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How anxiety can show up differently in Neurodivergent Children: Interview with Jonathan Dalton, PhD

Your Anxious Child - May 10, 2024 20:02 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Jonathan Dalton, PhD is a licensed psychologist who is the founder and director of the Center for Anxiety and Behavioral Change in Rockville, MD. He specializes in the treatment of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. He is a sought after speaker and passionate advocate of public educa...

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Staying Connected with your teen using polyvagal parenting: Interview with Yshai Boussi, LPC

Your Anxious Child - April 30, 2024 21:50 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Yshai Boussi, LPC is a licensed professional counselor who works with teens and families. Polyvagal theory developed by Steven Porges is a perspective that many clinicians have found very useful. Yshai Boussi has presented this theory in very practical terms that can help parents become more at...

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Decreasing Anxiety by Promoting Independence: Interview with Lenore Skenazy President of Let Grow

Your Anxious Child - April 15, 2024 20:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Lenore Skenazy is the author of Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow and is President of Let Grow, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting play and independence in children and adolesecence. Ms Skenazy created quite a sensation after her article "Why I Let ...

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Using Declarative Language to help your anxious child: Interview with Linda K. Murphy, MS, CCC-SSP

Your Anxious Child - March 12, 2024 16:54 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Linda K. Murphy is a speech language pathologist who has written two books, Declarative Language Handbook and Co-Regulation Handbook. I found her books wonderful in clarifying how language can either turn the volume up or down on anxiety. Imperative language, those questions or comments that dem...

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Parenting Anxious Kids: Understanding Anxiety in Children by Age and Stage. Interview with Dr Regine Galanti

Your Anxious Child - February 26, 2024 21:46 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Regine Galanti, PhD has just published Parenting Anxious Kids: Understanding Anxiety in Children by Age and Stage. She is the author of several other books aimed at helping children with anxiety such as Anxiety Relief for Teens.  She is the founder of Long Island Behavioral Psychology and can be...

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Misophonia: Interview with Dr Jane Gregory author of Sounds Like Misophonia: How to stop small noises from causing extreme reactions

Your Anxious Child - February 26, 2024 19:16 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Dr Jame Gregory is a clinical psychologist and researcher based at the University of Oxford. She has written with Adeel Ahmod a very helpful book on Misophonia that clinicians, those with misophonia and significant others will truly benefit by. She helps clarify why misophonia often gets attach...

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Crushing OCD: Workbook for Kids: Author interview with Natasha Daniels

Your Anxious Child - February 12, 2024 21:50 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
It was a pleasure to have Natasha Daniels as a return guest on this podcast to talk about her new book Crushing OCD: Workbook Kids.  This book is going to be an excellent resource for families and therapists trying to help children with OCD. One of strengths of this book is that it lays out in ...

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Parents as anxiety exposure coaches: Expert Interview with Stephen Whiteside, PhD

Your Anxious Child - January 16, 2024 20:44 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Stephen P. H. Whiteside, PhD is a clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, and Director of the Pediatric Anxiety Disorders Prgram at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.  His new book will be out in April in which he  outlines parent-coache...

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Selective Mutism: Interview with Aimee Kotrba, Ph.D

Your Anxious Child - December 19, 2023 21:11 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
I had the opportunity to talk with Aimee Kotrba, PhD on the occasion of the release of the second edition of Selective Mutism: An Assessment and Intervention Guide for Therapists, Educators and Parents co-authored with Katelyn Reed, M.S. She is an international expert on the topic of selective ...

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Autonomy-Supportive Parenting. Interview with Emily Edlynn, PhD

Your Anxious Child - December 12, 2023 00:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Emily Edlynn, PhD is a clinical psychologist who has just published Autonomy-Supportive Parenting: Reduce Parental Burnout & Raise Competent, Confident Children. As Emily Edlynn explains "This book gives parents a roadmap to move away from hovering and over-helping (burning us out and undermi...

