This workbook is part of the Take Action Program and is to be used only in conjunction with the Take Action Practitioner Guidebook (ISBN 9781922117274). The Take Action Program is a user-friendly cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) program designed for psychologists and school counselors trained in CBT who work with anxious children. Take Action teaches children aged 4-12 years helpful ways to cope with and manage anxiety. It is an evidence-based intervention combining recent advances in both CBT and the cognitive-neuroscience of child anxiety. This workbook provides all 84 Child handouts and work sheets from the Take Action program bound and numbered in a 92-page color cover large sized book with contents page. About the Program: Take Action teaches children aged 4-12 years helpful ways to cope with and manage anxiety. It is an evidence-based intervention combining recent research on threat-based cognitive biases and maladaptive thinking styles in childhood anxiety disorders with the well-established principles of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). Designed for easy use by mental health and educational professionals trained in CBT, Take Action includes user-friendly resources for practitioners working with individuals and groups of children with anxiety. The program consists of a comprehensive practitioner guidebook on the background, assessment and treatment of childhood anxiety disorders with a step-by-step protocol for each of six treatment modules and examples of all handouts and worksheets for the practitioner to refer to during each session as well as separate professionally published child and parent handout workbooks with colour covers. Take Action covers the major components of CBT including: • psychoeducation • somatic management • cognitive restructuring • exposure therapy • problem-solving • social skills development • strategies for being resilient • relapse prevention and maintenance The six treatment modules are designed to build upon each other so that children develop an ACTION plan; a coping-oriented acronym used throughout the program that summarises the key skills children learn for taking action against their anxiety. The program has been designed to run sequentially across eight or ten weeks including sessions for children and parents. Children have received treatment with Take Action in both individual and group formats. More than 450 children have completed Take Action since 2004 with research results showing that 60–80% of children are diagnosis free at the end of a group program. The program delivery continues to be assessed through diagnostic assessments and questionnaires completed by parents, children and practitioners. Ongoing updates on Take Action, including new research trials and news from users will be available via this website. The program materials are designed and produced by leading psychology publisher Australian Academic Press, who has been providing quality evidence-based mental health interventions, including the former FRIENDS program, since 1987. - See more at: http://www.takeactionprogram.com.au/#sthash.Kex9ytAb.dpuf |