Recommended Reading

If you’d like to learn more about anxiety/OCD and available treatments on your own, below is a little recommended reading for families dealing with Capital-W Worry.

Websites

• Braverkids.com - evidence-based parenting tools for anxious youth, authored by me. If you would like a preview of how I think about and approach different issues, look no further!

• Anxiety and Depression Association of America

• International OCD Foundation: OCD in Kids

• EffectiveChildTherapy.org by APA’s Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

• Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Fact Sheets

• Selective Mutism Group

• The TLC Foundation for Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors (Hair-Pulling and Skin-Picking)

Books for Parents

Child Anxiety

• Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, by Tamar Chansky, PhD. Harmony Books, 2014.

• You and Your Anxious Child: Free Your Child From Fears and Worries and Create a Joyful Family Life, by Anne Marie Albano, PhD, with Leslie Pepper. Avery Trade, 2013.

• Helping Your Anxious Child: A Step By Step Guide for Parents, by Ronald M. Rapee, PhD et al. New Harbinger Publications, 2008.

• Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents, by ELi Liebowitz. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Child OCD

• Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, by Tamar E. Chansky, PhD. Three Rivers Press, 2000.

• Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents, by ELi Liebowitz. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Books for Youth

Child Anxiety

• The Be Brave Activity Book: 100 Exposure-Based Challenges That DARE Kids to Boss Back Their Worry and Anxiety Once and for All, by Kathryn Hecht, PhD. PESI, 2025.

• What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety (What-to-Do Guides for Kids), by Dawn Huebner, Magination Press, 2005.

Child OCD

• Talking Back to OCD: The Program that Helps Kids and Teens Say "No Way"- and Parents Say "Way to Go", by John March, MD. Guilford Press, 2007.

• What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming OCD (What-to-Do Guides for Kids), by Dawn Huebner, Magination Press, 2017.

• The Be Brave Activity Book: 100 Exposure-Based Challenges That DARE Kids to Boss Back Their Worry and Anxiety Once and for All, by Kathryn Hecht, PhD. PESI, 2025.

Teen Anxiety

• My Anxious Mind: A Teen's Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic, by Michael Tompkins Ph.D., Katherine Martinez Psy.D., and Michael Sloan. Magination Press, 2009

Teen OCD

• Stuff That's Loud: A Teen's Guide to Unspiraling When OCD Gets Noisy, By Ben Sedley PhD and Lisa Coyne PhD. New Harbinger, 2020.