Part I: All about anxiety
1. Understanding anxiety and fear: the dragon
2. The history and diagnostic categories of anxiety disorders in children and adults
3. Treatment: training the dragon
4. Evaluating your child's need for medication and therapy
Part II: Five stories for kids, five steps for parents
5. Step 1: Ben's story: understanding your child's dragon
6. Step 2: Julie's story: shrink the dragon with practice and cognitive restructuring
7. Step 3: William's story: using medication and relaxation
8. Step 4: Rebecca's story: school anxiety and school refusal
9. Step 5: Rebecca's story one year later: set goals for the future, including having a plan if the anxiety comes back
10. Assessing your family's role in anxiety disorders
12. Anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity 13.Anxiety in teens14. Anxiety, terrorism, and other extraordinary threats to children
15. Advice for teachers, coaches, doctors, therapists, school nurses, and others who work with anxious kids.
