Calming your anxious child Words to say and things to do

Addressing everything from hair pulling and picky eating to post-traumatic stress disorder, child psychologist Trainor (Harvard Medical Sch.) provides a step-by-step approach to overcome worry-based behavior and empower both parent and child. She outlines how anxiety isn't something kids outgrow but rather escalates over time, often leading to more severe emotional, social, academic, and occupational difficulties. Based on the author's research, the eponymous Trainor method helps families tackle angst by targeting disquieting thoughts and behaviors, rating those actions, agreeing on which concerns to address, identifying and teaching practice strategies, noting and charting success, offering incentives for motivation, and reinforcing progress by increasing the challenges. VERDICT Anxiety can be a tough condition to beat, but parents with the organizational skills to stick to the Trainor approach will in all likelihood achieve -improvement. A solid offering. © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.