Playing with Anxiety: Casey's Guide for Teens and Kids - Tapa blanda

Casey, the fourteen year old narrator, knows just what it's like to be miserable. It started slowly: backing away from birthday parties, avoiding the Fourth of July fireworks, leaving before the end of movies. By second grade, stomach aches and tantrums before school seemed as common as strawberry jelly on toast. Then, just before her fourth grade chorus concert-as her mom was braiding her hair-Casey puked. No concert. No post-concert ice cream with her friends. Only a night filled with tears. Everything changed that next morning. Casey and her mom had had enough! The days of being timid were over. They got mad and decided then and there to solve the puzzle called worry. Casey expresses a serious commitment to the task, but couples it with feisty, irreverent humor, as she releases a gaggle of characters and their stories. The narrative offers cautious kids (and their sometimes worried, often frustrated parents) a realistic guide for stepping into the new and scary experiments that arrive at each developmental stage, right up through the teen years. Will her frightful encounter with the snarling dog keep her forever from walking to the bus stop, or the ominous storm clouds end her fun at the water park? Will an asparagus-dog with cheese get her into the clubhouse-building project? Can you really talk to your worry like it's a squirrel? Will Lindsey's coaching to "loosen up and scream" actually help her handle the scary-but-awesome one-minute and fifty-two second Yankee Cannonball roller coaster? In PLAYING WITH ANXIETY: CASEY'S GUIDE FOR TEENS AND KIDS, the companion book to Reid Wilson and Lynn Lyons' parenting book, ANXIOUS KIDS, ANXIOUS PARENTS: 7 WAYS TO STOP THE WORRY CYCLE AND RAISE COURAGEOUS & INDEPENDENT CHILDREN (HCI Books, 2013), Casey includes stories of everyday encounters-imagining warm chocolate chip cookies coming out of the oven, brother Elliot's MARSH MAN comic book-as well as surprising feats-the accidental discovery of Post-it Notes, Benjamin's uncle Steve's jump from the helicopter, blind Eric Weihenmayer's climb of the Seven Summits-to show the reader how to face the trials of the middle years.

Reid Wilson, Ph.D, and Lynn Lyons, MSW are coauthors of Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous & Independent Children (HCI Books, 2013). REID WILSON, Ph.D. is Director of the Anxiety Disorders Treatment Center in Chapel Hill, NC and is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Wilson is an international expert in the treatment of anxiety disorders, with books translated into nine languages. He is author of Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks and Facing Panic: Self-Help for People with Panic Attacks, is co-author, with Dr. Edna Foa, of Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions and is co-author of Achieving Comfortable Flight, a self-help package for the fearful flier. He designed and served as lead psychologist for American Airlines' first national program for the fearful flier. Dr. Wilson served on the Board of Directors of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA) for 12 years. He served as Program Chair of the National Conferences on Anxiety Disorders from 1988-1991. Television appearances: Oprah Winfrey Show, The Katie Show, Good Morning America, CNN, CNN-Financial Network, A&E’s Hoarders, and numerous local news shows nationwide. He has been featured in numerous national magazines, including: Redbook, Self, Elle, Real Simple, Woman's Day, and Cosmopolitan. He serves as the Expert for WebMD’s Anxiety and Panic Community. His free self-help website – www.anxieties.com – serves 500,000 visitors per year. LYNN LYONS, MSW has been a psychotherapist for 23 years, and specializes in the treatment of anxious children and their parents. In addition to her private practice, she is a consultant with several school districts and private schools, helping them to address anxiety in the classroom, school refusal, and social difficulties. Lynn is sponsored by professional organizations and schools, offering workshops to mental health professionals, teachers, school nurses, and parents. She is known for her focus on providing concrete, usable skills. She was featured on The Katie Show, talking about childhood anxiety. Lynn received her BA from Williams College in 1987 and her MSW from Boston University in 1990. She lives in Concord, New Hampshire with her husband and two sons.