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u/wanderer333 · 3 pointsr/Parenting

Do you mean books for him or books for you to read about helping him?

For you, I've heard good things about Freeing Your Child From Anxiety and The Opposite of Worry. There's also a lot of great information on this website.

For him, it really depends on what the anxiety is about - does he have specific fears, or get anxious around separations from you, or at bedtime? I can probably give you more specific suggestions with more info, but some good general ones are Worries Are Not Forever, When I Feel Worried, The I'm Not Scared Book, and My Magic Breath. There are also some great books about emotions more generally such as My Many Colored Days, Visiting Feelings, and How is Daniel Feeing? which will help improve his emotional vocabulary and teach broader coping skills.

u/I_cannot_poofread · 2 pointsr/Parenting

[This](Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, Revised and Updated Edition: Practical Strategies to Overcome Fears, Worries, and Phobias and Be Prepared for Life--f https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804139806/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_jfI3QABCAUFPr) book was highly recommended to me by my daughter's case worker. I haven't gotten through all of it yet (I skipped to how to deal my youngest's main problem which is selective mutism) but I have found it very helpful so far. My middle child has a lot of generalized anxiety.

u/jmurphy42 · 1 pointr/Parenting

You have a very smart 4 year old who might be prone to anxiety. I have a 5 year old in therapy for a full-blown anxiety disorder, so let me share a couple of books that have made a big difference in how I relate to her when she's worrying too much about something.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1572245751/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804139806/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Working through the programs in those books has really helped to improve my kid's ability to take risks and calm herself down when she's getting irrationally wound up.

u/ElegantAnt · 1 pointr/Parenting

I found a couple of books on this subject that I thought were useful for thinking about childhood anxiety (one of my girls is anxiety-prone). I wonder if one of these might give you enough background to assess whether what your daughter's therapist is doing is likely to help and if there's anything you could change about your own behavior that might help:

Growing Up Brave

Freeing Your Child From Anxiety

u/Francis_the_Goat · 1 pointr/ADHD

I was (an am!) a lot like that. People with ADHD have deficits in executive functioning skills. These are:

  1. Analyze a task

  2. Plan how to address the task

  3. Organize the steps needed to carry out the task

  4. Develop timelines for completing the task

  5. Adjust or shift the steps, if needed, to complete the task

  6. Complete the task in a timely way


    So let's see what happens when someone with executive functioning deficits try to preform a complex task.

  7. Analysis is either skipped altogether (Our brains say, "bbbooooo-ring, amiright?!") or poorly analyzed.
  8. Can you imagine trying to be successful when you can't make logical, well thought out plans? This mean we might not understand how many actual steps it is going to take to do a task, how long it is going to take, or predict any problems that might come up. Going into a game without a strategy is always a bad idea.

  9. Suppose you could analyze the task and plan what to do. Even if you get that far, now you have to pay attention to details and organize the steps in a logical way. You need to be able to prioritize tasks, think about varying scenarios, and what you need to do to be ready. That's pretty intense.

  10. Timeliness for task is difficult when you do not have a sense of time. Just like people have a sense of balance or weight, most people have a sense of time. Many ADHD people do NOT. They may be horrible at predicting how long a task will take or estimate how long they've spent on a step. We tend to wander and get lost, with no sense of urgency or concern for time.

  11. Adjust the steps?! But, I wasn't prepared for that! My brain is going to explode! It was hard enough analyzing the steps the first time....now I have to start all over!?! (pretty typical automatic reaction from my brain)

    How can you help?

  1. Identify your daughter's executive functioning strengths and weaknesses. She may be really good at a couple of those steps, and miserable at others. Utilizing her strengths can increase confidence and compensate partly for the other skills.

  2. Lend her your brain. Her executive functioning skills are not there yet, but she can learn strategies to build them. In the meantime, you will need to support the parts that are hard for her while helping her to be as independent as possible.

    If planning is difficult, plan it out and write up a checklist for her to use.

    If it hard for her to complete tasks on time, use a visual timer or teach her how to use one in order to track time and understand how long activities should take.

    If she has trouble adjusting the task or trying a different way, then help prepare her mentally by talking to her about the possibility that something might be challenging and helping her come up with a strategy on how she will handle it if it does come up.

    As she practices these strategies with support and is successful, slowly shift those responsibilities to her to promote independence. You will spend less time being reactive (which makes her feel inadequate) and more time being proactive (which makes her feel empowered).

    Another important component is helping her take control over her anxiety. In addition to looking into cognitive-behavioral therapy, I highly recommend the book "Freeing Your Child from Anxiety." It is a CBT book written for parents to understand the biology of anxiety and a variety of strategies to teach coping skills and resilience. There are also a ton of great free worksheets online that help teach similar concepts. (The author also has Freeing Your Child from OCD, if you are interested)
    http://www.therapistaid.com/content/0087.pdf

    http://www.therapistaid.com/content/0081.pdf

    http://www.therapistaid.com/content/0047.pdf

    http://www.therapistaid.com/content/0073.pdf

    http://www.therapistaid.com/content/0004.pdf

    http://www.therapistaid.com/content/0069.pdf

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804139806/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1535523722&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0767914929&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=02V5SHJGEN9RK93YRKD9

    And lastly, it might be helpful for you to sit down with her and practice making SMART goals and supporting her in following the plan.
    Specific
    Measureable
    Attainable
    Realistic
    Timely





    http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Goal-Setting-Form-1225523