BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

Banish those bedtime battles
​for good!

Banish Bedtime Battles: The Ultimate Six-Week Plan to Help Your School-Aged Child Sleep Independently

New England Center for Anxiety therapists, Ellen Flannery-Schroeder and Chelsea Tucker, co-author new book to help parents get their school-aged children to sleep in their own beds.

Most families struggle with child sleep problems. While this veritable epidemic keeps millions of parents from getting a good night's sleep themselves, the bigger problem is the effects on the kids. Sleep problems can put children at greater risk of anxiety, depression, and substance abuse. Though a host of books are meant to help new parents get babies to sleep, there are virtually no resources for the millions of parents of school-age children. Banish Bedtime Battles: The Ultimate Six-Week Plan to Help Your School-Aged Child Sleep Independently offers desperate parents a scientifically based, effective six-week program for getting children to sleep independently while increasing their well-being and sense of self-confidence.

Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD

Parenting an anxious child means facing constant challenges and questions: When should parents help children avoid anxiety-provoking situations, and when should they encourage them to face their fears? How can parents foster independence while still supporting their children? Find the answers in Eli Liebowitz's Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents.

Freeing Yourself from Anxiety

Freeing Yourself from Anxiety reveals the real secret to reducing stress: not positive thinking, but possible thinking. In this breakthrough guide, Dr. Tamar Chansky shows you dozens of simple yet powerful strategies you can use at any time to transform your anxious thoughts, conquer perfectionism and procrastination, and improve the way your brain reacts to stress, even without medication.
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Happy Families
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Happy Families: How to Protect and Support Your Child’s Mental Health is the definitive guide to understanding your child’s mental health so they can survive and thrive. Whether you’re afraid that anxiety is controlling your child’s life, struggling with getting your child out of a low mood cycle, or you just want support on how to communicate with them, this book is here to help. 
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Chatter
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In Chatter, psychologist Ethan Kross explores the silent conversations we have with ourselves. Kross explains how these conversations shape our lives, work, and relationships. He warns that giving in to negative and disorienting self-talk—what he calls "chatter"—can tank our health, sink our moods, strain our social connections, and cause us to fold under pressure.

Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents

With anxiety at epidemic levels among our children, Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents offers a contrarian yet effective approach to help children and teens push through their fears, worries, and phobias to ultimately become more resilient, independent, and happy.

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Thrivers
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In Thrivers, Dr. Borba offers practical, actionable ways to develop these traits in children from preschool through high school, showing how to teach kids how to cope today so they can thrive tomorrow.

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The Worry Cure
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Dr. Robert L. Leahy has successfully helped thousands of people defeat the worry that is holding them back. This empowering seven-step program, including practical, easy-to-follow advice and techniques, will help you determine your “worry profile” and change your patterns of worry, identify productive and unproductive worry, focus on new opportunities—not on your fear of failure, and more.

What to Do When You Worry Too Much

Lively metaphors and humorous illustrations make the concepts and strategies easy to understand, while clear how-to steps and prompts to draw and write help children to master new skills related to reducing anxiety. This interactive self-help book for children is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering kids to overcoming their overgrown worries. 

Getting Over OCD
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This empowering workbook gives you the skills to overcome obsessional thoughts and compulsive behaviors--and live a freer, happier life. Leading OCD specialist Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz presents a step-by-step program grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), the most effective treatment for the disorder. 

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