This workshop includes a 1-hour educational recording.

As caregivers, we are hard-wired to want to protect our children from harm and reduce their distress. However, when it comes to child anxiety, this is often not a helpful urge. Knowing how to help without feeding anxiety can be incredibly challenging. The goal of this workshop is to review core fundamental principles for responding to your child’s anxiety effectively and ways to encourage their resilience and help them face their fears.
This workshop will provide an overview for how to effectively respond to your child’s anxiety for years to come. It will empower caregivers to understand the theory of how anxiety functions and the principles at play so they can feel more confident when their child presents with anxiety. While anxiety does show up in different ways in children, the building blocks for how caregivers can address anxiety are remarkably similar across families.

The workshop covers the following areas:

• Understanding childhood anxiety
• Learning to recognizing unhelpful patterns of responding to your child’s anxious distress
• Understanding parental accommodation and the maintenance of anxiety
• Implementing a plan to increase support of you anxious child while reducing accommodations
• Crafting ways to increase your child’s coping through behavioral exposure