Parenting Anxiety

The empowering, evidence-based guide to controlling anxiety for both parents and children from a Harvard Medical School anxiety specialist

The first evidence-based guide to empowering both children and parents to battle their anxiety

Even before the pandemic, anxiety disorders were increasing in children and young people. As many parents know only too well, they have since increased exponentially, wreaking havoc on the emotional wellbeing of a whole generation. But is there anything parents can do to help their children, especially when they’re struggling to manage anxiety themselves? Absolutely – and this book will show you how.

Offering parents a clear, accessible roadmap from constantly fearing the next meltdown to a enjoying calmer, happier life for your entire family, Parenting Anxiety is full of expert, evidence-backed advice – not only to help children soothe their anxieties, but helping parents manage their own, too.

Written by Dr Meredith Elkins – a Harvard Medical School-trained paediatrician and anxiety specialist – the techniques in this book are grounded in cognitive behaviour therapy and backed up by scientific evidence, offering you reliable methods to strengthen your family’s anxiety-fighting abilities. Tackling one of the hardest issues facing families today with wisdom, warmth and humour, this is an essential handbook with advice that will help every modern parent.

Author Biography

Meredith Elkins is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of anxiety, mood and obsessive-compulsive disorders in children, adolescents, and young adults, and is deeply committed to working with families. She is also an Instructor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Co-Program Director of the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program (MAMP), an intensive outpatient program for youth with anxiety disorders at McLean Hospital.