The Parents Playbook For Separation Anxiety

A Compassionate Guide for Families Facing Separation Anxiety Discover a compassionate and practical guide to help your family thrive through separation anxiety. This book provides insights and strategies for understanding, supporting, and nurturing emotional resilience in both children and parents. Empower your family to navigate separation anxiety with confidence and compassion. Get your copy today.

A tear-free approach to child separation blues-from the bestselling 'No Cry' author a generation of parents have come to trust Almost every child suffers some sort of anxiety during their first six years of life. Babies cry when grandparents hold them, toddlers cling to mommy's leg, children weep when their parent leaves them at daycare, at school, or to go to work. This can cause frustration and stress in an already too-busy day and can break a parent's heart. Trusted parenting author Elizabeth Pantley brings you another winning no-cry formula that helps you solve these common separation issues. Pantley helps you identify the source of anxiety and offers simple but proven solutions. This successful method gives anxious children something to remind them their parents aren't too far away-instantly providing them with the comfort and reassurance they need.

Provides a guide on how to identify when your child's separation anxiety or school refusal is more than just a phase and offers effective tools to manage your child's anxiety.

Young children develop a strong attachment to their moms, dads, and other primary caregivers. As a result, they can become quite upset when these individuals that they trust and depend on for food, comfort, and protection are suddenly out of sight. Babies and toddlers can experience apprehension when this happens, as they worry that their providers and protectors might not return once they go away. It's important to understand that separation anxiety is a perfectly normal occurrence in all young children, and that they usually outgrow it once they reach school age. However, if your child is unable to attend school due to separation anxiety, or your daily routine or work day is disrupted by your child's fear of separation, or if you just want to help ease your child's anxiety while still young, then rest assured, there ways to help your child overcome the fear. This book is a comprehensive guide for all parents that wish to be proactive about curbing their child's separation anxiety.

The Missing Mommy Cure is designed to enhance a child's understanding of separating from mom or dad. Children need to be reminded that their parents will be returning to school to take them home. Therefore, Mommy tells her child that she has the perfect thing to comfort him while they are apart. Mommy sorts through her dresser drawer searching for the item while the child plays a guessing game of what it might be. There are many parenting books explaining how to deal with a child who has separation anxiety. However, this book speaks directly to the child and helps them understand more easily.

Most children are afraid of the dark. Some fear monsters under the bed. But at least ten percent of children have excessive fears and worries—phobias, separation anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorder—that can hold them back and keep them from fully enjoying childhood. If your child suffers from any of these forms of anxiety, the program in this book offers practical, scientifically proven tools that can help. Now in its second edition, Helping Your Anxious Child has been expanded and updated to include the latest research and techniques for managing child anxiety. The book offers proven effective skills based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to aid you in helping your child overcome intense fears and worries. You'll also find out how to relieve your child's anxious feelings while parenting with compassion. Inside, you will learn to: Help your child practice “detective thinking” to recognize irrational worries What to do when your child becomes frightened How to gently and gradually expose your child to challenging situations Help your child learn important social skills This book has been awarded The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Self-Help Seal of Merit—an award bestowed on outstanding self-help books that are consistent with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and that incorporate scientifically tested strategies for overcoming mental health difficulties. Used alone or in conjunction with therapy, our books offer powerful tools readers can use to jump-start changes in their lives.

Most children are afraid of the dark. Some fear monsters under the bed. But 10 percent of children have excessive fears and worries - phobias, separation anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorder - that can hold them back and keep them from fully enjoying childhood. If your child suffers from any of these forms of anxiety, the program in this book offers practical, scientifically proven tools that can help. Now in its second edition, Helping Your Anxious Child has been expanded and updated to include the latest research and techniques for managing child anxiety. You'll learn how to help your child overcome intense fears and worries and find out how to relieve anxious feelings while parenting with compassion. Help your child practice ''detective thinking'' to recognize irrational worries What to do when your child becomes frightened How to gently and gradually expose your child to challenging situations Help your child learn important social skills.

This new and refreshing book provides a positive explanation to children who are separated from their parents for any period of time. We share when we sleep gradually leads to a conclusion of sharing parents who are overseas when the children are asleep. This story is narrated by two boys, Dylan and Kaiser, who have a very special way of creating a connection with the reader by relating to sharing a parent who is overseas too. Perfect for military families, child psychologist, therapist, counselor, support groups, non-profits concerned with child separation anxiety, as well as any family who is faced with the complicated task of explaining being separated from their children. In addition to describing sharing when we sleep, the author has uniquely addressed various other types of sharing in this book such as sharing our environment, resources, family, friends, teachers, toys, food, feelings, and even their home.

One of the world’s foremost experts on anxiety in children provides a guide to recognizing and alleviating a range of debilitating fears. Anxiety affects more children and teens than any other psychiatric illness, but it’s also the most treatable emotional disorder. Some 25 percent of children and adolescents will suffer an anxiety disorder at several points in their lifetime, resulting in serious problems in their ability to function in school, with peers, and on a general day-to-day basis. A renowned researcher and clinician who has developed groundbreaking, proven coping strategies illuminates a new path to fear-free living for families. You and Your Anxious Child differentiates between separation anxiety, generalized anxiety, and social phobia, and guides parents on when and how to seek intervention. With moving case studies, such as Jon’s, whose mother quit her job because his separation anxiety compelled her to stay with him full-time, this book elucidates the nightmare that families can be living, and helps them understand that they are not alone. Every step of the way, Albano illustrates proven therapies to manage anxiety issues in children while addressing the emotional needs of parents, too. You and Your Anxious Child brings much-needed hope to families, helping them shape a positive new vision of the future.

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