Eli Lebowitz

Anxiety deeply impacts every aspect of a child's school experience, including academics and learning, interactions with peers, and interactions with teachers, and attendance. But school is also a place for detecting anxiety problems and helping students who struggle with it. This book provides K-5 educators with information that is key to understanding, detecting, and helping students with elevated anxiety levels, as well as guidelines for working with their parents. With practical examples, quick classroom assessments, and simple but powerful tools to help students manage anxiety, it is an essential resource that is scientifically informed and extremely accessible.

When children develop an anxiety disorder, the best solution is to provide ongoing help within the familial context. How that can best be implemented may be seen in this articulate and impressive book. Anxiety disorders in children can disturb family life considerably. Haim Omer's concept of a "new authority" offers a helpful approach to coping according to the motto "support but don't shield." The central idea is one of parents as anchors for their children, i.e., besides protection and security they provide facilitative support for their offspring. A wealth of instructive case examples - from the infant to the adult still living with the parents, from separation anxiety to OCD - provide the practitioner with all the necessary tools.