The A-Z Guide to Exposure
Creative ERP Activities for 75 Childhood Fears
Published on 19. January 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-83997-322-2 (ISBN)
Description
The art of exposure lies in perfectly pitched challenges. Get them wrong and nothing changes. Get them right and you set an anxious child free.
This practical resource guide contains 75 creative, user-friendly lists of exposure activities appropriate for 5-12-year olds struggling with anxiety. Entries cover a wide range of fears and concerns, such as Clowns, Making Mistakes, Picky Eating, Separation Anxiety, and Vomiting. An essential addition to the therapeutic toolbox of practitioners using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), this A-Z guide combines evidence-based guidance with inventive, engaging, actionable activities for an extensive list of childhood fears and concerns.
This practical resource guide contains 75 creative, user-friendly lists of exposure activities appropriate for 5-12-year olds struggling with anxiety. Entries cover a wide range of fears and concerns, such as Clowns, Making Mistakes, Picky Eating, Separation Anxiety, and Vomiting. An essential addition to the therapeutic toolbox of practitioners using Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), this A-Z guide combines evidence-based guidance with inventive, engaging, actionable activities for an extensive list of childhood fears and concerns.
Reviews / Votes
The A-to-Z Guide belongs in the tool kit of every therapist who treats anxiety disorders. Succinct yet comprehensive overview of exposure-based therapy and why it works. Innovative, effective, and fun interventions. -- Sandra Whitehouse, Ph.D., Senior Director, Child Mind Institute Creative and effective, this book belongs on the shelf of every anxiety and OCD therapist. -- Natasha Daniels, Anxiety and OCD Therapist, Creator of ATParentingSurvival.com The A-Z Guide To Exposure is an excellent resource for therapists and trainees! In this easy-to-use reference, the authors share creative, targeted exposure ideas for a wide range of fears through the lens of experienced child psychologists. It is a "must-have" CBT resource for clinicians who provide exposure therapy for childhood anxiety disorders, OCD, and related disorders. -- Marla W. Deibler, PsyD, Faculty, IOCDF Behavior Therapy Training Institute (BTTI)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
356 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83997-322-2 (9781839973222)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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E-Book
01/2023
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
€25.99
Available for download
Persons
Erin Neely, PsyD is a Clinical Psychologist and Integrative Nutrition Coach. She works with elementary school-aged children to help them create happier and healthier lives and produces animations about mental health for her YouTube channel, Miss Erin Doctor. www.drerinneely.com
Dawn Huebner, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Parent Coach specializing in childhood anxiety. She is the author of award-winning books for children and speaks to groups of educators, mental health professionals, and parents around the world. www.dawnhuebnerphd.com
Dawn Huebner, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Parent Coach specializing in childhood anxiety. She is the author of award-winning books for children and speaks to groups of educators, mental health professionals, and parents around the world. www.dawnhuebnerphd.com
Content
Introduction
A-Z Guide
A
Addiction, Airplanes, Alarms, Alcohol/Alcoholism, Aliens, Alone, Animals, Ants, Apologies, Asymmetry, Attic
B
Bad Guys, Baddies (fictional), Baddies (real life), Balloons, Basement, Bathroom, Bees, Birds, Blood, Boats, Books, Bowel Movements, Bugs, Buttons
C
Cars, Cats, Cellar, Change in Plans, Characters, Cheating, Checking, Choices, Choking, Cigarettes, Cities, Clothing, Clowns, Confined Spaces, Contaminated Object, Costumed Characters
D
Dangerous Animals, Dark, Death, Decisions, Defecating, Differentness, Dirt/Dirty, Disability, Divorce, Dizziness, Doctors, Dogs, Dolls, Downstairs, Drugs
