Anxiety Coach: A Parent’s Guide to Treating Childhood Anxiety and OCD

Anxiety Coach is a step-by-step guide for parents to address all the most common forms of childhood anxiety, including social anxiety, separation anxiety, generalized anxiety, specific phobias, panic attacks, and OCD. It teaches parents what anxiety is and how to recognize when it becomes a problem, explains why children need to face their fears to overcome them, and introduces readers to exposure therapy and its practical application. The book also covers how parents can responded effectively to anxious behavior in kids, track progress, keep an eye out for obstacles, and decide when to seek professional help. This book is based on parent-coached exposure therapy examined in this study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0887618524000537