Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Anxious Children: A Manual for Treating Childhood Anxiety

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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Anxious Children offers a complete professional treatment program designed to help children ages nine through twelve who struggle with anxiety. This twelve-session protocol can be used to treat anxious children in group or individual therapy. The poems, stories, session summaries, and home practice activities on the enclosed CD-ROM supplement child therapy sessions and parent meetings to illuminate mindful awareness concepts and practices. In twelve simple sessions, children will learn new ways to relate to anxious thoughts and feelings and develop the ability to respond to life events with greater awareness and confidence. Help children manage the symptoms of all types of anxiety: Panic disorder Agoraphobia Obsessive-compulsive disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder Generalized anxiety disorder Social phobia Specific phobias Separation anxiety disorder School refusal Review: A groundbreaking book - I am part of a research team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital conducting studies on Drs. Semple and Lee’s protocol, and we can definitely support the previous research that MBCT-C is helpful for kids with anxiety and other problems. Amazingly, we have already seen significant brain changes in how kids relate to their emotions using fMRI brain scans before and after the 12-week protocol. The book provides clear instructions for how to conduct each session, along with a CD of electronic files to print all the client handouts. While the authors mention some Buddhist concepts to illustrate points for the therapists reading the book (and I for one am a big fan of Alan Watts), the sessions themselves are conducted as purely clinical / psychoeducational. This is a groundbreaking book, and I highly recommend it! -Richard Sears, PsyD, ABPP, author of Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Building Competence in MBCT, and Mindfulness: Living through Challenges and Enriching your Life in this Moment. Review: Detailed but a little difficult to implement in practice - The book in very detailed, however I found that as a practitioner it is somewhat difficult to actually implement into practice. It almost appears a little too theoretical at first. I am still giving it a chance and have yet to look at the cd rom with the worksheets on it. Maybe that will make it more functional?