The Anxious Child Parenting Workshop

In This Anxious Child Workshop You Will Learn

• How common anxiety is in children and teens
• How to identify an anxious child
• How anxiety is often misunderstood
• How anxiety interferes with developmental growth
• How to treat and reduce anxiety
• Successful outcomes for anxiety issues

Anxiety Takes Many Forms

• Generalized to near constant worries about one’s day-to-day life.
• Social situations, causing children severe distress when interacting with other individuals
• Specific phobias are present when an above average level of fear/worry is directed at a non-threatening object or experience
• Obsessions and compulsions, often needing things to be perfect, ordered or clean and have rituals they must perform to reduce the fear these obsessions create
• School refusal
• Separation anxiety, which occurs when a child cannot cope with being separated from a primary caregiver

Anxiety in Kids Can Be Challenging To Spot

The real struggle with childhood anxiety, however, is that it often does not look like what it is. In some instances, children and teens with anxiety may have the words to express their concerns, or the child’s reaction in a given situation may be so ‘obvious’ that the anxiety is easy to spot. However, more often than not children and teens do not have the language for what they are feeling.

Anxiety reactions may look a lot like defiance, anger, tantrums, outbursts, excessive crying or withdrawal. Considering these responses look so much like ‘typical’ teenage behavior or ‘annoying’ child behaviors, or overall behavior problems in general, often parents are unaware of the anxiety driving the responses, and children and teens are not receiving proper interventions.