Parenting Your Anxious Child with Mindfulness and Acceptance: A Powerful New Approach to Overcoming Fear, Panic, and Worry Using

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Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers a new way out of separation anxiety, excessive worry and other anxiety problems that children and their parents face. Dr. McCurry presents a set of skills parents can pass on to anxious children as young as four years old.

Christopher McCurry, PhD, is a clinical child psychologist in private practice specializing in the treatment of childhood anxiety. He is a clinical assistant professor in the departments of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.

"McCurry breaks new ground by applying acceptance and commitmenttherapy to the treatment of anxiety disorders in children. His approach isbased on solid principles and offers understandable and practical guidelinesto help parents treat this common but often misunderstood condition." -- James T. Grimm, MD, MPH, child psychiatrist in Eugene, OR