Spring 2025

What to Do When You Worry Too Much, 2nd Edition

A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety

From the Series What-to-Do Guides for Kids

  • Interest Level: Grade 2 - Grade 5
  • Reading Level: Grade 3

What to Do When You Worry Too Much, Second Edition, guides children and parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of anxiety. Now revised and expanded, this groundbreaking bestseller has helped millions of children around the world.

An updated edition of the world-wide bestseller What to Do When You Worry Too Much, the second edition combines everything that worked so well in the original—the conversational tone, interactive elements, clear and actionable strategies—with new tools, new illustrations, and expert advice based on current understandings of anxiety. Lively metaphors and humorous illustrations make the concepts and strategies easy to understand, while clear how-to steps and prompts to draw and write help children learn new skills. This interactive self-help book remains the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering kids to overcome their overgrown worries. Includes a note to parents and caregivers by psychologist author Dawn Huebner, PhD.

This book is part of the Magination Press What-to-Do Guides for Kids® series and includes a “Note to Parents and Caregivers.” What-to-Do Guides for Kids® are interactive self-help books designed to guide 6–12-year-olds and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques most often used in the treatment of various psychological concerns. Engaging, encouraging, and easy to follow, these books educate, motivate, and empower children to work towards change.

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978-1-4338-4488-1
$16.99
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Interest Level Grade 2 - Grade 5
Reading Level Grade 3
Genre Social Studies
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Active Nonfiction, Diverse Books: Mental Health & Neurodiversity, Diversity, SEL: A Self-Awareness, SEL: B Self-Management, SEL: E Responsible Decision-Making, Social Emotional Learning
Copyright 2024
Publisher Magination Press, American Psychological Association
Imprint Magination Press — American Psychological Association
Language English
Number of Pages 80
Publication Date 2025-01-01
Text Type Procedural
BISACS JNF024140, JNF053050, JNF001000
Dimensions 8 x 10
Guided Reading Level R
Features Glossary, Index, Original artwork, and Table of contents

Author: Dawn Huebner, PhD

Dawn Huebner, PhD, is a psychologist, parent coach, and the author of numerous self-help books for children. Her books have been translated into 23 languages, touching the lives of millions of children around the world.

Illustrator: Bonnie Matthews