GROWING UP BRAVE Expert Strategies for Helping Your Child Overcome Fear, Stress, and Anxiety

A Boston University child psychologist narrates her accessible guide with the buoyancy needed to give hope to the parents of an anxious or easily stressed child. Her reading conveys an uplifting combination of youthful energy and friendly authority. Speaking like she's having an upbeat conversation with listeners, she delivers a performance that will help beleaguered parents stay engaged. Not all of the strategies in her parenting tool kit are new, but she makes them sound fresh and worthy of consideration. She offers strategies for specific anxiety patterns like OCD and social avoidance, but a lot of her advice is about normal child stress and how to keep it from escalating into a disorder. T.W. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2019]