Anxiety Disorders in Children /

Generalised Anxiety

01 What Others Say

  • Kids matter Mental health initiative: excellent resource on anxiety in children

How Anxiety problems affect children

 

  • Massachusetts General Hospital: school psychiatry program and MADI resource centre

Anxiety (Generalised Anxiety Disorder)

02 I Want To Know More

  •  Kids matter:Children with anxiety problems

Other resources

  • Cool Kids programme a Cognitive behaviour therapy program that teaches children skills that are designed to overcome anxiety.

Cool kids ( school version)

  •  The Child Anxiety Network: a network from Boston US.  Has  A collection of very usefulCDs for relaxation and coping cards cards to children as well as excellent resources and patient information.

The Child Anxiety NETWORK

  •  Emotional health clinic:  a specialist clinical research clinic from the Macquarie University, NSW aimed at further understanding child and adult emotional  disorders with particular expertise in anxiety and related disorders. Provides excellent information regarding various programs available for treatment. Has sections for children ages 0 to 6 years, 7 to 13 years, and 14 to 18 years. Authors of a book Helping your anxious child a step-by-step guide for parents: a book written for parents who have an anxious child and covers all forms of anxiety and is useful regardless of whether your child is only slightly scared of the dark or crippled by severe worries and phobias. Highly recommended.

 Emotional health clinic

Orders for helping your anxious child a step-by-step guide for parents second edition

 

 

03 Clinicians Tools and Resources

  • Spence children's anxiety scale websites you are able to download the  scales and is scoring system. Contains subscales for six anxiety disorders in childhoodFor children aged 8 to 12  years.

 Spence children's anxiety scale

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Last updated: 18/02/2011