Anxiety-Free Kids: an Interactive Guide for Parents and Children. Bonnie Zucker, $22.95

Anxiety-Free Kids offers parents strategies that help children become happy and worry free, methods that relieve a child’s excessive anxieties and phobias, and tools for fostering interaction and family-oriented solutions.

Anxiety and the Gift of Imagination: a New Model for Helping Parents and Children Manage Anxiety. Robin Alter, $22.95

ANXIETY AND THE GIFT OF IMAGINATION explains how a runaway imagination can trigger needless anxiety and she offers practical tools and strategies for regaining control and avoiding years of distress. With two chapters written especially for children, this book will help you and your child to understand how to understand and use imagination in a positive way.

The Anxiety Workbook for Teens. Lisa Schab, $16.95

About one in four teens suffers from mild to serious problems with anxiety, and many of them get little or no help. This workbook gives teens a collection of tools to help control anxiety and develop insight into their problems as well as offering practical guidance for overcoming them.

Professional Version, $36.95 — Includes workbook and a digital copy of workbook on CD-ROM for easy printing.

Chi for Children: a Practical Guide to Teaching Tai Chi and Qigong in Schools and the Community. Betty Sutherland, $61.95 (includes instructional DVD)

Learning the Chinese arts of Tai Chi and Qigong is a great way for children to relax, have fun, and strengthen body and mind. This easy-to-use teacher training pack provides step-by-step instructions and simple techniques that enable anyone to teach Tai Chi and Qigong to children.

This interactive book and DVD set contains four tutorials that guide teachers through basic, intermediate and advanced exercises, as well as offering breathing and relaxation techniques to help create calm classrooms and beat exam stress. Proven to increase concentration levels, fitness and confidence, introducing children to Tai Chi and Qigong gives them the ideal foundation for a life of physical and mental well-being.

This exciting training programme will be an indispensible resource for anyone looking for a fresh and engaging way to improve children's focus, health and happiness, and will be a welcome addition to any classroom, gym class or youth group.

Child Anxiety Disorders: a Family-Based Treatment Manual for Practitioners. Jeffrey Wood & Bryce McLeod, $32.00

In Child Anxiety Disorders, Wood and McLeod present a clinically-proven treatment protocol based on a collaborative, family-based intervention approach—one that has seen remission rates of 80% in children. Incorporating family therapy strategies and targeted CBT techniques, the authors lay out session-by-session guidelines for implementing the protocol, offering all those who work with and counsel children a hands-on toolkit to effectively resolve childhood anxiety, whether generalized or severe in nature.

Children and Stress: a Handbook for Parents, Teachers and Therapists. Marty Loy, $43.50

With more than 100 creative activities to help kids manage stress, this book provides an overview of childhood stress and a wide array of creative activities that can be used to help develop coping strategies to last a lifetime.

Connected Parenting: How to Raise a Great Kid. Jennifer Kolari, $19.00

Connected Parenting offers a unique form of therapeutic parenting based on Kolari's groundbreaking application of the concept of "mirroring," an instinctive process that helps parents bond with their children and promotes optimum growth and development. Kolari's strategy is highly effective for kids of all ages, and has been proven to reduce a child's anxiety, increase self-esteem, and allow children to become more resilient and flexible. With step-by-step advice and examples from Kolari's years of experience, this is an easy-to-follow guide to strengthening the bond between you and your children.

Coping with an Anxious or Depressed Child. Samantha Cartwright-Hatton, $17.95

Covering practical issues such as diet and routine, as well as more specialized medical information — from the professionals you might encounter to the prescriptions offered — this book is an A to Z guide for parents of anxious or depressed children and will help you maximize your child’s likelihood of a happy, confident future.

Facing Your Fears: Group Therapy for Managing Anxiety in Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders, Facilitator Package. Judy Reaven, Audrey Blakeley-Smith, Shana Nichols & Susan Hepburn, $97.50 (set includes Facilitator Manual, DVD, Parent Workbook & Child Workbook)

Anxiety is one of the biggest challenges faced by children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders and Asperger syndrome. This innovative group therapy program for children 8–14 years old and their parents is ideal for small groups of 4–5 children but also effective in one-to- one therapy. This proven, ready-to-use program was developed to address the specific needs and challenges of children with high-functioning ASD and Asperger syndrome. Facing Your Fears works because it:

