star" child cultivate an authentic sense of self.

Describes strategies teachers and parents can use to help students overcome the physical, emotional, and cognitive symptoms of test anxiety.

Examines the various manifestations of childhood fears and offers parents suggestions for helping their children overcome those fears and deal with anxiety in positive, healthy ways.

Now in a special 25th anniversary edition and filled with brilliant wisdom and insights, Beyond Boredom and Anxiety offers a timeless introduction to the concept of flow and the scientific basis behind it-all through the work of one of the field's great scientists, Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi.