TPP 113: Psychologist Dr. Dawn Huebner on Helping Children Who Worry Too Much
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Who is Dr. Dawn Huebner and what is her background in childhood anxiety?
Children and parents kind of trigger one another. So a child's anxiety sets off a parent's anxiety because anxiety is a really uncomfortable feeling. So often parents are learning the skill set along with their child. And a part of it is learning how to tolerate the discomfort rather than immediately giving into it.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reaver, and today I am so excited to be bringing the prolific Don Hubner to the podcast. One of the coolest things about making this show is that I continue to get to connect with people whose work I've not only been following for years, but people whose work and books have literally impacted. my family in such a meaningful way. And then I got to ask them everything I want to know and hopefully I covered the same things that you would ask if you were sitting in my chair. So today is one of those conversations, as we have owned and have been using Dawn's books for many years.
And if she isn't already on your radar, Dr. Dawn Hubner is a clinical psychologist, a parent coach, and popular speaker specializing in the many phases of childhood anxiety. She recognized the need for lively, easy-to-read materials to help children practice the strategies they were learning in her office, so she created a format for Effective for 6 to 12 year olds, the What-to-Do Guides for Kids, which teach complex psychological concepts using language and humor easily understood by kids. Her newest book, Outsmarting Worry, maintains her distinctive voice while adding a layer of detail and sophistication appreciated by older children and teens. And that's the book that Dawn and I are talking about today.
Outsmarting Worry. The Older Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety I really love this book because Dawn has a real gift for creating practical, doable, interactive toolkits, for lack of a better word, to help kids feel empowered to take control of their emotional experience and make changes that can make the way they're moving through life just feel so much better. I hope you enjoy our conversation. Hey Dawn, welcome to the podcast. Hi, thanks for having me. Well, I'm excited I'm always excited for talking to any of my guests, but as we were just discussing, I'm a little bit of a fangirl with your history of writing just such great books, useful practical books to go through with your kids. We have I was gonna say I have a bunch on my shelf, but I've actually realized I've lent them out and I haven't gotten the back.
So Charlie Charlie and Mark, if you're listening to this, I want my books back. Um but you've written so many great books and I'm excited to talk about your new book, Out Smarting Worry, which came out in two thousand seventeen. But before we dive into the book, would you just take a minute to tell us who you are and how you got into this work, what your sweet spot is in the work that you do?
Sure. I am a clinical psychologist. I have a private practice in New Hampshire in the US and I see children ages twelve and under and their parents. And I'm also the author of eight books at this point. And my specialty area is anxiety. I kind of fell into that. It wasn't really by design. Um, I fell into it by having an anxious child. And I had an anxious child at a time that I was a psychologist, but I didn't really know much about treating anxiety. And I parented in the way that seemed logical and loving to me, not realizing that I was inadvertently feeding his anxiety. And the more I accommodated him, the worse things got. And um we were a ways down that road before I realized that I needed to to understand something differently, I needed to do something differently.
And I kind of newly discovered cognitive behavioral therapy, which had been out for a while. I just hadn't been too exposed to it in my training. And um we went down a very different path with our son. And I became kind of hooked on cognitive behavioral therapy and started learning about it to use it professionally and started writing books that taught cognitive behavioral skills to kids and things kind of grew from there.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is Dr. Dawn Huebner and what is her background in childhood anxiety?
0:01–6:11
2
What motivated Dr. Huebner to write *Outsmarting Worry* for older kids?
6:11–12:41
3
How can parents tell the difference between normal worry and anxiety that needs help?
12:41–20:41
4
What are the warning signs that a child's worry has become problematic?
20:41–27:35
5
Why do safety behaviors and reassurance loops keep anxiety alive?
27:35–33:20
Speakers
2 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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