This study is aimed at assisting professionals in offering help with the problem of anxiety in children. It provides a practical and comprehensive text, written by a team of experts in their respective fields. The contents include descriptions of the causes, the nature and the distribution of anxiety problems in children and various approaches to treatment. This work should be of interest to child psychiatrists, child psychologists, educational psychologists, paediatricians, school doctors and nurses, health visitors, teachers and social workers.