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Helping School Anxiety
Help your child overcome school anxiety. A handful of suggestions based upon a study. Here’s one: Stay calm/stay firm. Many kids react to their parent’s distress, which only increases their own. Anxious parents make for anxious kids. Similarly, the impulse is to give in and allow the child to stay home. As gut wrenching as…
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The Anti-Anxiety Workbook
Book of the day: The Anti-Anxiety Workbook, by Martin Antony and Peter Norton. Why so many workbooks as books of the day? Because good anxiety treatment involves not just sitting back and reading but actually doing. Worksheets and exercises like the ones contained in the workbooks featured here are a great place to start. Here’s…
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Reducing Retirement Anxiety
Five Ways to Cure Retirement Anxiety (article addressing practical money management, not anxiety itself). Whether it’s the latest data from EBRI showing half of Americans are at risk of running out of money in retirement, or the endless stream of surveys pointing out that a whole lot of Americans are worried about their retirement prospects and…
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Anxiety in the Gulf
Survey Finds Broad Anxiety Among Gulf Residents “There’s been a very overt effort by BP and the Coast Guard to project a sense that the crisis is over, but this is far from the case,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, the director of the center and president of the Children’s Health Fund, a sponsor of the…
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God versus Anxiety
Thinking about God Reduces Anxiety — For Believers Researchers have determined that thinking about God can help relieve anxiety associated with making mistakes. However, the finding only holds for people who believe in a God. The researchers measured brain waves for a particular kind of distress response while participants made mistakes on a test. Those…
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The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook for Anxiety
Book of the day: The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook for Anxiety, by William Knaus (author of a similar workbook on depression). This is CBT, plain and simple. Says one Amazon reviewer: I had been suffering with panic attacks and generalized anxiety for a few months. I tried therapy, meds, ect and found them all to…
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And the Best Therapy for Anxiety Is…
Debate over cognitive, traditional mental health therapy A mounting pile of research shows that cognitive behavioral therapy can effectively treat anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, bulimia and substance abuse problems. The method has performed as well as antidepressant medication in treating depression in recent studies. What’s more, patients receiving cognitive behavioral therapy have shown…
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Surgery Anxiety
Anxiety Often Delays Surgery A new study by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) discovers that a lack of understanding and apprehension about anesthesia may cause as many as one in four patients to postpone surgery. (PsychCentral)
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“Mistake Phobia”
A look at kids paralyzed by a fear of making mistakes closes with this way to reframe error: There is a story about Thomas Edison, the man often credited with inventing the lightbulb. After his seven hundredth unsuccessful attempt to invent electric light, he was asked by a New York Times reporter, “How does it feel…
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The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook
Book of the day: The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, a big bestseller, now in its sixth edition. A compendium of anxiety-decreasing tips and tools. One Amazon reviewer’s thoughts: For anyone who has stress–and who doesn’t?–this is a must read. This book gives detailed descriptions but best of all–real help. Example–in so many books I…