Summary of Eli R. Lebowitz's Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Anxiety is a system that helps us recognize possible threats and dangers and keeps us safe from them. We use our senses to keep out of trouble, such as when we jump at a loud noise, look both ways before we cross the street, or sniff a yogurt container to decide whether it smells good enough to eat.
#2 When we are anxious about imaginary dangers, we become vulnerable to worries that are not realistic or likely at all. We must learn to evaluate these scenarios and assign values to them so that the most realistic and likely ones carry more weight than the highly unlikely or outlandish ones.
#3 When we say that a child is anxious, we are usually describing a child who shows some predictable patterns in how he uses each of these abilities: overestimating the likelihood of negative events and downplaying the likelihood of positive ones.
#4 An anxious child is not able to simply ignore all the negative possibilities that come to mind. It is easy to see why a child prone to higher levels of anxiety would decide to skip the party altogether.

Sujets

• Psychopathology

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 25 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669364139
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Eli R. Lebowitz's Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Anxiety is a system that helps us recognize possible threats and dangers and keeps us safe from them. We use our senses to keep out of trouble, such as when we jump at a loud noise, look both ways before we cross the street, or sniff a yogurt container to decide whether it smells good enough to eat.

#2

When we are anxious about imaginary dangers, we become vulnerable to worries that are not realistic or likely at all. We must learn to evaluate these scenarios and assign values to them so that the most realistic and likely ones carry more weight than the highly unlikely or outlandish ones.

#3

When we say that a child is anxious, we are usually describing a child who shows some predictable patterns in how he uses each of these abilities: overestimating the likelihood of negative events and downplaying the likelihood of positive ones.

#4

An anxious child is not able to simply ignore all the negative possibilities that come to mind. It is easy to see why a child prone to higher levels of anxiety would decide to skip the party altogether.

#5

The science of mental health does not have a clear answer as to why some children are more anxious than others. It may seem surprising that we don’t yet have good solid answers to such an important question.

#6

It is important to remember that anxiety is a problem that affects each child differently. While it is tempting to assume that a certain environmental factor is the cause of a child’s anxiety, it is not necessarily the case that without that factor, the child would not have been anxious.

#7

Anxiety is the most common mental health problem in children and adolescents. It is estimated that between 5 and 10 percent of children from preschool through adolescence have a current anxiety problem.

#8

The term anxiety disorder is often used to describe children who have anxiety problems. However, the terms anxiety problems and highly anxious are more appropriate to describe children, as they are not technically disorders.

#9

Anxiety can look different for different children. It’s important to consider how your child is functioning in four separate domains: body, thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. Each domain is impacted by anxiety to some degree, but for some children one domain will be more affected than others.

#10

The body category refers to all the things that make up your child’s physical experience, even the things she does without noticing. When your child is anxious, her physical functioning can change, and over time being frequently anxious can lead to longer-term changes in her body.

#11

When children are anxious, they often become very good at coming up with negative scenarios in their imagination, and they tend to assign high values to those negative possibilities. They also tend to perceive negative events as more likely to happen than is realistically true.

#12

The brain is constantly making choices about what to notice and what not to pay attention to. And those choices are not random. If your child is highly anxious, they are probably going to pay more attention to things that make them anxious than to things that seem neutral or safe.

#13

Understanding that your child’s brain is a little bit strange is important for understanding why she may have anxious thoughts that she doesn’t want. She is not particularly strange for having these thoughts; we all have brains that are a little bit strange.

#14

We don’t get to choose what we think. Our brains are going to serve up lots of thoughts that we don’t want, and there’s not much we can do about it. Trying to stop yourself from thinking a thought is going to make you think it more.

#15

The anxiety system is designed to keep us safe by keeping us away from things that might cause us harm. It does this by causing us to want to avoid things that trigger anxiety. As children with anxiety problems tend to gradually increase their circle of things they avoid, their anxiety will have a greater impact on their ability to function in daily life.

#16

When children experience anxiety, they may become clingy, as they want to be close to their parents. This is not being needy or babyish, but rather a way for them to cope with their anxiety.

#17

Anxiety impacts how a child feels. It can increase the frequency of emotions such as fear and anger, and it can lead to a decrease in more positive emotions. When your child is anxious, his brain is in a defensive mode that prioritises protecting his well-being over other goals.

#18

When it comes to dealing with an anxious child, remember that he is living with a minefield of anxiety.