Your Anxious Child

Dr Sharon Saline is an expert on ADHD in children and adolescents. Her recent book What Your ADHD Child Wishes you Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids For Success in School and Life  is based on her interviews of children with ADHD. It is a book with  compelling stories and practical advice. Today she talked about the experience of anxiety with children who have ADHD. 

Joan Lovett, MD has recently retired from active practice but graciously agreed to do this interview. She is a behavioral pediatrician who has written two books on using EMDR with children: Small Wonders: Healing Childhood Trauma with EMDR and Trauma-Attachment Tangle: Modifying EMDR to Help Children Resolve Trauma and Develop Loving Relationships.  Among other things she creatively uses story telling to help children resolve early traumas. Her books are useful for both parent and clinician. 

Tom Bunn is a return guest to this podcast where in an early episode he talked about the fear of flying based on his earlier book SOAR: The Breakthrough Treatment for Fearing of Flying. He recently published Panic Free: The 10-Day Program to End Panic, Anxiety and Claustrophobia which is the topic of the current interview.

Expert Interview #21: Amanda Stern author of Little Panic: Dispatches From An Anxious Life

Somatic Experiencing Therapy is a type of therapy developed by Peter Levine to deal with trauma, but which is extremely relevant  helping all sorts of anxiety conditions in children. When children become anxious they often "shut down" or "freeze up" and this type of therapy has an important contribution to helping children with this part of the fight/flight/freeze response.

Ruth Goldfinger Golomb discusses how sensory dysregulation can contribute to anxious behavior in children

Interview with Carolyn Broudy, MD discussing the anxiety that natural comes with having an infant and some of the problems parents encounter.

Anxiety in the preschool child is discussed by Dr. Claudia Gold

Liz Haske has just published a book for anxious children, When Worry Takes Hold. In this interview we talk about the importance of stories, mindfulness and some special considerations in helping preschool children.

Expert Interview #15 Beth Maloney discussing PANDAS/PANS

Lesley Koplow discusses anxiety in the preschool child and her program of having Teddy Bears in the classroom

Edward Plimpton, PhD interviews Sharon Selby, MA concerning her new book for children and parents, Surfing the Worry Imp's Wave, which provides a framework for understanding and dealing with anxiety

Dawn Huebner, PhD is a psychologist in Exeter, N.H. who has written several extremely popular workbooks for elementary school children dealing with anxiety, such as What To Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kids's Guide to Overcoming OCD. In this podcast, she discusses her new book, Outsmarting Worry geared towards 9-13 year olds.

Expert Interview #11: Emily Hodos. The importance of movement and primitive reflexes with the anxious child

Expert Interview #10: OCD in the Classroom. Denise Stack.LMHC