The art of exposure lies in perfectly pitched challenges. Get them wrong and nothing changes. Get them right and you set an anxious child free. This practical resource guide contains 75 creative, user-friendly lists of exposure activities appropriate for 5-12-year olds struggling with anxiety. Entries cover a wide range of fears and concerns, such as Clowns, Making Mistakes, Picky Eating, Separation Anxiety, and Vomiting.An essential addition to the therapeutic toolbox of practitioners using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), this A-Z guide combines evidence-based guidance with inventive, engaging, actionable activities for an extensive list of childhood fears and concerns.
Dawn Huebner, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist and Parent Coach specializing in childhood anxiety. She is the author of award-winning books for children including What to Do When You Worry Too Much, Outsmarting Worry and Dr. Dawn's Mini Books About Mighty Fears, and speaks to groups of educators, mental health professionals, and parents around the world. She is based in Sacramento, California. https://www.dawnhuebnerphd.com/ Erin Neely, PsyD is a Clinical Psychologist and Integrative Nutrition Coach. She works with elementary aged children to help them create happier and healthier lives. She combines her clinical mind and creative heart to produce animations about mental health topics for her YouTube channel, Miss Erin Doctor. She is based in Greenland, New Hampshire. https://drerinneely.com/
Introduction A-Z Guide A Addiction, Airplanes, Alarms, Alcohol/Alcoholism, Aliens, Alone, Animals, Ants, Apologies, Asymmetry, Attic B Bad Guys, Baddies (fictional), Baddies (real life), Balloons, Basement, Bathroom, Bees, Birds, Blood, Boats, Books, Bowel Movements, Bugs, Buttons C Cars, Cats, Cellar, Change in Plans, Characters, Cheating, Checking, Choices, Choking, Cigarettes, Cities, Clothing, Clowns, Confined Spaces, Contaminated Object, Costumed Characters D Dangerous Animals, Dark, Death, Decisions, Defecating, Differentness, Dirt/Dirty, Disability, Divorce, Dizziness, Doctors, Dogs, Dolls, Downstairs, Drugs E Earthquakes, Eating, Elevators, Embarrassment, Emotions, Errors, Escalators F Failure, Fainting, Feces, Feelings, Fire, Flaws, Floods, Flying, Food, Frogs, Furniture G Gagging, Germs, Getting Rid of Things, Ghosts, Going Upstairs or Downstairs Alone, Growing Up H Halloween, Harm, Health, Heights, Hoarding, Hornets, Household Pets, Hurricanes, Hurting Oneself or Others I Illness, Imperfection, Insects, Interruption, Intruders, Intrusive Thoughts J Jabs, Just Right Feeling K Kidnappers, Killing, Knives L Lateness, Lightning, Losing, Lying (inadvertent) M Making Decisions, Mascots, Masks, Media, Medical Procedures, Medicine, Mistakes, Monsters, Motion Sickness, Movies N Natural Disasters, Navigating Home Alone, Needles, New Experiences, Night, No, Noises, Numbers, Nurses O Ocean, Older People, Open Spaces, Over-wiping P Panic, People, Perfectionism, Pet Escaping, Pets, Picky Eating, Pills, Poop/Pooping, Potty Seat, Puberty, Public Speaking Q Qualifiers, Questions R Rain, Reassurance-Seeking, Religious Thoughts, Repeating, Re-Reading S Safety, Santa, School, Separation Anxiety, Sex, Sharks, Sickness, Sleeping Alone, Small Spaces, Snakes, Social Anxiety, Speaking, Spiders, Stains, Stinging Insects, Storms, Strangers, Suicide, Surrounded, Swallowing, Swimming, Symmetry T Talking, Teenagers, Terrorists, Tests, Throwing Up, Thunder, Tight Spaces, Timed Activities, Toads, Toileting, Tornadoes, Traveling, Treatment Avoidance, Triggering Words or Phrases, Trying New Things U Uncertainty, Unfairness, Unhealthy Foods, Upstairs, Urban Legends, Urinating, V Vacuum Cleaner, Vampires, Vegetables, Villains, Vomiting W Wasps, Water Immersion, Weather, Wiping, Witches, Words and Phrases X X-rays Y Yes, Yacking, Yellowjackets Z Zombies About the Authors
A comprehensive resource for professionals filled with 75 creative Exposure and Response Prevention activity lists to assist in the treatment of anxious children
The A-to-Z Guide belongs in the tool kit of every therapist who treats anxiety disorders. Succinct yet comprehensive overview of exposure-based therapy and why it works. Innovative, effective, and fun interventions. -- Sandra Whitehouse, Ph.D., Senior Director, Child Mind Institute Creative and effective, this book belongs on the shelf of every anxiety and OCD therapist. -- Natasha Daniels, Anxiety and OCD Therapist, Creator of ATParentingSurvival.com