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Hair pulling and skin picking. Interview with Suzanne Mouton-Odum and Ruth Goldfinger Golomb

Your Anxious Child - November 12, 2023 19:27 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
      In this episode, I talk with Suzanne Mouton-Odum, PhD and Ruth Goldfinger Golomb about their recent book with Charles S Mansueto.  These authors have done some of most important work in developing effective treatment for BFRBs. We discuss   the key elements  ComB model for the treatme...

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Mommy Brain: Discover the amazing power of the maternal brain-Interview with Jodi Pawluski, Ph.D

Your Anxious Child - October 23, 2023 18:51 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
The brain changes that happen as a result of pregnancy is a fascinating topic. Dr Pawluski is one of the leading authorities on this topic. We talk about her book Mommy Brain in which she discusses how the brain changes as a result of pregnancy and how the transition to parenthood does not get t...

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Autism and Anxiety. Interview with Donna Henderson, PsyD author of Is This Autism: A Guide for Clinicans and Everyone Else

Your Anxious Child - October 02, 2023 18:50 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
https://www.drdonnahenderson.com/   In this interview I talk with Donna Henderson about autism and anxiety. Dr Henderson and Sarah Wayland with Jamell White have written two books about autism: Is This Autism: A Guide for Clinicans and Everyone Else and Is This Autism: A Companion Guide for...

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Treating Childhood Anxiety with Mega-Dose of Independence: Interview with Camilo Ortiz

Your Anxious Child - September 19, 2023 17:30 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Camilo Ortiz is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the director of clinical training at Long Island University-Post as well as maintaining a private practice. Dr Ortiz is developing a novel approach to treating childhood anxiety by providing children with opportunties to practice being i...

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How Neuroscience is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood: Interview with Chelsea Conaboy

Your Anxious Child - September 12, 2023 17:44 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Chelsea Conaboy is a  journalist specializing in personal and public health. Her recent book, Mother Brain, is now available in paperback. Her book is a thoughtful and well researched discussion of the emerging neuroscience about the brain changes that occur as a result of becoming a parent. In ...

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Why do we like to watch scary movies? Interview with Mathias Clasen and Marc Malmdorf Andersen

Your Anxious Child - August 28, 2023 13:27 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
https://cc.au.dk/en/recreational-fear-lab The question of why we would be drawn to movies and other material such as haunted houses is what Mathias Clasen and Marc Andersen investigate at the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University. The negative effects of children watching movies that are i...

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The role of Primitive Reflexes in anxiety and other mental health issues. Interview with Sonia Story

Your Anxious Child - July 17, 2023 23:58 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
We are born with a set of primitive reflexes that are necessary for our survival but over the course of the first year should be gradually inhibited or integrated with higher cortical functions over time. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons primitive reflexes do not always get integrated as ...

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Needle Phobia with Jody Thomas, PhD Founder and Director of the Meg Foundation

Your Anxious Child - July 17, 2023 23:03 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
In this interview we talk about needle phobia and pediatric pain with Dr Jody Thomas who is the Founder and Director of the Meg Foundation. The Meg Foundation is one of the primary resources to help children deal with needle phobia and pediatric pain. It is so important for parents and childen t...

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The Science of Attachment. Interview with Bethany Saltman author of strange situation, A Mother's Journey into the Science of Attachment

Your Anxious Child - June 09, 2023 00:46 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
  Bethany Saltman has written a compelling book about the science of attachment. It is a memoir of her journey into the science of attachment, a summary of what is known about attachment and the process of how this important theory was established. In this interview we talk about some of the b...

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Perfectionism and Managing Your Social Power in Middle School. Interview with Bonnie Zucker, PsyD

Your Anxious Child - May 09, 2023 22:03 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Dr Zucker is a licensed psychologist in Washington D.C. She has published several books on the treatment of anxiety disorders. In this interview , I talk with her about her two most recent books: A Perfectionist's Guide to Not Being Perfect and How to Manage Your Social Power in Middle School. T...

