The Anxiety Busting Workbook for Kids: Fun CBT Activities to Squash Your Fears and Worries

With this engaging workbook, kids will be so busy having fun, they won’t even realise they’re learning lifelong skills to manage anxiety and worry!

If your child struggles with anxiety, rest assured that you aren’t alone. Children face a number of anxiety-inducing challenges—from school to extracurricular activities to making friends. The good news is that kids can learn to turn their overly anxious thoughts into curiosity, determination, and bravery. Using kid-friendly skills based in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), this book is designed to help children ages 5 to 9 obtain the building blocks needed to manage anxiety and worry throughout their lives.

This engaging workbook is grounded in evidence-based psychology—but your kid will never know it, because it’s also packed with fun! 25 games and activities will help them realise just how capable, strong, and brave they really are. Each chapter includes a kid-friendly introduction, then jumps into kid-approved silliness such as going on a Fear-Busting Scavenger Hunt, or visiting the I-Scream Shop. The culmination of all their amazing work includes a visit to the Celebration Station, and yes, there will be prizes!

Your child is awesome, and they have the power to feel awesome, too. Give them the help they need wrapped up in the fun they love, and soon they’ll know that not only are their fears not as big and scary as they think, but also that they are brave and strong, and able to tackle life’s inevitable challenges with confidence.

"Share this engaging book with an anxious child and give them the life-changing gift of freedom from anxiety."
- Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, LCSW-C, therapist, author of The Anxiety Cure for Kids, and cofounder of Anxiety Training

"The book is such a fun and engaging way to help your child learn the life-changing principles of overcoming anxiety, that even the most scared kid will find it engaging. Elementary-aged children will discover easy, relatable ways to understand, challenge, and master their fears using the very best strategies science has to offer. It is sure to become a favorite amongst parents and therapists!"
- Karen Lynn Cassiday, PhD, past president of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America; owner of the Anxiety Treatment Center of Greater Chicago; and author of books helping parents, children, and adults overcome anxiety

"The Anxiety Busting Workbook for Kids is a fabulous cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) workbook for kids with anxiety. It’s engaging and jam-packed with evidence-based strategies to help kids overcome fears—and delivered in a fun, creative, and adorable format. This will be a fast favorite!"
- Rachel Busman, PsyD, ABPP, senior director of the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Program at Cognitive and Behavioral Consultants

"This book is a great resource for the clinician working with anxious children or tweens! Using a combination of engaging graphics and storytelling, these authors guide the youth through understanding, engaging, and taming their anxieties, fears, and worries. Whether it’s used in an individual, group, or family setting, this book will help clinicians help kids and those who love them deal with anxiety."
- Tony L. Sheppard, PsyD, CGP, ABPP, AGPA-F, founder and director of Groupworks Psychological Services, and coauthor of Group Psychotherapy with Children

"The Anxiety Busting Workbook for Kids is such a treasure! Step by step, this workbook takes parents and kids through the process of understanding anxiety and how to respond so that kids can get back to enjoying their lives without fearing anxiety. The creative activities help children learn evidence-based practices while having fun and earning rewards. Any child would benefit from learning these skills."
- Kimberly Morrow, LCSW, anxiety therapist, co-owner of Anxiety Training, and author of Face It and Feel It

"The Anxiety Busting Workbook for Kids provides an incredibly creative approach for helping kids learn to identify and overcome their fears. It does a wonderful job of incorporating complex CBT strategies in a very user-friendly manner for children. I would highly recommend this book for children with anxiety."
- Brian J. Schmaus, clinical psychologist at the Anxiety Treatment Center of Greater Chicago in Deerfield, IL