GROWING UP BRAVE

Growing Up Brave is an empowering and valuable guide that will leave parents equipped to help their child regain confidence and happiness.

A practical, hands-on approach to helping children overcome anxiety. With social and academic pressures at an all-time high, one in five children today suffers from a diagnosed anxiety disorder and many others go undiagnosed. More children than ever are being prescribed psychotropic drugs. In GROWING UP BRAVE, nationally recognized childhood anxiety expert Dr. Donna Pincus demonstrates that excessive anxiety is manageable and even preventable when parents learn how to identify and understand it, and respond by using convenient and simple parenting techniques.
Anxiety disorders in children are sadly on the rise. Left undetected and untreated, childhood anxiety can lead to depression, physical and mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse, eating problems, and more. Dr. Donna Pincus demonstrates that childhood anxiety is manageable and evenpreventable when parents learn how to identify and understand anxiety in their children, and respond by using convenient and simple parenting techniques.
The book’s effective tools teach parents how to promote a warm, secure attachment with their child in only five minutes a day, develop routines that help ward off anxiety, implement Dr. Pincus’s “bravery ladder,” and much more.

About the author: Dr. Donna B. Pincus is the Director of Research of the Child and Adolescent Treatment Program at the Center for Anxiety Related Disorders (CARD) at Boston University. She lives outside Boston, Massachusetts.