School-aged children and adolescents are frequently faced with situations where they are being asked to perform either formally or informally, including tests, sports, recitals, interviews, school presentations, and social events.
Some children and adolescents experience such intense performance anxiety that it hinders their ability to succeed in the classroom, on the stage or playing field, and […]
Did you know that anxiety disorders and OCD work differently in children than in adults? This may seem intuitively obvious but is not reflected in most treatments for child anxiety and OCD. Current treatment protocols conceptualize anxiety disorders and OCD as the result of an overactive threat detection system. This understanding falls short when we […]
Sara Haines speaks with one of her favorite children’s book authors, clinical psychologist Dr. Daniela Owen, on how the nation’s mental health crisis is affecting our kids and how her book series urges children to express their feelings at a young age.
From the author that brought you the best-selling “Right Now” series, Dr. Daniela Owen’s new “Everyone Feels” series takes children into an even deeper dive on how to cope with their emotions!
Each book of the series provides kids with practical tools to help combat […]
In the third book of her Right Now series, […]
In the second book of her “Right Now” series, Dr. Daniela Owen, Ph.D. explains the choice that we all have when we face our fears and provides simple examples of how to overcome our anxieties in such situations.
“Right Now, I Am Brave” is a mindfully written self-help guide to aid children with […]
Dr. Daniela’s Owen, Ph.D., an assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, has published her first book specifically to help children deal with the complications of stress and anxiety from the COVID Epidemic.
This book is a mindfully written self-help guide to aid children in dealing with stress and anxiety, by uncovering […]