From Timid to Tiger: A Treatment Manual for Parenting the Anxious Child

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This book is an essential manual for mental health professionals who work with young anxious children and their parents. Organised into a 10-session parenting-based course, the book provides parents with simple cognitive behavioural techniques for helping their children to manage their worries and fears. The first manual designed specifically to help therapists take parents through a step-by-step approach to managing young anxious childrenThe manual's empirical focus is highly effective in treating anxiety disorders in children under the age of 10The provision of scripts throughout the book offer realistic illustrations of the techniques describedStories and analogies included to explain the more complex conceptsIncludes handouts which can be photocopied and useful additional materials

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Sam Cartwright-Hatton is a clinical psychologist and senior lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Manchester. She previously held an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship, during which she developed and trialled a new parenting intervention for young anxious children. She was awarded the British Psychological Society May Davidson Award in 2009 for her research into anxiety disorders of childhood.With:Ben Laskey is a clinical psychologist who co-ordinates and delivers parenting programmes for the under 8s. He conducts research through the University of Manchester where he is an honorary tutor in Clinical Psychology.Stewart Rust is a consultant clinical psychologist in Neuropsychology at the Royal Manchester Childrens Hospital. He previously delivered parenting groups to families struggling with their childrens behavioural difficulties. Deb McNally is a Clinical Psychologist. She has a particular interest in parenting and cognitive behavioural interventions.