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Please Explain Anxiety to Me!: Simple Biology and Solutions for Children and Parents
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Overview
What's happening to me?
This book translates anxiety from the jargon of psychology into concrete experiences that children can relate to. Children and their parents will understand the biological and emotional components of anxiety responsible for the upsetting symptoms they experience. Please Explain Anxiety to Me gives accurate physiological information in child friendly language. A colorful dinosaur story explains the link between brain and body functioning, followed by practical therapeutic techniques that children can use to help themselves. Children will:
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781615990290 |
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Publisher: | Loving Healing Press |
Publication date: | 02/14/2013 |
Series: | Growing with Love |
Pages: | 38 |
Sales rank: | 1,144,282 |
Product dimensions: | 8.20(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d) |
Age Range: | 5 - 7 Years |
About the Author
Dr. Jordan Zelinger is a recent graduate of Union College where he earned his BS degree in neuroscience and is now pursuing his doctoral degree in School-Clinical Child Psychology at Pace University in New York City. Jordan enjoys working with typically developing children as well as those who have special needs. He collaborated with his mother on this, his first book, drawing upon his background in psychology and biology. He hopes to apply his skills in community and school settings, as he begins to embark upon his professional career.
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CHAPTER 1
Once upon a time, before there were people, dinosaurs roamed the earth.
There wasn't much around except grass, trees, plants, dirt, rocks and water.
Sometimes food was hard to find.
Plant eating dinosaurs found things to eat that grew from the ground; like flowers, grass and leaves. But meat eating dinosaurs didn't want plants. They only liked to eat other dinosaurs, since dinosaurs are made of dinosaur meat.
Smaller dinosaurs were always scared that bigger dinosaurs would eat them. They probably worried a lot because there was danger all around them.
Whenever a meat eating dinosaur showed up, a small dinosaur realized he had to do something fast. He probably said to himself, "Hmmm. I have three choices. I can either freeze and stay perfectly still while I stop, look and listen. Maybe the other dinosaur won't see me.
Or, I can try to run away just as fast as my legs will take me. If those ideas don't work, then I can stay and fight. That's called "freeze, flight or fight".
The small dinosaurs suddenly needed quick energy so they could move fast.
A part of their body called the 'sympathetic nervous system' (sim pa thet ik nur vus sis tem) got them ready to rush around.
(Continues…)
Excerpted from "Please Explain "Anxiety" To Me!"
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Copyright © 2011 Laurie Zelinger, PhD and Jordan Zelinger.
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