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Can I tell you about Anxiety?: A guide for friends, family and professionals

Can I tell you about Anxiety?: A guide for friends, family and professionals

by Lucy Willetts and Polly Waite (Author)

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Synopsis

Meet Megan - a young girl who has an anxiety disorder. Megan invites readers to learn about anxiety from her perspective, helping them to understand why she sometimes feels anxious and how this affects her thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Megan talks about techniques she has learnt to help manage her anxiety, and how people around her can help.

With illustrations throughout, this will be an ideal way to explore anxiety difficulties. It shows family, friends and teachers how they can support someone who experiences anxiety and will be an excellent way to start a conversation about anxiety, in the classroom or at home. Suitable for readers aged 7 upwards.

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 56
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 21 Aug 2014
ISBN 10: 1849055270
ISBN 13: 9781849055277
Book Overview: A quick introduction for friends and family or to start classroom discussions around anxiety

Media Reviews
This clearly-written, short book provides valuable information for family members, friends and teachers of children who are experiencing anxiety problems. It includes excellent and helpful summaries about different types of anxiety and suggestions about why some children develop anxiety problems and the type of treatment that might help. -- Susan H Spence, Professor, School of Applied Psychology and Australian Institute of Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University
Megan, who is ten, has serious anxiety problems... She explains about other kind of anxieties... There is advice for parents, friends and teachers on how they can help, a reading list (mostly american books) and a list of websites in the UK, the US, and Australia. This is one of a series of excellent information books on various health problems and disabilities, and should be of great help to children, their families and friends. -- Healthy Books blog
With illustrations throughout, this will be an ideal way to explore anxiety difficulties. It shows family, friends and teachers how they can support someone who experiences anxiety and will be an excellent way to start a conversation about anxiety, in the classroom or at home. -- In Our Hands blog
Author Bio
Lucy Willetts and Polly Waite are Clinical Psychologists and BABCP-accredited CBT therapists who have extensive experience of assessing and treating children and young people with anxiety disorders within the Anxiety and Depression Pathway, Berkshire CAMHS and the University of Reading. They also undertake research with the aim of improving our understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders in children and young people and have both been involved in a range of treatment trials for childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders and written and lectured extensively on childhood anxiety.