When Your Child is Afraid [Paperback]

From Simon & Schuster,When Your Child is Afraidteaches readers how to understand normal fears of childhood from birth through adolescence.

Explains what kinds of fears are normal for every age of childhood and adolescence, discusses specific fears--death, strangers, animals, burglars--and shows how to handle children's fears before they become disruptive phobias or permanent neuroses.Robert Schachter is an author and an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, where he teaches stress management and cognitive therapy.