Helping Your Child with Fears and Worries 2nd Edition: A self-help guide for parents

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It’s simple, has practical activities that you can easily implement and above all make you feel like there is something you can do to help your child at home while you wait in that long queue for professional support.

Children often find change difficult and may become anxious following a house move or when starting a new school. So, for example, Jain says if they are anxious to fly in a plane, and you say, "you drive in a car every day. Reframing what they feel is wrong with them into something positive allows them to move away from the desire to fit in, to a new desire, which is to be connected and to belong to themselves.Does your child suffer from fears and worries that affect their behaviour or keep them awake at night? Very nice to know this support is out there as quite often hard to actually get an opportunity to speak to someone in person these days. Thinking through the part they worry about — calmly and with support from parents — can help kids get ready for what's ahead. This is a really helpful book if you are waiting for your child to receive support from CAMHs or other mental health professionals.

If your child has worry, stress, or anxiety that seems too hard for them to handle, talk with your child's doctor or a mental health doctor. Despite trying advice in the green and amber stages, the young person still experiences anxiety symptoms. The book will help you to decide which treatment would be most beneficial and offers practical advice about managing your child’s anxiety and includes worksheets, tips on the use of praise or consequences, and how you can engage the school in helping your child. She says children can then start to "reconnect with a voice that was the loudest thing in your life when they came into the world.I have been attending a course run through our local council to give parents the tools to help their kids. Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has produced two useful booklets for young people with OCD and their parents/carers.

They suggest parents look at the elements that put that child in flow and see if they can recreate some of those aspects in other parts of their life. Once you realize that a thought doesn't have power over you and that you can literally just observe it and let it pass, you then decide which thoughts you wish to choose to react to," Tsabary says.

Episodes of anxiety might be more frequent or prolonged and cause the young person distress or might have some mild impact on their ability to cope with everyday life such as going to or coping at school, seeing friends or taking part in leisure activities.

Regular episodes of panicking such as getting distressed, racing heart rate, quicker breathing, feeling dizzy or faint, vomiting, shaking. Praise them for letting you know about what’s scaring them – this can help them to feel comfortable opening up to you. Severe anxiety like this can harm children's mental and emotional wellbeing, affecting their self-esteem and confidence.Likewise, "I'm kind of sensitive" can be reframed as "I have a lot of empathy," and "I'm quiet and don't like big crowds" becomes "I'm an amazing listener. Personally I feel Anxiety UK offers a fantastic service which fills that much needed gap between being referred to NHS and your actual appointment time which nowadays due to Covid can be up to a year in waiting time. Written by two very well-regarded psychologists, it takes parents, step by step, through what they can do to help their child.