If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents (Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands’ Adolescent Mental Health Initiative)
If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents (Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands’ Adolescent Mental Health Initiative)
Growing up can be stressful for any teenager, but it is considerably harder for the many adolescents who develop an anxiety disorder. This book is an essential guide for parents, teachers, or other adults involved with teenagers who may e affected by these disorders. By bringing together two strands of expertise–that of mental health professionals and of parents who have lived through the experience of their own teenager’s mental illness–If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder provides adult readers with the clinical information and practical advice they need to understand and help the teen. There are chapters detailing four the different types of anxiety disorders, including social anxiety, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and post-traumatic stress disorders. Each includes a clearly written definition, a discussion of factors that can contribute to developing the disorder, treatment information, and case studies based on a real family’s own experience with the disease. Tips and quotes from parents are sprinkled liberally throughout the text, and helpful sidebars provide more detailed information. The authors also provide a chapter fully dedicated to discussing treatment options, including what role parents play in treatment, how to juggle treatment and school, and how to handle insurance and managed care issues. Knowing the right information about anxiety disorders is the first step towards helping adolescents who are dealing with them grow to become healthy, happy adults.
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K. Washburn said,
Wrote on June 11, 2011 @ 3:11 am
Helpful!,
Finally information for parents of teens struggling with these issues! This book was helpful to familiarize myself with this new trial in our lives. Was able to skip over the disorders that didn’t apply, but the rest seemed in line with everything else we’ve been reading. Great resource.
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|Anonymous said,
Wrote on June 11, 2011 @ 4:10 am
Very helpful book, thank you!,
As a parent of a teen who has struggled with severe anxiety for several years, it was such a help to have this book. We live in a remote area where resources are not particularly handy. I can’t pick and choose a psychiatrist – there simply aren’t that many. But I can now discuss her medication more intelligently, advocate for her more successfully, and hopefully care for her more proactively. Finding a place where she can access DBT is still going to be problematic, but at least I have a direction in front of me. Having the list of associations in the back of the books was very helpful, as well.
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