Adolescent Anxiety

the comprehensive program, "Set Me Free," offers a comprehensive approach to help children, adolescents, and their families gain control of their emotions, express positive thoughts and feelings, and develop the confidence to overcome adversities. By addressing emotional control, positive expression, and confidence-building, this program equips individuals with essential life skills that will serve them well into adulthood. Implementing such a program is crucial to ensuring the emotional well-being and overall success of our younger generation.

Just as sturdy scaffolding is necessary when erecting a building and will come down when the structure grows stable, good parenting provides children with steady and warm emotional nourishment on the path toward independence. In Scaffold Parenting, world-renowned child psychiatrist Harold Koplewicz introduces the powerful and clinically tested idea that this deliberate build-up and then gradual loosening of parental support is the single most effective way to encourage kids to climb higher, try new things, grow from mistakes and develop character and strength.

This is a book that every parent, grandparent, family member, social worker, childcare provider and educator must have. It presents, reviews and discusses the serious dark side of pediatrics, children and adolescents with psychiatric and mental health issues and conditions, their warning signs and symptoms and directions for help, care and intervention. It guides adults who are in a position to make a difference with early intervention to be diligent and recognize signs of children having mental disorders, anxiety or depression, or at risk for suicidal behavior. Other topics addressed are ...