• targets specific fears or worries that interfere with day-to-day functioning at home and school
• actively involves parents in every session—the key to helping children make progress and ensuring that families provide skillful, sensitive support
• engages children with memorable, age-appropriate strategies for defeating anxiety, from creating "worry bugs" to filming movies of themselves facing their fears
• gives children repeated opportunities to practice their social interactions with others
• uses the highly effective principles of cognitive behavioral therapy
• helps children and parents generalize the skills they learn in group to other settings

The complete set includes everything professionals need to run a successful program. With the Facilitator's Manual, group leaders will get complete guidance on conducting each session: clear step-by-step instructions, materials lists, goals, sample schedules, and helpful hints for running sessions smoothly. The Parent Workbook and Child Workbook (also sold separately in packs of 4) give children and families a wide variety of creative activities to help them fight fears and worries head-on, both inside and outside the group setting. And the included DVD inspires and motivates kids with sample movies of real children facing their fears.

Facing Your Fears: Group Therapy for Managing Anxiety in Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders, Parent Workbook. Judy Reaven, Audrey Blakeley-Smith, Shana Nichols & Susan Hepburn, $35.50 for set of 4 workbooks

Facing Your Fears: Group Therapy for Managing Anxiety in Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders, Child Workbook. Judy Reaven, Audrey Blakeley-Smith, Shana Nichols & Susan Hepburn, $35.50 for set of 4 workbooks

Fighting Their Fears: Child and Youth Anxiety. Directed by Melanie Wood, $19.95 (DVD format, 56 minutes).

For many children, anxiety disrupts everyday life, interfering with their ability to make friends or go to school. Through interviews with experts and three young people, this compelling documentary outlines the causes, symptoms and treatments for anxiety disorders and emphasizes the importance of early identification and intervention.

From Timid to Tiger: a Treatment Manual for Parenting the Anxious Child. Sam Cartwright-Hatton, et al, $47.95

This book is an essential manual for mental health professionals who work with young anxious children and their parents. Organized into a 10-session parenting-based course, the book provides parents with simple cognitive behavioural techniques for helping their children to manage their worries and fears.

The first manual designed specifically to help therapists take parents through a step-by-step approach to managing young anxious children the manual's empirical focus is highly effective in treating anxiety disorders in children under the age of ten. Includes handouts which can be photocopied and useful additional materials.

Help for Worried Kids: How Your Child Can Conquer Anxiety and Fear. Cynthia Last, $18.50

Most childhood fears are nothing to worry about. But panic attacks, phobias, and persistent anxiety can darken a child’s horizons and lead to disrupted sleep, lower grades, and missed opportunities to make friends and explore the world. Dr. Cynthia G. Last helps parents determine when a child’s apprehension is cause for concern. Drawing on 25 years of clinical practice and research, she vividly illustrates the different forms that childhood anxiety can take and offers practical solutions specific to each. The book emphasizes strategies for preventing episodes before they begin, demonstrates how to intervene when one is in progress, and offers tips on how to keep anxiety from worsening as a child matures. Readers will learn to be consistent and encouraging as their child develops the confidence needed to face and conquer worries of every kind.

Helping Children to Cope with Change, Stress and Anxiety: a Photocopiable Activities Book. Deborah Plummer, $31.95 (ages 7 -11)

This book is full of creative ideas for use with children who have difficulty in coping with change, stress and normal levels of anxiety. Supported by a comprehensive but accessible theory section, the practical exercises are a simple and fun way of helping children to learn healthy stress management strategies.

This photocopiable activity book will be an invaluable resource for anyone looking for creative, enjoyable ways of helping children to cope with change, stress and anxiety. It is primarily designed for use with individuals and groups of children aged 7-11, but the ideas can easily be adapted for both older and younger children and children with learning difficulties.

Helping Your Anxious Child: a Step-by-Step Guide for Parents, 2nd Edition. Ronald Rapee, et al. $19.95

Helping Your Anxious Child, 2nd Edition describes the common types of childhood anxiety, how anxiety originates, and options for dealing with the problem, with or without a therapist's help. Throughout, the book employs a step-by-step approach that is both structured and directive. You’ll learn how to help your child overcome intense fears and worries and find out how to relieve anxious feelings, while parenting with compassion.  

Helping Your Child Overcome Separation Anxiety or School Refusal. Andrew Eisen, Linda Engler, Joshua Sparrow, $15.95

Sometimes extreme or persistent kinds of separation anxiety can make life difficult for both parent(s) and child. Separation anxiety issues can lead a child to be reluctant to get ready for school or to simply refuse to go at all. This behavior, called school refusal, comes with its own set of challenges. This book shows you how to identify when your child’s separation anxiety or school refusal is more than just a phase and offers effective tools that you can use to manage your child’s anxiety.

