Anxiety coach A parent's guide to treating childhood anxiety and OCD

Stephen P. H. Whiteside

Book - 2024

"The Mayo Clinic Anxiety Coach is a groundbreaking program in book form, for parents of children and adolescents with anxiety disorders or obsessive compulsive disorder. When children have anxiety disorders they are very afraid, nervous, or worried about typical daily experiences that would not bother most children their age. For some kids with OCD, rather than feeling nervous or worried, they feel "grossed-out" by things or feel the need to make things "just-right." In both cases, children feel anxious or upset, even when there is nothing happening around them that would frighten or bother most other kids. This book is the first of its kind to give parents the tools to carry out exposure therapy with their child at... home. It is born from Dr. Whiteside's gold standard exposure therapy program at Mayo Clinic, which pioneers the treatment of childhood anxiety disorders, phobias and OCD with exposure therapy, by offering therapy to children and their parents. Treatment for anxiety disorders and OCD involves helping kids learn through facing their fears in a series of scenarios, showing them that they were more nervous than they really needed to be. Parents are included in exposure therapy in Dr. Whiteside's program, so they can learn what anxiety is, what exposure therapy is and how to use one to treat the other. Dr. Whiteside wants children and their parents to leave his program knowing how to practice exposure therapy and to be able to use the skills and tools at home.This practical and supportive book will guide them in their efforts to help their children lead happy, healthy, anxiety-free lives"--

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Subjects
Genres
Informational works
Published
Rochester, MN : Mayo Clinic Press 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Stephen P. H. Whiteside (author)
Edition
First Edition
Item Description
Includes index (pages 273-277).
Physical Description
277 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9798887700335
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Understanding Anxiety Disorders
  • Chapter 1. What Is an Anxiety Disorder?
  • Chapter 2. What Are the Different Anxiety Disorder?
  • Chapter 3. Understanding tire Avoidance Cycle
  • Chapter 4. What Else Could It Be?
  • Part 2. An Introduction to Exposure Theraphy
  • Chapter 5. The Origins of Exposure Therapy
  • Chapter 6. The Different Types of Exposure
  • Chapter 7. The Role of Parents
  • Chapter 8. A Step-by-Step Guide to Exposure Therapy
  • Chapter 9. A Timeline for Doing Exposure Therapy
  • Part 3. Applying Exposure Therapy to the Most Common Anxiety Disorders
  • Chapter 10. Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder
  • Chapter 11. Exposure Therapy for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Chapter 12. Exposure Therapy for Separation Anxiety Disorder
  • Chapter 13. Exposure Therapy for Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia
  • Chapter 14. Exposure Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Chapter 15. Exposure Therapy for Specific Phobias
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Further Resources
  • Appendix: Exposure Therapy Worksheet
  • Index