E
Earthquakes, Eating, Elevators, Embarrassment, Emotions, Errors, Escalators
F
Failure, Fainting, Feces, Feelings, Fire, Flaws, Floods, Flying, Food, Frogs, Furniture
G
Gagging, Germs, Getting Rid of Things, Ghosts, Going Upstairs or Downstairs Alone, Growing Up
H
Halloween, Harm, Health, Heights, Hoarding, Hornets, Household Pets, Hurricanes, Hurting Oneself or Others
I
Illness, Imperfection, Insects, Interruption, Intruders, Intrusive Thoughts
J
Jabs, Just Right Feeling
K
Kidnappers, Killing, Knives
L
Lateness, Lightning, Losing, Lying (inadvertent)
M
Making Decisions, Mascots, Masks, Media, Medical Procedures, Medicine, Mistakes, Monsters, Motion Sickness, Movies
N
Natural Disasters, Navigating Home Alone, Needles, New Experiences, Night, No, Noises, Numbers, Nurses
O
Ocean, Older People, Open Spaces, Over-wiping
P
Panic, People, Perfectionism, Pet Escaping, Pets, Picky Eating, Pills, Poop/Pooping, Potty Seat, Puberty, Public Speaking
Q
Qualifiers, Questions
R
Rain, Reassurance-Seeking, Religious Thoughts, Repeating, Re-Reading
S
Safety, Santa, School, Separation Anxiety, Sex, Sharks, Sickness, Sleeping Alone, Small Spaces, Snakes, Social Anxiety, Speaking, Spiders, Stains, Stinging Insects, Storms, Strangers, Suicide, Surrounded, Swallowing, Swimming, Symmetry
T
Talking, Teenagers, Terrorists, Tests, Throwing Up, Thunder, Tight Spaces, Timed Activities, Toads, Toileting, Tornadoes, Traveling, Treatment Avoidance, Triggering Words or Phrases, Trying New Things
U
Uncertainty, Unfairness, Unhealthy Foods, Upstairs, Urban Legends, Urinating,
V
Vacuum Cleaner, Vampires, Vegetables, Villains, Vomiting
W
Wasps, Water Immersion, Weather, Wiping, Witches, Words and Phrases
X
X-rays
Y
Yes, Yacking, Yellowjackets
Z
Zombies
About the Authors
A-Z Guide
A
Addiction, Airplanes, Alarms, Alcohol/Alcoholism, Aliens, Alone, Animals, Ants, Apologies, Asymmetry, Attic
B
Bad Guys, Baddies (fictional), Baddies (real life), Balloons, Basement, Bathroom, Bees, Birds, Blood, Boats, Books, Bowel Movements, Bugs, Buttons
C
Cars, Cats, Cellar, Change in Plans, Characters, Cheating, Checking, Choices, Choking, Cigarettes, Cities, Clothing, Clowns, Confined Spaces, Contaminated Object, Costumed Characters
D
Dangerous Animals, Dark, Death, Decisions, Defecating, Differentness, Dirt/Dirty, Disability, Divorce, Dizziness, Doctors, Dogs, Dolls, Downstairs, Drugs
E
Earthquakes, Eating, Elevators, Embarrassment, Emotions, Errors, Escalators
F
Failure, Fainting, Feces, Feelings, Fire, Flaws, Floods, Flying, Food, Frogs, Furniture
G
Gagging, Germs, Getting Rid of Things, Ghosts, Going Upstairs or Downstairs Alone, Growing Up
H
Halloween, Harm, Health, Heights, Hoarding, Hornets, Household Pets, Hurricanes, Hurting Oneself or Others
I
Illness, Imperfection, Insects, Interruption, Intruders, Intrusive Thoughts
J
Jabs, Just Right Feeling
K
Kidnappers, Killing, Knives
L
Lateness, Lightning, Losing, Lying (inadvertent)
M
Making Decisions, Mascots, Masks, Media, Medical Procedures, Medicine, Mistakes, Monsters, Motion Sickness, Movies
N
Natural Disasters, Navigating Home Alone, Needles, New Experiences, Night, No, Noises, Numbers, Nurses
O
Ocean, Older People, Open Spaces, Over-wiping
P
Panic, People, Perfectionism, Pet Escaping, Pets, Picky Eating, Pills, Poop/Pooping, Potty Seat, Puberty, Public Speaking
Q
Qualifiers, Questions
R
Rain, Reassurance-Seeking, Religious Thoughts, Repeating, Re-Reading
S
Safety, Santa, School, Separation Anxiety, Sex, Sharks, Sickness, Sleeping Alone, Small Spaces, Snakes, Social Anxiety, Speaking, Spiders, Stains, Stinging Insects, Storms, Strangers, Suicide, Surrounded, Swallowing, Swimming, Symmetry
T
Talking, Teenagers, Terrorists, Tests, Throwing Up, Thunder, Tight Spaces, Timed Activities, Toads, Toileting, Tornadoes, Traveling, Treatment Avoidance, Triggering Words or Phrases, Trying New Things
U
Uncertainty, Unfairness, Unhealthy Foods, Upstairs, Urban Legends, Urinating,
V
Vacuum Cleaner, Vampires, Vegetables, Villains, Vomiting
W
Wasps, Water Immersion, Weather, Wiping, Witches, Words and Phrases
X
X-rays
Y
Yes, Yacking, Yellowjackets
Z
Zombies
About the Authors