Promoting Adaptive Anxiety in Children: Confronting the rising anxiety disorders in children and youth
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Event type: Single day (a day or less)
Leading the way in Mental Health Training and Education
Alex Russell, Ph.D., C.Psych., will be presenting on July 24, 2019! Don't miss out on this highly sought after presenter and author in this Toronto presentation of his workshop Promoting Adaptive Anxiety in Children: Confronting the rising anxiety disorders in children and youth.
This training is suitable for: Counsellors, educators, early childhood educators, school counsellors, mental health professionals, psychotherapists, psychologists, and social workers.
Description: This workshop will provide participants with a healthy perspective on anxiety, in which childhood anxiety is understood as a necessary building block of adaptation and an essential gateway to a child’s creative engagement with the world. Participants will learn how to work with parents caught between protecting their children and supporting their independence. Understanding and working with children and youth who have developed maladaptive forms of anxiety and tools for working with this group will be covered in detail.
Full Workshop Overview: Children play and learn in adult-controlled contexts. Anxiety disorders are on the rise as children fall behind in developing their own relationships with school, achievement and the broader world around them.
In this workshop, you will examine the ways counsellors, educators and mental health professionals can help parents stay emotionally present in their children's lives while respectfully giving them space to develop their own agendas and sense of responsibility. You will gain a healthy perspective on anxiety, in which childhood anxiety is understood as a necessary building block of adaptation and an essential gateway to a child's creative engagement with the world.
Learning Objectives:
- Recognize the conceptual framework for understanding the emotional challenges children face within the current child-rearing climate
- Work with parents caught between the pressure to protect and guide their children, on the one hand and to support their independence and emotional maturity on the other
- Work with children and youth who have developed maladaptive forms of anxiety
Facilitator: Alex Russell, Ph.D., C.Psych.
Dr. Russell is a clinical psychologist who provides assessments and psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults, and consultation and supervision to schools, teachers and psychologists. He is a popular public speaker and is the author, with Tim Falconer, of Drop the Worry Ball: How to Parent in the Age of Entitlement. He is intimately familiar with the culture of the school system and the relationship that parents, teachers and counsellors share with regards to the children in our care. He has led workshops for educators and mental health professionals across Canada and the United States focusing on promoting children's emotional resilience.