
Why Smart Kids Worry
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Unlock the secrets behind your child's worries.
Is your bright child overwhelmed by worries that seem beyond their years? Do questions about global issues or personal anxieties keep them up at night? "Why Smart Kids Worry" offers a compassionate roadmap to understanding and supporting your child's unique emotional landscape.
Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Play Therapist Allison Edwards delves into the intricate relationship between intelligence and anxiety in children. Drawing from her extensive experience, she provides parents with actionable strategies to help their children navigate the challenges of growing up smart and sensitive.
"Therapist Edwards brings profound insight into the minds of gifted, anxious children in this parent-friendly handbook." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
In this insightful guide, you'll discover:
- The Link Between Intelligence and Anxiety: Understand why intellectually advanced children are more prone to excessive worrying.
- 15 Practical Tools: Equip yourself with effective techniques to help your child manage their fears and build resilience.
- Real-Life Scenarios: Learn how to address tough questions about topics like death, natural disasters, and global events in an age-appropriate manner.
- Strategies for Everyday Challenges: Gain insights into managing perfectionism, overthinking, and high expectations that often accompany giftedness.
Whether your child struggles with school stress, social fears, or perfectionism, Why Smart Kids Worry gives you the tools to help them feel safe, understood, and empowered.
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Allison Edwards is a Licensed Professional Counselor and registered Play Therapist with specialized training in working with children, adolescents, and families. She received a Bachelor's Degree in Education from Northwest Missouri State and a Master's degree in counseling from Vanderbilt University.. She is an adjunct professor in the Human Development Counseling Program at Vanderbilt University, and she maintains full-time private practice with children of all ages.
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Contents
Introduction
Part One: How Smart Kids Think
Chapter 1: The New Definition of "Smart"
Chapter 2: Understanding Your Child's Anxiety
Chapter 3: How Children Process Anxiety and Why It Matters
Chapter 4: How to Address Your Child's Anxiety in an Age of Worry
Chapter 5: Where Intelligence and Anxiety Collide
Chapter 6: Why Your Child Doesn't Need to Know about Terrorists
Chapter 7: How to Answer "Is Global Warming Real? When Will I Die? Can a Tornado Hit Our House?"... and Other Tough Questions
Chapter 8: What Anxiety Leaves Behind
Part Two: Tools
Tool #1: Square Breathing
Tool #2: Worry Time
Tool #3: Changing the Channel
Tool #4: The Five Question Rule
Tool #5: "I Did It!" List
Tool #6: The Marble System
Tool #7: Giving Your Child a Role
Tool #8: Structuring the Unstructured
Tool #9: Blanket Tool
Tool #10: Over Checking
Tool #11: Naming the Anxiety
Tool #12: Brain Plate
Tool #13: Run Fast! Jump High!
Tool #14: The Worry Expert
Tool #15: Feelings Check-In
Conclusion
Checklist of Anxiety Symptoms
Think Sheet
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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