Parents, Children, and Anxiety: Changing the Family Dance
Discover a 3-step approach to use with anxious kids and their often anxious parents that focuses on:
- Teaching the family about the interactive processes that reinforce anxiety
- Shifting emotional tone through humor and play
- Helping families externalize anxiety and develop alternative responses that normalize it
- Teaching children to talk back to anxiety and other means of self-soothing
OBJECTIVES
- Explain how to work with parents and children to help normalize anxiety.
OUTLINE
- Hypnosis Technique
- The First Session with Kids with Anxiety
- Teaching Kits to Talk Back to Their Anxiety
- Parents and Anxiety
- The 4 B's