I Bet I Won't Fret: a Workbook to Help Children with Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Timothy Sisemore, $18.95; professional version with CD-ROM, $37.95

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is one of the most common anxiety disorders in children. It’s important to recognize and treat anxiety in kids early, before these problems develop into serious, lifelong conditions. I Bet I Won’t Fret offers parents a range of proven-effective techniques that can support and accelerate any treatment. These activities can be done on their own or as part of a therapy program, and are appropriate for kids between the ages of six and twelve.

If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder: an Essential Resource for Parents. Edna Foa & Linda Wasmer Andrews, $10.95

Growing up can be stressful for any teenager, but it is considerably harder for the many adolescents who develop an anxiety disorder. 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 … 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.

Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child, 2nd Edition. Katharina Manassis, $10.99

Still the most-popular, accessible and comprehensive guide to the entire range of childhood anxieties, the specific problem behaviours associated with anxiety, and the appropriate strategies for supporting anxious children.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Anxious Children: a Manual for Treating Childhood Anxiety. Randye Semple & Jennifer Lee, $66.95

In MINDFULNESS-BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY FOR TREATING ANXIOUS CHILDREN, two mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) researchers and practitioners present a powerful therapy plan that therapists can use in group or individual therapy. This integrated therapy will help children manage their symptoms by learning to respond more skillfully to their thoughts, emotions and experiences. The session-by-session guide to managing anxiety with awareness and compassion covers:

Panic disorder • Agoraphobia • OCD • PTSD • Generalized anxiety disorder •Social phobia •Specific phobias •Separation anxiety disorder •School refusal

The book comes with a CD-ROM with illustrated handouts and home practice sheets.

Moving Past Perfect: How Perfectionism May be Holding Back Your Kids (and You!) and What You Can Do About It. Thomas Greenspon, $17.50

Perfectionism is not about doing our best. It's not about the struggle for excellence, or the healthy striving for high goals. Perfectionism is about believing that if we can just do something perfectly, other people will love and accept us—and if we can't, we'll never be good enough. It's a burden that takes a heavy toll. 

In MOVING PAST PERFECT, Tom Greenspon explains perfectionism, where it comes from (including influences inside and outside the family), and what to do about it. He describes a process for transforming perfectionism into healthy living practices and self-acceptance. 

The No-Cry Separation Anxiety Solution. Elizabeth Pantley, $19.95

Gentle ways to make good-bye easy, from six months to six years.

Overcoming School Anxiety: How to Help Your Child Deal with Separation, Tests, Homework, Bullies, Math Phobia and Other Worries. Diane Peters Mayer, $18.00

School should be rewarding, not terrifying. This unique guide shows parents how to make their child's learning experience a positive one.

Filled with real-life examples as well as proven advice for working with teachers, principals, and counselors, this is the only comprehensive guide that will enable every parent to help a child cope, build confidence, and succeed in school.

Parenting Your Anxious Child with Mindfulness and Acceptance. Christopher McCurry, $19.95

A powerful new approach to overcoming fear, panic and worry using acceptance and commitment therapy.

Parenting Your Stressed Child. Michelle Bailey, $18.95

10 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction practices to help your child manage stress and build essential life skills. The book includes easy exercises and worksheets designed to help children develop resilience, and learn to feel calm and confident.

The Power of Your Child's Imagination: How to Transform Stress and Anxiety into Joy and Success. Charlotte Reznick, $18.50

Imagine your frustrated four-year-old calming her own anger with a few simple breaths. Picture your fourth grader visualizing an ice blue pillow to cool his hot headaches. Encourage your worried eleven-year-old to improve her concentration by consulting a personal wizard to help with homework.

The Power of Your Child’s Imagination will show you how to empower your child with easy, effective, and creative skills for surviving—and thriving—in a stressful world. This indispensable guide provides nine simple tools to help children cope with stress and anxiety by tapping into their imagination to access their own natural strength and confidence. Dr. Reznick illustrates how each tool can be used every day to deal with problems such as:

• Stress-induced headaches and stomachaches
• Phobias, panic attacks, and social anxiety
• Bed-wetting and sleepless nights
• Separation anxiety and fear of the unknown
• Coping with death, divorce, and other losses
• Hurt, frustration, and anger
• Trouble with schoolwork and concentration
• Sibling rivalry and school-yard squabbles

The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids: Help for Children to Cope with Stress, Anxiety & Transitions. Lawrence Shapiro & Robin Sprague, $18.95; Professional edition (includes CD-ROM with workbook handouts) $18.95

Children pay close attention to their parents' moods. When parents feel upset, their kids may become anxious, and when parents wind down, children also get the chance to relax. When you feel overwhelmed and stressed, it can be hard to help your child feel balanced. The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids, written by two child therapists, offers more than fifty activities you can do together as a family to help you and your child replace stressful and anxious feelings with feelings of optimism, confidence, and joy.

