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16 Books for Kids with Anxiety (Updated for 2025)

Now Psych

Anxiety Books for Kids I am frequently asked by parents for book recommendations for their children struggling with anxiety. Picking a kids anxiety book can be a helpful tool in managing anxiety and promoting mental health. Positive tone: Choose a book that has a positive and empowering tone. But What If?

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Bridging the Gap: Why Black Voices Must Shape Mental Health Research

NAMI

Drawing on our shared lived experiences to create groundbreaking research, she now plans to publish a book that empowers individuals to better understand themselves, realize theyre not alone, and equips families with the tools to advocate for their loved ones. Thats why NAMIs Community Health Equity Alliance (CHEA) is so critical.

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Recovery from Psychosis in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder Is Possible

Mad in America

And that made me more confident to step out further into the real world: I began to volunteer with an organisation focused on mental health advocacy. It might have been easier to stay at home and read books and remain socially disengaged. I am becoming re-integrated with the real world.

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One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose Cartwright

Mad in America

Pure portrayed Rose’s autobiographical account of finding that she had OCD, a “mental illness”, and the breakthrough that this medical framework provided her. In this brutally honest book and interview, Cartwright reflects on the importance of holding all our understandings around mental health and suffering, lightly.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. One of your first co-edited books was Drugging Our Children.