Acknowledgments No book is written without input and help from others, and I want to thank the following people for their assistance with this project. Thanks are extended to Debbie Carvalko, the editor who helped guide the devel- opment of the book to my daughter Linda Francis who gave me examples of how her adolescent high-achieving students were needlessly anxious about almost everything and to my colleagues at the American Group Psychotherapy Society who presented on topics that shaped my thinking for the book.