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 Websites

  • Anxiety Disorders Association of BC (ADABC): www.anxietybc.com

  • American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry:
    • www.aacap.org. The AACAP’s online library, "Facts for Families", (accessed through the Resources to Families link) offers a wide range of excellent pamphlets for families, covering the basic facts of various disorders and a brief overview of what to do. Sample titles include:

    • The Anxious Child
    • The Depressed Child
    • Children Who Won't Go to School
    • Panic Disorder in Children and Adolescents
    • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents
    • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Clinic Publications

  • Garland, E. Jane & Clark, Sandra L. (2000). Taming Worry Dragons

  • Garland, E. Jane & Clark, Sandra L. (2002). Worry Taming for Teens
    • Note: These are excellent manuals designed to be used as a starting point to encourage users to bring their ‘detective work’ and creativity into play when developing tools for understanding and coping with anxiety.

  • Clark, Sandra (2000). Tools for Taming and Trapping Worry Dragons: Children’s Workbook and the accompanying facilitator’s manual:

  • Facilitator’s Manual: Coping Skills for Children with Anxieties (Learning How to Tame Worry Dragons).

Books

    • Adderholdt-Elliott, Miriam (1985). Perfectionism: What’s Bad About Being Too Good.

      • Free Spirit Publishing Inc. An excellent guide for teens on the downfall of being a perfectionist. Looks at strategies to combat expecting too much of yourself and of others.

    • Cansky, Tamar E. (2000). Freeing Your Child from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

      • A comprehensive resource for parents with a child with OCD. Provides an in-depth understanding and strategies for coping with the frustrations of this disorder.
    • Isaacs, Susan & Ritchey, Wendy (1989). I Think I Can, I Know I Can: Using Self-Talk to Raise Confident, Secure Kids.
      • A book aimed at helping parents develop positive coping strategies by modeling them for their children to follow.

    • Hipp,Earl (1985). Fighting Invisible Tigers: a Stress Management Guide for Teens.
      • A teen-friendly guide to understanding and managing stress.

    • Manassis, Katharina (1996). Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child.
      • This easy-to-read parenting guide gives an overview of anxiety and good common sense strategies for parents assist their children to cope with it.

    • Rapee, Ronald. M ( 1996). Helping Your Anxious Child, and (for professionals) Treating Anxious Children and Adolescents.
      • Dr. Rapee has done considerable research on anxiety and social phobia. His approach has been used as the basis of the "Friends Program", an anxiety management program that is being taught in BC elementary schools (usually Grade 4) in Personal Planning.