The Kids' Book of Worries: Understanding Anxiety and Managing Feelings: 4

Help your child to manage their worries with this interactive bookGrowing up brings new experiences and uncertainties, and anxiety in childhood is common. The book enables you to support 4-10 year olds with worries by gently helping them to explore their emotions and learn techniques to manage their feelings.Provides children with tools for managing anxiety on an everyday basisCo-written by a child educational psychologist, the book caters for children experiencing anxiety at any level and can be equally used by parents/ carers, teachers or other professionals. The ideas included are underpinned by evidence-based approaches, including application of cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness.Fosters greater awareness of emotions (self-awareness)Children learn that worry is a normal human emotion, and that they can listen to their bodies and recognize bodily cues of anxiety. It helps to teach and practice emotional vocabulary, encourages expression of emotions and promotes self-awareness.Practical evidence-based techniques to manage worries (self-regulation)From mindfulness exercises, talking to trusted adults, making a worry jar to practising brave behaviour, the book shares lots of ideas and fun activities that children, supported by adults, can use to start to learn to manage their worries.

Pagina's: 40, Paperback, Wooden House Books