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Author Peters Mayer, Diane, 1945-

Title Overcoming school anxiety : how to help your child deal with separation, tests, homework, bullies, math phobia, and other worries / Diane Peters Mayer.

Publication Info. New York : AMACOM, American Management Association, [2008]
©2008

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  649.154 MAYER    Check Shelf
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Description xxi, 233 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224) and index.
Contents Foreword / Deirdre Shaffer -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- How to use the overcoming school anxiety program -- 1. What is school anxiety? -- Anxiety is a normal aspect of being human -- Positive and negative effects on mental and physical functioning -- Definition of school anxiety and discussion of symptoms -- Causes and effects of school anxiety -- Short- and long-term effects of school anxiety -- 2. Anxiety is a mind-body experience -- Examination of stress and children's reaction to stress -- Physiological effects of anxiety -- Discussion of the nervous system -- Fight-or-flight and relaxation responses -- Matching physical, mental, and emotional anxiety symptoms to physiological changes -- Reasons for chronic anxiety -- Development of an anxiety disorder -- Guidelines for professional help -- List of common anxiety disorders -- Ways to help children deal with stress -- 3. Help! My child won't go to school -- Causes and effects of school refusal -- Discussion of why leaving home can be difficult -- Childhood fears of parents dying while child is at school -- Childhood worries about not "fitting in" -- Definition of separation anxiety disorder (SAD) and its symptoms -- Guidelines for preventing and easing the anxiety of school refusal -- Exercises, techniques, and parental guidelines -- 4. My child can't stop worrying -- Sources of childhood worry (testing, homework assignments, teachers, socializing) -- Explanation of chronic worry and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) -- Effects of worry on school performance -- Tips to help children stop worrying -- Exercises, techniques, and parental guidelines.
5. My child panics and avoids situations -- Definition of panic disorders and symptoms -- Causes and effects of panic -- Discussion of agoraphobia and its effect on attending school -- Tips on helping children cope with panic -- Exercises and examples -- 6. My child fears people, places, and things -- Definitions of social phobia and simple phobia and explanation of childhood symptoms -- Causes of phobias -- Examination of phobia's effects on school experience -- Information on types of professional treatment -- Exercises and techniques to help stop phobias -- Tips for creating a systematic desensitization program -- Guidelines for helping children cope with phobias -- 7. My child has homework anxiety -- Guidelines if child dreads homework -- How to ease homework anxiety -- Creating a comfortable homework space -- Breaking down the homework load -- Answers to common questions for parents of a school-anxious child -- Exercises and techniques for conquering homework anxiety -- Tips for making learning exciting for children -- 8. My child has test anxiety -- Definition of test anxiety and discussion of its symptoms -- How test anxiety builds up -- Explanation of physical, mental, and emotional effects of pretest anxiety -- Symptoms of test anxiety -- Exercises, test-taking techniques, and parental guidelines -- 9. My child is a perfectionist -- Definition of perfectionism -- Characteristics and causes of perfectionism -- Link between perfectionism and anxiety -- Guidelines to help children become less rigid in their thinking and ease the anxiety associated with perfectionism -- Exercises and techniques include learning how to relax, "letting go," and practicing making mistakes -- 10. Building your child's self-esteem -- Definition of self-esteem and self-worth -- Causes of low self-esteem -- Negative self-talk -- Guidelines to build up a child's self-esteem -- Easy projects and exercises for parents and children to work on together -- Tips on how to use a child's strengths to build self-esteem.
11. My child is being bullied -- Definition of bullying -- Differences between girl and boy bullies -- Link between bullying and school anxiety -- How to help children cope with bullies -- When to step in to help your child and when to contact the school -- What to do if your child is the bully -- Exercises to help children take control of the bullying situation -- How to help your school enact an antibullying program -- 12. Parental and family conflict and issues -- Types of family conflict that create anxiety and lead to school anxiety -- Unique ways children handle family conflict -- Symptoms of family conflict such as anxiety, behavior problems, and poor grades -- Guidelines to help a child deal with divorce, death of a parent, and moving to a new home and school -- 13. My child has learning, physical, or emotional challenges -- Physical and learning challenges that make the school experience difficult -- Link between learning challenges, physical challenges, and anxiety -- Information on how to prepare children for the school environment academically and emotionally -- Tips and exercises to teach children how to cope and thrive at school -- 14. Learn to breathe to feel at ease -- Breathing and anxiety -- Explanation of belly breathing (diaphragmatic breathing) and its positive effect on the relaxation response -- Physical, mental, and emotional effects of belly breathing -- How belly breathing can stop school anxiety -- Guidelines and instructions for practicing belly breathing -- How to use belly breathing in stressful school situations -- 15. "Be present" for school success -- How to live in the moment -- How being in the moment can reduce school anxiety for test taking, homework, or speaking up in class -- Guidelines for practicing living in the moment -- Instructions for teaching children to live in the moment -- Exercises for a variety of school situations.
16. Learning to let go and flow -- Teaching your child to face fears to reduce anxiety -- Description of the white-knuckle response and how it increases your child's school anxiety -- Instructions on helping your child ride out anxiety when it surfaces in school -- How to help your child to "loosen and float" at school -- Guidelines for loosening anxiety's grip on your child's mind -- Exercises for facing fears and letting them go -- 17. Eat right to feel right -- Link between nutrition and increased or decreased anxiety -- Effects on school performance of a child's diet that is high in processed and fatty foods -- How vitamin and mineral deficiencies cause anxiety -- Guidelines for choosing a diet to help prevent and ease anxiety -- Types of professional help available for parents -- Suggestions for helping your school change its lunch menus and snacks -- Studies showing how diet can help decrease anxiety and behavioral problems -- 18. Getting physical with your child -- How exercise reduces anxiety -- Why exercise has a positive effect on anxiety and anxiety disorders -- Description of kinds of exercises paired with developmental stages -- Guidelines for beginning an exercise program for your child, yourself, and even your whole family -- 19. What are traditional medical treatments for children? -- Discussion of traditional medical treatments such as medication and numerous psychotherapies -- Use of antidepressants in children -- What happens in a psychotherapist's or psychiatrist's office -- Types of mental health practitioners who practice therapy -- Kinds of therapy available for children -- Discussion of the downside of psychotropic medications for children -- 20. What are alternative treatments for children? -- Description of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) -- Discussion of yoga, herbs, and acupuncture -- Practitioners of CAM such as holistic medical physicians and alternative practitioners -- Wrap-up -- Resources -- Index -- About the authors.
Subject School phobia.
Anxiety in children.
ISBN 9780814474464 paperback
0814474462 paperback
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