Providing Parent Guidance in Anxious Times: An approach to helping parents raise resilient, emotionally healthy children

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Providing Parent Guidance in Anxious Times: An approach to helping parents raise resilient, emotionally healthy children on February 28, 2020 with

Alex Russell, PhD., 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.

This training is suitable for:
Educators: teachers, ECE, school administration/support
Mental Health Professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers.
Medical Professionals: nurses, psychiatrists, pediatricians, family doctors.
Direct Service Workers: drop in workers, shelter and hostel workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers.

This workshop will examine the ways counselors, 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. Gain a health 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.