Helping Your Child Overcome Separation Anxiety or School Refusal: A Step-by-step

Description: Helping Your Child Overcome Separation Anxiety or School Refusal by Linda Engler This step-by-step handbook offers parents effective techniques for dealing with normal separation anxiety issues, separation anxiety disorder (SAD), and school refusal. With their unique approach to the problem, the authors give parents the tools they need to make real progress with these issues. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Written by a child anxiety expert, this is the first parenting book to focus specifically on separation anxiety disorder, providing parents with the skills they need to cope with distressing challenges such as tantrums, nightmares, inconsolable crying, and screaming that occur during times of separation. Author Biography Andrew R. Eisen, PhD, is associate professor in the School of Psychology and director of the Child Anxiety Disorders Clinic at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His research and clinical interests include child anxiety and related problems, learning disorders, and sensory integration issues. Eisen has published numerous journal articles and book chapters as well as seven books including Helping Your Child Overcome Separation Anxiety or School Refusal, Separation Anxiety in Children and Adolescents, and Clinical Handbook of Childhood Behavior Problems. He maintains a private practice focusing on children and families at the Center for Neurofeedback and Integrative Health in Bergen County, NJ. Linda B. Engler, PhD, is codirector of the Child Anxiety and Related Disorders Clinic in Bergen County, NJ. Her research and clinical interests include child anxiety and related problems, ADHD, and the early detection and remediation of nonverbal and language-based learning disorders. Engler has published and presented in the areas of anxiety disorders, ADHD, eating disorders and school partnerships. She is coauthor of Helping your Child Overcome Separation Anxiety or School Refusal . Foreword writer Joshua D. Sparrow, MD, is coauthor of the Brazelton Way books. Review Eisen and Engler have provided a wealth of information for parents about the dos and donts of helping their child with separation anxiety or school refusal . Clear, easy language, practical exercises, and real life examples are all based on the authors hands-on experience and scientifically proven methods. This book is an essential resource for parents who are stuck in the binds produced by a separation anxious child and for therapists who are trying to provide an empirically validated program. --Ronald M. Rapee, Ph.D., director of the Macquarie University Anxiety Research Unit and author of Helping Your Anxious ChildA highly user-friendly guide to help parents understand how to help children cope more effectively with separation anxiety and school refusal. Eisen and Engler are true leaders in the field of child anxiety. Their use of real life case illustrations really brings these evidence based skills home to parents and children. I would highly recommend this book to our own patients, to parents, to clinicians or graduate students working with children and families, and to all others who want to understand specific ways to help children with anxiety issues in ways that promotes their positive development. --Donna B. Pincus, Ph.D., research associate professor and director of the Child and Adolescent Fear and Anxiety Treatment Program in the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston UniversityEisen and Engler have written a clear, detailed guide for parents who are striving to support each childs autonomy and confidence. Supported by research and clinical insight, this book offers specific strategies to help children achieve healthy separation, while respectfully acknowledging the emotional lives of children and the need for parents to take care of themselves. Parenting is the most humbling effort, and this book supports this most important relationship in a childs life. --Gerard Costa, Ph.D., director of the YCS Institute for Infant and Preschool Mental Health in East Orange, NJEisen and Engler have written an outstanding guide for parents of children who suffer from separation anxiety or school refusal. This well-written book is the first of its type, describing practical, step-by-step strategies similar to those that have been studied extensively in anxiety research centers around the world. In addition to being a valuable resource for parents, this book will be very useful to teachers and mental health practitioners who work with anxious children. --Martin M. Antony, Ph.D., ABPP, director of the Anxiety Treatment and Research Centre at St. Josephs Healthcare and professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, both in Hamilton, ONEisen and Engler provide straightforward advice for parents of a child who is afraid of separation or afraid of school. Separation anxiety is a typical step in development for most children, but when it is interfering and present in older youngsters, then it merits attention. This step-by-step approach for parents, potentially used in conjunction with a therapist, offers sound advice and guidance that is consistent with the research evidence. The book is well-informed, organized, readable, and rich with examples. --Philip C. Kendall, Ph.D., ABPP, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology and Director of the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic at Temple University in Philadelphia, PASeparation anxiety can derail a childs normal development at any age. Moreover, it can make life miserable for that childs parents and family-not only the child. This book helps parents navigate the murky waters of separation anxiety by giving them a roadmap and a set of proven and effective strategies to help them deal with it and, yes, even to prevent it. In the hands of caring and motivated parents, it is a veritable tour de force. It is a well written, engaging, and eminently practical book. Parents (and their separation anxious children) will be thanking Eisen and Engler for years to come for their sage and helpful advice. --Thomas H. Ollendick, Ph.D., university distinguished professor and director of the Child Study Center in the Department of Psychology at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA Long Description This book offers parents effective techniques for dealing with normal separation anxiety issues, separation anxiety disorder (SAD), and school refusal. With their unique approach to the problem, the authors give parents the tools they need to make real progress with these issues. Review Quote Separation anxiety can derail a childs normal development at any age. Moreover, it can make life miserable for that childs parents and family-not only the child. This book helps parents navigate the murky waters of separation anxiety by giving them a roadmap and a set of proven and effective strategies to help them deal with it and, yes, even to prevent it. In the hands of caring and motivated parents, it is a veritable tour de force. It is a well written, engaging, and eminently practical book. Parents (and their separation anxious children) will be thanking Eisen and Engler for years to come for their sage and helpful advice. -Thomas H. Ollendick, Ph.D., university distinguished professor and director of the Child Study Center in the Department of Psychology at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA Details ISBN1572244313 Publisher New Harbinger Publications Language English ISBN-10 1572244313 ISBN-13 9781572244313 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 2006 Subtitle A Step-by-step Guide for Parents Place of Publication Oakland, CA Country of Publication United States Edition 1st Short Title HELPING YOUR CHILD OVERCOM Imprint New Harbinger Publications DOI 10.1604/9781572244313 Edited by Paula Queiroz Birth 1974 Affiliation European University Viadrina, Germany Position journalist Qualifications Ph.D. AU Release Date 2006-08-17 NZ Release Date 2006-08-17 US Release Date 2006-08-17 UK Release Date 2006-08-17 Author Linda Engler Pages 192 Publication Date 2006-08-17 DEWEY 649.1 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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