Webinar: Treating Anxious Children in Anxious Times, an approach to promoting adaptive anxiety in children and teenagers.

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Treating Anxious Children in Anxious Times: An approach to promoting adaptive anxiety in children and teenagers.
This June 19, 2020 full day training will be offered as a  live webinar with Facilitator: Alex Russell, PhD., C.Psych.
This training is suitable for:
Educators: teachers, ECE, support staff.
Mental Health Professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers.
Medical Professionals: nurses, psychiatrists, pediatricians, doctors

This workshop provides an approach to treating children with anxiety issues within the current cultural context. Anxiety is approached as an essential and healthy human emotion and a focus is placed on factors that contribute to both maladaptive and adaptive forms of anxiety. Participants gain an overall clinical orientation as well as techniques and ideas for working with anxious children and teenagers.

Learning Objectives:

• How to conceptualize current forms of anxiety problems in children from a health perspective, in which anxiety is seen as an essential and healthy human emotion. 
• How to identify key features of current anxiety problems in children, and the actors that contribute to them 
• A method to helping children and teenagers develop more adaptive forms of anxiety.

Registration Fees: $250 | Student: $225