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Anxious Nation-an interview with film director Laura Morton

Your Anxious Child - April 07, 2023 19:54 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
  Anxious Nation is a provocatively intelligent look into the global crisis of anxiety and mental health as it affects Americans, especially it crippling impact on children and adolescents. In this podcast I talk with Laura Morton about her new film which opens on May 3 with livestream event....

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OCD in Children: Interview with Natasha Daniels

Your Anxious Child - April 04, 2023 20:23 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
If you have a child with OCD, Natasha Daniels is a resource you want to know about. She has a variety of online course such as "How to Teach Your Kids to Crush OCD" and "Crushing OCD Classs for Kids & Teens" and actually much more.  She can be found at natashadaniels.com

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Anxiety and the Middle School Child. Interview with Judith Warner

Your Anxious Child - April 03, 2023 23:39 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Judith Warner is author of AND THEN THEY STOPPED TALKING TO ME: Making Sense of Middle School which is the topic of this podcast. It is a time period most of us remember all too well and a time when many anxiety disorders become quite evident. She has also written New York Times best sellers: Pe...

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Reading-an necessary island of competence with Claire Rubman, PhD author of This May be Difficult to Read

Your Anxious Child - March 14, 2023 20:33 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
To talk about reading on a podcast concerning anxious children may seem a little far a field. However, reading is an essential skill in which if you struggle with it, school  becomes a very stressful and anxiety provoking environment. Reading also helps in many different ways in dealing with anx...

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David Carbonell, PhD author of The Worry Trick, Panic Attack Workbook

Your Anxious Child - February 28, 2023 20:35 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
David Carbonell, PhD is a clinical psychologist who has specialized in the treatment of anxiety disorder since 1985. He is the author of several books on anxiety: Panic Attacks Workbook, The Worry Trick, Fear of Flying Workbook, Outsmarting Your Anxious Brain The Intrusive Thoughts Toolkit (coau...

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Hoarding in Children with Randy Frost, PhD and Eric Storch

Your Anxious Child - February 19, 2023 20:54 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Randy Frost is a emeritus professor of psychology at Smith College. He is the co-author of Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding the Meaning of Things.   He is widely considered to the world's expert on the topic of hoarding and has published over 100 scientific papers on OCD, hoarding and perferctionsism....

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Overcoming Parental Anxiety with Debra Kissen, PhD

Your Anxious Child - February 07, 2023 00:06 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Dr Kissen is a clinical psychologist who is the CEO of Light On Anxiety CBT Treatment Center. I talked with her about her recent book on using cognitive behavior therapy to help with parental anxiety. 

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Social Anxiety-Interview with Ellen Hendriksen, PhD

Your Anxious Child - January 30, 2023 19:37 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
In this interview, I talked with Ellen Hendriksen, PhD about social phobia and her book How To Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety She is clinical psychologist  who works at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) in Boston MA. Her website ELLENHENDRIKS...

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Anxiety and Depression in teens Interview with Michael Thompkins, PhD

Your Anxious Child - December 06, 2022 00:51 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Michael A. Tompkins, PhD has just published the anxiety & depression workbook for teens: simple cbt skills to help you deal with anxiety, worry, and sadness with New Harbinger Publications. He a cofounder of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, an Assistant Clinical Professor...

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Overcoming Suicidal Thoughts For Teens Interview with Jeremy W Pettit, PhD and Ryan M. Hill, PhD

Your Anxious Child - December 03, 2022 01:03 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 55 ratings
Jeremy W. Pettit, PhD and Ryan M. Hill, PhD,  experts on suicidal ideation and suicide in teens talk about their new book overcoming suicidal thoughts for teens: cbt activities to reduce pain, increase hope, build meaningful connections I apologize for the sound quality in this interview, there...

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