From Timid To Tiger - Cartwright-Hatton, Sam (University of Manchester, UK)

This book is an essential manual for mental health professionals who work with young anxious children and their parents. Organised 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 childrenThe manual's empirical focus is highly effective in treating anxiety disorders in children under the age of 10The provision of scripts throughout the book offer realistic illustrations of the techniques describedStories and analogies included to explain the more complex conceptsIncludes handouts which can be photocopied and useful additional materials