Overview
Addresses definitions, assessment methods, and treatment strategies for young children with anxiety disorders
Provides step-by-step guidance on implementing an evidence-based group CBT program
Proposes changes to the definitions of selective mutism and social anxiety disorder
Offers a theoretical framework for understanding how traditional CBT strategies can be used effectively with young children
Discusses influences of family and school environments
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Anxiety disorders in preschool children
- Anxiety disorders in early childhood
- Assessment of young children with anxiety disorders
- CBT for young children with anxiety disorders
- CBT for young children with selective mutism
- CBT for young children with social anxiety disorder
- Childhood anxiety disorder
- Cognitive behavior therapy for young children with anxiety
- Cognitive coping strategies for young children with anxiety
- Cognitive distortions in young children with anxiety disorders
- Group CBT for young children with anxiety disorders
- Treatment strategies for young children with anxiety disorders
- Selective mutism in four- to seven-year-old children
- Selective mutism in young children
- Social anxiety disorder in four- to seven-year-old children
- Social anxiety disorder in young children
- Taming Sneaky Fears
- Treatment of young children with anxiety disorders
About this book
Topics featured in this book include:
- Screening and assessment tools for young anxious children.
- Innovative assessment approaches for young anxious children.
- The use of Bravery Ladders to teach young children to overcome their fears and anxieties.
- Specific adaptations of the Taming Sneaky Fears program for selective mutism and social anxiety disorder.
- The pivotal role of parents in the success of the Taming Sneaky Fears program.
Assessing and Treating Anxiety Disorders in Young Children is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in child and school psychology, pediatrics, social work, and psychiatry.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Suneeta Monga, M.D., FRCPC, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She is Medical Director of the Psychiatry Ambulatory Services and Associate Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the Hospital for Sick Children, as well as a Project Investigator in the Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children. Her research, educational, and clinical activities focus on assessment and treatment of child and youth anxiety disorders with a special focus on anxiety disorders, including selective mutism, in four- to seven-year-old children and cognitive behavioral therapy as a treatment modality for anxiety and mood disorders. She has published in peer-reviewed scientific publications and has made numerous presentations on related topics across North America and abroad. She is the original developer of the Taming Sneaky Fears Program and has led the empirical research of the program. She is a co-author of the children's story and companion workbook, Taming Sneaky Fears - Leo the Lion's story of bravery & Inside Leo's den: The workbook (and the French translation), Apprivoiser les Peurs-pas-fines – L’histoire de bravoure de Léo le lionceau & Dans la tanière de Léo : le cahier de travail).
Diane Benoit, M.D., FRCPC, is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Project Investigator in the Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children, and Staff Psychiatrist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her research, educational, and clinical activities focus on child-caregiver attachment relationships, the impact of violence, abuse, neglect on children, trauma-focused and attachment-focused assessments and interventions, caregivers’ perceptions and subjective experience of their children and relationship with them, and the assessment and treatment of four- to seven-year-old children with anxiety disorders. She has published in peer-reviewed, scientific publications and other publications, and has made numerous presentations related to these various topics across North America and abroad. She is the lead author of the children’s story and companion workbook, Taming Sneaky Fears – Leo the Lion’s story of bravery & Inside Leo’s den: The workbook (and the French translation, Apprivoiser les Peurs-pas-fines – L’histoire de bravoure de Léo le lionceau & Dans la tanière de Léo : le cahier de travail).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Assessing and Treating Anxiety Disorders in Young Children
Book Subtitle: The Taming Sneaky Fears Program
Authors: Suneeta Monga, Diane Benoit
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04939-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04938-6Published: 09 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04939-3Published: 27 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 222
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Pediatrics, Social Work