You'll learn proven relaxation techniques, including deep breathing, guided imagery, mindfulness, and yoga, and then receive guidance for teaching them to your child. Your child will also discover how taking time to do art and creative projects can create a sense of fulfillment and calm. By completing just one ten-minute activity from this workbook each day, you'll make relaxation a family habit that will stay with both you and your child for a lifetime.

Say Goodbye to Being Shy: a Workbook to Help Kids Overcome Their Shyness. Richard Brozovich & Linda Chase, $19.95; Professional Version, $27.95 — Includes a digital copy of workbook on CD-ROM for easy printing

Say Goodbye to Being Shy is a book for children who struggle with extreme to occasional shyness. Shyness is a barrier to social and academic development which can prevent children from reaching their greatest potential. Say Goodbye to Being Shy offers focused activities with clearly stated purposes designed to move children from feelings of shyness to developing competence and skill.

• Learn Effective Strategies to Help Your Child Communicate Worries
• Help Your Child Face Worries
• Develop a Plan with Your Child to Manage Worry, Fear, and Anxiety
• Learn Ways to Improve Your Child's Self-Esteem and Build Resilience

Social Anxiety in Adolescents and Young Adults: Translating Developmental Science into Practice. Candice Alfano, Editor, $75.95

During adolescence, the physical, cognitive, and behavioral hallmarks of social anxiety disorder (SAD) often make their first appearance. This developmental period is characterized by rapid physical growth and sexual maturation, as well as unique emotional and cognitive developments and underlying neurological changes. At the same time, increasing social demands, peer pressure, romantic interests, hormonal changes, and greater independence present a dizzying and sometimes overwhelming array of challenges. Although symptoms of social anxiety are common in adolescents, only recently have researchers begun to examine the problem in this age group. Fortunately, an increasing number of studies have uncovered important nuances in the development and presentation of social anxiety symptoms and SAD in adolescents and young adults. The contributors to this book examine social anxiety in the lives of young people (aged 12 to 25) in the context of dating and romantic relationships, alcohol and drug use, performance anxiety and school refusal, and alongside co-morbid disorders such as depression.

Narratives by individuals with autism, family members, clinicians, and a historian help to understand in a rich and unique way in which the role and impact of stress in the life of people living with autism. First-person accounts also highlight creative coping strategies over a lifetime. This volume's biological, psychological and social perspectives on stress and autism reflect many modes of inquiry and types of information. Stress and Coping in Autism will be of great help to both mental health professionals and caregivers alike.

What I See, I Can Be: a Guided Yoga Flow for Children. Janet Williams, $25.00

This is a terrific book for teachers and parents who want to find an effective, easy way to incorporate fitness and fun into a daily routine. Yoga can help children gain flexibility and coordination while giving them the skills of relaxation. Even if you don’t know a thing about yoga, What I See, I Can Be is a great way to combine fitness and fun at home and school.

The Worried Child shows that anxiety is preventable - or can at least be minimized - by raising children's self-confidence and increasing social and self-control skills. Written for parents and anyone dealing with children, this guide provides detailed lists, skill exercises, sample dialogues and case studies and also covers the importance of adequate rest, sleep and exercise.

• Part I discusses normal anxiety, anxiety disorders, and the personality of anxious children.
• Part II addresses the role of parents, schools, and society in contributing to children's anxiety. Additional chapters discuss the impact of terrorism and war, and the media.
• Part III gives sources of help: psychotherapy, medication, and alternative and complementary therapies.

Packed with information, practical guidance and specific how-to steps to help children overcome worry, school refusal, separation anxiety, social anxiety, excessive shyness, panic, phobias, traumas and tragedies, obsessions and compulsions. With clear and practical information on:

• how to tell normal anxiety from problem anxiety
• different forms of anxiety in children and teenagers
• red flags for anxiety
• expressions of anxiety in school
• effective treatments
• what parents can do to help
• what schools can do to help
• step-by-step action plans with examples
• ready-to-use forms and tools for parents and schools