Overcoming Your Child's Shyness and Social Anxiety

Cathy Creswell author Lucy Willetts author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:30th Aug '07

Should be back in stock very soon

Overcoming Your Child's Shyness and Social Anxiety cover

Many children are naturally shy but extreme shyness and social anxiety can become a major childhood problem, leading to avoidance of school, difficulty in making friends and even developing into social anxiety in adulthood.

In Overcoming Your Child's Shyness and Social Anxiety, child psychologists Lucy Willetts and Cathy Creswell explain how parents can help a shy child learn to challenge their thoughts and behaviour patterns and learn to participate confidently in every aspect of their lives.

Based on clinically proven CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) principles, the book explains what causes shyness, how to identify social anxiety in your child (sometimes masked by anger or stubbornness) and how to gradually help your child face their anxieties and develop problem-solving strategies. This book is a must for parents, teachers and anyone working with children.

Invaluable for parents, teachers and clinicians alike. -- Charlotte Wilson, Chair, Child, Adolescent and Family Special Interest Branch, British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

ISBN: 9781845290870

Dimensions: 197mm x 132mm x 22mm

Weight: 241g

336 pages