Stressed Out!: Solutions to Help Your Child Manage and Overcome Stress

by Mary Anne Richey, James W. Forgan

Overview

Stressed Out!: Solutions to Help Your Child Manage and Overcome Stress is an easy-to-read guide for parents to help their children understand stress, its effects on kids' day-to-day lives, and how to handle it. The book suggests stress management solutions that can be implemented by even the busiest parents and kids, focusing on a variety of common stressful situations that are grouped according to three categories—school, family, or environmental. Strategies include sample dialogues parents can use in conversation with their child and activities to help children gain insight and understanding into the nature of their stress, such as worksheets, role-play scenarios, or children's stories. Designed for maximum accessibility, parents and their children can immediately apply and reinforce the solutions. Inherent in each chapter is the underlying understanding that stress in children is very individual and solutions need to be individualized to fit the circumstances and personality of each child.

2018 NAGC Book of the Year Award Winner

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781618216199
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/2017
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	1,116,637
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jim Forgan, Ph.D., is an associate professor and Licensed School Psychologist. He teaches others how to teach and assess children with ADHD and other types of learning disabilities at Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter, FL. In private practice, he works with families of children with ADHD and other learning differences. Jim consults with public and private schools doing workshops on ADHD, dyslexia, problem solving, and accommodations for learning disabilities. He is also the parent of a young son with ADHD.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction xi

Section I Principles of Stress

Chapter 1 Put Stress on Your Parenting Agenda 3

Chapter 2 Stressed, Anxious, or Both? 9

Chapter 3 Helpful Versus Harmful Stress 25

Chapter 4 Perception of Stressors 33

Chapter 5 Minimize Negative Stress 39

Section II Stress is Everywhere

Chapter 6 Stress in School 49

Chapter 7 Stress in the Community 71

Chapter 8 Stress in the Family 81

Section III Stress Busters

Chapter 9 Protection From Stress 99

Chapter 10 Yoga, Mindfulness, and Meditation 111

Chapter 11 Seeking a Happy, Balanced Life 117

Conclusion 123

Resources for Parents 125

Resources for Kids 127

References 141

About the Authors 145

Editorial Reviews

Mary Ann Richey and James W. Forgan, Ph.D have made this book so easy to read. Each chapter has a box with a Key Point and a Thinking Point. They provide colored paragraphs with examples of real life stories. There are tables, books, games, and activities. It is all so brief yet full of important information. You can even carry it around to use whenever a question pops into your mind.,Elaine Wiener,Gifted Education Communicator, 5/1/17
There is a wealth of resources available for parents; pages of sources are listed by the kind of stress, such as a new baby in the family, school, terminal illness, death in the family, fear of going to the dentist and fear of monsters. This is must have for any to be aware and to be prepared for the types of stress facing children.,Kathleen Ulrich,Children's Literature, 6/1/17

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