From Worrier to Warrior, a companion book to Make Your Worrier a Warrior (for parents), is designed to teach you how to conquer the Worry Monster. This book shows you how to overcome worry and fear using several easy-to-follow strategies. Read the book and learn the strategies yourself, or read along with a parent or other adult. From Worrier to Warrior will teach you how to create your very own "toolbox" of ways to combat fear and anxiety to carry with you and conquer the Worry Monster at any time. With these tools, you will be able to overcome whatever challenges come your way!
Dan Peters, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist who has devoted his career to the assessment, consultation and treatment of children, adolescents, and families, specializing in learning differences, anxiety, and issues related to giftedness and twice-exceptionality.
Dr. Peters is co-founder and Executive Director of the Summit Center, with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. He is author of Make Your Worrier a Warrior: A Guide to Conquering Your Child’s Fears (Great Potential Press, 2013), and the companion book for children, From Worrier to Warrior: A Guide to Conquering Your Fears. In addition, he is co-author (with Dr. Susan Daniels) of Raising Creative Kids (Great Potential Press, 2013). Dr. Peters is a regular blogger on Huffington Post.com and Psychology Today, and is a frequent media guest. He speaks regularly at state and national conferences and writes on topics related to parenting, learning differences, and education.
If you have a student or child struggling with anxiety, this book will really help! There are a lot of ideas and strategies I have already explored through SEL trainings, but I think this would be a wonderful resource for parents explaining anxiety to their kids.
Very basic. Overly simplistic. Misses the mark on fully explaining mindfulness. An OK place to start, but there’s lots of room to go from there when it comes to helping your kiddo through anxiety.
A pretty good guide to anxiety for the younger reader. And a nice, basic overview for an adult! I picked it up at the suggestion of our third grade teacher, and I think that it will be helpful! It seems to be designed for the child him/herself to read, but it feels to old for my girl. Still, it'll be a great reference guide if/when she needs it!