Main description:

This unique book presents a research-based approach to understanding the challenges of separation anxiety and helping children, adolescents, and their parents build the skills they need to overcome it. The authors provide step-by-step guidelines for implementing the entire process of therapy--from intake and assessment through coping skills training, cognitive-behavioral interventions, and relapse prevention. Featuring in-depth case examples, the book is written for maximum accessibility for all clinicians, including those with limited cognitive-behavioral therapy experience, who treat separation anxiety and other childhood anxiety disorders. Useful reproducibles include the Separation Anxiety Assessment Scales, which facilitate individualized case formulation and treatment planning.

Contents:

Foreword, David H. Barlow
I. Introduction
1. The Nature of Separation Anxiety
2. Development of Separation Anxiety
II. A Prescriptive Approach to Assessment and Treatment
3. Assessing Separation Anxiety
III. Teaching Child Coping Skills
4. Child Coping Skills I: It's Time to Relax
5. Child Coping Skills II. You Are What You Think
IV. Teaching Parent Coping Skills
6. Parent Coping Skills I: Understanding My Child's Separation Anxiety
7. Parent Coping Skills II: Managing My Child's Separation Anxiety
V. Confronting Separation Anxiety
8. Structuring the Treatment Sessions: Skills Building, Hierarchy Development, and Treatment Planning
9. Negotiating Fear of Being Alone: Being Alone and Sleeping Alone
10. Negotiating Fear of Being Abandoned: School, Camp, and Other Settings
VI. Navigating the Obstacle Course
11. Staying in Control: Managing Pitfalls and Relapse
Appendix A. Assessment Instruments
Appendix B. Handouts