"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. Using current research and contemporary examples, exposes the most common anxiety-enhancing patterns--including reassurance, accommodation, avoidance, and poor problem solving--and offers a concrete plan with 7 key principles that foster change. And, since new research reveals how anxious parents typically make for anxious children, offers exercises and techniques to change both the children's and the parental patterns of thinking and behaving.Challenges our basic instincts about how to help fearful kids and will serve as the antidote for an anxious nation of kids and their parents."

"Works for any type of anxiety, from ages 8-18"--Cover.