This is a presentation that provides an overview of anxiety in children, including causes, symptoms, and strategies to help manage it.
Key points:
- Explains anxiety as an adaptive survival response and that it is normal. Provides examples of how babies show distress behaviors when separated from caregivers.
- Discusses how social context helps children learn to regulate fear and continue exploring.
- Identifies common anxiety triggers like social situations, performance pressure, phobias.
- Covers physical, thought, and behavior symptoms of anxiety. Notes when anxiety becomes problematic and persistent.
- Uses the hot cross bun model to demonstrate how thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, and behaviors interact to maintain anxiety. Includes an activity to complete your own example.
- Suggests strategies like naming anxiety, breathing exercises, thinking questions to challenge unhelpful thoughts, exposure, modeling brave behavior, and praise/rewards.
- Provides resource recommendations like websites, books, and apps for anxiety management in children.
Overall, it offers a concise overview of anxiety and strategies to help children understand and manage anxiety symptoms and face challenging situations.
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