7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous and Independent Children This book offers an effective approach to help children and teens push through their fears, worries, and phobias to ultimately become more resilient, independent, and happy. Using current research and contemporary examples, the book exposes the most common anxiety-enhancing patterns-including reassurance, accommodation, avoidance, and poor problem solving-and offers a concrete plan with seven key principles that foster change. Research reveals how anxious parents typically make for anxious children; included are exercises and techniques to change both the children's and the parental patterns of thinking and behaving. Also available is Playing with Anxiety for Teens and Kids.
